This study examines how actors who lack the place-making capability performs placemaking. The research subjects are an informal settlement named Guryong Village, in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, and residents who performs place-making there. It uses concepts of place-making and theory of 2nd dimensional power, 3rd dimensional power and adaptive preference as conceptual frameworks. This study makes the following arguments. First, the residents of Guryong Village lack the capability of place-making. The strategies adopted by residents organization in the process of place-making based on redevelopment are results from the lack of place-making capability. Second, residents of Guryong Village reproduce an idealized placeness on a daily basis. The lack of place-making capability has affected this, and adaptive preference works in this process. This reproduction of idealized placeness shows possibility in that it helps residents be collective political actors. But at the same time, there is also a limitation in that it makes residents’ limited position maintained. This study contributes to the understanding of limited actors in place-making process and suggests academic, social and policy implications.