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We went National Folk Museum which is behind Gyungbok palace. In this Museum, there was a lot relic.
Most interesting relic was many antique books which looked very old. Korea’s book-made skill started faster than western.
At Shilla, they made 무구정광대다라니경 which printed by wooden type. And then in Gorye, they made Tripitaka Koreana. It was wooden printing type, and there was eight thousand pieces, but there were no single mistakes!
It was made for protect country from Mongolia’s hard attack with Buddha’s power. It was even faster than Gutenberg’s bible. Joseon’s king Sejong made Hangul, and they printed out Korean books to disseminate Hangul to common people. I think Hangul is great and popular when Japanese travelers came to museum and they were pronouncing Hangul.
That book gave me pleasing impression that Koreans were great then I thought.
We learned what our ancestors did in life. There were four things in life: coming-of-age ceremony, marriage, death, and funeral. In Korean, we call it 관혼상제. I didn’t knew the fact that bride didn’t go to grooms house much until aggression of the Japanese.
In National Folk Museum, there were many relics about Korean’s life. It was really interesting, so I wanted to go this museum again. |
