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Onggi pots are indistinguishable to most Americans, despite the rise of cultural appropriation in their creation. This kitschy cabbage onggi with eerie blood-like fake kimchi juice dripping down remarks on the absurd and violent colonization of Korean ceramics and ceramicists. I grapple with the history of my ancestors as a Korean American ceramicist.