Over the past few years, in South Korea,
you often come across articles about police finding someone dead in a tiny room,
alone and without any interaction with their family or friends.
Most of the time, the police even struggle to find their family.
The number of people who don’t want a family or choose to live alone is increasing.
Some of them disconnect from society until they are found dead.
This social phenomenon is known as 'Kodokushi' in Japanese, as it was first recognized in Japan.
Due to aging, not managing to keep up with fast changes in the world,
and being required to have high standards as a human being,
or perhaps for reasons we do not know,
people choose to be alone.
Some do not choose; they are compelled.

One journalist in South Korea wrote an article about a man found dead, alone, and abandoned,
attaching a picture of a memo possibly written by the man before he died.
It allows you to imagine the trace of his life.
There was one sentence in the memo written in Korean:

“이 날이나 저 날이나 매일 같은 날이구나"

“Whether it’s this or that day, they’re all the same.”

This memo was written by the man not knowing it would be read by anyone.
You want to prove whether what he was saying could be true,
while also desiring to deny it and feeling deep mourning for him.
Paint chips in someone’s house fall off over time,
probably because someone used the wrong paint on the concrete wall.
You’ve been taking pictures whenever you want to prove his words,
believing that the falling paint chips would eventually reveal the changes.
Did they?

picture from Hankyoreh News