Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — A Korean Wall. [ARTICLE]

A Korean Wall.

The Koreans have a peculiar way of building a wall by erecting two parallel partitions, between which they pour plaster or mud, and then removing the partitions when the material solidifies. When I was in Seoul an examination of students occurred, and the subject then chosen was a text from one of the classic authors to the effect that as the boards serve to give shape to the mortar, so do honest and upright statesmen mold the fabric of the nation. The students were required to write a poem in blank verse on the subject.