Evaporation
The Korea Central Intelligence Agency, established by Park Chung-Hee (father of the current South Korean president) in 1961, was an institution notorious for its use of torture and assassination under Park’s military dictatorship. Now renamed as the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the agency still remains at the center of controversy for its past use of political manipulation. Today, it faces several lawsuits by the innocent victims of the past tortures and by the bereaved families in their wish to recover their damaged reputation. Evaporation was inspired by the book The Record of the Barbarian Age by Park Won-soon. The book reports several cases of tortures and damages carried out by the KCIA during the Korean Modern history. In response, Evaporation aims to reveal Korean people’s distrust toward their nation and their fear towards society caused by the Central Intelligence Agency. The themes are presented through a visual language which consists of experimental film, photographic series and archive. This project strives to recall the dark history of the Korean military regime and its relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. It also hopes to aid the younger generation’s understanding of Korean history through film. The images by the Government Periodical Publications present how design was used to represent the military government era. Lastly, Evaporation conveys the director’s will to surmount the traces of military culture that are still present in the Korean Society today.
The Korea Central Intelligence Agency, established by Park Chung-Hee (father of the current South Korean president) in 1961, was an institution notorious for its use of torture and assassination under Park’s military dictatorship. Now renamed as the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the agency still remains at the center of controversy for its past use of political manipulation. Today, it faces several lawsuits by the innocent victims of the past tortures and by the bereaved families in their wish to recover their damaged reputation. Evaporation was inspired by the book The Record of the Barbarian Age by Park Won-soon. The book reports several cases of tortures and damages carried out by the KCIA during the Korean Modern history. In response, Evaporation aims to reveal Korean people’s distrust toward their nation and their fear towards society caused by the Central Intelligence Agency. The themes are presented through a visual language which consists of experimental film, photographic series and archive. This project strives to recall the dark history of the Korean military regime and its relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. It also hopes to aid the younger generation’s understanding of Korean history through film. The images by the Government Periodical Publications present how design was used to represent the military government era. Lastly, Evaporation conveys the director’s will to surmount the traces of military culture that are still present in the Korean Society today.
