How this bride learn about ancient Korean royalty through her wedding Hanbok
Wearing a hanbok, I didn’t always feel the weight of its 2,000 years of history. In elementary school, I would sport the Korean national costume to show-and-tell and peel off the novelty in time for recess. In high school, I wore it once, to a Korean-American cultural festival, very pleased to have flouted my mother’s request for a historically accurate bun.
Korean monarchies are rarely found on your average high school syllabus in suburban America, and they weren’t on mine. At best, as a kid, I could fire off a few facts about King Sejong, the revered inventor of the Korean alphabet, and a linguistics genius, as my parents liked to point out. The other approximately 190 kings between the Three Kingdoms Period in 57 B.C.
The origins of hanbok can be traced back to the first century B.C., about the same time Julius Caesar was making a go of things in Rome, and nearly a thousand years before the first king of England took power.
Progressivism, as we know, isn’t always linear. Korea’s first female sovereign, Queen Seondeok, reigned in the Silla Dynasty, more than 700 years before Joseon’s subjugation of women. After Silla, the Goryeo Dynasty saw women being allowed to inherit property and remarry after being widowed, and bridegrooms usually moved in with the family of the bride.
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