Abstract
In 2016, the Korean Defense Ministry and the U. S. Forces in Korea announced that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system(THAAD) would be deployed in the Seongsan Artillery Base located in Seongju-eup [city], Seongju-gun [county], Korea.
 Residents of Seongju county would be direct victims exposed to the harmful effects of THAAD radars. But, when the strong resistance of Seongju residents forced the authorities to decide to move the site to deploy the missile system to Lotte Skyhill Seongju Country Club in the far north of the Seongju county, most Seongju county residents got out of the harmful effects of THAAD. Even though most of the residents were out of danger from THAAD, Some residents continued to resist.
 Seongju gun was a rural county where residents were politically very conservative, and closely connected to one another by old family and other relationships and ties.
 However, participants in the Seongju candlelight protest formed ‘inhabitant liminality’ defined as the overthrow of the existing power structure and blurred identification of residents. The inhabitant liminality made migrants acquire local identity and transformed them into the political and economic agency of Seongju-gun.
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