What is Hanbok?
'''Hanbok''' ([[Hangul]]:한복) refers to traditional [[Korea]]n clothing. In [[North Korea]], hanbok is referred to as '''Choson-ot''' (조선옷). One of the most famous characteristics of hanbok is its vivid colors and straight and curved lines. Although its literal meaning is Korean clothing, it today indicates specifically traditional [[garment|garments]], especially of the [[Joseon dynasty]]. Hanbok has been a great part of Korean culture. Traces of Hanbok have been found even before the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdom]] period of Korea. The oldest form of hanbok can be seen in tomb mural paintings from the [[Goguryeo]] Kingdom (37 B.C.-668 A.D.). Korea had two kinds of clothing tradition. The rulers and noblemen usually wore clothing of different kinds of foreign styles, but subjects continued to use the distinct style of indigenous clothing that today is known as hanbok. There are several kinds of hanbok. People wore different sorts according to their social status, sex, jobs. They chose special hanbok for [[Ceremony|ceremonies]]. People could figure out the wearer’s job, educational background and even whether he or she was married or not. There are hanbok for men, women, royal court, government officials and children. Because hanbok could reveal the wearer’s social status, there were some government regulations on designs, materials and shapes. For example, only [[royal families]] could use golden stripes on their hanbok. == History of Hanbok == The most ancient style that is similar to today’s hanbok would be that of the Three Kingdom period. During this time, noblewomen started wearing full-length [[skirt]]s and [[jacket]]s, and noblemen began to wear roomy [[trouser]]s bound in at the ankles and belted at the waist. After [[Silla]] unified the Korean peninsula in the [[7th century]], a new clothing style was introduced, which combined original Korean dress with foreign elements imported from [[China]]. This Chinese style of the [[Tang Dynasty]] (618 A.D.-907 A.D.) was regarded as an internation