Sketches from a Journey Not Taken

The entries in this journal draw from photographs of a now-forgotten Seoul. They evoke a paradoxical nostalgia for a country and time known solely through an intellectual kinship with those eclipsed by modernity. This connection breathes life into the speculative daydreams of a writer yearning for remnants of the past. In this imagined journey, the writer crafts an ode to the vernacular culture, to lives ensconced behind Seoul's walls—the Special City—