The movie opens in Yongin, a region of Kyonggi-do province that is close to Seoul but that still retains a certain amount of rural character. However, this rural character is always being impinged upon -- by cars, by development.
The movie begins with a dialogue with Lee Su-jeong (my wife) as we hike on a nature trail near the university where I work. It then moves to an extended conversation with Yves Millet, a colleague at the same university, and one who has written extensively on the subject of nature within the context of the "anthropocene" -- the idea that we have now entered an age in which human activity is the major force shaping the planet, and that these changes cannot be reversed. The movie then returns to an extended conversation with Lee Su-jeong on the topic of healthy food, and its place within an industrialized society like South Korea's.
This is an experimental documentary made with Lee Su-jeong and Yves Millet, on the topic of industrialization and the protection of natural spaces/natural ways of doing things, in South Korea. The movie is intended to give something of a personal and intellectual overview of the issues involved, but to also create a meditative state in the viewer.
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