When and how did Korean artists adopt video as a medium for artistic expression? What were the internal and external environments of that art? What is the context of its development in relation to Korean art? Yi Won-Kon, a media theorist and member of the first generation of video artists, examines 30 years in the history of Korean video art from the 1970s to the 1990s based on his research findings and his own experiences as part of that scene.