Growing up in a country shaped by rapid economic development and layered influences from the West and Japan, I was always preoccupied with the question of what “Korean” means. This project began as a personal attempt to answer that question. I curated a digital archive that brings together artworks, designers, brands, landscapes, architecture, and cultural practices connected by a shared Korean sensibility. Under the guiding phrase “stories for learning to love the land I was born in,” the archive observes how Seoul absorbs external influences and reinterprets them into its own cultural expressions. It functions both as a lyrical documentation of home and as an inquiry into how cultural identity is continually remade through adaptation, translation, and reinterpretation.
