Dandong Travelog
13min, HD, single channel video, color, voice, 2012



To view the North Korean border, which cannot be directly observed from South Korea, Minha Park travels along the Chinese border where North Korea is visible. Dandong Travelog (2012) is filmed over the course of 10 days from the Yalu River to the Tumen River where she encounters numerous propaganda slogans and images at the exhibited border. However, in a place where the border itself functions as a tourist attraction, it was difficult to truly see anything. She was unable to create a work from those scenes. Instead, the film begins with her unexpectedly seeing three North Korean individuals at the border. The duration of the short encounter captured on camera is 1 minute and 52 seconds. Based on the last frame of each footage, she begins to fabricate a fiction about their personal story. At the same time, these detailed speculations paradoxically emphasize the reality of one’s limited gaze as a South Korean and tourist.