In <Ggondae>, a short story written by Ho Bin Kim, Jung Soo, a high school student in South Korea, is constantly being oppressed by condescending adults (Ggondaes) who think they are always right. Seung Chan, a cheerful friend of Jung Soo’s, recommends him to join a gathering that denounces Ggondaes. Despite originally being skeptical about going to a cult-like gathering, Jung Soo eventually ends up in a meeting after being yelled at by his parents. Guided by Seung Chan and the Messenger, the leader of the gathering, Jung Soo learns that it was the Rabbit that had influenced elders to become Ggondaes starting from ancient times so that the young people did not have to feel guilty about throwing away elders in a tradition called Goryeo Burial where elders were left in the mountains to die due to famine. Now that the Goryeo Burial tradition is ancient history, the Rabbit wants people to wait for the Great Refusal when the younger generation will not tolerate Ggondaes anymore and overthrow them as a whole to create a more prosperous and efficient society. After leaving the gathering, Jung Soo finds out that Seung Chan is a victim of domestic violence. Wanting to protect Seung Chan and unable to wait for when the Great Refusal may happen, Jung Soo convinces Seung Chan to leave for America with him. Jung Soo and Seung Chan are full of excitement and hope when they get to San Francisco, but they are soon killed by two unknown men in front of a laundromat in Chinatown owned by descendants of Japanese American mentioned in the Yellow Peril story.

    Through this story, with the use of a performance video featuring auditory and visual components that usually lack from reading a novel, Ho Bin Kim portrays the absurdities of Ggondaes (condescending people) through the use of satire and meaningless activities. He has deliberately spelled the Korean word, 꼰대, into Ggondae rather than the common translation of Kkondae. This distinction plays a key role in allowing the audience to acknowledge that the world this story is being told about is a world of fiction in case the readers do not already understand it from all the other odd elements of the story. The video has a total of three parts with its holistic structure designed to repeat forever by how it starts and ends. The first part is narrated in formal Korean while engaging in perfunctory actions that ultimately do not add up to anything. This foreshadows the overall nihilistic ending of the story as well as evokes a distinction between “imagery” and “defamiliarization” in order for the audience to gain a new perspective of common things through an unfamiliar or strange way. Part two starts when Jung Soo and Seung Chan visit the nameless gathering that denounces Ggondaes and worships a stone Rabbit statue. The Rabbit functions as an objective correlative of the whole story, a terminology first coined by T.S. The language used for part two is changed to casual Korean when the two protagonists encounter the Messenger. The Messenger reminds them the ideology of respecting the elders (Confucianism) originally is derived from China in the past, but Korea now has become so obsessed with this ideology that Koreans have lost what it truly means to respect others and that the elders mistake older age as a right to look down on the younger ones. The Messenger tells them to abandon the language of the oppressors, and thus speak in casual Korean. The last part is spoken in English when they leave Korea and land in America. This represents the protagonists completely freeing themselves from the shackles of Ggondae oppression in Korea, thus allowing them to dream the American Dream. Nonetheless, the story ends abruptly with two of them being stabbed to death, which illustrates another kind of oppression in America. Throughout the video, there is a ukulele sound that gradually fastens that delineates the allurement from the West. By using narration in three distinctive styles and performing random acts accompanied by a ukulele in the background, complexity is achieved at the expense of spontaneity.