Even though a lot of people struggled to stop the Saemangeum reclamation project and the resulting unprecedented ecocide, a huge seawall blocked the ocean in April 2006. People have forgotten about the ‘lost fight.’ The fact that there are citizens who have been investigating and documenting Saemanguem for 17 years voluntarily, which everyone else had given up on, is miraculous and inspiring. Saemangeum civil investigation group has become a witness and a recorder of the scenes where a large-scale construction project by the government’s military dictatorship destroyed the mudflat environment in the name of a national project. I wish for the group’s protests and records to be brought to the surface and become evidence for a ‘social trial.’ This film intends to bring back the memories of the citizens which have been undocumented and capture them with a camera before they fade away. Records do have power.

I - one who had forgotten about Saemangeum and regarded it as ‘something that’s now over’ - am standing at the middle of Saemangeum. While recording what was left behind after the reclamation project with the civil group, I find myself a victim of it. The huge wasteland of dried mudflats has caused serious fine particulate pollution. The mudflats, which could have been a land of life for children to play, is now a land of disaster threatening the health of families. Making a film about ‘Saemangeum,’ has now become an act of protecting our lives.