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			bite into a lump of emotion

A person psychologically finds a face in things. Start with bread, find your face anywhere from the outlet to the top of the manhole to the surface of the moon, and then start looking for corners that resemble you. The face represents the person. Finger or part of the waist does not mean a person, but the face is read by itself.

The expression "face-to-face" is read in a negative tone because the distance between existence and existence is rapidly approaching without permission. So, a person's face is afraid of a sudden look. This is also why they are telling people not to look directly at their lenses when they are photographed with a camera. Unauthorized eyes become violence, and it is only natural that my face is rejected for reading. In a relationship with a person, it is rare for a person to reach the point clearly, even though it is a nonverbal expression as much as his expression.

Conversely, it is different from an observer to an observer. I'm going to go overboard to find out how he feels. I keep looking at whether the person I face is in favor of me or how the person I face is feeling. We are living in a succession of things like that, confronting in asymmetric situations where I want to get information, but I don't want to give it information.

While working with unspecified people, reading faces becomes more skillful. Read with a facial expression whether you are listening attentively or not, whether you are not interested or afraid of the current situation. That is why extreme expressions burn out the energy to look at them. I want to avoid it. The moment you feel pent-up, laugh or frowning or preoccupied, you pour out a lump of emotion on every face. The face of reality is too cold and corrupt to bear the day one wants to turn away.

For Baeksoo in the old movie, the telescope is a good match. In fact, there is no law to spy on a house in front of a telescope through a curtain, but is it presuming that nothing is more interesting to spend time staring at? Now there is no time for people to vacate their homes until they wonder what's going on in the front door. Online videos are full of the fun of chattering that they are more stimulating and more realistic than reality. Find the face you want to see, and pick up the face you want by swinging your fingers. Walking across the globe watching a game-review video of someone on the other side of the globe, the chance to see the wrinkles of the person sitting on the street is now gone. The face on the flat screen is smoother by the light. The flexion of wrinkles becomes rather unrealistic because of eating a processed face.

You face a strange and uncomfortable face when you keep looking. This is the moment when the shell of a modern man, who has become expressionless to avoid being caught, becomes a shell for a while. A shell refers only to a hard material that is wrapped around the outside.

Lee Kye-rim (Columist)