A reader once asked a simple question. Where does the hanbok come from, and can you show me. Eric sat with his mother at the kitchen table in San Mateo, sketched a rough timeline on the back of a receipt, and realized a picture would carry the answer better than paragraphs would.
The result is the infographic below. Sixteen hundred years of Korean dress compressed into one page, from Goguryeo tomb figures through Joseon court silhouettes to the modern revival cut in linen and cotton. Look at it slowly. If a piece prompts a question, send it along.
