Excavation and introduction of the Chaja-marking materials in the Wonju City History Museum

The purpose of this article is to discover and introduce the newly discovered Chaja-marking materials in the Wonju City History Museum, which are written in Korean by adapting Chinese characters. To this end, we first looked at what Chaja-marking materials are and how they can be classified, and then, based on this, we examined the characteristics of the Chaja-marking materials in the Wonju City History Museum and divided them into three types: Idu materials, Kugyol materials, and other materials. The Idu materials were mostly from the 1800s and later, corresponding to the late Joseon Dynasty, while the Kugyol materials were characterized by the existence of both Eumdok Kugyol materials, which had a Kugyol characters on the ceremonial texts, and Hangeul Eumdok Kugyol materials. Finally, among the materials from the post-Korean Empire period, we also found materials that gradually departed from the format of Idu materials and became more similar to the modern Korean-Chinese hybrid style.