Korean weaved cloth with hemp and arrowroot and raised silkworms to produced silk. During the Three Kingdoms period, men wore jeogori (jacket), baji (trousers), and durumagi (overcoat) with a hat, belt, and pair of shoes. The women wore jeogori (short jacket) with two long ribbons tied to form an otgoreum (knot), a full length, high-waist wap-around, skirt called chima, a durumagi, beoseon (white cotton socks), and boat-shaped shoes. This attire, known as Hanbok, has been handed down in the same form for men and women for hundreds of years with little change except for the length of the jeogori and chima.
Western-style clothes were commercialized in Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953), and during the rapid industrialization in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Hanbok use declined, being regarded as inappropriate for casual wear. Recently, however, Hanbok lovers have been campaigning to revitalize Hanbok and have update styles to better fit modern work environments.
A few Koreans still wear Hanbok but usually only on special holidays like Seollal and Chuseok and family festivities suvh as Hwangap, the celebration for parents turning 60.
Source: Korean Culture and Information Sevice, Ministry of Culture, Sport, and Tourism.
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