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Lee Sang Hyun Solo Exhibition
by Paik Haeyoung Gallery
Location: Paik Haeyoung Gallery
Date: 9 Feb - 29 Feb 2012

There was a particular form in the novels related to Korea that Japanese novelists wrote in the 1930s. The Japanese people who were tired from the civilization and noisiness of the metropolitan city of Tokyo visited Korea. They took a Kwan-Bu ferry boat in Simonoseki City and arrived in Kyungseong via Busan by train. Then, they stayed at the train Hotel (currently, Chosun Hotel) and went to Pyungyang after doing some sightseeing in the Geumgang Mountains. During this journey, they usually fall in love with a Joseon woman. Ironically, they considered Joseon for its undeveloped state and looked at it with Sympathy. In addition, they regarded the Joseon to be beneath and not as modernized as their shelter. In the film, directed by Mikio Naruse Wandering Cloud(浮雲), life is compared to the a passing floating clouds. It talks about a Japanese man and woman who were dispatched to Vietnam and chose to hand around because they were not used to Japan’s ruined society after the war. The title Nostalgia was taken from Loneliness on Journey(旅愁) written by Hamamoto Hirosi(1890-1959), which had been published in a special issue of “Joseon” in “Modern Japen” in 1930. The archive used in the work is the photo of Pyongyang gisaeng and a Japanese emperor officer by an unidentified photographer in the 1910s. The song used is Lonely Dresser sung by Jang Se Jung who took the world of song by storm in the 1930s.

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