The Host 괴물

'Monster' A Korean classic horror film (Director Bong joon-ju) set on the Han River depicts a creature terrorising and inhabiting the dark bleak spaces of the city's underworld at the rivers edge. The architecture is inhuman and menacing and the director has clearly used the infrastructure to explore the unknown and underused spaces of the city. The Han Renaissance project has allowed these spaces to be revitalised and tamed and as outlined before helped it become a successful city park. It seems that the citizens perceive the rivers edge as a feared no longer. Below are series of stills from the film that illustrate the dark infrastructural spaces explored by the director.