Stoke-on-Trent - the English Potteries-may not appear at first glance to be the most obvious starting point for any appraisal of today's South Korean ceramic tableware sector and yet there do exist some direct parallels and some oblique references. It has to be said that one is talking here of the Stoke-on-Trent of past times, long forgotten and virtually abandoned in the eyes of some, where for generations there were spread layers of small, medium and large ceramic manufacturing units whose impact on the design, manufacture and sales of tableware around the world was enormous.
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