"Don't let death be sad or scary"...a special exhibition for the dead

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In old funerals, a person decorating a bier or an animal-shaped wooden sculpture is often called a 'cuckoo'.

It's the last gift of a living person for the dead who are leaving the afterlife.

A unique exhibition is being held that brings together 250 various "cuckoo" pieces.

Reporter Park Soon-pyo's report.

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Musicians dressed in blue see off the last way, playing the flute and drums so that the dead don't feel lonely.

Clowns perform tricks as handstands.

The warriors wearing pitches and riding horses drive away bad energy that may be possible.

In order not to make the underworld uncomfortable, the servant puts his hands together and quietly follows the bonus.

The various puppets are given their own roles to help the dead leave the road comfortably.

[Museum Director Kim Ok-rang: Don't be lonely and sad when the dead leave. Clowns appear, play musical instruments, and say it's a cultural heritage in Korea. I don't want to say it's a funeral product.]

In the exhibition, you can see a variety of 250 puppets, including clowns and musicians.

This is thanks to the sincere collection of puppets for half a century, which were buried in dust in the old Cheonggyecheon shopping mall and no one looked at.

[Kim Ok-rang, Director of the Puppet Museum] It was abandoned. In that corner. I think I found myself and saved myself by meeting all the dust, fearing that the paint would disappear there. For me.]
In the wake of the 2012 London Olympics, exhibitions were held in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, etc., so the
top two received a lot of attention from foreign countries first.

[Lim Se-kyung, a curator at the National Folk Museum of Korea: Many people say that death is not unfamiliar and sad at all, but that they feel closer to death as if they are traveling to a new world]Following the photos and knots of

Koryoin, the National Folk Museum of Korea's special exhibition, which will be held this year with 1,100 donations, will continue until early March next year.

I'm Park Soonpyo of YTN.