ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to decode Na-sop Park's subjectivity as an onggi potter in terms of his learning activity. This decoding of learning activity involves what he learned in seeking to make an onggi and how his learner position unfolded along the way. Na-sop's subjectivity as an onggi potter floated both centrifugally and centripetally from a linchpin moment he described at the age of 15 or 16, when he first learned how to make an onggi Knowing how to make an onggiand living as an onggi potter are inseparable from the term "learning activities". The chapter argues that these learning activities reflect Na-sop's contradictory learner positions within the sociocultural-historical contexts available to him. It interrogates what he did and did not say about his learning activities, to shed light on his troubled sense of self or unstable subjectivity. The chapter includes some acts and scenes that are selective direct translations of sentences from different pages of the source data.
