Korean Hanbok Traditional Clothing

TigerMagpie
2 min readMay 17, 2021

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Many Korean girls and young women dressing up in colorful hanbok and strolling around downtown Seoul and the palace areas must be a colorful sight.

Hanbok Trending among Young Koreans

https://youtu.be/OyNH42aZTUI

Modern hanbok trending among young Koreans
https://youtu.be/TvmH76UWXaM

Every detail of hanbok has a reason, where form aesthetically follows function.

Science behind the elegant Korean traditional attire of hanbok
https://youtu.be/ZOxn2MnC2VA

This is a nice introductory video showing and explaining the firm traditions of Korean hanbok, professionally put together by the Hanbok Advancement Center.

HANBOK, Traditional Korean Clothes
https://youtu.be/xY2Gm2EdhsU

Hanbok Advancement Center short video on how to wear a hanbok for men.

How to wear a Korean costume for a man
https://youtu.be/-vcB_wIf_0U

And an elegant short video on how to wear a traditional hanbok for women. What is neat is she puts on additional pieces for the cold of Seolnal.

How to wear HANBOK(Korean costume) (for woman)
https://youtu.be/u5QcOSgFSMU

The Hanbok Advancement Center also made comprehensive videos on the whole process of tailoring traditional hanboks. The selection and cutting of fabric, pleating process, seams made by various stitching techniques are documented. The videos preserve visually for posterity sake down to the stitching the exacting details of accumulated methods and materials used for making hanbok across thousands of years.

Hanbok Advancement Center
http://www.hanbokcenter.kr/home/homeIndex.do

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