Join Durham’s Oriental Museum for an evening talk by Canon Professor Michael Snape FBA (Durham University), ‘The “Glorious Glosters”: Christianity, Chaplaincy and Captivity in Cold War Korea’ The Korean War (1950-53) is widely billed as a forgotten conflict, and yet it was the scene of the fiercest fighting experienced by the British Army since the … [Read More]
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[Durham] Personal Patterns of Enlightenment: the chant styles of Buddhist monks
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Join Durham’s Oriental Museum for an evening talk by Professor Simon Mills of Durham University’s Music Department, entitled Personal Patterns of Enlightenment: the chant styles of Buddhist monks in South Korea. FREE of charge. Booking essential. The Jogye Order is the biggest Buddhist sect in South Korea today, administering over 1700 temples spread across the … [Read More]
[Durham] Seeun Kim’s Traditional Korean Jewellery Project
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Join us for an evening talk by South Korean artist Seeun Kim on traditional Korean jewellery. Have you ever heard of the Silla Dynasty? The Silla Dynasty originated from the Three Kingdoms of Korea (Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla). In the Three Kingdom period of Korea, the development of ornaments was subdivided and today we can … [Read More]
Knitted together: the Korean lives and legacies of Richard and Joan Rutt
Drawing on the objects and photographs of the main donors to the Korean collection at the Oriental Museum, Knitted Together details Richard and Joan Rutt’s 20 years living in South Korea in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War (1950 – 1953). Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of when Richard first arrived in Korea as … [Read More]