| Overall effect on understanding the themes | ① In the work, how well did you understand the story addressing in exhibition guide? | 78.4 |
| ② This work does not match the sound and video. Do you think this formation has the effect of being more immersive to the sound? | 65.8 |
| Effect on understanding according to the soundmaps | ③ The sounds recorded in this work were made in the form of ‘map’. Do you think that these maps are effective in expressing the actual atmosphere at Kyodong Island? | 73.5 |
| ④ ‘Sound Around You’ is a website that shares sounds over the Internet. Do you think that these websites are effective in expressing the actual atmosphere at Kyodong Island? | 80.1 |
| Effect on understanding the region | ⑤ Did this work help you imagine the atmosphere of Kyodong Island? | 85.5 |
| ⑥ Did this work help you understand what kind of region Kyodong Island is? | 83.3 |
| ⑦ Did this work help you understand the historical background of Kyodong Island, a civilian-controlled area due to the Korean War? | 76.0 |
| ⑧ Kyodong Island has a vision of ‘Island of Peace’. How much did this work help you to understand this region as ‘Island of Peace’? | 74.9 |
| Exhibition guide (attached) | This summer, student from Graduate school of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University visited Kyodong Island with sound artist Known Byung Jun. The project is to support unification. The students had exciting experience of using professional recorders and collecting sounds by the sound artist for the first time. We collected the the moments by recording the sound. We are now releasing the sound landscape of the island in the city center of Seoul. Beyond the time and space, it is a journey to an isolated island in the West Sea, where they face the realities of division. Kyodong Island is located just below the military demarcation line in the neighbourhood of the Han River Estuary. The entire island is located in a civilian controlled area. It is only 4km away from North Korea, so if you go up to a high point, you can even see North Korea's Yeonpyeong plains across the sea. During the Korean War, the island were where a lot of Hwanghae refugees had come down and missed their home town. Now, the 64th anniversary of the ceasefire, the Kyodong island is called the Island of Peace and attracts a great deal of attention from people. However, the sea of Kyodong Island is still beyond the fence line, and we still hear the warning broadcast to North Korea from the Island. The students recorded the lost part of Kyodong Island and the peaceful moment of today. They only focused on the sound with their eyes closed. The students then heard the sound of history of the war and division. It was the sound of human suffering seeking for the peace. Students realized the reality of the Korean division that we all had forgotten. Student all took time to think about the way to go forward, wishing and hoping that this project could be a seed for a peace on the Korean peninsula. With the enlightenment and the wish, we made a story of Kyodong Island with the sound recorded. Above all, we tought that the sound of the neutral area sea surrounding Kyodong is the most important theme in this soundscape project. The sea which all the force is forbidden, make us to look forward to some day in the future of North and South Korea when finally, the peace come to us. It also seems to draw the hearts of the family back in North Korea where we cannot go or reach. That the sound of the sea, and the water is the main theme of this story made out of the students. The story begins with the sound of the memory of students when they first met the Kyodong Island. Also, we tried to express the all pains that Kyodong Island had to go through, with the sound of tension and fear. But on the other scene, we tried to tell the story of the daily life in the island by the sound of the laughing children, song of elders, humorous chats at the Kyodong market, which makes us a bit of joy and happiness. When the fainted music of reminiscent of the homeland by elders at the Mang Hyang plays, we hope the audience wishes feel the same as the elders and us. |