"Is your Chinese costume Hanbok?" ... Australian War Memorial Hall's Hwangdang Exhibition [Anchor Report]

A sky blue outfit displayed in front of the national flag.

It looks more like a Chinese outfit than our traditional hanbok.

This costume is displayed at the War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.

It was displayed with the Korean flag, saying that it was worn by children during the Korean War.

As you know well, this Chinese-style dress displayed at the memorial is not a traditional dress for Korean children.

As a result of checking by hanbok experts, it turned out that it was also a Chinese-style outfit.

As it is an important memorial in Australia, it is also a place that many foreign tourists visit.

If foreigners who are not familiar with Korean and Chinese culture look at the costumes, it will be difficult to tell which part is wrong.

Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, said he immediately sent an e-mail to protest because he thought such an error should not be left as it is.

It was said that the clothes on display were Chinese-style clothes, such as the way the collar and sleeves were cut, the combination of colors, and embroidery.

He also emphasized that Korean traditional clothes are 'hanbok'.

In particular, China has been claiming that our hanbok originated from the traditional Chinese costume Hanfu for many years.

At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics two years ago, a woman representing Korean-Chinese appeared in a hanbok and introduced it as her own culture.Professor

Seo stressed that the wrong hanbok information should be corrected quickly at a time when China is making a forced claim.

Above all, it seems necessary to continue efforts to accurately inform our tradition so that there is no misperception of hanbok abroad.