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I found the following very interesting photo on flickr:

This photo was apparently taken in the British Museum in London (Korean room), and it has the following text next to it:

Wooden paduk board and pieces made of shell and stone

Choson Dynasty, 18th-19th century

Played mainly by men, this game is also popular in other Far Eastern countries, where it is known as weiqi or go. The Korean paduk board is unique in being hollow, with an arrangement of wires stretched inside which makes it resonate when a piece is moved on top of the board. There are 324 squares on the board but the game is played on the intersections, not in the spaces. There are many Korean paintings depicting Korean aristocrats (yangban) whiling away the hours playing paduk in a small summer pavilion.

You can find the photo on flickr.com and here are more flickr .com photos by the same author (Julio Martinez).

Now I wonder what the position is - anyways it looks quite realistic, unlike the one in a previous blog entry.

Update:
Many thanks to Jordi Jané who sent me a photo of the same item but from a different angle, so I was able to write the whole text from the museum explanation above:

Here is also a link to a much larger photo version.

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