ABSTRACT
To conclude without mentioning more than just music and the performance arts would not do justice to the preservation system. Underpinning Korean identity has always required the maintenance of intangible skills in the production of tangible objects. The instrumental genre of sanjo and the Rite to Royal Ancestors require instruments on which to present the music; instruments, costumes, and furniture have for many centuries been decorated with maedŭp, knots and cords made from dyed braid; and artists of all sorts need – or feel the need – to eat and drink. This, then, is the context in which this chapter is offered.
