One Thing Unpleasant in Gyeongju National Museum

Gyeongju city was a museum itself. Whole city was under the excavation.
I could take photos of digging for excavation every where I went to

So it would be natural that there was no enough place to display the relics founded.

I was so unpleasant to see the relics were accumulated in narrow window.

Especially as seeing the golden relics and the earthenwares were displayed together unclassified in small chamber.

In the corner, the inside of tomb was reproduced, but the space was too narrow to show it’s story.

It was all but impossible to explain about that.
That was just the accumulation of the old things.

I was so sorry to our ancestors who had made these relics of the great art.

There are more than hundreds of tombs not excavated yet.
The relics displayed in the museum were the result of the excavation in few small tomb.
If we dig more tomb, the relics might be abandoned by the street.

What made me frustrated was that this museum was build in 1975.
Year of 1975 was under the rule of military government.
The president Park Jeong Hee seized the power with military coup in 1961.

Many people including me was negative to the former president Park Jeong Hee.
But he did many things to improve the basic foundation for studying history and culture of own country.

So called Civilian political leaders had done not som much for studying history and culture.
They criticized the former president, but their achievement was less than that of Park Jeong Hee.

While looking at the museum, I was some what angry.
Of course there could be difference between the point of view on what the importance is.
But it seems that there was too much indifferences on their ancestors’ glorious historical and cultural assets.

The relics of Shilla dynasty are the treasures not only for Korea but also for the world

The most important mission of the political leader is setting the value and the justice.
Peace could be enforced with the exchange of culture and history.

So called Civilian politicians seem to think endless political struggle.

I expect the righteous job of political leaders in Korea.
After and before of taking political power must be different in my opinion.

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