Goheung Undae-ri Island Kiln Site

A yoji is a kiln site where porcelain, roof tiles or other vessels were made and fired. This kiln site lies in two valleys south of the now-closed Mundae Elementary School, concentrated mainly around Ungok village near the Dunwoncheon stream. More than thirty kiln sites are distributed here, where celadon was produced in the early Goryeo period and buncheong ware in the early Joseon period. The celadon kiln sites have yielded wares such as celadon, black-glazed ware and nokcheongja (a greenish celadon), together with kiln furniture including gapbal (large saggars used to keep ash off the pieces during firing), gapbal stands, and dojimi (kiln spacers). The celadon finds are mostly small vessels such as bowls, dishes, bowls and small cups, while the black-glazed ware is mostly large vessels such as jars, bottles, ewers and basins, suggesting that different forms were made for different uses. At the buncheong kiln sites, bowls and dishes predominate. The buncheong ware found here displays the full range of decorative techniques — sanggam (inlay), inhwa (stamping), johwa (incising), bakji (sgraffito, in which the background is scraped away to reveal the design), gwiyal (coarse brush-slip), and deombeong (dipped slip) — along with a small amount of underglaze iron decoration. Incising and sgraffito techniques are the most common, and the dipped-slip ware in particular is coated with white slip over its entire surface, making it hard to distinguish from white porcelain. First discovered in 1973, this kiln site was clarified by a surface survey in 1984 that revealed the manufacturing techniques and stages of development of buncheong ware. It is also an important site for showing how stamped buncheong ware evolved into slip-coated buncheong ware.

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Where it is

Region

Goheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물