Remembering Baeksa Village Project with Nowon Residents!

Short Documentary Featuring Baeksa Village Residents, QR Mapping Tour... November 'Disappearing Village, Living Heart Film Festival' to be Held

Nowon-gu (District Mayor Oh Seung-rok) announced that it will carry out various programs to remember and preserve Baeksamaeul, a village scheduled for redevelopment, as a record.

Commonly introduced as the last hillside village in Seoul, Baeksamaeul refers to the 104 area of Junggye-dong. It was formed by relocated demolition victims from places like Cheonggyecheon in the 1960s and 70s, preserving a past appearance that is different from the familiar urban landscape.

This year, after approval of the management disposition plan for redevelopment, construction is scheduled to begin in the second half of next year, transforming the area into an apartment complex with about 2,000 households.

The programs for residents include ▲making Baeksamaeul ‘Scenery Postcards’ ▲producing village video records using smartphones ▲creating a ‘short documentary’ compiling interviews and stories of village residents and conducting a ‘QR mapping tour’ ▲and a ‘resident-participatory film festival’ themed on Baeksamaeul redevelopment.

First, starting from the 30th, a Baeksamaeul scenery postcard making program will be operated. It will be held over five sessions every Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Participants will explore Baeksamaeul directly with a cultural tourism guide, take photos, and create their own postcards. The method involves learning pen drawing on an iPad and digitally drawing directly.

Also, from September 2nd, on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m., a total of eight sessions of a Baeksamaeul video recording program using smartphones will be held. Participants will compose stories based on Baeksamaeul and complete a video using a smartphone. While listening to stories about Baeksamaeul told by a cultural tourism guide, participants will visit Baeksamaeul in person to develop stories and learn video shooting and editing.

Both programs are free of charge, and the education location is the Nowon Village Media Support Center. The Nowon Village Media Support Center will fully utilize its know-how in content production support to help even beginners easily create works. For detailed schedules, please refer to the websites of the Nowon Cultural Foundation and the Nowon Village Media Support Center.

The Baeksamaeul documentary screening and mapping tour are scheduled for the end of October. A short documentary will be produced by compiling stories of people living or working in Baeksamaeul, and a QR mapping tour using special memorable places contained in the documentary will be operated together. Tour visitors can explore various places in Baeksamaeul through QR codes linked to short documentary videos related to each location. They can also enjoy artworks created in collaboration with four resident artists from the ‘104 Art Creation Studio.’

Video Production Course

In November, the ‘Disappearing Village, Living Heart Film Festival’ will be held. It will be screened at ‘The Soop Cinema’ near Nowon Station, focusing on Baeksamaeul redevelopment, and will also show short videos about Baeksamaeul made by residents. The target audience is 500 people of all ages.

Oh Seung-rok, Mayor of Nowon-gu, said, “Once redevelopment is completed, Baeksamaeul will shed its past image of underdevelopment and be reborn as a new premium residential complex.” He added, “By recording the lives of ordinary people filled with hardships before demolition, we hope to preserve our old memories and share the precious experience of turning personal memories into the history of Nowon-gu.”

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