| Less than three months later, she scraped together what little money she had to send traditional dresses, or hanbok, for the girls and their adoptive mother. |
| Modern and yet conscious of their past: South Korean children wearing the traditional costume hanbok. |
| Women's and girls' formal hanbok consists of several layers of undergarments under a colourful, long billowing skirt and short jacket held closed with a long tie. |
| Western dress has supplanted the hanbok almost everywhere, but even urban dwellers commonly still wear it on special occasions such as important family meetings, holidays, weddings, and funerals. |
| The brides either wore white, or Korean hanbok, or Japanese kimonos, while the grooms looked handsome in their tuxes, sometimes with red ties, with white scarves wrapped around their necks. |
| There are different hanbok for special occasions, such as weddings, babies' birthdays, and 61st-birthday celebrations. |
