Korean Dressing Custom

 Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- The Korean dressing custom reflecting the noble and beautiful emotions, feelings and life of the Korean people is a part of the excellent mental and material heritage created by the ancestors.
While taking into account the natural and climatic conditions of the country and their way of life, emotions, hobbies, etc., the Korean people have developed their dressing custom since ancient times. It includes the dressing practices and the traditional skills and ways of making men's, women's and children's traditional clothes and footwear.
The traditional Korean costumes consist of lower and upper garments. Very typical of them are Jogori (men's and women's upper clothes), Paji (men's lower garment) and chima (women's lower garment). Among the traditional Korean clothes are turumagi (men's traditional Korean overcoat) and Paeja (women's traditional Korean waistcoat) for the relevant season. The main materials for those clothes were ramie cloth, silk and other natural fibers.
This custom is developing steadily in conformity with the socialist way of life.
In the DPRK, it is the custom for parents to make their young children wear traditional Korean clothes on their first birthdays and pray for their happy future. And the bride and bridegroom exchange their plain cloth for the traditional Korean bridal costume out of the mutual respect and the desire for love and happiness and get married in the clothing. It is a moral principle for children to present their parents with the traditional Korean clothes on their birthdays to express their respect for them and wish them good health.
On holidays and days when they move into new houses, the Korean people dress in elegant and beautiful traditional Korean clothes and dance to share their joy with each other, enriching the emotions of life.
The 19th meeting of the intergovernmental committee for the protection of intangible cultural heritages of the UNESCO, held in December 2024, adopted a decision on registering the Korean dressing custom, a part of our excellent cultural heritage, as a typical part of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind.
The said costume, which represents characteristic features of our unique and traditional costume culture, has enriched the diversity of the world human culture and given our people the greatest pride and self-confidence. -0-