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In 2018, the Global Youth Cultural Forum invited us to explore the self-built town of Namsung. This year we came back – Rosita, Nina and me – to carry out our proposal, titled “re-telling”. The proposal last year put forth an idea to create a listening device with a bench along the Soyongchun, so that we can hear as well as talk to the river. … Now “re-telling” is a listening device that operates in two different ways. A physical way through a resonance sculpture, in the sense of aural architecture, and digitally as an archive that collects the stories of the river to make it present. In october we got the chance to held various interviews with current residents of the village of Namsung, people who used to live next to the stream, and also conducted cultural research such as interviewing the head Shaman in Jeju island. The digital archive contains the research of interviews, photos, videos, maps, and sketches. The tumblr – www.soyongchun-stories.tumblr.com – is an invitation and platform where people can submit personal stories about their relation to the little dragon stream.

The buildings I am talking about are, of course, Jeju’s traditional straw thatched roof houses. (http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=5297)

The steep slope of the roof sheds the snow easily and opens up spacious attics which were used to raise silkworms and house traditional tools.(https://travel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/guide/NTJtrv0195-en/)

Bombyx mandarina, the wild silkmoth, is an insect from the moth family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of Bombyx mori the domesticated silkmoth or "silkworm" (properly, this refers to the caterpillars only). Unlike the domesticated relative which is unable to fly or indeed persist outside human care, the wild silkmoth is a fairly ordinary lepidopteran. Its main difference from the domesticated taxon is the more slender body with well-developed wings in males, and the dull greyish-brown colour.