Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Connecting to Tradition: Crafting Hanbok in America @mfaboston | Uploaded 6 months ago | Updated 17 hours ago
Jessica Kim says that being in the business of crafting hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, connects her to her roots and culture. She and her mother, Jeoung, run the Philadelphia-based shop bdk | mint, a third-generation family business that began in Daegu, South Korea. Hear from Jessica in this two-minute video about modern interpretations of traditional hanbok, the value of exposing global audiences to hanbok in museums, and how hanbok are worn today.
See "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: mfa.org/exhibition/hallyu-the-korean-wave
Jessica Kim says that being in the business of crafting hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, connects her to her roots and culture. She and her mother, Jeoung, run the Philadelphia-based shop bdk | mint, a third-generation family business that began in Daegu, South Korea. Hear from Jessica in this two-minute video about modern interpretations of traditional hanbok, the value of exposing global audiences to hanbok in museums, and how hanbok are worn today.
See "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: mfa.org/exhibition/hallyu-the-korean-wave
