The third message came from a different office.
Not Communications — Legal Affairs. The language was different too: more specific, citing a data protection clause, naming the classification category and the statutory definition of identifying information. The report contained the name of a private individual. Displaying it without authorization constituted a disclosure violation.
Gyeol-ri read it twice. She checked: Park Joonho had given permission. She had the email from three weeks ago, when she first asked. She forwarded the Legal Affairs message to him and wrote: what do you want to do?
He replied in two minutes.
Add it to the fifth column.
She printed the Legal Affairs message and pinned it to the wall. Below the Communications office message. Below her reply. Three entries now in the fifth column.
She stood back and looked at the whole wall. The original measurements. The residents' own descriptions. The Commission report — still there, a public document. What the categorization cost. Responses to the piece. Three offices had now contacted her about a document she had found in a public archive.
Park Joonho came by an hour later. She pointed at the fifth column.
He said: they are making the piece for me now.
She thought about that. She had made the first four columns. The fifth was theirs — his and hers, but mostly arriving from outside. The Commission had not intended to contribute. Neither had the legal team. Neither had the Seam cultural feed writer who got the sequence wrong.
She did not know yet how many columns the piece would have.
She knew it would not be fewer than five.