About the Invisible Central Layer Overlooked by Intervention-Centered Structures: A Proposal for an Existence-Based Maintenance System and Its Implemented Interface Application, ‘be’

Preface 1. Nature of This Document This document is authored independently by a researcher working outside any formal institutional or academic affiliation. Rather than adhering to the conventional format of an academic paper, this work is intended as a system proposal, aiming to introduce and explain a new structural framework and its underlying concepts. 2. Background and Perspective This proposal did not emerge from within existing Western, intervention-centered theoretical frameworks, but was instead formed through reflective observation from outside such structures. Although developed in an Eastern context, the proposed system is not a reinterpretation of traditional Eastern philosophy. Rather, it represents a distinct perspective that intersects with, integrates into, and is reconfigured through Western systems thinking and technological structures. 3. Problem Awareness Most contemporary human support services follow a linear structure: diagnosis → assessment → goal setting → intervention → outcome measurement. This model is efficient in defining problems, evaluating intervention effects, and operating within institutional systems. However, it carries a fundamental limitation: it treats human beings not as continuous existences, but as discrete “events” that require response. The first limitation is that individuals without an identifiable problem fall outside the system’s scope of concern. Intervention-centered systems activate only when a problem emerges. As a result, individuals who have not yet reached a critical threshold—or who appear stable—are naturally excluded from support, connection, and care. The system thus responds not to the question of how to sustain stability, but only to conditions after collapse has already occurred. The second limitation lies in the termination of structure once intervention ends. When a predefined goal is achieved or a set period concludes, the intervention stops—and with it, the structural support. What remains absent is a continuous foundation that sustains the individual before and after intervention. Consequently, individuals are left once again to exist alone, without a stable framework that supports ongoing continuity. This reveals not a failure of intervention techniques themselves, but the absence of an underlying structure capable of sustaining human existence. While intervention methods have become increasingly sophisticated, human existential continuity has grown more fragile precisely because this foundational structure is missing. Another critical issue is that intervention draws a distinct line. The initiation of intervention implicitly establishes a boundary between “normal” and “abnormal.” In response, individuals often choose to endure silently or conceal difficulties in order to avoid crossing that line and becoming an intervention target. Paradoxically, those who have not yet met intervention criteria are left without support or connection, only to receive intervention after severe collapse—at which point effective recovery is far more difficult. In this sense, existing intervention-centered service structures are limited not because intervention itself is flawed, but because they lack an existentially sustaining framework that supports both before and after intervention. Human beings are not collections of problems, but beings who live through processes. Yet current systems continue to treat humans as targets requiring response to isolated events, structurally excluding the most essential question: How can existence itself be sustained without collapse? 4. Proposed Content This document proposes an alternative approach—an Existence-Based Maintenance System (EBMS)—to address these limitations. Rather than presupposing intervention or crisis, this system aims to sustain stability and continuity even in states where existence has not yet collapsed, supporting ongoing existence without relying on corrective action. To this end, the proposal introduces an existence-based maintenance interface designed to sense and uphold existential continuity without direct intervention, along with its applied implementation in the application “Being (있음)”. The purpose of this document is to concretely explain the conceptual foundations, structural design, and practical feasibility of this system and its application framework. 5. Intended Audience and Request for Evaluation This document functions as an application proposal grounded in the Existence-Based Maintenance System. Accordingly, its primary intended audience includes practitioners and researchers in the following fields: • Mental health • Welfare • Education • Psychological and emotional recovery As this system is not a tool for correction or intervention, but rather an interface that enables existence to maintain and recover itself, practical evaluation and applicability within these domains are particularly requested. At the same time, the proposed application contains conceptual and structural foundations that extend beyond individual-level use, with potential scalability toward broader social systems and structural design. Therefore, the following fields are also included as extended audiences for evaluation: • Philosophy • Social systems theory • Policy design • Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Critical review, conceptual validation, and feedback regarding practical feasibility are all welcomed.