[KS] The AKS exhibition about Yeongjo

[Brother Anthony]

I have now visited the exhibition (which I announced previously) in the new ChangSeoGak building at the AKS and would urge anyone now in Seoul to see it before it ends next Monday. It offers an extraordinary opportunity to view a huge variety of documentary materials from the 18th century, many different official royal documents covering births, weddings, deaths, appointments, activities, including rough drafts of texts written by the king and then corrected by him, the king's manuscript poems, piles of royal genealogies, the Joseon Encyclopedia, the document showing the king presiding over the dredging of Cheonggyecheon, a robe he wore, in perfect condition, preserved in a temple in Daegu . . . and several of the formal recognition letters from the Chinese emperor written in Chinese and Manchu. There are even some pages in the handwriting of poor Prince Sado. In the time I was there there were no other visitors at all. If you cannot get there, the AKS has published a complete catalogue, but it's not the same.

The other discovery (for me) was that it only takes 30 minutes from Euljiro to the AKS by bus 9003. 

Brother Anthony
Sogang University, RASKB etc