FIELD TRIP

[Anonymous]

It is a warm and present experience in Korean Culture center. Enjoyed the K-pop K-drama rooms, all those popular actors, actress, and pop-groups were displayed in real person size. I have watched some of TV dramas, so enjoyed the actor and actress around me.
The short video about Korean also very useful information for us to learn about Korean, and the girl who introduces Korean also represent a warm feeling to us. Her soft voice and a nice smile let the audience feel so comfortable while we learning the Korean from her.
Since Korean Culture Center is close to our school, I will encourage students to visit there.

[Anonymous]

Many of my friends were talking about the exhibition of “Cave Temples of Dunhuang “ in Getty Museum lately. I am so lucky going there in a nice bus with our seminar group.
The way Getty museum show the Silk Road was so nice and it was much more interesting than the books or magazines. The lady explained the history of the Cave Temples and the arts from those caves are so clear and easy to remember.
The experience in the small dark room of 3-D imaging was so real. We can feel so close to those arts. It was amazing how those arts were created in 5th century.
In the classroom with my lesson, I may able to use the information from website for students, but it will not as good as to watch in the museum in person.

[Anonymous]

• Last year I was lucky enough to participate in the Summer Institute by the UCLA Confucius Institute and I visited the Mogao caves in person. I got to meet the artists who created the replica caves and through a pre-trip visit to the Getty, I got a chance to hear about the plans they had for the exhibition. Attending the exhibition today brought back a lot of memories, and it was great to see ideas discussed last year brought to life. One of the things that always boils my blood a bit about museum exhibitions is the remnants of imperialism that come with museum artifacts. This is of course something that comes up not just with this particular exhibit but with many exhibits I have seen in Europe. As one of the Getty representatives explained that a lot of the items were borrowed from British and French collections, I always feel this sense of indignation as to why these items cannot be given back to their rightful countries.

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[Anonymous]

I was so impressed with our presenter at the Getty. She was so knowledgeable and made each artifitact she talked about significant. Wish we could have spend more time with her.

[Anonymous]

Whenever I visit the getty/getty villa I also think about how the British pillaged artifacts during the time of imperialism. I love to visit the Getty but can't get rid of the fact about how some items at the getty were obtained through questionable means (I am not sure if this matter has been cleared up but hope that it has).

Below are two articles. The first article addresses how Greece is upset that one of its statues is being transported to Russia (the statue was pillaged from Greece). The second article addresses how the Getty obtained some of its art pieces.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/05/parthenon-marbles-greece-furious-british-museum-loan-russia-elgin
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/15/arts/design/an-odyssey-in-antiquities-ends-in-questions-at-the-getty-museum.html

[clay dube]

It's not been around so long, but there is a Taiwan Academy in Westwood: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-taiwan-academy-films-20141016-story.html

In El Monte, there's the Culture Center of the Taipei Economic and Culture Office in Los Angeles: http://www.ocac.gov.tw/OCAC/SubSites/Home.aspx?site=1756a8a3-884e-45eb-bd26-47cdb8b9d197

[Anonymous]

Having been to the Korean Cultural Center, it was great to return and see the updates. Our tour guide was great & welcoming, especially when we looked at the video screen & how she talked about her home town. I must admit, though, I enjoyed our visit to the Getty more. The actual artifacts & 3D film were fantastic. When we see this stuff & hear a great docent talk about it, the history truly comes alive for me. That recreation of the caves was incredible!

[Anonymous]

The Korean Cultural Center was amazing and I believe students of every grade level will be able to learn and be engaged in the information given. I would be able to incorporate a lesson on K pop! I would form my students in groups and have them research a group and learn about the members backgrounds and perform a karaoke or live performance of one of their K Pop group songs.

[Anonymous]

This field trip to the Korean Cultural Center was very educational and interesting to visit. The whole experience was very fulfilling for me since I knew very little about the Korean culture; I was very honored to be part of this visit and learn about their flag, alphabet, amazingly beautiful places to visit, their gastronomy, and some ancient traditions that are still in place in the Korean community. I always enjoy learning about the stories behind civil and historic symbols representing a country, for instance our presenter mentioned that the South Korean flag is white because it represents the Korean traditional attire (hanbok) that represents peace and purity; while the circle in the middle is derived from the philosophy ying yang that represents the balance of the universe. The color red symbolizes the negative cosmic forces, and the blue stands for the opposite positive cosmic forces. She explain that the black symbols around the circle are called triagrams and represent the four natural elements:heaven, fire, water, and earth. I will definitely bring my students to this place that is full of rich information and traditional ancient history. It will facilitate their understanding and awareness about other cultures, places, food, and religions as part of the curricular activities I am planning to crate for future classes in high school.

[Anonymous]

I cannot forget about all the wonderful places we virtually visited at the Korean Cultural Center!!! I was very impressed with the exquisite beauty and carefully planned cities like Seoul, Busan, Gyeongju, Tongyeoung, and Jeju City, just to mention a few. I was greatly surprised about the grandiosity of their geography, mountainous and diversity of ecology systems within various areas of the country. The architecture, and well advanced infrastructure was very evident in the urban planning. Incredible places to visit fro pleasure, medical, and business... Korea appears to be one of the best places to live in the world, honorable and admirable people who enjoy a well organized society that is living a great socio-economical bonanza in a global developing era. Very impressed with their environment, diversity of flora and fauna, as well as their transportation system. A great place to visit thus my students can raise their awareness about the Korean culture.
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[Anonymous]

I agree about bringing students to the Korean Cultural Center to learn more about the pop culture in Korea. It'll be great to expose students to a different language through the use of a universal tool: music. Students could learn to sing a few songs in Korean language to make a transition into an unfamiliar language in order to gain awareness and respect for other languages and to identify and perceive similarities and differences between both worlds. I would love to bring them and learn how to spell their names in the Korean alphabet machine and sing along with classmates in the Karaoke room, while we continue traveling around the other exhibits where the man's and woman's room display the artifacts proper of each gender. These rooms show evidence of the type of activities each individual played based on their personal and private lives as both husband and wife or as a separate room to distinguish the role each member played in a household. I am sure students will be thrilled learning about things and artifacts from the past, they will be able to understand why some paintings depict male figures wearing high top hats and the meaning behind it. Students will gain a higher level of respect and understanding of other cultures.
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[Anonymous]

I was thrilled to be able to witness one of the very unique experiences brought to the Getty Museum. I have visited the Getty long time ago and fell in love with a large painting depicting a seemingly rich family going through some kind of imminent tragedy. The pain of these tragedy was not obvious because there were other elements representing joy; while some members were sharing these joy, others were concerned about a more serious issue taking over their entire soul. Saying that, I just wanted to share my love for art appreciation in all kids of fine arts. Looking and being up close and personal right next to the paintings, sculptures, scrolls and other artifacts that were shown in the exhibit were just amazing to watch and so powerful to appreciate them as close as we did. It was a pleasure and an honor to have a guide so knowledgeable and patient that took us through the timeline of events touching base with the Silk Road was so inspiring and spiritual for me! The part that I enjoyed the most and took my breath away was when we entered the actual replicas of the Cave Temples of Dunghuan.... the feeling was incredible and my experience was beyond expectations!!! Seeing the various representations of Buddha and the Upanishads, and the Bodhisattvas next to him in real size representations in the caves was very interesting to witness, I was able to perceive the emphasis on the Bodhisattvas path to move to a more difficult path, and try to achieve Nirvana as they embrace the Buddha's nature as the maximum entity. Incredible place to visit; I will prepare my students to be very appreciative and highly respectful of the places they are about to visit and the artifacts, paintings and maps they are to see. They should be able to produce a detailed reflection of what they are going to observe in this specific visit.

[Anonymous]

The block prints at The Getty are a piece of antiquity that predated Gutenberg by millennia. I just returned from India/Nepal and I noticed that block printing is used on fabrics, paper, stamps, and continues to be an integral aspect of their commerce and culture. I purchased several symbolic print blocks and will share same at the next seminar. The field trip was very enlightening especially the Korean language device and phonics applications.

[Anonymous]

What a great day!!! I was amazed by the cave replicas. The color, the detail, the amount of work and dedication. I got to experience a cave in Taiwan in Taroko Gorge but it doesn't compare to the caves in China.

[Anonymous]

I always wanted to go to Dunhuang and other cities on the Silk Road. It was actually my second time to visit the exhibit at the Getty Center, but I enjoyed it even more than the first time. I really like the 3D theater(?) and I wonder if I can find the same 3D image because I am planning to use the Google Cardboard in my classroom. It would be an amazing experience for students if they can see it as what I experienced.

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