The word literally means “Korean clothing”, but today it is used to talk about specific traditional garments. While every character in a historical drama seems to wear such an outfit ...

Hanbok refers to traditional Korean attire. Koreans in the past used cloth, silk, hemp, ramie, and other materials to make clothes tailored to the distinct four seasons of the Korean Peninsula. A ...

Demonstration of traditional Korean swordsmanship A man clad in traditional Korean military dress demonstrates sword-wielding ...

Jocelyn Clark, an Alaska-born professor of East Asian studies at Pai Chai University in Daejeon, remembers the first time she heard a performance of the ...