Korean exhibition at Philadelphia Art Museum
This spring the Art museum have an exhibition about the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, and of course we had to go there. Unsuprisingly, I was more interested in everything than Issac was, since he as a Korean already knows about it all and have seen similar things before. For me, it was a mixture of a reminder of what I have learned and still learn in the classes I take about Korea, and some new things I didn't know about before. It was anyway a very interesting and actually quite big exhibition, far bigger than what the East Asian museum in Stockholm has. Although this one is just temporary unfortunately.
A buddha banner above the stairs right at the entrance of the museum.
I was not allowed to take pictures inside the exhibition so these are the only ones I have. At the end of the exhibition however, there were machines where you can find out what your Korean name is. Hangul, as the Korean written language is called, is not characters as Chinese but instead an alphabet with just different symbols than ours. I already know how to write my name of course, but I tried the machine anyway just for fun. With the privilege of having a Korean boyfriend standing right next to you, he corrected the machine and rewrote my name with just one "n" to get the proper pronounciation in Korean that is most similar to how it is pronounced in Swedish. The machine was a touch-screen and the strokes you made turned into calligraphy strokes. Now I have taken calligraphy classes in China (not that I'm good at it or anything), but it even was harder on the touch-screen. Not to mention that the calligraphy might be different in China and in Korea... oh well I tried my best!
This day, the evening was so warm we ate outside! Although it next to a road, but the traffic at this street wasn't so bad.
This was a very, very juicy burger. I tried to squeeze it together so it can fit in my mouth, but so much juice came out. I had no choice but to stretch my jaws wide open to almost be able to take a full bite. My jaws hurted, but the burger was seriously good!
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