Ithrowbot t1_isro86m wrote
Reply to comment by TheRacoonist in Cultural appropriation of Korean traditional clothing by NJCD5 Congressman Gottheimer and Bergen County Commissioner Ortiz at an event in Fort Lee this week by ScipioAtTheGate
Hanbok day is a recent cultural holiday in NJ, first observed last year (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/tenafly/2021/10/22/hanbok-day-south-korea-celebration-tenafly-nj/8537783002/). It’s been a holiday in SK for almost three decades. Nowadays the hanbok doesn’t really come out except for special events like wedding couples attire or places where it’s incentivized/encouraged — there are historical sites like the royal palaces in Seoul where visitors can enter without paying admission if they show up wearing the hanbok.
As a both a New Jerseyan and a Korean-American, I would like to invite everyone to partake in Korean culture, cuisine, and fashion, year-round in NJ, whether in palisades or Edison or wherever.
As everyone has already pointed out, this wasn’t appropriation when it happened. And since I just gave a yearlong blanket invite, that should give us a break from further trolling k-posts by OP until next October.
Edit: wtf -> https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/y6lq0y/cultural_appropriation_of_korean_traditional/ just stop and appreciate 🇰🇷
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