Ancient Chinese history books say Buyeo and Silla people enjoyed wearing white clothes.
Buyeo and Silla are the ancient countries of Koreans.
The tendency of Koreans to prefer white clothes continues during the Goryeo and Joseon periods.
From the end of the Goryeo Dynasty, clothes were made of white cotton, hemp, and ramie.
During the Goryeo Dynasty, kings also enjoy wearing clothes made of white hemp.
British Isabella Bishop (1831904, British traveler, geographer),
who had visited Korea four times since 1894, said,
"The white color of Korean laundry always reminds me of the word
'No laundromat in the world can be so white' about Jesus' clothes that appeared on the Easter."
She must have been very impressed to see all the Joseon people wearing
dazzling white clothes and doing laundry. Why did Korean people prefer white clothes?
Choi Namseon's "Joseon Common Sense Question and Answer" (1946), introduces
the origin of Korean people wearing white clothes.
Koreans used to know the sun as God and believed that they were descendants of God.
They regarded the white light of the sun sacred and wore
white clothes with pride, and later became a custom of the whole nation.
It could be that the heart of admiring white appears to be wearing white clothes.
Photographs taken during the Joseon Dynasty show
more people wearing white clothes than in movies and dramas.
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