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Yangachi introduces stories through books, videos and 3D screens and visualizes scenes in the stories utilizing various media subject matters. In 2002, he introduced his satirical work likening Korean sociopolitical scenery to the Internet home shopping using the Web in his first solo exhibition “Yangachi Guild.” In one of his exhibition titled “E-Government,” the artist showed the possibility of personal information, which is largely exposed in digital era, misused by government’s system of surveillance and control through reflecting the situation around the Internet at the time when government and capital began to come together in one union by making it seem like being imprisoned in Panopticon. Using the Web as a tool, this work criticizes the social atmosphere at the time dreaming to make Korea into a digital paradise. Later, the artist uses the structure of storytelling in the exhibition, “Middle Corea,” meaning a nation between South and North Korea. He seeks to overcome the limits of reality revealed in the Web itself through the imaginary tool created to destroy the system of nation, government and economy and furthermore develops the critical perspective on the interest in media, capital and class.