I will interview locals who have a long-term connection with this land and water, focusing on community members whose livelihoods are dependent on the land and water directly. I will also interview people of different generations in the same family.

Ethnographic interview storytelling, a methodology that documents how people narrate their lived experiences within specific cultural contexts, captures how elders and residents narrate changes to the river, revealing knowledge and practices frequently overlooked in top-down frameworks, whereby government agencies develop policies without substantial community input. By tracing these narratives, my study provides insights directly relevant to environmental policy: it illustrates how infrastructure shapes not only hydrological flows but the social and cultural fabric of affected communities.

As an inheritor of multiracial diasporic lineages, autoethnography supports my intention to resurface ancestral knowledge through listening deeply with(in) my identities, relationship with water, and the hydro-social territory of Jeollanamdo.