So the Whitney Museum was closed on tuesday so we went to the Met Museum instead. At first, I thought that I’ve never been there before, but as I come across some familiar paintings, I remembered that I did come here but I was really little. I didn’t know what to see until I saw the list of exhibitions. The first thing that popped in my eyes was the Korean exhibition. I was so excited. I had to see it no matter what. I didn’t want to see anything else. So I dragged some of my friends to come with me to see the exhibition. I was really amazed and was a bit of a surprised. I went to the exhibition, knowing what I’ll see and expect but I was surprised by the difference of what I had known. I am very familiar with the Korean culture and traditions that I am familiar with the pottery and jewelry of the Korean culture. I also see lots of historical Korean dramas so i thought I knew what to expect. I was surprised by the influences of other cultures it had on the Korean exhibition. I saw a cultural diffusion of Chinese, India, the Byzantine Empire and etc on the different pottery and jewelry. It was really amazing. I didn’t know that it had that much influence on Korea. It was cool to see different parts of cultures diffused into an artwork.

Also, I really liked seeing the different statues of Buddha as well from different kinds to the one I know now. I saw the past statues to present. It was really cool since I’ve seen most of them and seeing them in a museum gave me an amazement sort of feeling. I thought that I should bring my family here as well. I know they’ll love it! Well, except for my little sister. I was really happy that my culture was shown in a museum.

Here are the pictures of the exhibition. Well parts of the exhibition. Hope you guys like it as much as I did!

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/koreas-golden-kingdom/works-on-view