Content specialist Dexter Studios (206560, hereafter Dexter) officially opens its first immersive media art museum, ‘Flashback : Gyerim,’ on November 14 (Friday) through its subsidiary FlashbackGround Co., Ltd.
Flashback : Gyerim, the starting point for the immersive media art brand ‘FLASHBACKGROUND’, is an immersive exhibition that reinterprets the mythical narratives of Silla with a modern sensibility. It is a project that concentrates the technological prowess and artistic sensibility of the Dexter Group. Operating year-round as a permanent exhibition within the Bomun Tourist Complex in Gyeongju, it features Korea’s largest immersive space at 5,600 square meters (17,000 square feet) with a ceiling height of up to 36 feet (11 meters). Visitors can walk through the world of Silla legends themselves, experiencing a multisensory journey. It presents a new paradigm for domestic history-telling media art exhibitions and is expected to become a representative landmark for the Gyeongju region as it welcomes the ‘post-APEC’ era.
This exhibition is a cinematic immersive experience where visitors can directly encounter the cinematic imagination and technological prowess previously showcased by Dexter on screen, now brought to life in a physical space. It concentrates the core competencies of the Dexter Group—VFX, sound design, immersive content production, and spatial design—to deliver a differentiated narrative experience where light, video, sound, and space harmoniously converge. Notably, its cinematic-quality VFX and immersive sound, realized by Hollywood-bound sound studio Live Tone, offer an unparalleled level of immersion unseen in conventional media art exhibitions.
Flashback : Gyerim combines the dramatic imagination of the Silla mythological fantasy world with cutting-edge visual effects technology, reborn in modern light. Original storytelling content such as ‘Najeong’, ‘Geoseogan’, ‘The Guardians’, ‘The Sea Guarded by Dragons’, and ‘The Sacred Tree’ awaits visitors.
Visitors become key figures in the mystical founding of Silla at ‘Najeong’ and ‘Geoseogan,’ directly participating in the process. In ‘Guardians,’ they witness and defeat the humorous shadow of an evil spirit that reacts in real-time to their movements within a stone chamber guarded by guardian deities.
‘The Sea Guarded by Dragons’ brings the legend of King Munmu, who became a guardian dragon to protect the East Sea, to life through a large screen enveloping five sides. Visitors experience the sensory sensation of standing before the sea of Silla , facing the overwhelming scene of a soaring giant dragon, fierce storms, and waves engulfing the entire space.
Additionally, ‘The Sacred Tree'(sindansu) brings the mythical divine tree to life through an 11-meter-tall super-sized media art space and installation art. This content allows visitors to enjoy a transcendent time slip, immersed in the light of Silla’s nature across the four seasons and the changing phases of the moon.
To commemorate its official opening, ‘Flashback : Gyerim’ offers a 20% discount to ticket purchasers from Friday, November 14th to Sunday, November 30th. Discounted tickets are available for purchase via ‘Naver Reservation’ and the performance/exhibition booking platform ‘Ticketlink’ and are valid until Wednesday, December 31st of this year.
Meanwhile, with the APEC Summit drawing significant domestic and international attention and causing a surge in visitors to Gyeongju, the ‘Flashback : Gyerim’ attraction located in the Bomun Tourist Complex, a major tourist area, is also expected to benefit. According to Gyeongju City, from October 1 to November 4 this year, the number of non-local visitors to Gyeongju reached 5.89 million, a 22.8% increase compared to the same period last year. Notably, the number of foreign visitors increased by 35.6%. Gyeongju City welcomed a total of 47.09 million external visitors throughout 2024.
▲ Flashback : Gyerim ‘The Sacred Tree’ Image
▲ Flashback : Gyerim ‘Geoseogan’ image
