This film is about Kimusa, Korea's defense security command, modern history of South Korea, and Korea's modern architecture. The footage features historical background of the Kimusa building, the alleys that Korea's modern times have made, and the villages and the oldies that are being destroyed in the name of development. The film is the hommage to all the things that are vanishing in front of our eyes.

Culture is determined by how the layers of events have been piled up over time. The track of our lives, our memories, the things that we accomplished with our own hands.. When those layered over time take up a part of someone's life in any time and in any place, we accept those things as part of our culture. And that part, to that someone or probably to other people as well, becomes a space to share memories and feelings. The economic perspective in modern times, however, tend to ignore those cultural sensibilities. Destruction and restoration are the process of transplatation, not culture.

2009 신호탄 (서울국립현대미술관, 서울분관 개관전초전)