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The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 24, 2019-January 26, 2020).", "opening_date": "2019-07-24T04:00:00"}, {"id": 686413, "title": "Ten Kings of Hell: The Afterlife in Medieval Korea", "description": "<i>Ten Kings of Hell: The Afterlife in Medieval Korea</i>. 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Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 134-135, no. 137", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "So\u0306n, Su\u0306ng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 71-72, no. 65", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Korean art from the United States</em> [\ubbf8\uad6d, \ud55c\uad6d\ubbf8\uc220\uc744 \ub9cc\ub098\ub2e4]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2012.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 18, no. 3", "url": null}, {"citation": "Ku, Ir-hoe \uad6c \uc77c\ud68c and Kang Kyo\u0306ng-nam \uac15 \uacbd\ub0a8. <em>Ch\u02b9o\u0306nha cheil pisaek ch\u02b9o\u0306ngja</em> [\ucc9c\ud558\uc81c\uc77c\ube44\uc0c9\uccad\uc790= The best under heaven the celadons of Korea]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2012.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 249", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[\ub300\uace0\ub824, \uadf8 \ucc2c\ub780\ud55c \ub3c4\uc804]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon</em> [\u9ad8\u9e97\u9752\u78c1 : \u30d2\u30b9\u30a4\u306e\u304d\u3089\u3081\u304d]. O\u0304saka: O\u0304saka: Shiritsu To\u0304yo\u0304 To\u0304ji Bijutsukan, 2018.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "McCormick, Sooa Im. \"The Past and Present of the Korean Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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