Hamel, Hendrik {?-1692} was a Dutch sailor adrift on the sea on his route to Japan in 1653. Because of drift, he set foot on the land of Korea he had never heard. Hamel was recovered on this site, Drangon’s head beach,and interned in Korea as a stranger for 14 years before his escape to Netherland. His book ‘SHIP-WRECK KINGDOM OF COREA’,containing records about various fields of Korea he had observered for 14 years, has been carried an significant meaning as the first record about Korea which came to
people’s knowlege in the West.
How can we make the stereoscopic characteristics of one place? From this fundamental question, this project was begun. This site contains three significant elements, mythological nature {dragon’s head cliff}, objet {sailing vessel}, mnemonic history {Hamel}. I intended
to make this place filled with invisible lines interwound like a fabric derived from connections between each of these three elements. Through making this fabric, seperated characterristics{nature, objet, history} are binded and visitors will be able to go through each of the various chracteristics of this place.
It can be each points’ story itself as one point and can also be relative story between two or three points as a line.
2005
