Traditional Korean funeral palanquin (sangyeo) with a decorated wooden structure, long carrying poles and red ceremonial canopy, used in Korean funeral processions.

THE PATH TO AFTERLIFE – or discovering Koreans through their furniture.

This post is the first in a series of articles related to a study of the Korean people through their arts, particularly their furniture. Most of the antique Korean furniture available today is known as “Joseon” furniture. The Joseon dynasty, also transcribed as Chosŏn or Chosun, in Korean: 대조선국, was the last dynastic kingdom of […]