International Exchange of East Asia in Relation to Bronze Iron

[Narration]
The ladle-like artifact displayed here is the finest household implement of the Baekje Kingdom.

[Tourist]
Is it a utensil for cooking? They might have used it to stir enormous pots of boiling soup. It’s huge!

[Narration]
It is actually a bronze iron from the Ying Dynasty of China. Only the households of the nobility and the royal families of Baekje would have possessed such extravagant items.

[Tourist]
It’s an iron? I am impressed that Baekje people ironed their clothes, but how did it work without electricity?

[Narration]
They ironed their clothes by heating the round, pot-shaped end in a charcoal fire. The same kind of iron has been unearthed from ancient tombs discovered in Osaka, Japan. The iron provides evidence of the route of cultural exchange that passed from the Ying Dynasty of China to Baekje and Japan in those days.