My field trip with my pupils

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I went on a field trip to the education institute in An-dong, south Korea.
I went there to experience the korean traditional culture-how to be a true gentle man(woman) by Confucian educational way, experience An-dong mask dance in an assembly hall and watch old text books, historical remains in the attached small museum at this institute-. these mainly are traditions of Choseon period in Korea history. these traditions can't be found in ordinary life of korean in the present time. the first was disappeared clearly in korean society, the second is played by some artists until now. as the time flew, text books must be changed. old text books are written by chinese letters. some text books are written by Japanese(when the Japanese ruled Korea). the text books in korean letters are made after the recovery from the Japanese' rule and the korean war.
In my opinion, the Korean culture in the present time is the mixture of the chinese culture, Japanese culture and the American culture. It's tragedy. Ironically, Korean haven't their own unique custom, social system. especially, in the field of public and private education in Korea, we, korean follow the way of America and Japan without pass judgement. I have a doubt about this stream of times in Korea. someone could said to me "you look like a nationalist" about my opinion.
As an educator in south korea, I think that It is more important to recover korean culture than to follow and copy American, Japanese culture without pass judgement.

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Photos

old textbooks
this books are used in the early 1940.

the tutoring in Choseon period
In Cheseon period, the young learned chinese letters with their master in the small room. these are models.

the old map of Choseon(the old Korea)
this map drew by Choseon's geographer.

another map of Choseon
this map drew by a Japanese geographer.

korean mill
cow's power is used to operate this large stone mill.
the cow is model. mill is real.

water mill used to
this is watermill. this watermill is ordinary facility in Korea before importing a modernized mill.

textbooks
I studied these textbooks when I was pupil in 1980-1986.

the true gentlman
the goal of education in Choseon period is to be a true gentleman(woman). the true gentlman studies Confucius's books in his room. this is also model.