DAY 132
Korea Work 28 — 도화서 화원
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Korea Work 28

갑인춘 친정도 (갑인년 봄, 임금이 친히 정사를 보다)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"When must the one seated in the high place step forward in person?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This painting by a court painter holds a scene from the spring of a certain year, when the king attended to affairs of state himself, without his ministers in attendance. It remains a provincial cultural treasure of Busan, carrying down the gravity of that day. For the one who bears responsibility to take the seat himself, rather than handing every matter to those below, is not a display of authority but the practice of responsibility. Here I see the weight of governing in person. The most important matters must not be delegated but faced oneself. The weight of a station is filled only when one steps forward in person.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Take one important matter you have been pushing onto others, and face and settle it yourself today.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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