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I always felt like the society was driving us to the edge and through the process, it was actually us hurting ourselves. So for my final project, I wanted to express portray the dark and somewhat sad reality of the Korean students, how the society is making them torture themselves.
Studying and living in the extremely competitive Korea, I always felt like I was torturing myself to achieve a goal that lacked substance. But saying this out loud felt weird because everybody was going through the same thing, so this seemed normal. Probably the goal for many Koreans would be going to Korea’s top 3 universities, SKY — Seoul University, Korea University, and Yonsei University — or at least attending a university in Seoul. Their primary goal is not going to study a major they are interested in, it is just going to that particular university. So if they can get in, students don’t care about what major they apply for. Often they applying for the agriculture economics major — which has nothing to do with what they want — just to be accepted to the Seoul University. Then after college, their goal changes to being hired by major companies and then buying a house. Their mind is set on something that has no essence.
So in my work, I wanted to picture people yearning for something unsubstantial. I pictured the people being in a cell with moonlight shining through the window. On the center of the work, there is a person simultaneously looking at the moonlight as she is torturing herself by sharpening her arm. She looks at they moonlight as if it is a compensation for all of her pain and hard works. She hopes and believes that at the end of her pain, there will be something big, however, the moonlight is nothing but an intangible substance that would soon disappear.
