Character Name: Kyung-Hee
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual/ Straight
Ethnicity: Asian
Race: South Korean
Place of Birth: Busan, South Korea
Place the Character Grew Up: Busan
Favorite Childhood place: Home in Busan
Favorite Childhood memories: An exchange student (boy) showing her american film
Parents: Mother and Father, conservative
Siblings: None
Favorite Food: Dukbokki
Favorite Outfit: Two dresses that she made for herself.
Hairstyle: Tied up, proper
Favorite piece of jewelry: A necklace given to her by her mother
Best friend: A conservative, patriotic girl called Jin-Suk
First Love: The exchange student
Favorite work of art: Frida Kahlo
Favorite book: The Great Gatsby
Favorite Media: Film
Talents: Analytical thinking, Mathematics
Favorite Past Time: Writing scripts/ Creative writing/ Drawing/ Painting
Recurring Nightmare: Fear of staying in busan, amounting to nothing, becoming a regular housewife
Favorite Daydream: Her ambitions
Worst Trait: Stubborn/ Too idealistic
Best Trait: Inquisitive
Kyung-Hee is from Busan, South Korea. She is living in the sixties, and traditional household roles were the norm for women. She was deeply inspired by a movie shown to her by an exchange student, and develops an idealistic, rose-colored view of the United States. In a more traditional sense, the American dream. She dares to escape to America for her ideal life.
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Seminar Writing By Changmo Kang)-2bgy73r
These are me and my partner, Abel’s curated selections of 100 drawings.
Abel had an idea that I should pick drawings that show romantic feelings.
I advise Abel to select drawings that have though, rebellious feelings.
These are the pictures that show our process for the project.
We scraped lots of distinctive images from our drawings, and collaged it on the garments.
<Final Reflection on project, collaboration, and research>
When we first heard about the project, Abel thought it would be a good idea to make a dress for our character. Our imaginative character, Kyung-Hee, moved to states from Korea, so I said we can design two dresses that reveal her both past and future. I bought two white dresses from Forever 21, and brought to class so we can start working. We shared some of our drawings from bridge 1 project to collage it on our dresses. For our presentation, we decided to introduce our character not only through dresses, but an article as well. I wrote the content (interview) for the article, and Abel designed the format. It was very interesting collaboration. Since I am not that familiar with photoshop techniques, my partner had to design most of the format when making an article. I should learn important photoshop skills to create visual work for my future project. Overall, I am very satisfied with the outcome. Especially because we dedicated our time and effort on this for past four weeks.
