Director Hwang Yoon was working on a documentary about tidal flats in the Saemanggeum estuary, on the West coast of South Korea, but she had to halt the filming in 2006 when the Saemangeum Seawall dyke was completed, first step into a massive land reclamation project. Ten years later, as she moves to the nearby city of Gunsan, she learns about a civic group that has been performing ecological surveys in the estuary for over 20 years. Having thought that the tidal flats would ...more

Director Hwang Yoon was working on a documentary about tidal flats in the Saemanggeum estuary, on the West coast of South Korea, but she had to halt the filming in 2006 when the Saemangeum Seawall dyke was completed, first step into a massive land reclamation project. Ten years later, as she moves to the nearby city of Gunsan, she learns about a civic group that has been performing ecological surveys in the estuary for over 20 years. Having thought that the tidal flats would have died after the construction of the dyke, she discovers much to her surprise that the place is still teeming with fauna that lives according to the tides.less