REBORN : The Case Unsolved YOUTH

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1999 SOUTH KOREA

South Korea was slowly recovering from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. The economy was hit hard and 1999 was a year of austerity, layoffs and bankruptcy. Many citizens lost trust in big corporations(chaebols) and government institutions. The job market was tough. Families in rural areas often depended on farming or factory jobs. Rural Korea (countryside towns and villages) remained traditional, often overlooked by rapid modernization. Many villages had shrinking populations as youth moved to cities. Old superstitious and local gossip still held power.....but secrets traveled fast.

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[present] Haeweong is a countryside village in South Korea which was often overlooked. It is connected to the town but was very rural and underdeveloped. A place which connected those 7 boys. Their childhood, youth, even the happiest days were buried there. Somehow those boys felt some kind of familiarity to that place even though their lives were completely changed as if they were reborn,, but they felt something was unsolved......still.

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[year 1999] in the early dawn, the melodious chirping of birds fills the air as the harabojis and halmonis commence their day in the lush of paddy fields. There is a serene absence of chaos.

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The school is situated close to the neighbouring town to which the village is connected.There are few children in haewong so they study at that school .The village doesn't have any means of building a school . It is a coed school.