[KS] North Korean temple photos

[CedarBough T. Saeji]

People are, with the exception of (some) Buddhists, out of touch with
Buddhist culture. I've recently been analyzing the displays at the National
Museum in this regard, and the assumptions that are made about background
knowledge are enormous compared with the actual knowledge people have in
this era with 47% (2005 census) of Koreans claiming no religion.

At this point in Korea people see a traditional bldg with traditional eaves
and dancheong paintings on it as as anonymous and interchangeable as
apartment buildings. People have no training, no understanding of how to
spot the architectural differences or the variation in dancheong. So a
photo gets mislabeled for whatever reason... and that stands. You could
probably mislabel photos of parts of the still standing major temples in
the ROK like Songgwangsa and unless it was the two pagodas or the bridges
at Bulguksa it'd take days for anyone to notice or object.

Yes, I'm feeling a little glum this morning.

cedarbough




On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Werner Sasse <werner_sasse at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, and it is not only a bad habit to copy something into your blog
> without mentioning where you copied it from, it is also a nuisance. It
> makes one have to go through all the same stupid stuff over and over
> again when you put "Changan-sa" into google or whatever search thing.
>
> Is there not a way to tell your computer to automatically disregard.
> a text you have already deemed useless before?
>
> Serious question for one like me who is otherwise happy to live way
> out in the woods pretty far away from a decent library..
>
> Best
> Werner
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:24:32 -0700
> > From: hoffmann at koreanstudies.com
> > To: koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com
> > Subject: Re: [KS] North Korean temple photos
>
> >
> > How is it possible that someone posts completely wrong information on
> > such images (with wrong dating also) allegedly depicting a Korean
> > "national treasure"? (Changan-sa was already declared a national
> > treasure during the colonial period, and it still is now.) That posting
> > Brother Anthony referred to was copied a good 100 times on the
> > Internet, to various blogs. Nowhere do I see any sort of responses
> > there, someone saying, no, that is all bogus and all wrong. Why is
> > this? If I post an image of Neuschwanstein on a Korean board and claim
> > it to be Buckingham Palace, I think I'd be corrected within minutes. Or
> > bloggers would at least question that within minutes. To be sure, I am
> > NOT saying that every sixth grader would need to know how Changan-sa
> > looked, or what those photos actually show, etc. But it is somewhat
> > disturbing to see that with that much attention these posts get in
> > Korea (trough replications), the public just digests that and nobody
> > jumps on it. And this was just one of so many examples. I find that
> > highly disturbing.
> >
> > This is not meant to be a rhetorical question.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Frank
> >
>



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