Korean Onggi

Welcome to KoreanOnggi.Com. In late August 2009 we returned from Korea where we hosted a group of international ceramic artists and visited the Ulsan Oe-Gosan Onggi Village that was to host OEUK 2009 in October. In Oct. 2009 we returned to Korea with a small group of international ceramic artists. We had a great tour but the OEUK 2009 Exposition was postponed to 2010 and although the exposition was there we were among just a few participants.

Ulsan is now a great site for onggi festivals and expositions. They have planted grass, constructed roads and created what must be the most impressive onggi village in the world. They even made an extremeny large onggi jar. You can see it (part of it) in the kiln waiting for firing in this slide show. [ Click here to see it ] (another site)

In August 2009 we arrived just as they were making a large two person onggi jar that is in our slide show.

OEUK 2010 was a great event, one I was able to witness first hand as their keynote speaker an honor I didn’t expect but was gad to accept.

Now each Autumn we want to return to Korea and especially to Ulsan to witness some really great onggi.

Register to be part of the Autumn event.

Korean Onggi

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Introduction

The Autumn Tour

Ulsan Onggi Movie (di)

For a more complete look at the onggi forming process, I’ve created a di movie selected from a number of di’s I took recently in Ulsan at their onggi village. Click on the link below to view that movie.

If you have questions about forming onggi, I may be able to help. Although it usually takes a great deal of practice and personal instruction to learn to create onggi, there are some strategies they use that can improve hand-forming processes. Register, and then contact me with any questions you might have.