In collaboratin with AT LAB(Arts and Technnology Lab), Korea National University of Arts

SentimentVoice Korea is an immersive work-in-progress in the ongoing SentimentVoice series, which explores emotions and immigrant voices across cultures, with a focus on the experiences of married migrant women in Korea. This project expands cultural dialogues by highlighting how emotions that technology often fails to capture become marginalized, drawing on firsthand narratives from marriage-migrant women who reconstruct their emotional shifts within Korean society. Through their own words, these women offer testimonies on the reception and internalization of culturally specific emotional codes, such as Han (한) and Jeong (정), and reveal how Korean society constructs and perpetuates othered emotions. By integrating emotion AI and VR, the work aims to foster empathy and challenge dominant technological paradigms in emotional representation. 

Figure 1. Korean Color System © Gunmee Park