Dissolving Sartorial Border between East and West: Incorporation of Western Elements into Hanbok

Costume Society of America 45th Symposium in Seattle, Washington. April 20, 2019.
Panel: Sartorial Hanbok with Leon Wiebers, Jaeyoon Yi, Minjung Lee, and Minjee Kim

Abstract Type: Panel

Panel Title: Sartorial Hanbok: Aesthetics, Identity, Influence and Evolution

This panel will examine how hanbok has evolved since the late 19^th century as a symbol of traditional Korean identity and culture while assimilating Western influences in cut and practicality; questioning the constructs of identity, tradition embedded in hanbok.

Chair/Panelist: Leon Wiebers

Making of “White Clad Race” in South Korean Culture: Its Construction Through Spirituality, Natural Dyes, and Dissent

Panelist: Minjee Kim, Dept. of Fashion, Academy of Art University

Dissolving Sartorial Border between East and West: Assimilation of Western Elements into Hanbok

As Western garments have become a new global norm in modern era, the planar, straight-linear, unstructured clothing construction of Eastern tradition has been affected by that of structured Western tailoring techniques. This study probes the culturally authenticated Western items and elements in modern hanbok through the museums and private collections, fashion magazines, and the interviews with designers and finds the sartorial border between East and West dissolving.

Panelist: Jaeyoon Yi, Dept. of Fashion Design, Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Locating the Identity of the Hanbok in Modern Korea

Panelist: Minjung E. Lee (Seoul National University Museum) (char. count 502)

A jokki-heori chima, a rational dress developed in the early 1910s in Korea