The Lunar New Year (Seollal) is one of the major holidays in Korea, and as such, it’s one of the few occasions when people might wear the traditional national garment known as hanbok. The hanbok is ...

Hanbok Culture Week, an annual nationwide festival celebrating the beauty and heritage of Korea’s traditional attire, will begin its six-day run next week. Organized by the Korea Craft and Design ...

Singer Oh Seung-ha promotes Korean beauty as a hanbok ambassador. Oh Seung-ha attended the hanbok ambassador appointment ceremony hosted by the Korean Cultural Promotion Association (Chairman Jeong ...

Getting ready for the Lunar New Year once meant buying a new set of clothes for many families of Korean ancestry. For centuries, the costume known as hanbok – a two-piece outfit traditionally made of ...

HANBOK - Just as art can teach us various facts about the history of a society -some of them not even in books! - the same happens with clothing. The fabrics, colors, shapes, and images of garments ...