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Song’s Clothing and Clinic Furniture Song is wearing a traditional Korean dress called a “ Hanbok (South Korea) or Chosŏn-ot (North Korea) is the traditional Korean dress. It is often characterized by vibrant colors and simple lines without pockets.... View high resolution

Song’s Clothing and Clinic Furniture

Song is wearing a traditional Korean dress called a

Hanbok (South Korea) or Chosŏn-ot (North Korea) is the traditional Korean dress. It is often characterized by vibrant colors and simple lines without pockets. Traditional women’s hanbok consists of jeogori, a blouse shirt or a jacket and chima, a wrap-around skirt, which is usually worn full. The ensemble is often called chima jeogori. Men’s hanbok consists of jeogori and baji which means pants in Korea. The bajwere baggy pants in traditional men’s hanbok.


The cabinet we see behind her is for the storage of herbs used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. and in Traditional Korean medicine 한의학 - 韓醫學, which developed with the influence of Traditional Chinese medicine and thus is rather similar.

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The stone totems outside of Aunt Wu’s village According to the official art book (p. 65), the stone totems we see outside of Aunt Wu’s village (and in the opening sequence) are based on Korean stone totems called Dol hareubang “ Dol hareubangs, also... View high resolution

The stone totems outside of Aunt Wu’s village

According to the official art book (p. 65), the stone totems we see outside of Aunt Wu’s village (and in the opening sequence) are based on Korean stone totems called Dol hareubang

Dol hareubangs, also called tol harubangs, hareubangs, harubangs, are large mushroom-like statues found on Jeju Island off the southern tip of Korea. They are considered to be gods offering both protection and fertility and were placed outside of gates for protection against demons travelling between realities.