Collateral Damage 움직이는 것은 무엇이든 쏴라
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Injoo Whang, Ji-Young Yoo, Yul-san Liem. Cloth, found objects, ink. 60" x 60" x 29", 2004
한국전쟁 중 피난민들이 자신들의 물건을 보자기에 싸서 가지고 다녔던 짐꾸러미를 보따리라 부른다. 보따리 위에 씌어진 인용문은 전순태 씨와 박기춘씨의 인터뷰에서 발췌한 것이다.
Bboddari are bundles of possessions carried by fleeing refugees during the war. Excerpts written on these bboddari are by Suntae J. Chun and Kee Park.
[and the first time I saw time bombs] one of the largest explosions I ever heard, right in the middle of the city, like an atomic bomb you saw in the picture. I thought, what the hell was it?! Five minutes later, one of the bombs again exploded; then, every five minutes for hours. [Ah, we said, oh that’s a time bomb…]
Suntae J. Chun
[I guess the peasant was working in the rice field] All Korean peasants wear white, so, they’re not supposed to bomb people who dressed in white. They were just working in the field and all of a sudden, a plane was just bombing. I was so scared. The plane came very low. They could even see the peasants but they did it anyway. [So, my father finally came back and…]
Song Park
[low flying planes can see civilians, you know] Ladies who have laundry on their heads and they just keep running slowly. They know it’s civilians, but they just come down shooting machine guns and then killed them. [I saw a lot of them like that…]
Suntae J. Chun
[but we had questions…] Why are they bombing the innocent people? [well, maybe I was too young…]
Song Park
[shoot down all those bad guys…] There’s a stupid rumor. They said white people don’t kill us like that. They give us chocolate. Then I saw the real pilot closer to me. I was just so surprised. They’re nice looking guys. White guys. How come they bomb, us? Then another surprising thing is that a minister or father came out and blessed them before they lift off or after they landed. I was wondering, what the hell is going on? God is not like that.
Suntae J. Chun
Injoo Whang, Ji-Young Yoo, Yul-san Liem. Cloth, found objects, ink. 60" x 60" x 29", 2004
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The numbers on the wall are pretty shocking and powerful. Though just figures and numbers, it is hard to imagine the magnitude of the costs of war and how each human life is worth and lost. The objects wrapped in cloth in the center are very symbolic of not only valued objects that refugees and civilians carried, but the weight of past memories of the war that remains in their minds.
The numbers on the wall are pretty shocking and powerful. Though just figures and numbers, it is hard to imagine the magnitude of the costs of war and how each human life is worth and lost. The objects wrapped in cloth in the center are very symbolic of not only valued objects that refugees and civilians carried, but the weight of past memories of the war that remains in their minds.
The numbers on the wall are pretty shocking and powerful. Though just figures and numbers, it is hard to imagine the magnitude of the costs of war and how each human life is worth and lost. The objects wrapped in cloth in the center are very symbolic of not only valued objects that refugees and civilians carried, but the weight of past memories of the war that remains in their minds.
The numbers on the wall are pretty shocking and powerful. Though just figures and numbers, it is hard to imagine the magnitude of the costs of war and how each human life is worth and lost. The objects wrapped in cloth in the center are very symbolic of not only valued objects that refugees and civilians carried, but the weight of past memories of the war that remains in their minds.
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