NOKDU BOOKSTORE FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD is the project I propose for the Gwangju Biennale 2016. NOKDU… will be a meeting place in the middle of the Gwangju Biennale exhibition site that adopts the form of a mythic bookstore which played a fundamental role in the events of the May 18 revolution in Gwangju (1980). This bookstore form I give to the meeting place I want to construct is not a historical reconstruction of the original NOKDU bookstore, but a construction of how I imagine this bookstore to be, following my readings, my own emotional and cultural background, and the testimony of different people;a construction happening in a sort of anachronic moment that puts together the past (1980), the present, and the future of an event that catalysed the history of Korea and the world democratic struggle.