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Brand Review: Napcheong-Yugi

by Kay Yang on Jun 16, 2023

Brand Review: Napcheong-Yugi

About Napcheong-Yugi

National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 77, Bangjja Yugi Jang by Lee Hyeong-geun

Passing through Lee Bong-ju, a traditional successor of Napcheong-Yugi in Pyeonganbuk-do, and his son Lee Hyeong-geun, who is the National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 77, Bangjja Yugi Jang, the secret techniques have been passed down for two generations. It is a precious intangible asset of our culture that embodies the wisdom of our people and the long-standing traditions of this land.

Bangjja Yugi represents the soul of this land. Bangjja Yugi, passed down through Lee Bong-ju, a traditional successor of Napcheong-Yugi in Pyeonganbuk-do, and his son Lee Hyeong-geun, who is the National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 77, carries the essence of our culture, breathing the wisdom of our people and the long-standing traditions of this land.

Lee Hyeong-geun's workshop inherits and develops the tradition of Napcheong-Yugi. The Napcheong-Yugi of Lee Hyeong-geun's workshop is not just a simple alloy but carries the pride of artisans who strive to uphold the traditional culture.

The Napcheong-Yugi of Lee Hyeong-geun's workshop encompasses the tradition of Bangjja Yugi and the determination of skilled artisans, which adds to its beauty the more it is used.

Napcheong-Yugi, by Lee Hyeong-geun's workshop, shapes our own. From ancient times, Napcheong-Yugi has been treasured for its durability, resistance to breakage, non-toxicity, and sterilization properties, being placed on the king's royal table. The workshop of Lee Hyeong-geun, who has been developing our precious cultural heritage, Bangjja Yugi, with the belief of shaping it properly, is creating Bangjja Yugi.

The subtle and shimmering light of Napcheong-Yugi contains more elegance and value than just the material.

Lee Hyeong-geun's workshop continues the tradition of Bangjja Yugi. Napcheong-Yugi is created by heating the finest-quality bronze ingot and going through multiple processes. The value of each piece shines even brighter as it is completed through the meticulous craftsmanship and sophisticated techniques of Bangjja.

(Note: Bangjja Yugi refers to traditional Korean brassware known for its superior quality and craftsmanship.)

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๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌดํ˜• ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ ์ œ 77ํ˜ธ ๋ฐฉ์งœ ์œ ๊ธฐ์žฅ ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ

ํ‰์•ˆ๋ถ๋„ ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ์Šน๊ณ„์ž์ธ ์ด๋ด‰์ฃผ ์˜น์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ทธ ์•„๋“ค์ธ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌดํ˜• ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ ์ œ 77ํ˜ธ ๋ฐฉ์งœ ์œ ๊ธฐ์žฅ ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ์œผ๋กœ 2๋Œ€์งธ ๊ทธ ๋น„๋ฒ•์ด ์ „ํ•ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ์™€ ์ด ๋•…์˜ ์˜ค๋žœ ์ „ํ†ต์ด ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋ฌดํ˜• ์ž์‚ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ด๋•…์˜ ํ˜ผ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ‰์•ˆ๋ถ๋„ ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ์Šน๊ณ„์ž์ธ ์ด๋ด‰์ฃผ ์˜น์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ทธ ์•„๋“ค์ธ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌดํ˜• ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ ์ œ 77ํ˜ธ ๋ฐฉ์งœ ์œ ๊ธฐ์žฅ ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ์œผ๋กœ 2๋Œ€์งธ ๊ทธ ๋น„๋ฒ•์ด ์ „ํ•ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ์™€ ์ด ๋•…์˜ ์˜ค๋žœ ์ „ํ†ต์ด ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋ฌดํ˜•์ž์‚ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์€ ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์งœ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๊ณ„์Šน, ๋ฐฉ์ „ ์‹œ์ผœ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์˜ ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ฒŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์žฅ์ธ์˜ ๊ณ ์ง‘์ด ๊นƒ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์˜ ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ์žฅ์ธ์˜ ๊ณ ์ง‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›€์ด ๊ณ ์Šค๋ž€ํžˆ ๋ฐฐ์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์“ฐ๋ฉด ์“ธ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ทธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋น›์„ ๋”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํœ˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž˜ ๊นจ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด๋…๋ฌดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹์ค‘๋…๊ท ์„ ๋ฉธ๊ท ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์™•์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ผ์ƒ์— ๋†“์—ฌ์งˆ ๋งŒํผ ๊ท€ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์ˆญ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ ์˜จ ์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต์žฅ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฒŸ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ๋…์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์€์€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฅธ๋‹ค์šด ๋น›์—๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฉ‹๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ดํ˜•๊ทผ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์€ ๋ฐฉ์งœ์œ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ด์–ด ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฉ์ฒญ์œ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ตœ์ƒ์งˆ์˜ ๋†‹์‡ ๋ฉ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์— ๋‹ฌ๊ตฌ์–ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฒˆ์˜ ๊ณต์ •์„ ๋˜ํ’€์ดํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ์ธ์˜ ์†์งˆ๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ์งœ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์˜ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์šด ๊ณผ์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์™„์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๋น›๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.