In certain important respects, therefore, what became the Japanese Folk Craft Movement owed much to Yanagi's early interest in Korea, where he established a Korean Folk Craft Museum ("Chōsen Minzoku Bijutsukan" in one of the old palace buildings in Seoul in 1924. In the following year – after considerable discussion with two potter friends, Hamada Shōji and Kawai Kanjirō – the phrase that they coined to describe the craftsman’s work was "mingei" (民藝). This was a hybrid term, formed from "minshū" (民衆), meaning "common people", and "kōgei" (工藝), or "craft". Yanagi himself translated it into English as "folk craft" (not "folk art"), since he wished to stop people from conceiving of "mingei" as an individually-inspired "high" art ("bijutsu" [美術).