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Thirty educators participated in the extensive course entitled Arts & Culture of Korea: 1392-1910. These New York area teachers explored the arts and daily life of Koreans during the Choson Kingdom. Korean Studies experts lectured on topics such as Neo-Confucianism, Women & literature, education, architecture, ancestral veneration, and folk tales. Educators participated in a munjado painting workshop, where they learned about Confucian virtues represented in visual art, and a pojagi textile workshop, where they sewed patchwork fabric art. The participants also discussed strategies for including Korea in their teaching and presented their lesson plans to be implemented in their classrooms.