A special exhibition currently underway at the National Folk Museum of Korea lends some answers to that question. Kicking off on July 20, the “One Summer Day’s Repose: Taste, Palate & Healing” exhibition puts under the spotlight the wisdom of life and some tricks that our forebears used to endure the summer heat. The exhibit brings to life some of the foods that they enjoyed in the summertime, and day-to-day artifacts that they used in their lives. The museum’s air conditioning also gives museum-goers a brief respite from the day’s heat wave, and allows them to take a look at a set of modern artifacts in a traditional, cool Hanok home.