We receive a lot of questions about the background and the history of the Korean traditional hanbok. Please enjoy the following infographic to learn more about history, its origins, and how hanboks are worn in modern culture. Please enjoy and send us any feedback!
At the beginning of the Thre Kingdoms era, both men and women wore short, tight-fitting baji and waist-length jeogori. But towards the end of this period, women of higher class began wearing long chima and short jeogori. Almost all the traditional hanbok seen today are fashioned in the Joseon Dynasty, which began in the late 1300s, but the birth of the handbook dates back much earlier than that. Some researchers have found evidence of hanbok in murals within burial tombs dating back to the Goguryeo Era (37 BCE-668 CE) - over 1600 years ago! Other researchers can even trace hanbok styles through ancient Siberia and Mongolia.