Some Haengnang
KIM Jiyon
(Art Director, World Script Symposia 2016)
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If the Earth was comprised of same objects of same mass without any distinguishable physical properties, our definition of orientation and navigation will become blurred. Orientation becomes invalid in a space where density and direction of all points are equivalent. In such space, center and boundary means the same. From an observer’s point of view, everything will look the same regardless of observer’s standing point. ‘Differences’ probably does not exist or it would become meaningless. Nevertheless, we occupy the space called the Earth that is disproportionate. In here, there are ‘differences’, ‘direction’ and ‘center’.
ㅇㅅㅇ
Would a man/woman consider himself/herself happy if he/she believed that his/her life belongs to elsewhere? Would a glimpse of elsewhere revitalize his/her everyday whose physicality inhabits here rather than where he/she dreams to be? For him/her, who habitually dreams of breaking free but dares to shakeup normality, a festival may sounds like an effective ‘outer world’. Inevitably, a festival ought to provide a chance to break free for those who want to roam about, away from worries and labor of an orderly life with a purpose, and for those who desire to become a nomad but cannot give up a settled life.
^.^
When men discovered writing as a remedy for the memory which have been recording traces of ignition, there are those who critically commented on the gift of writing. “ For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, […] Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their [ listeners/readers ] own memory within them. […] for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.”
ㅠ_ㅠ
There are also concerned commentaries about the internet environment which has become our reality since.
“Equality of information provided by internet could end up destroying diversity of ideology. And in the world of internet where memory is outsourced, human menmotechnics ends up being useless. The only technique that is required is an ability to filter necessary information by making records of memory index. Deep contemplation will become a hindrance. And three dimensional world of reality will be absorbed by flat screen internet. Experiences based on realism will extinct. An electronic implosion will give a rise to age of anxiety. And internet will imprison and regulate humanity.”
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In the digital era, whilst ‘Linear, Liberal and Historical Mentality’ based on media known as letters and books is shifting towards ‘Nonlinear, Circular and Post-Historic Mentality,’ the Board of Planning had to decide the theme of the upcoming ‘3rd World Script Symposia’ when we are embarking upon a new horizon of reality, in which Age of Image, Age of Pictograph, and their history have become a long bygone era of oblivion. The 1st Symposia was a festival of diagnosis on current global ecosystem of scripts. The 2nd Symposia provided an experience center to inspect significance and status of scripts by engaging with scripts of a minority language that functions like an alleyway of scripts of a majority language.
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The Board of Planning have chosen ‘Scripts and Boundaries’ as the theme for the 3rd festival. The purpose was to inspect survival tactics of European boundary languages and its outcome. The attempt examined valid conditions for the survival of ‘Surrounding Scripts’ and ‘Boundary Scripts’ of our time, on the basis of research results that indicated art and culture play a critical role in the survival of endangered languages. It was meaningful attempt. The real challenge came from encouraging artists to focus on the straightforwardness of the word ‘boundary’ when they were handling of boundary scripts. As discussion progressed further, the definition of the word ‘boundary’ developed over ‘physical boundaries’ and into ‘boundaries’ of various notions by connecting it with the script. ‘Boundary’ extended into variety, medium, expansion and into future. Academic programs incorporated most of the detail on this subject, together with artists with related theme.
@.,@
Correspondence between art and academic programs was one of the main aim of the Symposia. The Board of Planning made a great effort to ensure that mission was achieved throughout the preparation process for the 3rd festival. Workshops went on continuously to prepare the encounter. In doing so, the gap between artistic and scholastic ideal was confirmed but differences had to be put aside and compromise was reached.
If the Earth was comprised of same objects of same mass without any distinguishable physical properties, our definition of orientation and navigation will become blurred. Orientation becomes invalid in a space where density and direction of all points are equivalent. In such space, center and boundary means the same. From an observer’s point of view, everything will look the same regardless of observer’s standing point. ‘Differences’ probably does not exist or it would become meaningless. Nevertheless, we occupy the space called the Earth that is disproportionate. In here, there are ‘differences’, ‘direction’ and ‘center’.
ㅇㅅㅇ
Would a man/woman consider himself/herself happy if he/she believed that his/her life belongs to elsewhere? Would a glimpse of elsewhere revitalize his/her everyday whose physicality inhabits here rather than where he/she dreams to be? For him/her, who habitually dreams of breaking free but dares to shakeup normality, a festival may sounds like an effective ‘outer world’. Inevitably, a festival ought to provide a chance to break free for those who want to roam about, away from worries and labor of an orderly life with a purpose, and for those who desire to become a nomad but cannot give up a settled life.
^.^
When men discovered writing as a remedy for the memory which have been recording traces of ignition, there are those who critically commented on the gift of writing. “ For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, […] Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their [ listeners/readers ] own memory within them. […] for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.”
ㅠ_ㅠ
There are also concerned commentaries about the internet environment which has become our reality since.
“Equality of information provided by internet could end up destroying diversity of ideology. And in the world of internet where memory is outsourced, human menmotechnics ends up being useless. The only technique that is required is an ability to filter necessary information by making records of memory index. Deep contemplation will become a hindrance. And three dimensional world of reality will be absorbed by flat screen internet. Experiences based on realism will extinct. An electronic implosion will give a rise to age of anxiety. And internet will imprison and regulate humanity.”
=ㅁ=
In the digital era, whilst ‘Linear, Liberal and Historical Mentality’ based on media known as letters and books is shifting towards ‘Nonlinear, Circular and Post-Historic Mentality,’ the Board of Planning had to decide the theme of the upcoming ‘3rd World Script Symposia’ when we are embarking upon a new horizon of reality, in which Age of Image, Age of Pictograph, and their history have become a long bygone era of oblivion. The 1st Symposia was a festival of diagnosis on current global ecosystem of scripts. The 2nd Symposia provided an experience center to inspect significance and status of scripts by engaging with scripts of a minority language that functions like an alleyway of scripts of a majority language.
+_+
The Board of Planning have chosen ‘Scripts and Boundaries’ as the theme for the 3rd festival. The purpose was to inspect survival tactics of European boundary languages and its outcome. The attempt examined valid conditions for the survival of ‘Surrounding Scripts’ and ‘Boundary Scripts’ of our time, on the basis of research results that indicated art and culture play a critical role in the survival of endangered languages. It was meaningful attempt. The real challenge came from encouraging artists to focus on the straightforwardness of the word ‘boundary’ when they were handling of boundary scripts. As discussion progressed further, the definition of the word ‘boundary’ developed over ‘physical boundaries’ and into ‘boundaries’ of various notions by connecting it with the script. ‘Boundary’ extended into variety, medium, expansion and into future. Academic programs incorporated most of the detail on this subject, together with artists with related theme.
@.,@
Correspondence between art and academic programs was one of the main aim of the Symposia. The Board of Planning made a great effort to ensure that mission was achieved throughout the preparation process for the 3rd festival. Workshops went on continuously to prepare the encounter. In doing so, the gap between artistic and scholastic ideal was confirmed but differences had to be put aside and compromise was reached.
ㅡ^ㅡ
In the festival, the ‘Script’ was conceptualized abstractly. Still, the ‘Boundary’ had to be blurred even further. The word ‘Haengnang’ was specifically chosen to replace the word ‘Boundary,’ that contained the concept of the boundary but allowed little more room of freedom to imagine and express. The word ‘Haengnang’ is precisely defined as,
“ A residential space that belongs to external part of a house. Haengnang attached to the main gate of the house was surrounded by a stable, a servants room and a shed and built along the boundary of the house. It was also commonly built in palaces or government offices throughout the Joseon dynasty and generally used as a servants room or a shed.”
>_<
The Board extended, distorted, misinterpreted and monopolized definition of the word ‘ Haengnang’ so that it embodies the following concepts; ‘passage’, ‘middle zone’, ‘medium’, ‘boundary’, ‘differences’, ‘break free’, ‘deprivation’, ‘memory’, ‘oblivion’, ‘trace’, ‘afloat’, ‘extinction’, ‘minority’, ‘non-mainstream’, ‘class’, ‘ edge’, ‘ weak link’, ‘ uncertainty’. Each entry was categorized into the following sub-categories:
Haengnang: to open and to close (medium)
— openness and exclusiveness of the world of scripts, search for scripts as a medium for communication.
Haengnang: to take a detour (experiment)
— what scripts left behind, world in post-scriptic view
Haengnang: to disappear (memory)
— what disappeared over the course of time, what was forgotten or neglected
Haengnang: to find (expansion)
— reading between the lines and searching for information, possibility of expansion of words.
ㅁㅠㅁ
The festival site took place in Ikseon-dong of Jongno and Nakwon Music Mall. Jongno 3-ga has a capacity to embrace derailed life despite its central location in Seoul. The culture of the location resonates the aim of the World Script Institute that seeks cohabitation of various different scripts. In addition, Jongno 3-ga is abundant of ‘alleyways’ that the Board took interest since the second Symposia. Whilst Ikseon-dong is the oldest urban Hanok complex of Seoul with horizontal alleyways, Nakwon Music Mall is the biggest musical instrument arcade in the world and the first multi-complex building of South Korea with vertical alleyways. Their ‘alleyways’ have heavily accumulated memories and stories which carried the voice of ‘minority scripts.’ The site itself became a script of a memorize-save-call device and participants took a stroll around alleyways to discover the ‘Haengnang.’ The Board named the area ‘Haengnang’ of Seoul, distinctive from other areas of Seoul.
°=°
Segwon Jeong is the founder of the first modern development company in Korea who laid the first stepping stone of the modern day Ikseon-dong. As a financial supporter of the People of Joseon Dynasty Entrepreneurs Unite as well as Korean Language Society, Segwon jumped into urban housing projects in 1910 when the population exploded. He purchased huge pot of land and sold it after splitting it up into smaller Hanok complexes. Segwon’s Hanok was a halfway compromise between the traditional and the western that took 20th century urban lifestyle into account. His aim was to supply housing to improve living condition of for middle class and lower who mostly lived in Thatched house. In addition to modernizing Hanok engineering, he also came up with various financial support systems for low-income family so that they could earn a chance to purchase their own house for the first time. Ikseon-dong was a targeted Hanok complex for middle and lower class from the development stage, it became a town full of plebeian lifestyle. During modern period, Ikseon-dong where was once a center of Korean independence movement and center of art where people of art and culture lived. After the war, the town turned into a high class red light district but became desolute after some number of years as people started to leave. Now, Hanok of Ikseon-dong are literally falling apart where traces of 1,000 years of streets from Goryeo dynasty are still pretty much intact.
ㅅ_ㅅ
It’s only been few years since young fresh new blood started to fill in the empty spots deserted by original inhabitants. For those who choose to leave Ikseon-dong, it was nothing more than an extremely archaic and outmoded town. Young entrepreneurs saw value of the old and embarked on renovation. In doing so, they ensured not to spoil the town’s original distinctive flair. The atmosphere changed rapidly as the new energy sprang up in the alley. Residential Hanok nearly disappeared and replaced by commercial space. Optimized for pedestrians walking down the street, Ikseon-dong’s alleyways is filled with visitors with curiosity rather than the residents who shared the daily lives with me in front of the gates. For the generation who are familiar with the roads converted for mainly for the cars, and vertical structured apartments, the landscape of Ikseon-dong, with shapes of letters such as ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅁ of Hanok in a row in the alleys was unfamiliar, but fascinating. The former generations could feel the atmosphere of modern times and felt nostalgia in Ikseon-dong. Nobody knows what the change in Ikseon-dong would bring in a week. All of a sudden, an empty house was found, and suddenly the empty house was on construction. Installing the works and liaising the venue for holding the events took longer than I have expected. At the end, with the support of Ikseon Forum, which was established by Ikseon-dong residents, urban regeneration experts, Hanok experts, Seoul authorities, to share the direction of improvement of Ikseon-dong, the best places were secured.
In the festival, the ‘Script’ was conceptualized abstractly. Still, the ‘Boundary’ had to be blurred even further. The word ‘Haengnang’ was specifically chosen to replace the word ‘Boundary,’ that contained the concept of the boundary but allowed little more room of freedom to imagine and express. The word ‘Haengnang’ is precisely defined as,
“ A residential space that belongs to external part of a house. Haengnang attached to the main gate of the house was surrounded by a stable, a servants room and a shed and built along the boundary of the house. It was also commonly built in palaces or government offices throughout the Joseon dynasty and generally used as a servants room or a shed.”
>_<
The Board extended, distorted, misinterpreted and monopolized definition of the word ‘ Haengnang’ so that it embodies the following concepts; ‘passage’, ‘middle zone’, ‘medium’, ‘boundary’, ‘differences’, ‘break free’, ‘deprivation’, ‘memory’, ‘oblivion’, ‘trace’, ‘afloat’, ‘extinction’, ‘minority’, ‘non-mainstream’, ‘class’, ‘ edge’, ‘ weak link’, ‘ uncertainty’. Each entry was categorized into the following sub-categories:
Haengnang: to open and to close (medium)
— openness and exclusiveness of the world of scripts, search for scripts as a medium for communication.
Haengnang: to take a detour (experiment)
— what scripts left behind, world in post-scriptic view
Haengnang: to disappear (memory)
— what disappeared over the course of time, what was forgotten or neglected
Haengnang: to find (expansion)
— reading between the lines and searching for information, possibility of expansion of words.
ㅁㅠㅁ
The festival site took place in Ikseon-dong of Jongno and Nakwon Music Mall. Jongno 3-ga has a capacity to embrace derailed life despite its central location in Seoul. The culture of the location resonates the aim of the World Script Institute that seeks cohabitation of various different scripts. In addition, Jongno 3-ga is abundant of ‘alleyways’ that the Board took interest since the second Symposia. Whilst Ikseon-dong is the oldest urban Hanok complex of Seoul with horizontal alleyways, Nakwon Music Mall is the biggest musical instrument arcade in the world and the first multi-complex building of South Korea with vertical alleyways. Their ‘alleyways’ have heavily accumulated memories and stories which carried the voice of ‘minority scripts.’ The site itself became a script of a memorize-save-call device and participants took a stroll around alleyways to discover the ‘Haengnang.’ The Board named the area ‘Haengnang’ of Seoul, distinctive from other areas of Seoul.
°=°
Segwon Jeong is the founder of the first modern development company in Korea who laid the first stepping stone of the modern day Ikseon-dong. As a financial supporter of the People of Joseon Dynasty Entrepreneurs Unite as well as Korean Language Society, Segwon jumped into urban housing projects in 1910 when the population exploded. He purchased huge pot of land and sold it after splitting it up into smaller Hanok complexes. Segwon’s Hanok was a halfway compromise between the traditional and the western that took 20th century urban lifestyle into account. His aim was to supply housing to improve living condition of for middle class and lower who mostly lived in Thatched house. In addition to modernizing Hanok engineering, he also came up with various financial support systems for low-income family so that they could earn a chance to purchase their own house for the first time. Ikseon-dong was a targeted Hanok complex for middle and lower class from the development stage, it became a town full of plebeian lifestyle. During modern period, Ikseon-dong where was once a center of Korean independence movement and center of art where people of art and culture lived. After the war, the town turned into a high class red light district but became desolute after some number of years as people started to leave. Now, Hanok of Ikseon-dong are literally falling apart where traces of 1,000 years of streets from Goryeo dynasty are still pretty much intact.
ㅅ_ㅅ
It’s only been few years since young fresh new blood started to fill in the empty spots deserted by original inhabitants. For those who choose to leave Ikseon-dong, it was nothing more than an extremely archaic and outmoded town. Young entrepreneurs saw value of the old and embarked on renovation. In doing so, they ensured not to spoil the town’s original distinctive flair. The atmosphere changed rapidly as the new energy sprang up in the alley. Residential Hanok nearly disappeared and replaced by commercial space. Optimized for pedestrians walking down the street, Ikseon-dong’s alleyways is filled with visitors with curiosity rather than the residents who shared the daily lives with me in front of the gates. For the generation who are familiar with the roads converted for mainly for the cars, and vertical structured apartments, the landscape of Ikseon-dong, with shapes of letters such as ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅁ of Hanok in a row in the alleys was unfamiliar, but fascinating. The former generations could feel the atmosphere of modern times and felt nostalgia in Ikseon-dong. Nobody knows what the change in Ikseon-dong would bring in a week. All of a sudden, an empty house was found, and suddenly the empty house was on construction. Installing the works and liaising the venue for holding the events took longer than I have expected. At the end, with the support of Ikseon Forum, which was established by Ikseon-dong residents, urban regeneration experts, Hanok experts, Seoul authorities, to share the direction of improvement of Ikseon-dong, the best places were secured.
^ㄴ^
In 1969, Nakwon Music Mall was constructed as one of the urban redevelopment projects of Seoul city center, which was a complex building that was rarely seen at the time. In the mid-70s, Jongno, Myeong-dong and Gwanghwamun districts were the city centers of culture of Seoul, Nakwon Music Mall started to have appearance of musical instrument shop complex as the piano stores in the quartier moved into Nakwon Music Mall because of readjustment of Tapgol Park wall project. With a fever of rock music was on the rise, the demand for musical instrument boosted, and the number of musical instrument stores were increased. Currently, more than 300 companies are operating. Nakwon Music Mall was a cultural complex center where bookstores, hair salons, barbershops, pawnshops, bowling center, cabaret, and cinema were found. Still in Nakwon Music Mall, some restaurants and hair salons, sewing stores and a cinema are located in the fourth floor. At the time, the second floor of the Mall was famed for its labor market of musicians. The musicians gathered in Nakwon Music Mall and shared information and looked for their companions. In the early 80s, as the curfew hours was lifted, and accordingly, the number of stages that need band has increased, and the demand for musicians and instruments were on the rise. Nakwon Music Mall had its golden age. However, as faced 90s, the late opening hours was shortened and as control of entertainment place has begun, the labor market for musicians was on the decline. In the late 1990s, with encounter of foreign exchange crisis a wide supply of karaoke machines the musician labor market was disappeared in Nakwon Music Mall. There were some up and downs, but Nakwon Music Mall had a long reputation to the musicians.
*_*
The specialized characteristics such as ‘historicity’ and ‘musical instrument specialized shopping center’ symbolizes early stage of economic development of city center offered Nakwon Music Mall sociocultural values but has failed to shed its outdated image. Due to poor pedestrian environment, the lower floors of Nakwon Music Mall was constructed with pillotis, which seemed as a transparent barrier that distinct Anguk-dong and Ikseon-dong. As a role of script is communication, the artists delivered the works that induces the flow in Nakwon Music Mall, the place where steeped in the past to overcome severance. The non-verbal means of communication, such as ‘gesture’, ‘sound’, and ‘light’ were listed and discovered in the haengnang of Nakwon Music Mall.
ㅇ&ㅇ
The form of art project that communes with living space was already prevalent in the cultural world, but familiar methodology did not mean to face unfamiliar living space easily. The artists had to commit quite a lot of missions: they had to respond to environments, place script at the center, examine the notion of haengnang, and consider public interests. Departed from formulaic auditorium, the academic events were held in places such as bars, guesthouses, rooftop of the Nakwon Music Mall building, restaurants and many others showed that venue change turned the atmosphere of experience.
. _ .
The world freed from restriction of memory capacity insisted that it will accumulate almost unlimited information in the digital environment in the future. Hence, from this point, desire of search, accessing to the information and drawing it to the surface will become more important than accumulating information. The important issue here was maintaining the desire continuously.
ㅡ ., ㅡ
The physical spaces which have been collecting different memories of the age is becoming flattened through a stage of homogenization in development and different interest. The process of reorganizing the idea of ‘different’ into the ‘identical’ and ‘similar’ is forwarded in the direction of the rise of efficiency.
XㅛX
The world is changing with a way of eliminating inconvenience and even the strange element causing such a dread and putting ‘otherness’ on. By placing a controllable code, it makes a somewhat different but degree of not decisively ‘different’ place. Here the dread for ‘otherness’ disappears. People would love to experience ‘not too distinctive but slight differentness’. The people who have heterogeneous living base would love to convert their place so they could be included in the category of ‘otherness’. Therefore, they wish to turn this place into the space where anyone who regards this as not their living quartier could visit at any times. This desire becomes the power to foster homogenization. The manual for ‘otherness’ is activated through following the process.
ㅇㅁㅇ
I was able to hear some opinions that the script was vanished in the World Script Symposia. The notion of script is expanded to the controversial point rather than the disappearance of the script. The script itself will extend all boundaries in order to survive as meaningful means of memories and means of communication. It will may continue until it loses its reason for script being as script.
In 1969, Nakwon Music Mall was constructed as one of the urban redevelopment projects of Seoul city center, which was a complex building that was rarely seen at the time. In the mid-70s, Jongno, Myeong-dong and Gwanghwamun districts were the city centers of culture of Seoul, Nakwon Music Mall started to have appearance of musical instrument shop complex as the piano stores in the quartier moved into Nakwon Music Mall because of readjustment of Tapgol Park wall project. With a fever of rock music was on the rise, the demand for musical instrument boosted, and the number of musical instrument stores were increased. Currently, more than 300 companies are operating. Nakwon Music Mall was a cultural complex center where bookstores, hair salons, barbershops, pawnshops, bowling center, cabaret, and cinema were found. Still in Nakwon Music Mall, some restaurants and hair salons, sewing stores and a cinema are located in the fourth floor. At the time, the second floor of the Mall was famed for its labor market of musicians. The musicians gathered in Nakwon Music Mall and shared information and looked for their companions. In the early 80s, as the curfew hours was lifted, and accordingly, the number of stages that need band has increased, and the demand for musicians and instruments were on the rise. Nakwon Music Mall had its golden age. However, as faced 90s, the late opening hours was shortened and as control of entertainment place has begun, the labor market for musicians was on the decline. In the late 1990s, with encounter of foreign exchange crisis a wide supply of karaoke machines the musician labor market was disappeared in Nakwon Music Mall. There were some up and downs, but Nakwon Music Mall had a long reputation to the musicians.
*_*
The specialized characteristics such as ‘historicity’ and ‘musical instrument specialized shopping center’ symbolizes early stage of economic development of city center offered Nakwon Music Mall sociocultural values but has failed to shed its outdated image. Due to poor pedestrian environment, the lower floors of Nakwon Music Mall was constructed with pillotis, which seemed as a transparent barrier that distinct Anguk-dong and Ikseon-dong. As a role of script is communication, the artists delivered the works that induces the flow in Nakwon Music Mall, the place where steeped in the past to overcome severance. The non-verbal means of communication, such as ‘gesture’, ‘sound’, and ‘light’ were listed and discovered in the haengnang of Nakwon Music Mall.
ㅇ&ㅇ
The form of art project that communes with living space was already prevalent in the cultural world, but familiar methodology did not mean to face unfamiliar living space easily. The artists had to commit quite a lot of missions: they had to respond to environments, place script at the center, examine the notion of haengnang, and consider public interests. Departed from formulaic auditorium, the academic events were held in places such as bars, guesthouses, rooftop of the Nakwon Music Mall building, restaurants and many others showed that venue change turned the atmosphere of experience.
. _ .
The world freed from restriction of memory capacity insisted that it will accumulate almost unlimited information in the digital environment in the future. Hence, from this point, desire of search, accessing to the information and drawing it to the surface will become more important than accumulating information. The important issue here was maintaining the desire continuously.
ㅡ ., ㅡ
The physical spaces which have been collecting different memories of the age is becoming flattened through a stage of homogenization in development and different interest. The process of reorganizing the idea of ‘different’ into the ‘identical’ and ‘similar’ is forwarded in the direction of the rise of efficiency.
XㅛX
The world is changing with a way of eliminating inconvenience and even the strange element causing such a dread and putting ‘otherness’ on. By placing a controllable code, it makes a somewhat different but degree of not decisively ‘different’ place. Here the dread for ‘otherness’ disappears. People would love to experience ‘not too distinctive but slight differentness’. The people who have heterogeneous living base would love to convert their place so they could be included in the category of ‘otherness’. Therefore, they wish to turn this place into the space where anyone who regards this as not their living quartier could visit at any times. This desire becomes the power to foster homogenization. The manual for ‘otherness’ is activated through following the process.
ㅇㅁㅇ
I was able to hear some opinions that the script was vanished in the World Script Symposia. The notion of script is expanded to the controversial point rather than the disappearance of the script. The script itself will extend all boundaries in order to survive as meaningful means of memories and means of communication. It will may continue until it loses its reason for script being as script.