{"657638":{"#nid":"657638","#data":{"type":"event","title":"A Story of Forgotten Hanji: Korean Traditional Paper","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Oh-Kyu Lee will share his experience in rediscovering how to make certain types of Korean traditional paper called \u003Cem\u003EHanji\u003C\/em\u003E. In the past, there were more than two hundreds varieties of Hanji, which varied depending on source materials, size, usage, etc. Only\u0026nbsp;a few\u0026nbsp;of them are still being produced in Korea today. The topic of Dr. Lee\u0026rsquo;s talk will focus on two types of\u0026nbsp;Korean traditional paper, named Taeji and Siji. This work has been done by his group at the National Institute of Forest Service in Korea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETaeji is a kind\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Hanji contains\u0026nbsp;water silk in it.\u0026nbsp;Dard Hunter, the founder of the Paper Museum, visited Korea in 1933 and collected Taeji. He\u0026nbsp;described it as the best paper in that time in Korea and\u0026nbsp;included a sheet of Taeji as a sample in his book \u003Cem\u003EA Papermaking Pilgrimage\u0026nbsp;to Japan, Korea, China\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Siji is a high quality\u0026nbsp;Hanji\u0026nbsp;used for examination paper.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lee is a Senior Research Scientist at the Forest Biomaterials Research Center in the National Institute of Forest Science, Korea.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis program is free and open to all to attend. Dr. Lee and his team will be available to answer questions after the program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An informal talk about the redevelopment of historic papermaking practices in Korea"}],"uid":"30829","created_gmt":"2022-04-26 21:36:29","changed_gmt":"2022-04-26 21:36:29","author":"Virginia Howell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-05-13T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-05-13T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-05-13T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-05-13 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-05-13 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-05-13 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657636":{"id":"657636","type":"image","title":"Taeji, example of Hanji","body":null,"created":"1651008570","gmt_created":"2022-04-26 21:29:30","changed":"1651008570","gmt_changed":"2022-04-26 21:29:30","alt":"Image of a sheet of paper, taken at an angle. Korean characters are inscribed on the page","file":{"fid":"249254","name":"Taeji_1882_Partially enlarged.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Taeji_1882_Partially%20enlarged.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Taeji_1882_Partially%20enlarged.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":439038,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Taeji_1882_Partially%20enlarged.jpg?itok=GNonO7D5"}},"657637":{"id":"657637","type":"image","title":"Dr. Oh-Kyu Lee, National Institute of Forest Science","body":null,"created":"1651008666","gmt_created":"2022-04-26 21:31:06","changed":"1651008666","gmt_changed":"2022-04-26 21:31:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"249255","name":"Oh-Kyu Lee.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Oh-Kyu%20Lee.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Oh-Kyu%20Lee.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":517396,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Oh-Kyu%20Lee.jpg?itok=FN9SlOwJ"}}},"media_ids":["657636","657637"],"groups":[{"id":"508641","name":"Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188363","name":"rcw-news"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVirginia Howell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-5726\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Evirginia.howell@rbi.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}