Identifier: korea00coul (find matches)
Title: Korea
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Coulson, Constance J. D
Subjects: Korea -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k. One reason for this is, naturally,the extreme poverty of the people in general,which forbids their spending money on anythingbeyond the actual necessities of life. Another isthe fact that almost every household is, to a greatextent, self-supplying. All Korean women can Korea spin and weave, and many of them do the tailoringand shoe making for the family ; while the menmanufacture the harness for the beasts, the housefurniture, and the rude implements of the farm.All these articles are, therefore, in little demand,and those who manufacture them are forced tosell at so small a profit that they cannot afford tospend much time over them. But even in themaking of pottery, which is entirely in the handsof the professional worker, there is displayed noneof that feeling for design and appropriate orna-ment which makes even the most ordinary speci-mens from China or Japan such a joy to everylover of the beautiful. The usual complaint ofthe tourist in Korea is that there is nothing tobuy. 64
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. - ., CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL PROCESSION THE Emperor very seldom leaves his palace.When he does so, he likes to impress his subjectswith the magnificence of the procession whichaccompanies him. I was lucky enough to be inSeoul on a special occasion, when His Majestywent out to worship at the tomb of the Queen.A certain number of the Europeans then in Seoulhad been invited to lunch in a pavilion not veryfar from the tomb, and to witness the augustarrival there. The month was October, and theday a glorious one—the sort of day we in Englandcall a real autumn day, but of which weseldom get more than three or four during thatseason. In Korea, on the contrary, you can, assoon as the summer rains are over, count onhaving three months of almost unbroken sunshineand clear, bracing air. On this particular day the electric tramwayconveyed us through the east gate of the city, KO. 65 9 Korea and to the beautiful spot, three miles beyond it,where the Queens tomb is situated. The tombitself is a hid

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