Ceramics: Art and Perception

Park Jong Il and the Purity of Tea and Tea Ware

My wife and I had gone to Korea for ceramic research. While there, we met with a ceramics professor acquaintance at a university on the west coast of Korea. As we were about to leave we asked the professor where we could catch the bus to Gyeongju.

By chance, Park Jong Il, then a young assistant professor at a college in or near Daegu, was also visiting his former professor. Instead of directing us to the bus stop, the professor asked/told Park Jong Il to drive us to Gyeongju. We were stunned. After some moments of refusal, followed by insistence and finally acceptance, we were on our way with Park Jong

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