Things you make and carry home

The iridescent inner layer of shell, cut thin and set piece by piece into lacquer.

The craft goes back to the Goryeo dynasty, and the colour changes with the angle of the light.

Korea is almost the only country that eats with metal chopsticks.

A workshop has you shape and finish a pair in wood or metal.

Korean paper made from mulberry bark.

Thin, hard to tear and long-lasting.

Layers are pasted up to build a shape.

Cloth dyed with what comes out of the ground — indigo, persimmon.

The same dye gives a different depth depending on how many times it is dipped, so no two pieces match.

You carve a seal with your own name in Hangul.

Korea still uses seals where other places sign, and working out how your name is written in Hangul is half the workshop.