Where would you like to start?
The extinction of experience, three disconnections, and each country's heritage laws — the backbone of this research.
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Jeju, Okinawa, Taiwan — the same pressure, three different survivals, with voices from the field.
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The research question and five tentative observations from our Lisbon conference poster.
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Five in-depth interviews, fourteen videos, twenty photographs — what we brought back from three islands.
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Tell us about a surviving tradition near you — it takes 30 seconds.
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A cup of coffee becomes an hour of fieldwork interpretation (PayPal).
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About this project
Traditions are not frozen heritage — they survive by transforming, sometimes narrowing, sometimes expanding.
Institutions came to protect, but may have eroded living survival methods — bodily senses, reciprocity, intergenerational transmission. We trace this paradox.
Case Studies
Each with their own perspective, each witnessing survival.
최샘이 SEMI CHOI
Director / Research
박용화 Yonghwa Park
Traditional Arts / Pungmul
조계영 Kyeyoung Jo
Actor
정윤희 Yunhee Jeong
Photography · Documentation · Criticism
김민솔 Minsol Kim
Barrier-Free / Disability Studies
Are there surviving traditions in your region? Researchers, artists, and documentarians are all welcome.
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