Unfinished Project_Island
On May 5h of 2005, there was a newspaper article carrying the story about that the unidentified space was accidentally discovered in underground while working on the construction of a bus transfer center in Yeoui Island. After the article has reported, varied medias had reported only about its speculative stories for a few days and concluded it as a bunker built in the military regime era. After a while, Seoul City officially announced a draft plan to change the underground bunker into a resting place of bus transfer center. However, the bunker which was supposed to be changed into the resting space was covered under the darkness again due to the lack of budget. After a couple of months, the bus transfer center was opened and the platform was situated right above the underground where the bunker is situated, which consequently causes the situation that the transfers step on top of the bunker. This scenery of the bunker - a relic of the military regime era and the office workers in Yeoui Island passing the bunker with bland faces, is representing such attitude of contemporary people facing the past. Although the bunker is still there, it is unrevealed existence, just like the invisible desert island on a map and as most of the people doesn't acknowledge that Yeoui Island is an island. The bunker in Yeoui Island reminds me of the courses of excavation and preservation of relics, because it traces and reveals different layers of time and space and is buries in the past again. Also, the unchanging place cannot reverse the time itself from the past to the present.
Yeoui Island, the planned territory originally started its formation from a horse farm in the end of Joseon Dynasty, became an airport during Japanese occupation and had settled the modern framework through Han River Development Plan. The bunker was built in the military regime, briefly used during the time and lost the use now. Yeoui Island is the first developed island-city in Korea and shows the common feature of the developing countries having; irrational development without any historical concern. The bunker situated in Yeoui Island now solely keeps its past with all of the bad memories just like a box of Pandora, and is ready to accept the frames for the developed future. However, many people only guess about the deleted past of the bunker. They can only recollects their memory about the past of the bunker and presumes what has happened. Now, there are two very opposite spaces in front of us; one is named Yeoui Island underground bunker which lives in the past, and the other space under continuous changes which forces us to create new identities at every time.
On May 5h of 2005, there was a newspaper article carrying the story about that the unidentified space was accidentally discovered in underground while working on the construction of a bus transfer center in Yeoui Island. After the article has reported, varied medias had reported only about its speculative stories for a few days and concluded it as a bunker built in the military regime era. After a while, Seoul City officially announced a draft plan to change the underground bunker into a resting place of bus transfer center. However, the bunker which was supposed to be changed into the resting space was covered under the darkness again due to the lack of budget. After a couple of months, the bus transfer center was opened and the platform was situated right above the underground where the bunker is situated, which consequently causes the situation that the transfers step on top of the bunker. This scenery of the bunker - a relic of the military regime era and the office workers in Yeoui Island passing the bunker with bland faces, is representing such attitude of contemporary people facing the past. Although the bunker is still there, it is unrevealed existence, just like the invisible desert island on a map and as most of the people doesn't acknowledge that Yeoui Island is an island. The bunker in Yeoui Island reminds me of the courses of excavation and preservation of relics, because it traces and reveals different layers of time and space and is buries in the past again. Also, the unchanging place cannot reverse the time itself from the past to the present.
Yeoui Island, the planned territory originally started its formation from a horse farm in the end of Joseon Dynasty, became an airport during Japanese occupation and had settled the modern framework through Han River Development Plan. The bunker was built in the military regime, briefly used during the time and lost the use now. Yeoui Island is the first developed island-city in Korea and shows the common feature of the developing countries having; irrational development without any historical concern. The bunker situated in Yeoui Island now solely keeps its past with all of the bad memories just like a box of Pandora, and is ready to accept the frames for the developed future. However, many people only guess about the deleted past of the bunker. They can only recollects their memory about the past of the bunker and presumes what has happened. Now, there are two very opposite spaces in front of us; one is named Yeoui Island underground bunker which lives in the past, and the other space under continuous changes which forces us to create new identities at every time.
