[KS] The AKS exhibition about Yeongjo

[Adam Bohnet]

Dear all:

I would like to sign my name beside Brother Anthony's e-mail as well.  
It is a wonderful exhibit. When I went there it was less empty  
although not hugely populated. Among the gems is a piece of  
calligraphy by Yŏngjo from when he was about 5 or 6 (he produced  
a very crude version of Song "Pine Tree" and Chuk "Bamboo," and I am  
sure everybody was very proud of him when he had finished). It reminds  
us all that once even Yŏngjo (whose adult calligraphy is really  
lovely) had to learn how to read and write.

And it is quite fast from downtown if one takes the express bus from  
Seoul Station (which I did not; I foolishly set out from Chamsil and  
had a tour of that very prestigious ghost town which goes by the name  
of P'an'gyo).


Yours,

Adam

Quoting Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>:

> 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   
> comple!
>  te 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
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