Ceramic heads... not the people

This is an example of the entertainment we watched at the ceramic festival. Many traditional stuff (dancing, singing) but also a cool acapella group singing Kpop, crazy acrobats... it was a cool atmosphere for a while. Notice behind the two people, the white 'guys'- they are really just pots with eyes. A good example of wacky asian cartoons, and the faces of Yeoju ceramics. These two guys (a man and woman pot) are famous all over town.

Blog-abration #4: Yeoju, South Korea: A Photo Tour of Our Korean Hometown

October 4th 2009
Before coming to Korea, we couldn’t find any information on the designated town we were to call home for the next year. Literally, the only two solid bits of information, if you can call them that, in which we knew for sure was that Yeoju is the home for some kind of world ceramic festival and there is a premium outlet shopping mall in town. You could say we were going in pretty blind, but in th ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more

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