Korean Westernized Fashion

Korean traditional dress named Hanbok was used to distinguish upper class from lower class in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). People at that time showed their social class by using different colors and embellishments of Hanbok to separate each other. Korean perspective of wearing Hanbok was not changed much even though Korea’s industrialization was quickly advanced in a short period of time. Intentional or not, people wearing different clothes distinguished between upper class and lower class. During the time of Japanese colonization (1910-1945), Korean upper class practically adopted the westernized dress while lower class still wore Hanbok as a daywear. During the Japanese colonialism, Korean people tend to imitate the fashion styles of the adjacent upper classes, and upper classes tend to seek new styles after being copied. Korean people today still prefer and wear the westernized fashion, and it is one of the reasons that Hanbok is not known well internationally and not familiarized today. Today, many Korean people don’t even wear Hanbok on the traditional holidays. The purpose of dressing Hanbok has changed over the time since Korean adopted the Westernized fashion because people now prefer wearing the westernized clothes in the system of Trickle down theory. People in the …show more content…
According to the data by the Korean Culture and Information Service (2009), Korean also has 3,200 islands including the mainland. Since South and North Korea are in a state of armistice, the Korean Peninsula is divided into two sections. Out of total land area of 223,170km2, the Republic of Korea took approximately 100,032km2, about 45 percent of the overall area (KCIS, 2009). Under those circumstances, South Korea is generally divided into four big regions: an eastern region, a western region, a southwestern region, and a southeastern region. Those four regions have their own different dialects and food