- Overview
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Together with the success of hallyu dramas and other content, hanbok, Korea's traditional clothing, is garnering people's attention. This is a source book on women's hanbok, introducing its structure, history and different types with beautiful illustrations.
- Book Intro
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This is a source book on hanbok with marvelous illustrations by Obsidian, who is much loved domestically and internationally with combinations of stunning hanbok and characters of children's stories, movies and game.
In this book, the basic structure and names of hanbok for women, the various types of hanbok women wore according to their class, as well as their historical background, are explained with beautiful hanbok illustrations. This book will be valuable as a guide to the history and origin of costumes in the Joseon Dynasty, beyond just curiosity about hanbok.
Everything on women's hanbok is included, from the basic costume, made up of jeogori (jacket), chima (dress) and underwear, to the head-dress and accessories, and the costumes of the specific and royal classes. Also, you can see the colors of hanbok, illustrations of women's hanbok for each period and traditional color schemes.
The Story of Hanbok Drawn by Obsidian is a hanbok illustration source book as well encyclopedia for hanbok. The author also provides tips on how to draw hanbok throughout the book to help illustrators.
- About the Author
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Wooh Nayoung
Wooh Nayoung (F) is an illustrator better known by her pen name, Obsidian. She was born in Seoul in 1979 and majored in Korean Painting at Ewha Womans University. She grabbed the the attention of the global netizens with her Western Children's Stories Wearing Hanbok series, which included Alice in Hanbok. Alice in Hanbok was invited to the 150th anniversary of the Alice in Wonderland exhibition held at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in the USA, and the Vaclav Havel Library in Paris. At present. At present, she is actively collaborating with domestic and overseas global companies, such as Jonnie Walker, Disney, Samsung and Blizzard.
