[신들이 아직 여기 있다면] 문전신

Munjeonsin, the Korean god of the front door who decides what may enter a home (Korean folk belief, Korean traditional clothing and objects, NOT Japanese, NOT Chinese.), in the open-air corridor of an old 1990s Korean apartment block at night, shot on grainy colour negative film. A broad-shouldered middle-aged man in a faded blue hanbok and black gat hat stands with his back against a steel apartment front door, arms folded, like a doorman on duty. Beside him: a cloth milk-delivery bag hanging on the door handle, a plastic shoe rack, a potted plant, a parcel in plain brown paper. A single fluorescent tube lights the long corridor, identical doors receding into the distance. The door number plates are blank. He fills about half the frame height. Steady and protective. No text, no letters, no hangul, no readable signs, no logos.