I thought of possible methods to help encourage the people in my community during quarantine. Korea has been under a few months of government-encouraged quarantine, and as churches, shops, and many other public events have been shut down, I noticed the majority of our community also feeling down. Additionally, many of my friends were mentioning about their feelings of isolation and boredom that was gradually growing from being locked up inside their homes.
I took these comments into consideration of making my mini-project. As someone who personally really enjoys graphic design and art in general, I thought it would be interesting to create a poster to encourage my community to fight through quarantine healthily. I would, then, hang the poster up on the small community board in our apartment elevator.
I honestly was not expecting my poster to hang up for a long period of time, but to today’s date(May 31rst), it has been 47 days since I hung it up on the community board! The project was successful overall, and I still am so thankful no one took it down. I thought one of the guards would take it down, but thankfully they did not, and my poster luckily survived.
Since everyone in my apartment were Korean, I made a Korean poster about striving together to overcome Corona. I honestly wanted to suggest ways to prevent or heal from Corona, but as the methods of healing from Corona have not been publicly announced or officially presented, I thought it would be inexact to suggest methods and also so that I wouldn’t factually mistaken anyone. Whenever there is a disease present, we must not make up false information because of possible consequences that may result terribly.
I’m smiling so widely because I was really surprised my poster survived 😀
-Joanna Kim, May 31, 2020 , 11:26PM KST
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