P4G Opening Ceremony Features Inwang Jaesaekdo... Using Augmented Reality to Revive Extinct Animals

Highlights of Korea's First Multilateral Summit on Non-Face-to-Face Environments, P4G Seoul Green Future Summit

[Asia Economy Reporter Ryu Jeong-min] At the opening ceremony of the '2021 P4G Seoul Green Future Summit' held on the 30th, a video reinterpreting Inwangjesaekdo was utilized. Additionally, scenes of reviving extinct animals using augmented reality were also presented.

The Blue House explained on the 30th, "As the first non-face-to-face summit held in our country and the first multilateral summit in the environmental sector, the opening ceremony and summit discussion sessions of this summit combine Korea's unique traditional motifs with advanced media, augmented reality (AR), and other modern technologies to deliver a message of hope for the future, while also showcasing the beauty of the land of three thousand ri and cutting-edge eco-friendly technologies."

First, the opening ceremony venue was transformed by mapping a three-dimensional video reinterpreting Inwangjesaekdo, inspired by Korean landscape paintings and folk paintings, onto an empty space. The space, with five surfaces including the ceiling and floor, was covered with three-dimensional videos expressing the Earth and nature. World-renowned dancer Kim Joo-won served as the artistic director and presented a performance expressing the coexistence of humans and nature through poetry, dance, and media art.

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At the opening ceremony, real-time augmented reality (Live AR) was produced using the domestically first-developed immersive content integrated control solution (VIT).

The Blue House explained, "It allows viewers to see in real time and with vivid realism the revival of Korea’s disappearing pine forests and endangered animals such as musk deer, crested ibis, and the Korean emperor moth, which are vanishing due to climate change."

The podium at the opening ceremony was made using dead trees of Korean red pine (damaged by pine wilt nematode), whose withering is accelerating due to climate change. According to the Blue House, this symbolizes the harmony and coexistence of nature and humans.

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Meanwhile, the theme song titled wake up call, a musical fusion of tradition and modernity featuring Jeong Jae-il, the composer of the Academy Award-winning film Parasite OST, and a video by director Jang Min-seung showing the primordial beautiful nature and its current state were also unveiled.

During the summit discussion session on the 31st, where leaders from various countries participate via real-time video conference, the beautiful four seasons of Korea and the 24 hours of a day will be depicted as real landscapes and idealized utopias. In particular, scenes of sandy beaches (sabin) that may disappear due to climate change, Suncheon Bay, tidal flats, fir tree forests, national parks’ beautiful scenery, and wetlands announced by the Ministry of Environment were utilized.

The Blue House stated, "We will introduce our green technologies to world leaders and heads of international organizations by placing symbolic objects representing our companies’ leading renewable energy technologies, such as Hanwha Q CELLS’ solar modules, Hyundai Motor’s hydrogen electric vehicles, and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction’s offshore wind turbines."

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