In 1968, members of a rural family, including a nine-year-old boy named Lee Seung-bok, were killed by North Korean Guerrillas. South Korea's dictatorship disseminated a story of the child's courageous resistance to the communists and ordered all elementary schools to build statues of him. After the dictatorship's fall, people regarded the heroic story about the statues as propaganda. Most have been removed since then, but few remain in closed schools in the remote countryside today. I tried to find and capture them, which became a symbol, not of the victim of the tragedy, but of the cold war.
