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Cha Beomseok's play in the 1950s uses urban space as a transformed residential space as a theatrical background. This change is more clearly confirmed when compared to Cha Beomseok's play during the training period. The urban background newly illuminated in the play in connection with the trend of urbanization in the 1950s is symbolized as a small flowerbed in <Bulmoji(wasteland)>. This small flowerbed symbolizes the decline of human ecological conditions, which suffers from dwelling and anxiety, and shrinks from the logic of urbanization and development. And these fading flowerbed-like characters frequently appear in Cha Beomseok's plays. As a result, in Cha Beomseok's 1950s play, the appearance of a dream crushed by social reality is embodied through various groups of characters. On the one hand, such a group of characters may be the result of reflection of social reality in the 1950s, but from a different angle, these characters and their withered dreams will be the basic conditions for growth and survival lost in the deteriorated social environment and real ecosystem. Therefore, restoring these conditions will bring an overall balance within the social ecosystem.

Cha Beomseok, City, flowerbed, development, ecosystem, <Bulmoji (wasteland)>.