Identifies pigments and related materials from 26 Korean objects and paintings from the 5th-8th centuries. Sources include two painted tombs, four sets of wallpainting fragments, 12 painted objects, four lacquered objects, and a number of pottery fragments smeared with pigment. Most of the black pigments were carbon, probably wood soot. Apart from one identification of red lead, the red pigments were either iron oxide or red mercuric sulfide. An interesting discovery was that reds from the kingdom of Paekche, in the southwest of the peninsula, were invariably mercuric sulfide; this may be connected with that kingdom's known liaison with southern China. Green earth was found on objects excavated in Kyongju. Of the black lacquer samples, two later ones from the Unified Silla period were blackened with iron compounds, while two from the Three Kingdoms period contained copper compounds, apparently as a blackening agent. The white pigments and grounds were either calcium carbonate (calcite) or various colorless minerals regarded here as varieties of white earth. -- AATA