Cho Hak
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Potter |
| Location | Michigan / Korea |
| Introduction | I am a Korean American potter and retired professor. I worked principally with Kenneth Beittel, Hamada Shoji, Manji Inouie and worked in Icheon, Korea. I’ve been a potter for many years and fire mostly in gas and wood. Occasionally, I fire anagama with Ken Shenstone. Mary, my wife joins me in this work. For nearly 40 years, I have also been interested in Korean tea, about 10 years ago I decided to try to promote Korean tea and Korean tea ware. That was when Morning Crane Tea was born. Why have I not mentioned the long interest in Korean tea here before. I consider myself to still be a beginner. At the same time, I know many others who consider themselves experts on Korean Tea having studied it a few months or a year or even after one trip to Korea to view their tea fields or a few conversations with several Korean tea people. If they are experts and I am not, why do I find so many errors in their work? In another ten years I may no longer say I am a beginner, but until then this is what you have. |
| Interests | Pottery, Korea, Korean arts, Korean culture, Korean pottery, Tea, Tea ware, tea bowls,wood firing, anagama, kiln building, Hamada Shoji, green tea, chassabal, chawan, tea ceremony, onggi, celadon, buncheong, porcelain, YiXing, Photography, Korean food, Asia, Zen, Seon, Spirituality, Christianity, designing pottery tools, |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, High Noon |
| Favorite music | Classical, blues, folk, jazz and traditional Korean music particularly drum, flute, and gayageum |
| Favorite books | The Unknown Craftsman The World of Korean Ceramics The Korean Way of Tea Korean Tea Classics |