Eunseo rewrites her article about the riverside neighborhood at midnight

On the night before the deadline, Eunseo sat down again in front of her laptop to finish her article about the redevelopment of the riverside neighborhood.

In the first draft, the positions of the people trying to preserve the old shops and the people supporting the new plan seemed fairly clearly divided, so the article naturally followed a structure of pros and cons.

But while checking her reporting notebook and audio files again, Eunseo kept being reminded of the fact that in the actual interviews, people had not spoken so simply.

The owner of an old laundry shop did not want the building to disappear, but at the same time said it was becoming hard to bear the repair costs, and a young business owner said a new building was necessary while also not wanting the neighborhood's memory to be erased in the process.

As Eunseo read those words again and again, she felt that although the article might become easier if she summed up the situation in one strong sentence, people's real experiences would instead become less visible.

That said, if she merely listed the different positions quietly, what needed to be decided now could become blurred, so she began adjusting again the order of explanation and the weight of the sentences.

In the end, in the final section Eunseo ended the article by tracing what each person wanted to preserve and where those wishes collided, instead of first declaring who was right.

As dawn drew near and she pressed the save button, she thought that even if this draft was not the simplest piece of writing, at least it had not erased the neighborhood's complexity too quickly.