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The picture above
It’s like Gwanggyo, Songdo, Dongtan, Wirye, Cheongna, Gimpo, Han River, Unjeong New Town
You and I can never tell each city apart by pictures
It’s when Koreans think about their own extreme efficiency, cost-effectiveness,
It’s very impersonal and inhumane
I filmed it in a short time with the same look
In short, I’m just sleeping. I’m driving a car over the weekend
It’s a place where you have to get out of here
There’s no urban history, no storytelling
In the future, there will be spaces where people’s stories will be piled up
There’s no urban culture
It’s a place where you can hear pongpong ghost stories
These new towns are like the U.S., where automobile-dependent lives are completely different
It works, but there’s a wide road between stark concrete blocks
Many vehicles make this new town inhumane once again
There are no people on the street and the shops in the big building are full of vacancies
Life from the underground parking lot to the underground parking lot in the big shopping district
Life to E-Mart Homeplus, life to outlet or department store
The streets are lifeless, the shops are full of vacancies, the streets are full of traffic noise
It becomes a city where you don’t even want to walk
Pongpong and Mish, who live in these new towns, are satisfied right now
I don’t know if I’m going to live, but as I get older, the kids leave for big cities
The concrete blocks are starting to crack, and the streets are filled with old people
By the time more and more, this stark concrete car city has died
That’s right

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