http://https://youtu.be/E9U8fIs-mRc Park Junseo UID: 3035859929   夢伴：Dream Lover – Duddell street 煤氣燈街 (Gas Lamp Street) Duddell street, also known as Gas Lamp street, is one of the last four remaining gas lamps in Hong Kong, still lighting the way. Among the highly developed metropolis of Central, Hong Kong, the street maintains its unique atmosphere from 20th century, with its combination of modern buildings and vintage gas lamps. It is also the location from music video of Dream Lover by Anita Mui (夢伴). I wanted the video to capture the contrasting image of once-popular cultural spot standing in the middle of the city’s

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    The Age of the Main Building   Overview Main Building is one of the most well-known tourist attractions in the campus of HKU. It is famous for its long history of over 110 years since its establishment, and featured for its Baroque-style. It holds multipurpose functions including lecture rooms, offices, and auditoriums in the early years and nowadays, and once been used as a relief hospital during the outbreak of the war. Despite of its long history, the University preserve this historical site carefully by refurbishments without significant changes in facilities and architecture style, therefore we could see

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https://youtu.be/8XrQDxM_GBU Video Essay: Research and Reflection Public toilets are one of the most accessible spaces in Hong Kong. Shopping malls, MTRs are mostly equipped with public toilets providing for resolving the necessity of the populace (Lynn, 2022). As a realm of contract and exchange between strangers, public toilets are typically classified as public space (Hampton, 2010). However, a deeper examination of its function, design, and people’s feelings reveals that it is more akin to a period of private space for everyone who passes through the public space. First, it serves only the individual as a subjective realm of the body, that

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https://youtu.be/zBFgm70KNqs Background of café in Hong Kong Hong Kong has been described as a fast city, which highlights busy and stressful for tourists (Choi et al, 1999). According to the Work-life Balance Cities Ranking 2021 by BPO, Hong Kong is the world’s most overworked city with 30% of workers working more than 48 hours per week (Arkwright, 2022). To deal with overload, people in Hong Kong have learned how to balance work and life. The rising number of coffee shops in Hong Kong is one indicator of this, which allows people to slow down from overwhelming work. As suggested by

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    Hybrid means having a combination of two or more distinct elements. Hong Kong as a city is a mixture of many different elements.   Haiphong Road Temporary Market is located at Tsim Sha Tsui, situated under the Kowloon Park Drive flyover. The area was produced in 1978 to house hawkers that were displaced by the redevelopment of Canton Road (“Hasn’t the Haiphong Road Temporary Market Been There Forever?” 2015). It was meant to be a temporary location but a permanent location never came up. In a sense, the status of this location is a hybrid of being both

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