Pages 19-31 – Keith Pratt – ‘The Evolution of Museums in the ROK’

For all that the Chosŏn yangban took such pride in their sinocentric culture, they could not claim to have kept up with their Chinese neighbours in the tradition of connoisseurship. Put bluntly, the majority of them simply had not cultivated the habit of collecting bronzes, porcelain, and the paintings of bygone ages, or commissioning new works of art, with the enthusiasm and expertise that great...