Portrait of a Beauty - Shin Yun-Bok
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During the 14th Century Ancient Korea, there were a set of values that determined the ideal feminine beauty in women. Traditional feminine ideals of beauty in the Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910) were identified by 3 attributes of the jideokchae in young female entertainers, the kisaeng.
Jideokchae in “beautiful” kisaeng were a balance of intelligence, humility and sexual appeal (Lee 2009). The factors that informed these feminine ideals in Ancient Korea were the Neo-Confucius religious values, social expectations, importance of reproduction and, most significantly, the repercussion of historical events. It was after the colonization of South Korea by Japan in 1910, that the country was flooded by foreign culture from the West and traditional styles of dress, the hanbok, and ideals of beauty were left forgotten (Lynn 2004).
Jideokchae in “beautiful” kisaeng were a balance of intelligence, humility and sexual appeal (Lee 2009). The factors that informed these feminine ideals in Ancient Korea were the Neo-Confucius religious values, social expectations, importance of reproduction and, most significantly, the repercussion of historical events. It was after the colonization of South Korea by Japan in 1910, that the country was flooded by foreign culture from the West and traditional styles of dress, the hanbok, and ideals of beauty were left forgotten (Lynn 2004).
Lee, H. 2009, ‘Imagining a Feminine Icon: Multiple Metamorphoses of Hwang Chin-I in Cinema and Television’, Korean Studies, vol. 33, pp. 52-68.
Lynn, H. 2004, ‘Fashioning Modernity: Changing Meanings of Clothing in Colonial Korea’, Journal of International and Area Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, pp75-93.
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