ART & CRAFT Long ago in Silla, people must have built houses with smiling roof tiles and lived in houses that smiled. One tile has fallen from under the eaves, one side of its face cracked and broken, yet its smile remains unbroken, smiling like a crescent moon hidden behind leaves. I too want to leave behind a smile that lasts a thousand years for someone, so I try imitating the smiling roof tile. Poet Yi Bong-jik, "Smiling Roof Tile" Face-Patterned Water Eave Tile: 'Silla's
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