GyeongGi Cultural Foundation

Let’s heal ourselves culturally in Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus

Let’s heal ourselves culturally in Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus in the midst of constricted daily life because of COVID-19!▶ Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, filled with festivals and programs every month▶ Great roles in a complex cultural space, such as venture businesses, education and experiences▶ Enjoyable space for experiencing living culture, for 31 cities and counties▶ Initiation of ‘Design 1978’ leading culture of designGyeonggi Cultural Foundation (President, Kang Heon) introduces new businesses and programs for the Complex Cultural Space, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, where forests and cultures comingle. With more than 800,000 visitors and presenting pleasures to the provincial public since its inception, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus is planning to welcome the provincial public with more programs this year.① <Forêt Forêt •Maker Festival•Design Festival, Gyeonggi Sangsang (imaginal) Campus filled with festivals in every month><Forêt Forêt> is a leading festival of the Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus held in every year since its opening in 2016, and is a giving and sharing space for cultures embracing content such as markets, movies, performances and sports. In this year, festivals with many concepts are scheduled to be held each month, extending operation hours for Forêt Forêt, Forêt Concert, and Forêt Movie Screening until 10 pm.<Forêt Forêt> will be held on the last Saturday every month starting from June until September, and will have an art market and an experience program, based on open, leafy spaces, and <Forêt Movie Screening> is scheduled to play movies with themes along with displaying artwork and performances. Moreover, <Forêt Music Concert> is planning to have a ‘Midsummer Night’s Forest Music Concert (tentatively named)’ and a Halloween Day Special Music Concert which children up to youth can enjoy. Especially this year, the conference hall in Education Building No. 1964 has been designated as “Gyeonggi-do Province Public Movie Theater for movies” in collaboration with the Gyeonggi Cultural Content Agency. Cinema talks and humanities lectures will be held alongside talks by movie directors or actors, which will make Forêt Forêt Festival more engaging.<Maker Festival (tentatively named)> shows the abilities of the resident organizations in the Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, and <Design Festival> (tentatively named), which opens in the second half of the year as a linkage festival with a design platform ‘Design 1978’, will both be held for the first time, and <Gyeonggi-do Province Living Culture Festival> for the purpose of sharing living cultural sites in Gyeonggi-do Province, will be also promoted.② <Educational platform for learning while enjoying based on culture and arts by life cycle>Various educational programs based on culture and art are prepared by the educationally specialized ‘Education 1964’ of the Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, “For everyone, only here, learning while enjoying the educational platform”Programs are being operated, such as <Regular Program> which is targets children, families, and seniors, <Regional Schools linked Program>, which is a career experience education targeting free grades in the neighborhood schools, and <Both Hands School>, with a theme of social change and future-targeting adults. Especially this year, experimental and natural educational programs are invigorated through extended arrangements of programs specializing in using the forest ecosystem of the Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, such as bee farming, vegetable gardening, experiencing forests and so on. Throughout the outside space of ‘Nest in Forest: Room of its Own’ opening together with ‘Education 1964’ and ‘Education Atelier: Garden of Conversation’, it will provide programs for experiencing the pleasure of interchange through self-directed education and conversation.Members of the steering groups for <Regular Program>, <Two Hands School> are to be selected through a public contest among educational organizations operating in Gyeonggi–do province. A plan is to be prepared to set up a structure linking with others and growing together by cooperating with newly discovered educational organizations.③ <Playground of venture businesses, supporting free cultural art experiments >Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus provides support by selecting resident organizations through a public selection each year, who challenge the status quo experimentally in cultural art. The size of support is to be extended to 43 teams this year, increased from 41 teams last year. Organizations in various categories, such as ventures, living culture, and complex workshops, move in to cooperate with Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus.Space with work and culture is to be organized by vitalizing a venture culture in Gyeonggi-do province throughout various linkage programs with resident organizations. To do this, programs will be supported by the resident organizations, such as ▲Tailored education for the empowerment of abilities ▲Providing opportunities to new content developments through consulting and benchmarking ▲Marketability reviews through participation in cultural business such as events and festivals ▲Opportunity expansion for external advancement.Affiliated programs with resident organizations are also in process to invigorate the maker culture, such as <Sang Sang (Imagination) X Maker>, a maker program using the professional abilities of resident organizations, and <Free Suggestion Program>, suggesting practical ideas. ‘Playground for Companion Dogs’ which had good responses from the <Free Suggestion Program> last year, has been extended until this year, providing rest and playgrounds for visitors.A newly launched program this year through resident organizations is the <Maker Festival> (tentatively named). It is a test market combination of a festival and exhibition form, introducing the various areas and abilities of resident organizations by showing experimental items. The festival, in which ventures in cultural art fields are gathered in one place, is scheduled to be held in the second half of the year.④ <School of life creating a culture of new life >Gyeonggi Living Culture Center designs and operates programs to extend its role as a support center at the provincial level. It discovers living cultural issues through having relationships with related organizations (Basic cultural foundations, cultural centers, houses of culture, living cultural centers), and operates <Gyeonggi Living Culture Platform> which supports ideas to discover and to invigorate living cultural sites in the 31 cities counties within Gyeonggi-do province.Education for local culture specialists and living culture field activists is to be strengthened through <Dasari Cultural Planning School>, for which there is a 7th graduation this year, and <Living Culture Club>, supporting the hobby club activities of the provincial public, and the <Discovering Local Craftsmen Project>, sharing living techniques and know-how in our neighborhoods, operated since last year. <Provincial Public Empathic Performance: Sing a Young Man>, street art form linked with <Living Culture Club>, and busking performances are scheduled to be held on stages in 31 cities counties in Gyeonggi-do province. <Gyeonggi-do Provincial Living Culture Festival> is also being promoted for the purpose of sharing living cultural sites within the Gyeonggi area.A new program, based on spaces newly developed, is starting. A production culture based on living technologies is to be vitalized, and maker activities of provincial residents will be supported throughout development of <Imagination Laboratory> (Manufacturing, Carpentry, Porcelain, Glass) and <Life Creative Workshop> (Fabric, Sewing, Coffee, Children creative workshop, Book binding room, Autonomous working space, Glass & etc.), to be opened inside of the building of ‘Saeng Saeng 1990’ in the coming July.⑤ <Design Platform which will be the center of the Design Culture of Gyeonggi-do Province, Design 1978>The space which is to decorate the final Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus creation is ‘Design 1978’. Its opening is imminent, by remodeling of the formal forestry building and through cultural revitalization. ‘Design 1978’ creates specialized spaces for design manufacture, designers’ research, development of synergy products & so on. Furthermore, it will be a foothold space for designers’ co-working, starting from design contents studies through the development, manufacture and sales by preparing occupancy spaces for the design field.In pilot program which will happen before the opening in ‘Design 1978’, design work integrating cultural, social, environmental, art, and regional features of Gyeonggi-do province with design media will be displayed. The concept of ‘Design 1978’ is to be a concretized and user-centered operating system, stablished through the operation of round tables, seminars & so on. Furthermore, marketability of the resident organizations will be reviewed, and opportunities for pioneering markets such as the distribution of designed products will be provided by holding a market type <Design Festival> after the opening.On the other hand, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus plans to operate regular performances between July till December by selecting performance & media organizations. Opportunities for the initial performance will be provided to creative organizations who possess performance content with popularity and artistic value, and which are having difficulties with first or new performance initiation. Selected organizations will get the chance to perform twice a year on the stage of ‘Space 1986’ in Gyeonggi Sangsang (Imaginary) Campus along with some performance support funds. Organizations having novel and creative performances can plan to fascinate the provincial public through regular performances. Furthermore, in the second half of the year, facilities and experiences using outdoor spaces will be constantly expanded, such as ‘Water Park Playground for Children’ and ‘Space of Light’, using outdoor landscape lighting.Joo Hongmi, the newly elected director of Culture and Art Headquarters, said, “I hope this will be a space that provides rest and consolation to the provincial public, who have suffered from conditions related to COVID-19. I will do my best to make this space where something new and diverse takes place, the liberal imagination is peaked, in a space of provincial public-centered living art.▶ Detailed information about Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus by program can be seen on the homepage website of Gyeonggi Sangsang  Campus.※ Currently, cultural administration functions belonging to Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (including Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus) are temporary closed, from May 29th till further notice, due to government’s policy for COVID-19 proliferation prevention.

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Traveling with Your Smartphone and Studying DMZ!

○ Newly loaded “ecological information notification service” in the Pyeonghwa Nurigil stamp tour application ○ Reflecting the results of the ‘DMZ Area Natural Environment Ecology Survey’ conducted in 2017-2019-Contains important ecological information on Pyeonghwa Nuri-gil (189 km) in 4 cities and counties in the DMZ. ○ Major animal and plant ecological information can be viewed on the map. Also equipped with a notification function when approaching the habitatGyeonggi-do is implementing a service that allows you to check information on the surrounding ecological environment while walking along the Pyeonghwa Nuri Road through the smartphone application “Pyeonghwa Nurigil Stamp Tour”. ‘Pyeonghwanurigil Stamp Tour’ is an application developed by Gyeonggi-do in cooperation with a trekking certification agency this year so that visitors can enjoy a more convenient walking tour as more than 400,000 people visit Pyeonghwanurigil every year.Provides map information for a total of 189km in 12 sections of Pyeonghwanuri-gil (3 Yeoncheon, 4 Paju, 3 Gimpo, and 2 Goyang), and where you are walking based on the GPS location system of your smartphone. It also has a'navigation' function that tells you if there is any.This 'ecological information notification service', newly added to the application, is a function created to enable visitors to check information on animals and plants inhabiting the Pyeonghwanurigil area based on the location identification system. It is characterized by displaying about 10 species of major animals and plants per course on the map in the app, and clicking the icon allows you to view detailed information such as the name and classification of the organism, observation time and place, and growth. In addition, a ‘notification function' was also provided to notify visitors when there is a habitat of the animal or plant within 50m of their location. ▲ [Photo] 'Pyeonghwa Nurigil Stamp Tour App' Ecological Information Notification Service (Source: Gyeonggi-do News Portal) In particular, this function reflects the results of the “DMZ Area Natural Environment Ecology Survey” conducted by Gyeonggi Province for the past three years from 2017 to 2019, so that you can know the actual latest ecological information of the Pyeonghwa Nurigil area.Gyeonggi-do DMZ Policy Manager Soonhak Hong said, “We have developed this function to not only appreciate the scenery of Pyeonghwa Nuri-gil, but also enjoy a variety of experiences to see and learn the ecosystem.” I hope that this will be an opportunity to recognize the importance of the company.”Gyeonggi Province, through the 'DMZ Area Natural Environment Ecology Survey', is home to 1,120 species of plants, 152 species of birds, and 10 species of mammals, including the endangered species of Plover, and the natural monument. I have confirmed that. Based on the results of this year's survey, we are making efforts to promote the ecological value of the Pyeonghwa Nuri-gil by producing a comprehensive ecological resource report and a map of each city and county.You can use it by selecting the Nurigil Stamp Tour in Google play store.

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Homo Musicians

[Paleolithic Communication]

Music stimulates human emotions. When you listen to a calm song, you think, and when you listen to a fun song, you dance. Music can also emotionally connect the person who plays or sings to the person who listens. It is to build a consensus through music, and this emotional bond has played an important role in the growth of humanity as a social animal. What is music to humans? Why sing and enjoy music? Music can be said to be a mystery of human evolution that shows humanity that cannot be explained biologically.The ability to speak, or language, is a unique trait that we humans have that distinguishes them from other animals. So the origin of language is also linked to the origin of music. Because to sing, you must be able to make sounds. People who speak and make tools are people who sing and make music.Diversification of sounds for exquisite information exchange for humans, social animals, has helped tremendously in improving viability. Community is a group that shares various and accurate information related to life and death in their own language. In order to send and receive accurate information, the key is to create a sound with a different tone. So, the process of elaborating the ability to produce different sounds is no different from the process of developing human language. The sound of different heights and different lengths, that is the song. That's why Steve Meeson's argument that the early language started from a sound like a chorus humming seems to make sense.Elaborate communication was an essential skill for hunter humans. Recklessly screaming at a raging mammoth, throwing a spear, and rushing recklessly is akin to suicide. Rather, it is clear that the skill to increase the success rate of hunting was to clarify the division of roles among members participating in the hunt and to communicate and cooperate with each other in sufficient and efficient language about how to suppress the prey. The ability to communicate sufficiently and accurately in such a sophisticated language was an important ability for mankind to survive.Human evolution can be said to be a process in which our DNA is reborn as a new life form through generations. So the music is always new. Even without learning, new music continues in the new generation. The reason BTS' songs resonate all over the world is probably because of the instinctive desire for new music. Today, modern humans are homo musicians who constantly create new music to be happy and to make society beautiful. Just as DNA is linked and compounded to create the outcome of new evolution, changing music is another gift from evolution to us. The community that cannot communicate will eventually disappear. Before it's too late, I imagine Yeouido, which is full of homo musicians who sang in a soft humming.

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Where new began, Gyeonggi

The 2020 Joongbu Ilbo series 〈Gyeonggi-do Museum〉 is a content produced in a total of 10 series by the GyeongGi Provincial Museum, which has undergone a complete reorganization of the exhibition hall in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its opening. If you would like to see more detailed 〈Gyeonggi Province Museum〉, you can enjoy it in the original text on the Jungbu Ilbo website.Gyeonggi, where new beganWhile the names of many provinces in Korea are made by combining the front letters of the representative towns in the region, Gyeonggi Province itself has a meaning of a region encompassing the capital and surrounding areas. Since “Gyeonggi” appeared in the 9th year of King Hyeonjong of Goryeo (1018), the Gyeonggi-do between Korea and Joseon has been in a relationship for 1,000 years because it is inseparable from the capital. There was a good reason for modifiers such as the center of the Korean peninsula, the land of the Korean peninsula, and a key point for transportation and military, which are often followed before the GyeongGi.In addition, the Gyeonggi region was a place where exchanges with the world were made through the developed maritime transport in the West Sea. Exchanges through the sea from the Three Koreas and the Three Kingdoms era became more active when Goryeo entered. This was a natural result because it was founded by a baron who accumulated wealth through maritime activities in Kaesong, close to the west sea.[Photo] Korea National Geographic Information Institute in the world map. This is a map of Hondius' Asia, produced around 1641. Korea, which refers to Korea, originated in Goryeo, and Goryeo, which had exchanges with various countries, was introduced as Cowley and Solanga in Marco Polo's 『The Book of the East』 published around 1300. Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi, which were connected to the country by land and outside the country by sea, have become'early-adopters' in these days. New cultures, customs, cultures and technologies were first introduced to Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi. Accepting new things and making them yours.Celadon and white porcelain were made unique to Goryeo with the porcelain-making technology passed down through China, and were mainly used in Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi. The Tripitaka Koreana was produced by importing the Tripitaka Koreana of Song and Giran and comparing it with domestic and foreign scriptures. Also, by developing printing technology, he invented the world's first metal type. And all of this spread across the country and became Goryeo culture.[Photo] Celadon inlaid flower and bird pattern chair. It is a celadon chair decorated with various patterns on a cylindrical body by means of openwork, inlay, relief, and intaglio. It is a work that shows the unique and refined level of Goryeo celadon. ◇ Cheonha Jeil, Goryeo CeladonAround the 10th century, Goryeo adopted Chinese manufacturing techniques and began making celadon. The first place to start is the west coast area centered on Gyeonggi. In Wonsan-ri in Baecheon in Hwanghae-do, Wonheung-dong in Goyang, Seori in Yongin, and Bangsan-dong in Siheung in Gyeonggi-do, they mainly produced tea-related bowls that were popular as a Buddhist culture at the time. Celadon was used in the royal family, government offices, and temples in Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi Province, and demand increased. Around the 11th century, the center of celadon production moved to Gangjin and Buan, Jeolla-do, and production technology was also developed. The colorless celadon produced in the 12th century was praised as the “first in the world,” second only to that of China. Also, in the 13th century, the unique inlaid celadon of Goryeo was popular, and it became a world-class ceramic. Along with white porcelain in Zhengzhou, Goryeo's bicolor is the first in the world. These are things that you can't do even if you try to copy them elsewhere. -Song Dynasty's book 『Sujunggeum』 [Photo] White porcelain bowl. It is a bowl excavated from the Gamat in Jungam-ri, Yeoju, where you can gauge the process of the occurrence and change of Goryeo white porcelain. It was baked by supporting 4 places of white refractory soil on the ground surface of the haemuri heel. ◇ Goryeo white porcelain started with celadonWhite porcelain was imported and used from China even during the Three Kingdoms period, but it was during the Goryeo Dynasty that we started making and using our own hands. The technique of making white porcelain came into consideration when the method of making celadon was introduced. In the early kilns in the Gyeonggi area, celadon and white porcelain were made together. Then, kilns that mainly produce white porcelain such as Yongin Seori and Yeoju Jungamri also appeared. Initially, it was made into a tea bowl, but in the Gyeonggi area, more sophisticated white porcelain was produced. White porcelain was used for royal and local rites. The royal family, government offices, and temples of Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi continued to use white porcelain, but in small amounts. Goryeo also imported white porcelain from Chinese pine. Then, around the 12th century, in Gangjin and Buan, Jeolla-do, the technique of making white porcelain was developed to make beautiful porcelain that reveals the characteristics of Goryeo. [Photo] Chojo Daejanggyeong Hwaeomgyeong Volume 1 National Treasure No. 256It is an early Great Tripitaka Koreana created to defeat the Georan invasion during the reign of King Hyeonjong of Goryeo (1011~1031). It was made on the basis of the Tripitaka Koreana imported to Goryeo and was made during the period of repatriation to North China. It is the only book that remains in Korea among the first wooden prints, and is an invaluable document that allows you to examine the appearance of the Tripitaka Koreana recorded in the 11th century. It shows well the Goryeo printing that reached the highest level.◇ World's best printing culturePrinting culture, which developed along with the tradition of Buddhism in the Three Kingdoms period, reached its climax with the invention of metal type in Goryeo. Among them, Gyeonggi is the center of printing, where the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks and metal type were produced.The Tripitaka Koreana was made twice in Goryeo. When the Qur'an invaded, the Chojo Tripitaka Koreana and Chojo’s Tripitaka Koreana, made to prevent this by the power of Buddhism, burned out due to the Mongol invasion. The Tripitaka Koreana of Haeinsa Temple, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the Tripitaka Koreana of Jaejo. In addition, books related to agriculture and medical books such as “Hyangyak First Aid Room” were made out of woodblocks and distributed throughout the country, greatly helping the lives of ordinary people. Metal type was invented at the beginning of the 13th century and was widely used in Gaegyeong and Gyeonggi, and then gradually spread to the provinces until the end of Goryeo. It was possible to print quickly while saving time and cost compared to wooden boards. Until now, a small amount of metal type in Goryeo Dynasty was found only in Kaesong.- Sohee Lee (Curator, Gyeonggi Research Institute of Cultural Heritage) -

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Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum online exhibition launched

[Tell me GGC!]

Let me know! GGC (Gyeong Gi Culture) brings together the news of Gyeonggi Province's culture and arts and delivers it to citizens. On the upcoming Friday, we will quickly inform you of exhibitions, performances, and festivals all over Gyeonggi Province! If you are curious about the culture news that is always close to us, . This radio program is hosted by GyeonGi Cultural Foundation with Gyeongin Broadcasting (90.7MHz).○ Sungyong Park: This is the time for “Gyeong Gi Culture,” , to quickly deliver the cultural news of Gyeonggi Province. We are together every Friday. Let's meet Reporter Park full of bright energy. Hello. Reporter Park! ▶ Suyoung Park: Hello. This is Suyoung Park, a ‘Culture News Messenger’ that quickly delivers cultural news such as various exhibitions and performances in Gyeonggi-do. Today, we brought news from museums representing Anyang City. These are ‘Anyang Museum' and ‘Kim Jung-up Architecture Museum'. ○ Sungyong Park: Anyang Museum and Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum? Which museum is it?▶ Suyoung Park: These two museums are actually located in the same space. Both of these places were designed by Kim Joong-up, a master of modern architecture, who made great achievements as the first generation architect in Korea, such as the French Embassy and the Gate of Peace, and are places where you can easily understand the history and culture of Anyang. ○ Sungyong Park: These are museums that truly represent Anyang City. But isn't it currently closed for COVID-19? ▶ Suyoung Park: That's right. With the prolonged corona crisis, it is said that the Anyang Museum and Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum have started an 'online exhibition service' that has created a VR panorama of the permanent exhibition rooms. I'll hear from curator Jung Jae-eun about what kind of service it is.▲ Anyang Museum, Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum 'Online Exhibition Service' museum selection page (Source: Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation) [Interview/ Curator Jeong Jae-eun] “The Anyang Foundation for Arts and Culture, which operates the museum, will start an online exhibition service that allows you to lively tour the site in advance without visiting the foundation website and the museum website from September 14 (Mon). This online exhibition has been prepared so that Anyang Museum and Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum, which have been temporarily closed due to social distancing to prevent COVID-19, can view the exhibition vividly through various online platforms.” ○ Sungyong Park: An online exhibition was introduced before, but this is the first time an online exhibition was created with VR panoramas. ▶ Suyoung Park: You can look forward to it. I also went in and was surprised. I can explore the museum space with 3D VR, but it seems like the exhibition room has been moved online.○ Sungyong Park: Oh~ is that right? I'm curious. How can I use the lively “online exhibition service” of Anyang Museum and Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum? ▶ Suyoung Park: You can click the 'Online Museum' menu at the top of the homepage. I will hear from curator Jeong Jae-eun about how to use it.▲ Anyang Museum 'Online Exhibition Service' exhibition viewing page (Source: Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation)[Interview/ Curator Jeong Jae-eun] “If you access the Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation, Anyang Museum, or Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum's website, you can use it in the 'Online Museum' menu. If you go to the 'Online Exhibition' menu at the bottom of the online museum and click the tagging button for each exhibition space, an overview of the exhibition and a description of the collection are provided in Korean and English along with photos. You can enjoy the exhibition as if you were playing a virtual game by utilizing various functions such as supporting enlarged photos of artifacts and videos for each exhibition room.” ○ Sungyong Park: I've been in now and it's very well decorated. Earlier, reporter Suyoung Park said, ‘I think I have moved the exhibition room online. ‘ It can be rotated 360°, and it feels like you are actually viewing the exhibits in a museum. ▶ Suyoung Park: You can view the exhibition in full HD on mobile as well as PC. Even those who are listening to the broadcast would want to go in now. ○ Sungyong Park: Now that I see purple, green, and red buttons for each exhibition space, I can see an enlarged picture and um... Can I see the video at the online exhibition? ▶ Suyoung Park: Yes, you can watch various videos of the museum in the online exhibition. You can’t watch the video without listening, right? Let's take a quick look at the process of excavation of Anyang Temple and its historical significance, which can be seen in the Origin of Anyang exhibition room.▲ Video containing the excavation process of 'Anyangsaji' located on the site of the museum (Source: Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation's YouTube channel)○ Sungyong Park: I think you paid a lot of attention to this online exhibition. Not only adults but also children will be able to enjoy it. ▶ Suyoung Park: That's right. From photos to videos, it was good visually, so it was perfect for children's eye level. However, going further from here, ‘Children's Online Education Program' is also prepared.[Interview/ Curator Jeong Jae-eun] “It starts on October 19th, and we plan to release one video every Monday. Various online education programs such as video content using animation, experiences of building construction, and collection stories told by curators will be an opportunity for children to understand our cultural heritage in a more fun and easy way. This program is running for free. It will be uploaded not only on the museum website, but also on social media such as Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation's official YouTube and Instagram. The second is the Anyang Museum Children's History Education Program, which runs from October 10th to November.” ▶ Suyoung Park: ‘Children’s History Education Program: A wise experiential learning experience in the classroom' is an education that allows you to understand Korean traditional feasts and customs. Education packages are sent to participants, so you can use them for a fee. ○ Sungyong Park: You mentioned the contents uploaded every week from October 19, such as a video using animation and experience of building construction, but I am curious about what kind of video it will be. Are there any programs for adults other than children? ▶ Suyoung Park: There is an exhibition-related program for adults. It is held four times as lectures by experts in Korean history, helping to make understanding of the exhibition easier and more fun. In addition, I will continue to listen to various online exhibition contents from curator Jeong Jae-eun.▲ A view of the Anyang Museum building (Source: Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation) [Interview/ Curator Jeong Jae-eun] “The Anyang Museum operates a special exhibition under the theme of “Anyangsaji,” which will lay the foundation for Anyang from December 4th. This exhibition showcases the ancient history and culture of Anyang based on relics excavated from the millennium temple, ‘Anyangsaji'. To prevent COVID-19, we plan to prepare and operate non-face-to-face exhibitions using online platforms such as YouTube and images from the exterior of the museum. Above all, with this exhibition digital establishment, we will not only build an archive DB of exhibition contents and collections, but also expand into realistic communicative contents in the future in the era of the 4th industrial revolution to provide high quality online exhibitions to visitors. ○ Sungyong Park: I was really surprised today. I thought this was “online exhibition”. We are very excited to see what content we will show next and how it will surprise you. ▶ Suyoung Park: I hope that the listeners also visit the Anyang Culture and Arts Foundation, Anyang Museum, or Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum's website and enjoy the 'Online Exhibition Service'. Anyang Museum and Kim Joong-up Architecture Museum are special because the space itself contains history. The detailed story I'll finish by listening to the story of Jae-eun Jung. [Interview/ Curator Jeong Jae-eun]"The museum buildings are renovated buildings newly remodeled to utilize the factory building of (former) Yuyu Industries, designed by the architect Kim Joong-up, which was engraved as the starting point of Korean modern architecture. In addition, the remains of Anyangsaji Temple of the Gore Dynasty, which was handed down only as a record, were discovered, and the traces of the past and the present architecture are harmonized, and the history is filled with it. Reflecting the uniqueness of this meaningful space, our museum is recreating the exhibitions and educational programs it intends to operate in the future as online contents, so that visitors can more easily and enjoy the history and culture of Anyang. In this regard, we look forward to your interest in the future.” ▶ Suyoung Park: Even if it is difficult to visit the museum now, you can enjoy the history and culture of Anyang anytime, anywhere by going beyond the space. We are preparing interesting and informative contents. We ask for your interest.Please refer to the official website for details.

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Literary Painting and Royal White Porcelain

The 2020 Joongbu Ilbo series 〈Gyeonggi-do Museum〉 is a content produced in a total of 10 series by the GyeongGi Provincial Museum, which has undergone a complete reorganization of the exhibition hall in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its opening. If you would like to see more detailed 〈Gyeonggi Province Museum〉, you can enjoy it in the original text on the Jungbu Ilbo website.Lead the culture of JoseonGyeonggi, which was the cultural center of the Joseon Dynasty, was at its center. The four-grandfather culture honed literature and art. Calligraphy and painting, centered on literary people, developed to a high level, and it has established itself as the hometown of royal white porcelain and the best ceramic production area in Joseon. There was also a GyeongGi at the center of science and thought. In the 16th century, leading the Hwadam School and Yulgok School, progressive studies such as Silhak and Seohak in the 18th century grew around Gyeonggi. Gyeonggi-do people with academic openness and flexibility were pioneers in preparing for the future by changing their lives.[Photo] Misu Heo Mok's Letters and Pictures (眉叟筆帖) This is the writing album of Heo Mok (1595-1682), a young man from Yeoncheon. Although he is a tattoo and a Confucian scholar, he has excellent skills in drawing and writing. Particularly, he has mastered the entire book called Misuche (眉叟体) and received reviews as the first man in the East. Center of science and thoughtGyeonggi-do played a role as a center of study in the late Joseon Dynasty, as it received the intellectual nutrients of Hanyang and was equipped with openness, a characteristic of the region. In the 16th century, the world of thought was led by the Hwadam School of Seo Gyeong-deok (1489-1546), whose base was Kaesong, and the Yulgok School of Lee (1536-1584), whose base was Paju. In the 17th century, a new perspective began to be presented to the study of Sung Confucianism, centering on the Gyeonggi area. Park Se-dang (1629-1703) attempted to establish Yangming Studies from the perspective of Juja Studies, and Jeong Jeong Doo (1649-1736) led the Ganghwa School by studying Yangming Studies in Ganghwa Island.In the 18th century, Gyeonggi Province emerged as a center of reform and progressive academics such as Silhak and Seohak. The intellectuals of Gyeonggi with academic flexibility such as Huh Mok, Yi, Yi, Kang Se-hwang, Chae Won, Jeong Yak-yong, and Lee Seung-hoon actively responded to social changes in the late Joseon Dynasty and paid attention to national reform for the people. In particular, it sought to improve the lives of suffering people by reforming the unequal land system and tax system.[Photo] Kang Se-hwang's portrait This is a portrait of Kang Se-hwang (1713-1791), a representative literary painter during the British and King Jeongjo periods. He lived in Ansan, interacted with painters such as Kim Hong-do, Sim Sa-jeong, and Choi Buk, and literary men called Ansan 15 Haksa, and was called the head of the Yewon in the late Joseon Dynasty. This portrait was seen when he was 71 years old. Although the artist is unknown, it is a half-figured figure of skill like a portrait drawn by Lee Myung-ki. Worksheets of the grandfather and flower gardeners renowned for their paintings and writingThe tradition of art developed in the Gyeonggi region including Gaeseong during the Goryeo Dynasty was passed down to the Joseon Dynasty. In the early Joseon Dynasty, a new style of style was formed based on the tradition of Goryeo and the method of speaking in China. In the Gyeonggi area, a suburb of Hanyang, the literary warriors' calligraphy and painting activities and the painters, professional painters from Gyeonggi Province, stand out. The brothers Kang Hee-an (1418-1464) and Kang Hee-Meng (1424-1483), who were active in Siheung, were literary painters in the early Joseon period who were born in the prestigious family of Kang Jinju. Pocheon's Yangsaeon (1517-1584) was good at Haehae and Chaoseo, and Seokbong Hanho (1543-1605) was active in Kaesong and created the 'Seokbongche', a typeface unique to Joseon. In the middle of the Joseon Dynasty, Josok (1595-1668) spent ten thousand years in Anyang, Heo Mok from Yeoncheon (1595-1682), Odalje (1609-1673) and Nam Guman (1629-1711), who were related to Yongin, and floods from Seonbu-dong, Ansan. Ju (1642-1704) and others worked as literary artists.In the latter half of the Joseon Dynasty, Kang Se-hwang (1713-1791), in particular, lived in Ansan, developing the theory of painting creation through exchanges with literary men there and contributing to the expansion and deepening of Namjongmunhwa. With regard to the rise of painting during this period, Ansan area was the second most important area after Hanyang. These include Kang Se-hwang, who led the three verses of Siseo-hwa, his student Kim Hong-do (1745-1806), and Nam Jong-hwa's master Ju Ji Jeong (1707-1769).In the late Joseon Dynasty, Shinwi (1769-1845) and Kim Jeong-hee (1786-1856) performed literary activities in Siheung and Gwacheon at the foot of Mt. Gwanak. Shin-wi, along with Lee Jeong and Yu Deok-jang, left a reputation as one of the three major mukjuk painters in the Joseon Dynasty. ), and reached the peak of the calligraphy and painting era. [Photo] White porcelain jar (白磁壺)Like a moon jar, the angled snout and the line flowing down from the round shoulder are beautiful. It is a representative work of a white porcelain jar with its voluptuous shape and soft color. The traces of the upper and lower parts made separately and joined remain on the inner surface, and the floor has traces of burning with sand. It is believed to have been made in a Geumsa-ri kiln in Gwangju in the first half of the 18th century.The birthplace of Goryeo celadon and Joseon white porcelainAmong the traditional cultures of Gyeonggi-do, ceramics from the Goryeo and Joseon periods are the most representative. Goryeo celadon generators can be seen in kiln products in Seori, Yongin and Bangsan-dong, Siheung during the Goryeo Dynasty. Goryeo white porcelain made in Seori and celadon made in Bangsan-dong are believed to be the earliest products of Goryeo ware. Even when celadon was made in Gangjin and Buan in the heyday after the 11th century, porcelain was produced in local kilns such as Bojeong-ri, Yongin.During the Joseon Dynasty, the finest white porcelain was produced and supplied to the royal family in the Gwanyo of the Saongwon branch in Gwangju (廣州). It can be seen that the production of Joseon white porcelain was carried out by moving and changing according to the time through the index survey of the Gwanyo kiln site in Gwangju and the excavation of Domari, Usan-ri, Songjeong-ri, and Bunwon-ri.Chosun society, which was aimed at the ideal society of Confucianism, emphasized frugality and practicality in ceramic culture. Sejong allowed only white porcelain to be used as royal vessels, so the technique of making white porcelain was able to develop rapidly under the interest of the royal family. Gwanyo was operated from the late 15th century until 1884 when it was privatized and played a pivotal role in producing royal white porcelain throughout the Joseon Dynasty. In particular, Bunwon white porcelain has a unique aesthetic that emphasizes the overall tone, although the model, pattern, and decoration are not simple and colorful with the intention of the royal family to embody Confucian virtues.-Bonsoo Park (Director of Curator, GyeongGi Provincial Museum)-

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