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DJDB: A Closed Restaurant, Kept

For 1,330 days I ran Daejang Dakbal, a small chicken-feet restaurant in Seongnam, Korea. When it closed on 27 September 2026, I kept it instead of saying goodbye.

The archive holds 206 photographs of the room, the table, the people and the things, and 1,415 customer reviews bound like a book. The street at night is rebuilt in Blender, so you can still walk around the shop in a browser. Nothing was retouched and nothing was deleted.

Images: the 3D shop at night, the real sign on a rainy night, the real shop next to the model, the model by day and by night, a clickable card inside the model, and the light baked onto its roof.


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DJDB: A Closed Restaurant, Kept

For 1,330 days I ran Daejang Dakbal, a small chicken-feet restaurant in Seongnam, Korea. When it closed on 27 September 2026, I kept it instead of saying goodbye.

The archive holds 206 photographs of the room, the table, the people and the things, and 1,415 customer reviews bound like a book. The street at night is rebuilt in Blender, so you can still walk around the shop in a browser. Nothing was retouched and nothing was deleted.

Images: the 3D shop at night, the real sign on a rainy night, the real shop next to the model, the model by day and by night, a clickable card inside the model, and the light baked onto its roof.