From Goryeo celadon to Dior bag, what gifts have Korea and France exchanged?

"Your Excellency, I have the honor to inform you that I received yesterday the three crates containing the vases produced at the National Sevres Manufactory and presented by the President of the French Republic to His Majesty the King of Korea." So wrote French envoy Victor Collin de Plancy in a letter to King Gojong on June 22, 1888. The correspondence documented the arrival of a historic diplomatic gift: three pieces of Sevres porcelain — one Salamina vase and two Clodion vases — sent by Presi

By The Korea Herald