Landor spent several months in Korea as a guest of the king’s adviser, sketching and taking notes on everything he saw: houses, dress, food, marriage, punishments, festivals and the habits of officials and gentry. He writes with a sharp, often mocking eye, and his judgements of Koreans carry the condescension of a European traveller of 1895.
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