last Friday after camp, instead of going home to nap the day away, I met a couple of friends in insadong. we had a traditional Korean lunch and then wandered down to samcheongdong to check out some museums in the area.
first, we ran into the art sonje center and decided to go in to see the collection by the Japanese artist, Shinro ohtake. some of his stuff was really good and interesting, and others were just collages of old boxes a scraps of paper. anyway, it was worth the 5,000 won to get out of the cold.
the next place we went was the gallery Hyundai to see the collection of "erotic" paintings from the joseon dynasty. there were no English captions for the pictures so that was disappointing, making up our own stories was just as fun. plus, we brought along a friend who can speak Korean so he helped translate when we needed it. my favorite story of the day was about a picture of a woman squatting over a pot trying to preserve her "woman juices." God knows what they needed to do that for.
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