1. He persists in the old, traditional way of making ceramics to preserve and pass on the tradition and customs of his craft. 2. Making a tea bowl on a potter’s wheel 3. Kim performs a ritual ceremony to the god of the kiln 4. Kim Gyeong-sik, son of Jeong-ok, follow in his father’s footsteps

For the last 200 years, Korean traditional ceramic art has been handed down in artisan Kim Jeong-ok’s family and now he is the seventh in his line to make pottery in the city of Mungyeong (pronounced Mun-gyeong). Kim, who is Korea’s Human Cultural Property number 105, learned all the secrets of celadon ceramics and buncheong stoneware from his father.