Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Ferenczy, László: The Collection of Corean Industrial Art. A Gift of the Corean People's Democratic Republic

Fig. 1. Celadon vase with inlaid decoration further development of Corean industrial art. After the end of the Japanese occupation the crafts of the country were not only strengthened again, but they were also enriched by new technical and artistical creations, mostly in the field of lacquer work and ceramics. But later on the crisis of feudalism and the policy of the Corean rulers, aiming at the complete isolation of the country, hindered the development of industrial art extremely. All these damages were completed by the Japanese conquest, the more than thirty years of Japanese occupation, then, only a few years after the liberation in 1945, the new war (1950—1953). During the occupation and the war a tremendous part of art relics, according to valuations three quarters of the whole, was destroyed or lost. The tenacious adherence of the Corean craftsmen to the national heritage and their love for their art could only preserve the great national traditions for many centuries, in spite of the adversities inside and outside the country. In consequence of governmental measures in order to save the old historical traditions, the industrial art of Corea became reanimated already in 1945, just after the liberation and at the middle of the fifties a swift evolution was begun. Folk's artists and other craftsmen set to work with a new impetus. There are today several state institutions with the aim of promoting and directing the