Per­so­nal Pro­ject, 2012

A four-kilo­me­ter-wide strip along the thir­ty-eighth par­al­lel has sepe­ra­ted the ene­my sta­tes of North and South Korea sin­ce 1953. Sol­diers the­re are still on alert, and every once in a while a shot is fired. Never­t­her­less, the South Kore­an tou­rist office still lures tou­rists to the last exis­ting bor­der left over from the Cold War, which was a pro­hi­bi­ted zone for a long time. Visi­tors to the demi­li­ta­ri­zed zone (DMZ) can expect a mix­tu­re of con­tem­po­ra­ry pro­pa­gan­da and histo­ry lesson.