This year’s second ‘Hello, Mr. K!’ concert is held on April 27 at the Korea Furniture Museum. The event features a Hanbok fashion show that tells the story of a Joseon era honorable seonbi scholar.
Ambassadors from the Portuguese and Lithuanian embassies, officials from other embassies in Seoul and foreign press were all able to encounter a real-life honorable Confucian seonbi scholar recently in a Hanok home in Seoul.
On April 27, this year’s second “Hello, Mr. K!” concert, a series of performances that introduces Korean artistic traditions to non-Koreans living in Korea, was held at the Korea Furniture Museum in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul. At the event, the audience was able to listen to music played on traditional Korean instruments like the gayageum, thedaegeum and the geomungo. Then began a fashion show that brought to the stage a colorful array of Hanbok outfits. The show was structured around the daily life of a Joseon era seonbi scholar.
Models dressed in colorful Hanbok reenact the daily life of a Joseon era seonbi scholar during the ‘Hello, Mr. K!’ concert on April 27 at the Korea Furniture Museum.
At the event, some 70 foreign embassy officials and reporters took pictures on their phones and talked among themselves between the various acts.
Hanbok designer Park Sul-nyeo, director of the fashion show, said the event was “a good opportunity for non-Koreans to learn about the way of life for Joseon’s honorable Confucian seonbi scholars. We modernized the Hanbok pieces and staged the show in a story format so that non-Koreans could better understand our ancient customs.”
By Jeon Han, Lee Hana
Korea.net Staff Writers
Photos: Jeon Han
hanjeon@korea.kr
At the ‘Hello, Mr. K!’ concert, an audience member snaps a picture during the Hanbok fashion show.
Attendees at the ‘Hello, Mr. K!’ concert listen as the tour guide explains the distinguishing features of a Joseon era Hanok building.
