communication People have memories about their school, where they used to play with their friends from childhood. Unfortunately, due to a dramatic decrease in the number of students, quite a few schools have closed and been abandoned for years. How about renovating these closed schools and converting them into new places? In fact, plenty of schools have been re-created into brand new cultural spaces. The author, who graduated from Chojang Elementary School in Busan (now closed), even established a “closed school fan group”. Doing the legwork himself, Baek examined the current status of unknown closed schools all around the country and interviewed those involved with converting some of these schools, thereby collecting examples of running places that have been transformed from closed schools, learning the difficulties in maintaining such places, capturing the look and feel of a school in a transformed place, and gathering the response from local residents as such sites open.