Min Suh Kim
Sae Jin Park
Project SNU Station Map
Some
information are harder to get from the internet and others: and quick and
useful information about the local stores for everyday life exactly goes under
that category. The two of us in our team who both live in SNU station and we
both have faced various difficulties in doing 자취, and
decided to make a map filled with information that are exclusively chosen for
recommendation to the people who engage in 자취. SNU
Station may be a mere public place for the people who pass by it in order to go
to school, but to people like us who actually live there, it is a special and
private place of our lives and we wanted to make a map focusing on this private
aspect of SNU Station. Even though this is an English essay, we intend on using
the Korean word 자취 instead of using the English phrase
"living alone" to covey the subtle, delicate nuance of the unhealthy,
lazy, and squalid way of living that the word "자취"
delivers.
We
thought people who do 자취 need information of places
such as
1) restaurant to eat alone
2) quiet cafe to study
3)place to print
4) Laundromat
5)grocery store
6) etc.
and these types of information are not covered at all by the already existing numerous pages that introduce hot restaurants. So we made a tour in SNU Station to look for these types of useful places, did research, and made a map based on that information. We put care into focusing into the areas where lots of students live, and choosing places that would actually be of tangible help to them.
We
made a Facebook page called <설입자취로드>, posted our
map on it, and started advertising it to people around us, focusing on people
who actually 자취 in SNU Station. In addition to the map,
we actually made postings of introducing bundles of specific useful places of
SNU Station; such as hospitals and supermarkets. Then, excited responses
started to come from the people who have seen out page. They made
recommendations of other places we might add to our map, tagged their friends,
created a sample map of their own and sent it to us, and pushed likes and
subscribed to our page. We then made our second draft of our map, in which we
have added more places by looking at the information that were recommended to
us by comments on our page, and made a brochure of it.
Through
this sequence of our project of uploading, publishing and editing our road map
with the recommendations made by other people, we succeeded in creating means
of communications through design. At the
end of the week, there were more than 250 people who started subscribing to our
page, and our postings have reached more than 2,000 people. We grew fond of our
page and had a lot of fun with it while engaging in it, so we intend on
continuing this page to help and provide useful information to the 자취러s of SNU Station.
