In January 2009, I spent a month working at Jang Ji Bang, a 3rd- and 4th-generation family-run papermill in Gapyeong, Korea. I learned how to make hanji as well as related applications as the student of the eldest son, Jang Seong Woo. He was generous with history, technical guidance, and stories about his family's experience with hanji as the focal point of their lives.

Building the first hanji studio in the U.S.

In the summer of 2010, Aimee Lee and a team of staff, volunteers, and interns led by Tom Balbo, built the first Korean papermaking studio in the USA at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, OH. Below is a narrated slideshow of the process.