Falsificatio
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tarigwaemirBlair Hall Apts., on the Feast of St. John Climacus
Thanks for all the kind comments in the last post! I'm feeling much more refreshed now that I'm at home and stuffed with good food. Although the GRE is in two days, and I'm by no means prepared. Argh.
Anyway, finally finished the Falsificatio site, in my in-between moments. Since I suspect tomorrow will be filled with last-minute cramming, I thought I should post the link up a day early:
post-Renascence: a 'DIASPORA' fan site
My initial plan for the site was really elaborate until I was forced (by my limited time and talent) to whittle it down to its bare essentials. I still have hopes of putting up "episode summaries" which is why that part is supposedly under construction. I wanted to come up with a fake cast and put up little photos with the character profiles, but that would require too much searching on Naver. I also thought of making a fake OST, but alas, being at home means I don't have any of my music with me. (I might do that once I get back to school though.)
The original premise was to come up with a plausible SF-genre Korean drama. That meant a futuristic setting that could still be filmed in current settings without using an overload of special effects, which is why I tried to set it in the future but not the far future. Furthermore, I wanted to use all the typical conventions of a romantic melodrama, which means having a central quartet of characters involved in complex intersecting relationships, usually ending tragically. I also wanted a revenge plot with unscrupulous businessmen with Mafia goons and hero discovering dastardly plans and conspiracies, because I'm partial to such storylines. What happened though was that I got carried away with the worldbuilding, and now the drama is an unwieldy collision between several sets of genre clichés (instead of just one). It would work better as a manhwa than a drama, and I bet if anyone ever tried to film it, it would take 100+ episodes to tell the whole story. Oh well.
Also, coming up with names is really difficult. Everytime I thought of a name, I realized it belonged to someone I knew, which then completely spoiled the image. I think the ones I invented sound a bit weird, but then what do I know. And besides, I can attribute any awkwardness to the fact that it's set nearly sixty years in the future.
Why it's called 'DIASPORA'--supposedly the theme of the series is the problem of what happens when you take a small country and fill it with people all seeking education and success. Well, clearly you have what in fact happening in Korea right now: excessive competition and the drive to get out. Korea ranks number one for sending its students to study abroad, and many of them never come back. A brain drain, although apparently a lot of Koreans don't seem to think it a problem because they say that a Korean's accomplishments even as a foreign citizen can still be a source of pride to their fellow Koreans back home.
So I imagined that a Korea 50 years in the future, when social and environmental problems caused by reunification and climate change would make this trend grow worse than ever, to the point where it's certain that Korea is too small for its ambitions and must either expand or collapse. One person believes in the route of territorial expansion, another dreams of space--in the end it's all the same. The question that remains though (and which I didn't mention on the site) is whether you can leave Korea and still be completely Korean. How much of ethnic identity is tied up in geography? Can you even maintain the same mentality if you move beyond the small peninsula? It's not really a serious question, but most older Koreans would say that Koreans are Koreans no matter where they are, and it's not as completely true as they think it is.
Anyway, the way I imagined the drama in my head, the main characters (who are all in one way or the other part of this diaspora, unlike the two fathers) would debate this issue as a way of tying their two separate storylines together. But of course that's difficult to convey in a fan site short of writing the script altogether. Oh well. Also didn't include all the ideas I had for the new technology or the structure of the sprawling capital megapolis, but hahaha it's not like they would have found a place in the drama anyway.
Coming up with an extensive plot is really difficult. I ducked out of coming up with an ending, as I'm sure you noticed. If you're really curious: in the last episode, Jo-hee wastes away from leukemia and dies; maddened by grief, In-seok gets hit by a spaceship on his way to Mars; Yu-hwa unexpectedly decides that although she really loves Jo-gyeon, she is going to "do the right thing" and marry Jun-seok instead; and Jo-gyeon returns to Europe and disappears into the sunset because "true love knows when to let go". But because viewers protest, there is a special extra episode filmed where he comes back on Yu-hwa's wedding day because he realizes he can't live without her after all, and they run off to Mars together, while Jun-seok watches sadly from the window, understanding they were never meant to be after all as he holds a slip of paper confirming that Yu-hwa is in fact his half-sister (his father carried on a torrid affair with her mother shortly before she was born). THE END! ^_^
Will catch up on the friends list and leaving comments once I'm back at school on Sunday.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Argh, my domain is down, so I had to upload it to my school server. Maybe I ought to change hosts.
Thanks for all the kind comments in the last post! I'm feeling much more refreshed now that I'm at home and stuffed with good food. Although the GRE is in two days, and I'm by no means prepared. Argh.
Anyway, finally finished the Falsificatio site, in my in-between moments. Since I suspect tomorrow will be filled with last-minute cramming, I thought I should post the link up a day early:
post-Renascence: a 'DIASPORA' fan site
My initial plan for the site was really elaborate until I was forced (by my limited time and talent) to whittle it down to its bare essentials. I still have hopes of putting up "episode summaries" which is why that part is supposedly under construction. I wanted to come up with a fake cast and put up little photos with the character profiles, but that would require too much searching on Naver. I also thought of making a fake OST, but alas, being at home means I don't have any of my music with me. (I might do that once I get back to school though.)
The original premise was to come up with a plausible SF-genre Korean drama. That meant a futuristic setting that could still be filmed in current settings without using an overload of special effects, which is why I tried to set it in the future but not the far future. Furthermore, I wanted to use all the typical conventions of a romantic melodrama, which means having a central quartet of characters involved in complex intersecting relationships, usually ending tragically. I also wanted a revenge plot with unscrupulous businessmen with Mafia goons and hero discovering dastardly plans and conspiracies, because I'm partial to such storylines. What happened though was that I got carried away with the worldbuilding, and now the drama is an unwieldy collision between several sets of genre clichés (instead of just one). It would work better as a manhwa than a drama, and I bet if anyone ever tried to film it, it would take 100+ episodes to tell the whole story. Oh well.
Also, coming up with names is really difficult. Everytime I thought of a name, I realized it belonged to someone I knew, which then completely spoiled the image. I think the ones I invented sound a bit weird, but then what do I know. And besides, I can attribute any awkwardness to the fact that it's set nearly sixty years in the future.
Why it's called 'DIASPORA'--supposedly the theme of the series is the problem of what happens when you take a small country and fill it with people all seeking education and success. Well, clearly you have what in fact happening in Korea right now: excessive competition and the drive to get out. Korea ranks number one for sending its students to study abroad, and many of them never come back. A brain drain, although apparently a lot of Koreans don't seem to think it a problem because they say that a Korean's accomplishments even as a foreign citizen can still be a source of pride to their fellow Koreans back home.
So I imagined that a Korea 50 years in the future, when social and environmental problems caused by reunification and climate change would make this trend grow worse than ever, to the point where it's certain that Korea is too small for its ambitions and must either expand or collapse. One person believes in the route of territorial expansion, another dreams of space--in the end it's all the same. The question that remains though (and which I didn't mention on the site) is whether you can leave Korea and still be completely Korean. How much of ethnic identity is tied up in geography? Can you even maintain the same mentality if you move beyond the small peninsula? It's not really a serious question, but most older Koreans would say that Koreans are Koreans no matter where they are, and it's not as completely true as they think it is.
Anyway, the way I imagined the drama in my head, the main characters (who are all in one way or the other part of this diaspora, unlike the two fathers) would debate this issue as a way of tying their two separate storylines together. But of course that's difficult to convey in a fan site short of writing the script altogether. Oh well. Also didn't include all the ideas I had for the new technology or the structure of the sprawling capital megapolis, but hahaha it's not like they would have found a place in the drama anyway.
Coming up with an extensive plot is really difficult. I ducked out of coming up with an ending, as I'm sure you noticed. If you're really curious: in the last episode, Jo-hee wastes away from leukemia and dies; maddened by grief, In-seok gets hit by a spaceship on his way to Mars; Yu-hwa unexpectedly decides that although she really loves Jo-gyeon, she is going to "do the right thing" and marry Jun-seok instead; and Jo-gyeon returns to Europe and disappears into the sunset because "true love knows when to let go". But because viewers protest, there is a special extra episode filmed where he comes back on Yu-hwa's wedding day because he realizes he can't live without her after all, and they run off to Mars together, while Jun-seok watches sadly from the window, understanding they were never meant to be after all as he holds a slip of paper confirming that Yu-hwa is in fact his half-sister (his father carried on a torrid affair with her mother shortly before she was born). THE END! ^_^
Will catch up on the friends list and leaving comments once I'm back at school on Sunday.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Argh, my domain is down, so I had to upload it to my school server. Maybe I ought to change hosts.
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Date: 2006-03-31 05:45 am (UTC)My cousin from Chuncheon is studying in Washington right now and plans to settle here, I think. Huh.
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:19 pm (UTC)I hear that a lot of 유학생 never go back. It wouldn't be such an unusual phenomenon except when you consider the sheer number of students that go abroad--these days as early as elementary school even.
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Date: 2006-04-03 03:09 am (UTC)I don't know how you even came up with all these details. Though, I tell you, it'd be a good movie if you chould shorten it and cut out lots of parts >_> I don't see it as a drama now, with all those non-existent SF dramas around. Maybe you can find an artist and draw it ^___^ xD