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     Morning Earth was officially founded in 1979 after twenty four years of being Park Stone Pottery.  When Arthur returned from sabbatical in Korea he changed the name to Morning Earth. 

   The word “morning” comes from the historic name for Korea “The Land of the Morning Calm” it comes from the time of Arthur’s Korean ancestors before the 19th and 20th century events of war and occupation that plagued and threatened to destroy the beautiful land and culture of Korea.   We use  the word “morning” to honor those ancestors for their sacrifices for our family. 

   The word “earth” is intended to have a double meaning, to both reflect the earth we use to form our ceramic work and the earth on which we all live that makes us one people.  The name has always been Morning Earth not Morning Earth Pottery that you find on our web address.   As far as we can determine we are the first and original Morning Earth although a couple of other companies now use those words for their web sites and we were too late in getting this site developed.  We added the word “pottery” as a distinguishing term.

   Morning Earth is at once a pottery, workshop provider, educational resource, tour developer and sometimes guide, promoter of Korean Arts and Culture and tool manufacturer through our sister company Dragon Claw Tools.  If you have looked at the other parts of this website, you have found each of these components. 

   As a pottery we produce several types of ware.  These include tea ware, functional vessels and sculptural forms.  Sometimes these areas merge in interesting ways.  In addition to our own individual and personal work, we also produce Morning Earth ware.  Morning Earth ware is simple well designed functional ware that we offer at much lower prices than our personal work.

   At the time of this writing, the Morning Earth studio is being refurbished while we develop our web sites and give some attention to Morning Earth Tours.

   Thank you for your interest.  Please return.

To find us personally on the web, other than using the links we provide, we suggest that you search for Arthur K. J. Park and Mary R. Park together or Arthur Kyung Jae Park.

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