The People Who Film It
1. Hyundai Motor Company – "At this point, it's not an EV. It's a platform."
Yangjae-dong.The conference room at Hyundai Motor Company headquarterswas, as always, quiet—but the screen that day was different.
Instead of vehicle specifications,a cross-section appeared.
The House-Truck module.Expandable container structures.Power flow. Medical routes.AI control lines.
An executive pointed at the screen.
"Is this…a car?"
Silence.
Doyoon answered.
"It starts as a vehicle.But it doesn't end as one."
The head of Hyundai's EV platform team flipped through the drawings.
"This isn't a mobility unit," he said."It's a settlement system."
"And the battery," someone added,"isn't for driving.It's a backup power source."
Someone muttered quietly,
"What we've been building…were vehicles."
Doyoon continued.
"What we're buildingis a movable unit of a city."
At the end of the meeting,Hyundai left an official sentence behind.
"Truck City isa city platform equipped with electric vehicles."
That sentence would later becomethe first line of every report.
2. ESG Evaluation Team – They Came to See the Structure, Not the Numbers
A week later.Men in suits walked into the industrial complexbeside the landfill.
They were an ESG evaluation team.
"Usually,we only review documents," one said."But this place—we decided we had to see it."
They examinedthe distributed power system,the water circulation facilities,and even activated the fire suppression system themselves.
"Solar output exceeds residential consumption."
"The wastewater reuse rateis higher than most new developments."
"AI is linkingpower, medical, and safety data together."
Then the final question.
"Why go this far?"
Doyoon paused, then said,
"If we were chasing ESG scores,we would've stopped halfway."
"We built a placefor people who don't have the option to run."
The team leader closed his notebook.
"This isn't something to be evaluated," he said."…It could become the standard."
3. Government – Reviewing an Integrated Disaster, Housing, and Environment Pilot
A few days later.A meeting with an official title convened.
〈Review Meeting for an Integrated Disaster–Housing–Environment Pilot〉
Officials from the Ministry of Land,Environment, Welfare,and Disaster & Safety.
People who normallynever sat in the same room.
A director spoke first.
"Every disaster,we face the same problem."
"There are homes but no medical services.Medical services but no power.Power—but no access for people."
Doyoon projected the Truck City schematic.
"This systemdoesn't separate those functions."
"Housing, healthcare, power, and mobilityare designed as one body."
Silence.
Then a sentence entered the minutes.
"Truck City has valueas a disaster-response model for empirical testing."
It was only the word review—but everyone in the room knew.
This wasn't a rejection.It was a signal to prepare.
4. The People Who Film It
That afternoon, it began.
First,a single drone.
Then,two cameras.
Then, people.
Media crews.Documentary directors.Photojournalists.YouTubers.
They didn't film interiors.They filmed movement.
The angle of the trucks.Medical pathways.Children's running routes.The shade where the elderly rested.
A photographer asked Doyoon,
"What's the symbol of this city?"
Doyoon looked toward the Doctor Truckin the distance.
"There are no landmarks here," he said."But people don't disappear."
The shutter clicked.
5. The Final Shot
At sunset.
The solar panels atop the House-Trucksreflected the fading light.
A child passed by on an electric scooter.The Doctor Truck remained quietly on standby.
On the city control monitor,a line appeared like a subtitle.
Current system status: Stable
It wasn't a number.It wasn't promotion.
It was the signalof a living city.