"Mullae Art Village" is the name most commonly used to introduce this neighborhood, but it represents only half of the alley.
What the name erases
It is true that artists moving in added new vitality. But before that, and still today, the alley's basic industry is metalworking. The name "art village" is convenient for visitors, but it has the effect of pushing the labor of ironwork technicians, who have kept working all along, into the background.
Revisiting a familiar sentence
The sentence "art revived this area" is as simple as it is pleasant. Artists' arrival adding vitality is true, but understanding this neighborhood accurately requires also seeing that this vitality rests on the continued presence of the ironwork industry.