TRUCK CITY

The belief that a city must exist on fixed land begins to collapse. A man selling fish-shaped pastries from a truck, a woman serving hot fish cakes— around an abandoned industrial complex, beside a landfill no one paid attention to, self-employed truck owners begin to gather. Medical care, housing, food, education, fashion, administration—every function of a city is loaded onto moving trucks. This is the beginning of Truck City. After witnessing the death of a child caused by the collapse of the emergency medical system— and seeing the responsibility erased within bureaucracy—Doyoon loses faith in the existing healthcare structure. “If the hospital can’t come, then the hospital must move.” Centering on T-MED, a surgical truck equipped with a full operating room, he designs a mobile medical system capable of deploying anywhere. But the experiment soon runs into fierce resistance from the medical establishment and rigid administrative barriers. Those who gather to survive soon realize that medicine alone is not enough. People need to eat, get dressed, and have a place to sleep. Food trucks arrive. Ultra-compact residential units called House Trucks are installed. Electricity, water, and communication systems are connected on a truck-by-truck basis. Truck City gradually begins to take the shape of a city, no longer just a temporary camp. As Truck City spreads through social media, it draws global attention. A truck fashion show held in collaboration with Gucci and large-scale food truck festivals spark a new cultural movement. Functionality-driven trucker fashion, born from survival, becomes a worldwide trend. Meanwhile, requests pour in to export medical and rescue trucks to war zones and disaster areas. Truck City is no longer a fringe experiment—it becomes a global model. But expansion inevitably creates fractures. Capital flows in. Politics intervene. Internal power struggles emerge. Between those trying to protect mobility and public purpose and those attempting to lock the system into a profit-driven structure, Truck City stands at a crossroads. Is this an ideal city— or merely the repetition of another system? TRUCK CITY asks: Who does a city belong to? Who does a system really save? A record of a moving city, suspended between survival and ideals.