2023-10-01 11:15:00
Included in Kim Cho-yeop’s short story collection <우리가 빛의 속도로 갈 수 없다면>tells the story of Anna, an elderly woman who has been waiting for a spaceship to arrive on a non-operating space station for decades. In her youth, Anna was a researcher studying deep freezing, a human cryosleep technique. He wanted to leave Earth with her family and live on the planet Slenfornia. Anna had to finish her research, so her husband and child left first on a spaceship to Slenfonia. After Anna finished presenting her research, she went to the planet Slenfonia to spend the rest of her life with her family. It was a plan. The deep freezing technology Anna was researching was a groundbreaking technology in the field of space exploration even at the beginning of her research. Since the time to reach another star system from Earth was hundreds to tens of thousands of light years away, it was necessary to go to another planet through cryo-sleep. However, during the course of her research, she discovered a way to make space exploration more economical without using deep freezing technology, and while this did not pose a major obstacle to her research progress, it did not cause Anna to worry regarding her family. It had an impact on how she spent the rest of her life. As a more economical method of space exploration emerged, the existing method of space exploration was abandoned, and this was because the way to get to Slenfornia disappeared. In the end, he repeatedly slept and woken up in cryosleep using the deep-freezing technology he had researched and developed, and was waiting for a spacecraft to Slenfornia at an abandoned space station that seemed to have hope of leaving for Slenfornia. Anna says: “No matter how much we pioneer space and expand the boundaries of humanity, if there are people left there every time… aren’t we just increasing the total amount of loneliness that exists in the universe?” If there is a more economical method than the existing method, the original method will gradually disappear. Due to the development of technology, we moved from the analog era to the digital era, changing from flip phones to smartphones, making it possible to talk all day without meeting each other, and with the development of SNS, it became possible to easily keep up with each other’s current status. However, it is a lonely world whether you use social media or not. When meeting people for the first time, they ask for their Instagram ID first rather than their number, so I feel that it is difficult to become friends with people if I do not use Instagram. However, even when I use Instagram, I just keep looking at the feeds that I see without thinking and my mind is not filled. I was very confused when I first saw the kiosk. I don’t know how to use it, but I remember ordering it while feeling the things I see on the screen. After finishing her order, she felt a sense of relief. It is said that kiosks in many stores these days make it difficult for seniors to go outside. When they see themselves having difficulty using kiosks and not being able to go out and buy food, they feel lonely and forlorn, as if they are separated from this world. Perhaps the relief I felt following completing my first kiosk order was relief that I had not yet become separated from this world. Like Anna, you may feel lonely when you are physically separated from your family, but today, even when we are physically close, we feel lonely as if we are disconnected from the world. It can be said that the development of technology has made our lives easier, but can it be said that it has made our lives warmer? At the end of the novel, Anna sets off on a journey to the planet Slenfornia in his old personal space probe. How beautiful is the back of someone who clearly knows when it is time to go – Lee Hyeong-ki <낙화> It is extremely unlikely that he will reach the planet Slenfornia in his personal space probe. At the speed of his old space probe, he wouldn’t be able to reach the planet Slenfornia for a long time, and even if he went at the speed of light, it would be a very long time before he would get there. He had the option of returning to Earth and living happily in his later years. Therefore, his choice to leave for Slenfonia can be seen as reckless. But he knows exactly where and when he needs to go. The reason she went to the decommissioned space station every day was in the glimmer of hope that her ship to Slenfornia might come. But with the station demolished, the best way for him to get to Slenfornia would have been on his personal space probe. His thought that the only time he had to go was now was eventually translated into action. He knows that his chances of reaching Slenfornia are very slim, and he knows that he will not be able to fly his family. But can his choice be seen as a meaningless choice? How can we evaluate his confident journey, whose outcome is virtually certain?
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