As I've mentioned before I took an after-school course during May called 'Experiencing Royal Culture' Each week the class consisted of a 40 minute lesson about an aspect of Royal culture (Introduction, education, food, attires), then a visit to the museum to show us some of the artifacts we'd learnt about, and then a hands on session. We made soap the first week, practised calligraphy the second, third week we cooked and fourth 2 people were able to try on some Royal clothes, for some reason my luck was in (?) on week 4 and I got to dress up in the Queen's Royal clothes, it wasn't all that pleasant though, because the Queen wears 20 items of clothing. I was let off of all 20 but I ended up with 6 layers, and a massive headpiece on. Needless to say I was pretty sweaty under all of that! Here are some photos of what went on.
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Ingredients for goldongban (modern day bibimbap) |
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Egg covered fish |
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cooking the meat |
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cooking the bracken |
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everything prepared, cooked and ready |
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rice mixed with a little oil |
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my bibimbap, the special gochujang (Pepper paste mixed with honey), kimchi and rice cake things |
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Group 4 |
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Layers 1 and 2 |
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layer 3 |
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layer 4 |
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layer 5 |
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layer 6, what were all those other layers for? You can't see any of them! |
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It's REALLLLLLY hot under there! |
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Dressing the King and finishing off the Queen's accessories |
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I'm showing my hands in this photo which wasn't really allowed, you aren't allowed to show any flesh (aside from your face). |
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Now without hands, there is a woman standing behind me holding the headpiece because it weighs 3 kg. There were even heavier ones back in the day but one queen broke her neck so they stopped that tradition. |
I would really recommend this course, it's available to all public school teachers in Seoul and it's completely free. There is a field trip to Changdeokgung palace, which unfortunately I couldn't go to, but they have said I can join the next group for that one in september/october. For more info go to the National Palace Museum website.
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