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Manager; and Taejun Chang and Jeong Jin Lee, Managers, in Administration; Wooyoung Huh, Head
of Conservation; Minjae Kang, Conservator; MinSun Park, General Manager; Ju Hyun Lee, Assistant
Manager in Public Relations; and Sung Tae Kim, Designer. We are grateful to these and all our
colleagues at Leeum for their support.
It is a great pleasure to include the works of living artists whose creativity helps make history
and tradition not only relevant but exciting. In this spirit we acknowledge Yoon Kwang-cho,
Lee HunChung, and Tsujimura Shiro.
The production of this book was guided by the most talented people we could have hoped
for, whom we have affectionately named “Team Buncheong”: Mark Polizzotti, Publisher and Editor
in Chief; Gwen Roginsky, Associate Publisher and General Manager of Publications; Peter Antony,
Chief Production Manager; Michael Sittenfeld, Managing Editor; Robert Weisberg, Assistant Managing
Editor; Sally Van Devanter, Production Manager; Philomena Mariani, Bibliographic Editor; and our
fabulous editor, Alexandra Bonfante-Warren, who expertly shaped our thoughts and words. Alexandra
and Sally provided invaluable guidance every step of the way, and their patience and good humor
were immensely appreciated. We also acknowledge the contribution of Wonjin Lee, of Seoul
National University, for her translation of Jeon Seung-chang’s essay and Chin-Sung Chang, also of
Seoul National University, for his help in editing the translation. Anna Willmann worked on the
glossary, and Aeri Kwon on the guide to transliteration. The elegant catalogue design is the work of
Rita Jules of Miko McGinty Inc.; we are grateful to her and to Miko for their keen appreciation of the
objects and their intuitive grasp of the concept of the book.
We are very pleased that the exhibition will travel to the Asian Art Museum and we sincerely
thank the Director, Jay Xu, and the Curator of Korean Art, Hyonjeong Kim Han, for their efforts.
Soyoung wishes to extend her heartfelt thanks to Richard and Peggy Danziger, longtime
members of the Metropolitan Museum’s Friends of Asian Art program, for providing friendship
and seed money toward the exhibition. We are deeply grateful to the Korea Foundation for their
generous support. Finally, we thank our families for reminding us to laugh and to weed the impor-
tant from the trivial.
SOYOUNG LEE JEON SEUNG-CHANG
Associate Curator Chief Curator
Department of Asian Art Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Seoul
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