Winter in Sokcho digital culture Materials have the power to

Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel

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Each of the twelve individual booklets is dedicated to a particular topic

Winter in Sokcho digital culture Materials have the power toIts winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the Norths watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship.