gluee is running ‘THE BOARD : Manseokjung Nori’, an experience exhibition that reimagines the traditional shadow play Manseokjung Nori as an interactive detective game, at Palbok Art Factory in Jeonju from October 17 to November 22, 2026.

The exhibition is set in Seonjacheong, Jeonju, in the late Joseon period. Visitors become secret royal inspectors investigating corruption in the royal fan tribute and must find the culprit among four suspects. Each investigation leads to a different ending.

The evidence is hidden in hanji paper. Video is projected from behind a 7m hanji screen, and visitors open an evidence-finding website with a QR code, with no app to install. When they point their phone camera at a hanji picture, AR recognizes it and the culprit's shadow evidence appears in place. The evidence they find is collected in a notebook on their phone.

In the final room, visitors become the lead of the shadow play. The four suspects are projection-mapped onto the wall, and when a visitor stands in front of it, a motion camera follows their movements and casts the inspector's shadow. When they stretch out an arm and hold it on a suspect, the inspector, now their own shadow, names the culprit.

During the Palbok Future Culture Festival, 1,500 people played the exhibition, a participation rate of over 50% of venue visitors.

The work was selected for the Jeonju Cultural Foundation's Art & Tech program and featured on KBS Jeonju's 〈Today Jeonbuk〉. It draws on Jeonju's stories and local cultural assets such as hanji paper and fans.

‘THE BOARD : Manseokjung Nori’ is the second title in THE BOARD series, following ‘THE BOARD : Excavation Squad’.