APEC 2025: Official Silla Capital Digital Restoration Content (Korea–U.S. & Korea–China Leaders’ Events)

Bringing the thousand-year capital Gyeongju back to the world stage for APEC 2025: TRIC has produced the official digital restoration film Echoes of a Millennium, A World in Harmony for the APEC Summit, recreating ancient Soabol — the cosmopolitan capital of Silla — through digital heritage technologies. The work begins with the sound of the Bell of King Seongdeok. Across a millennium, the bell’s resonance connects Gyeongju’s historic spirit of global exchange along the Maritime Silk Road with today’s gathering of 21 APEC nations, expanding into a shared message of connection, innovation, and prosperity. Over the past decade, TRIC has built an extensive digital archive of the Silla capital. Using this data — together with real strike recordings of the Bell preserved by the National Museum of Gyeongju — TRIC crafted a monumental media wall installation spanning 50 meters in width and 4 meters in height. To visualize the bell’s unique acoustic phenomenon, maknori, TRIC used AI-driven sound-data visualization, transforming resonance into living waves of light and motion. Silla’s lost cityscape — including Hwangnyongsa Temple, Bunhwangsa Temple, Wolseong Palace, Woljeonggyo Bridge, and Donggung Palace & Wolji Pond — was digitally reconstructed in full three-dimensional scale, along with detailed restorations of gilt-bronze ornaments and celadon roof tiles that once gave Sorabol its title, “The Golden City.” The music was composed by world-renowned musician Yang Bang-ean, and sound design was led by Choi Taeyoung of LiveTone, recipient of the Golden Reel Award for Parasite and sound director for Mickey 17.