The Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) is a heavily fortified 4-kilometre-wide buffer strip separating North and South Korea. Once understood as a trace of wartime violence, today its semi-natural landscape is being studied through an ecological lens for its lush nature and thriving wildlife.

This publication explores how this change in perspective can be rearticulated from my position as a Korean living in the UK. By relating the ecological diversity of the DMZ—an area still today inaccessible to humans—to plant species found in the UK, the project proposes the DMZ as an expandable ecological concept.

Placing this book over the shape of the River Thames establishes a transposed position and a sense of distance, suggesting that the DMZ is no longer limited to Korea but can be redrawn in another place, transforming a border into a connection.