A Study on Clothing Terms in Sino-Korean Study Books in Choseon Period

  • Kim, Eun-Jung (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Graduate School of Catholic University) ;
  • Kang, Soon-Che (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Catholic University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

To study the clothing names has been one of the research subjects in the history of clothing since the name could be the basic tool to understand the clothing. In the past, the name of clothing were used in Chinese character which is hieroglyphic. Each character of Chinese has special meaning. They had been changed into Korean after Korean characters were invented. During the period when they were changed into Korean, some of them retained the original meaning while others widened the original meaning. Some of them even translated into totally different meaning.

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