In search of the starting point of this ironic scenery of real and fake, I set out for the corner of the world that sustains all this flashiness, Zhejiang, China, where the world’s most inexpensive accessories are fabricated. More than half of the products available at Daiso, a Korean discount variety store, are produced and distributed in this city. I went there to find the people who make them. What is the functioning mechanism of this dazzlingly decorated world? Countless hands moving without rest, all for a moment of radiance. There I asked the people I met for an answer to the question “what does it mean for something to be real?”