I want you to close your eyes for a second.
We're going to do a little bit of time travel today.
Okay, I'm intrigued.
We aren't going back to ancient Rome or the Industrial Revolution.
We are going back to 1953.
It's not that long ago really.
In the grand scheme of things, it's a single human lifetime.
Exactly.
My grandfather was alive.
Your parents might have been alive.
It's recent history.
It really is.
So imagine it's 1953 and we are standing in the middle of the Korean Peninsula.
But I don't want you to picture the neon lights of Seoul or the skyscrapers of Busan.
I want you to erase all of that.
You have to wipe the slate clean.
Cleaner than clean.
The source material we are looking at today uses a phrase that really stuck with me.
What was it?
It describes the setting as true ruins.