Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
We are the Exorcist Team. Creating Hansung Yogoe Store over the past year brought many challenges, but also great joy. All four of us share a deep fascination with traditional Korean culture, especially yogoe. Working on something we truly love kept us immersed and motivated. Researching, developing demo videos, and finding new ways to introduce this heritage was an exciting exploration. Seeing more people grow curious about Korean folklore has become a powerful driving force for our creativity.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
From the start, we wanted to build original content around Korean yogoe, much like how other cultures have Dracula or mummies. Choosing which yogoe to feature was the real challenge. We spread out a map of Korea, matching each creature’s traits to fitting locations — temples, villages, seashores, mountains. When the match was perfect, it felt like solving a puzzle, and those moments became the heartbeat of our storytelling.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
Presenting the work via QR code lets it appear anywhere, like a wandering yogoe meeting people by chance. This format suits the project perfectly, allowing viewers to engage through their own devices for a more personal, immersive experience.
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
In our studio, small unexplained events often become “the mischief of monsters.” This playful way of noticing the world keeps new yogoe stories alive in our imagination.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”
Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
We are the Exorcist Team. Creating Hansung Yogoe Store over the past year brought many challenges, but also great joy. All four of us share a deep fascination with traditional Korean culture, especially yogoe. Working on something we truly love kept us immersed and motivated. Researching, developing demo videos, and finding new ways to introduce this heritage was an exciting exploration. Seeing more people grow curious about Korean folklore has become a powerful driving force for our creativity.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
From the start, we wanted to build original content around Korean yogoe, much like how other cultures have Dracula or mummies. Choosing which yogoe to feature was the real challenge. We spread out a map of Korea, matching each creature’s traits to fitting locations — temples, villages, seashores, mountains. When the match was perfect, it felt like solving a puzzle, and those moments became the heartbeat of our storytelling.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
Presenting the work via QR code lets it appear anywhere, like a wandering yogoe meeting people by chance. This format suits the project perfectly, allowing viewers to engage through their own devices for a more personal, immersive experience.
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
In our studio, small unexplained events often become “the mischief of monsters.” This playful way of noticing the world keeps new yogoe stories alive in our imagination.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”
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Artist Interview
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Hansung Yogoe Store
Exorcist
Hansung Yogoe Store
Hansung Yogoe Store
Exorcist
Exorcist
Description
Description
Plywood, motors
30 cm depth x 55cm width x 60 cm height
2025
Plywood, motors
30 cm depth x 55cm width x 60 cm height
2025
The artist collective Exorcist—comprised of Maeng Sohyun, Kim Minji, Kang Sooyeon, and Lim Chaerim—Hansung Yogoe Store is a digital storytelling work in the style of a point-and-click adventure, adapted from the novel by Gigureum. Set in the late Joseon dynasty, the story follows Hangi, an exorcist who investigates strange incidents involving yogoe—Korean spirits and monsters drawn from regional folklore.
Combining mini-games, playtoon-style sequences, and unique graphics inspired by Korean traditional aesthetics, the piece invites viewers to engage with lesser-known mythologies in a format that is accessible, playful, and culturally rich. Each episode leads the viewer through a different location—mountains, temples, coastal towns—uncovering the origins and personalities of yogoe across Korea.
Screened via QR code in public space, the work drifts into the everyday like a curious and playful spirit itself. In the words of the creators, Exorcist: “We often say, ‘That must be a yogoe’s prank,’ when something odd happens. Maybe it is.”
Through this project, they invite viewers to join the journey: to laugh, explore, and perhaps—even seal a yogoe or two.
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”
- Artist Note -
Artist Note
<Hansung Yogoe* Store> is a storytelling content in the form of a point-and-click adventure game that was adapted from the novel by Gigureum. The project was planned in hopes that the source IP of competitive and interesting materials called 'Korean unique Yogoe' would be used more as various contents. This content actively utilizes Korean Yogoe and aims to allow users to experience Korean Yogoe contents and to increase the diversity of Korean Yogoe contents. In addition, we tried to create interest in the Yogoe and create cultural value by inducing interest through playtoons and mini-games. The main features of the work include a point-and-click interface, mini-games, the way contents are conducted in the form of playtoons, and the unique graphics of the work that make use of the Korean atmosphere. It consists of a total of 4 episodes and is designed to solve bizarre incidents that occur in Joseon and to naturally experience the knowledge of the Yogoe. Now, let's go solve the Yogoe incidents with the exorcist 'Hangi' of the 'Hansung Yogoe Store'!
(Yogoe* : the meaning of 'monster', 'goblin' in Korean)
<Hansung Yogoe* Store> is a storytelling content in the form of a point-and-click adventure game that was adapted from the novel by Gigureum. The project was planned in hopes that the source IP of competitive and interesting materials called 'Korean unique Yogoe' would be used more as various contents. This content actively utilizes Korean Yogoe and aims to allow users to experience Korean Yogoe contents and to increase the diversity of Korean Yogoe contents. In addition, we tried to create interest in the Yogoe and create cultural value by inducing interest through playtoons and mini-games. The main features of the work include a point-and-click interface, mini-games, the way contents are conducted in the form of playtoons, and the unique graphics of the work that make use of the Korean atmosphere. It consists of a total of 4 episodes and is designed to solve bizarre incidents that occur in Joseon and to naturally experience the knowledge of the Yogoe. Now, let's go solve the Yogoe incidents with the exorcist 'Hangi' of the 'Hansung Yogoe Store'!
(Yogoe* : the meaning of 'monster', 'goblin' in Korean)
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The artist collective Exorcist—comprised of Maeng Sohyun, Kim Minji, Kang Sooyeon, and Lim Chaerim—Hansung Yogoe Store is a digital storytelling work in the style of a point-and-click adventure, adapted from the novel by Gigureum. Set in the late Joseon dynasty, the story follows Hangi, an exorcist who investigates strange incidents involving yogoe—Korean spirits and monsters drawn from regional folklore.
Combining mini-games, playtoon-style sequences, and unique graphics inspired by Korean traditional aesthetics, the piece invites viewers to engage with lesser-known mythologies in a format that is accessible, playful, and culturally rich. Each episode leads the viewer through a different location—mountains, temples, coastal towns—uncovering the origins and personalities of yogoe across Korea.
Screened via QR code in public space, the work drifts into the everyday like a curious and playful spirit itself. In the words of the creators, Exorcist: “We often say, ‘That must be a yogoe’s prank,’ when something odd happens. Maybe it is.”
Through this project, they invite viewers to join the journey: to laugh, explore, and perhaps—even seal a yogoe or two.
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”
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Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
We are the Exorcist Team. Creating Hansung Yogoe Store over the past year brought many challenges, but also great joy. All four of us share a deep fascination with traditional Korean culture, especially yogoe. Working on something we truly love kept us immersed and motivated. Researching, developing demo videos, and finding new ways to introduce this heritage was an exciting exploration. Seeing more people grow curious about Korean folklore has become a powerful driving force for our creativity.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
From the start, we wanted to build original content around Korean yogoe, much like how other cultures have Dracula or mummies. Choosing which yogoe to feature was the real challenge. We spread out a map of Korea, matching each creature’s traits to fitting locations — temples, villages, seashores, mountains. When the match was perfect, it felt like solving a puzzle, and those moments became the heartbeat of our storytelling.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
Presenting the work via QR code lets it appear anywhere, like a wandering yogoe meeting people by chance. This format suits the project perfectly, allowing viewers to engage through their own devices for a more personal, immersive experience.
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
In our studio, small unexplained events often become “the mischief of monsters.” This playful way of noticing the world keeps new yogoe stories alive in our imagination.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”
Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
We are the Exorcist Team. Creating Hansung Yogoe Store over the past year brought many challenges, but also great joy. All four of us share a deep fascination with traditional Korean culture, especially yogoe. Working on something we truly love kept us immersed and motivated. Researching, developing demo videos, and finding new ways to introduce this heritage was an exciting exploration. Seeing more people grow curious about Korean folklore has become a powerful driving force for our creativity.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
From the start, we wanted to build original content around Korean yogoe, much like how other cultures have Dracula or mummies. Choosing which yogoe to feature was the real challenge. We spread out a map of Korea, matching each creature’s traits to fitting locations — temples, villages, seashores, mountains. When the match was perfect, it felt like solving a puzzle, and those moments became the heartbeat of our storytelling.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
Presenting the work via QR code lets it appear anywhere, like a wandering yogoe meeting people by chance. This format suits the project perfectly, allowing viewers to engage through their own devices for a more personal, immersive experience.
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
In our studio, small unexplained events often become “the mischief of monsters.” This playful way of noticing the world keeps new yogoe stories alive in our imagination.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
“Alright, let’s go seal the yogoe”