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"title": "Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ \u2013 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation",
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"did_you_know": "Bronze spoons are the most common burial item. Scholars have proposed that toward the end of the 14th century, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why spoons became common household items as well as burial goods.",
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"citation": "L. W. \"Korean Bronze Spoons of the Korai Dynasty.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 99-101.",
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"citation": "Yoon, Sung-Jae. \"The Aspects and Meaning of Spoon and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [\uace0\ub824\uc2dc\ub300 \ubd84\ubb18\ucd9c\ud1a0 \uccad\ub3d9\uc218\uc800].\" Yeoksa silhakhoe 56 (2015): 51-68.",
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"citation": "Jeong, Eui-do. Changes of Spoons during the Late Goryeo Period [\uace0\ub824\ud6c4\uae30 \uc21f\uac00\ub77d\uc758 \ubcc0\ud654].\u201d Hanguk jungse gogohak (2017): 139-157.",
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"citation": "Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [\ub300\uace0\ub824, \uadf8 \ucc2c\ub780\ud55c \ub3c4\uc804]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.",
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"citation": "Horlyck, Charlotte. \"The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Kory\u014f Kingdom (918-1392 CE).\" Ars Orientalis, no. 44 (2014): 156-79.",
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"citation": "Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hu\u0306i. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
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