[Contribution] Encountering Korea at the British Museum

By You Min-jung Eighteen pounds. Quite a sum for a museum where the permanent collections are free to visit. Yet people were queuing for tickets to the British Museum's exhibition on Korea. Inside, visitors young and old were moving slowly through the galleries. I hadn't expected so many people to turn out for Korea's historical treasures. Even more surprising was that most appeared to be Westerners rather than Koreans. Nor were they simply passing through. They leaned in to read the labels and