The client runs Gukbab, an authentic Korean soup and rice restaurant, with more than 20 years of experience. For many years, Gukbab restaurant has been known for its unique pig head recipe. The food served here is so deep and delicious that people from other places will come in person just for a bowl of soup. The client is a mother in her 70s who opened a soup and rice restaurant to raise her three siblings. Now, she wants to continue expanding the restaurant so she can run it with her family. From the perspective of the whole life of the old mother, this space is companionable and wonderful years.

When I first started the project, I was more concerned with the meaning of Gukbab than the method of approaching the space. If you watch Korean movies, you will often see scenes where people eat with a bowl of soup in front of them. And generally speaking, the love for soup is genuine. As people wiped the sweat from their brows, they seemed drawn to something and ate the Gukbab with all their might, without stopping to eat their spoons. The highlight is when he grabs the heavy, rough bowl of soup with both hands and drinks it. Gukbab is a food that can be mixed with any ingredient in the rough container.

Various ingredients are put into a large cauldron and simmered until they are fused together into a single dish. The process of making it accumulates the depth of time and the delicacies familiar to people, and even with just one bowl of soup, the pursuit of perfection continues. It must be simple yet have depth, it must be flashy yet plain. Although this is a new space, the curators want to see traces of the years of motherhood permeate this space.