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Jangot and Jeogori, Women's Coat and Jacket
2012
Everyday Korea: National Folk Museum of Korea Audio Guide
National Folk Museum of Korea · Permanent Collection
Meet Korea through the objects people used, wore, shared, and celebrated with every day. From jige carriers, onggi jars, hanji paper, gat hats, and hanbok-inspired works to modern objects connected to K-culture, this audio guide shows how ordinary things carry ideas of beauty, usefulness, community, and identity. Follow the rhythms of a Korean year and a Korean life, from Lunar New Year blessings, spring farming, Dano games, Chuseok food, and winter fermentation to birth rituals, weddings, healing, funerals, and ancestral rites. Designed for English-speaking visitors, it connects unfamiliar customs to universal moments of family, season, work, joy, and remembrance.
작품별 오디오 가이드 · 47작품 167트랙
Prologue: K-Culture: Tradition Reinterpreted
Begin in Permanent Exhibition 1 with modern craftworks and historical objects that show Korean tradition being re-seen, redesigned, and carried forward. Use this opening cluster to orient visitors to the museum's bridge between older material culture and contemporary K-culture.
Being Useful
Continue through everyday Korean tools such as jige, onggi, homi, and hanji. Their forms may change, but this section asks visitors to notice how practical usefulness shaped daily life.
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Jige, A-frame Carrier
Mid-20th century / 2023
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Homi (Hand Plow)
Undated; traditional use continuing today
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Onggi, Container for Life
Undated; traditional use continuing today
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Hanji (Korean Paper)
Undated; traditional use continuing today
Being Natural
Move from tools into landscape, dress, cosmetics, and natural materials. The viewing focus shifts to seasonal color, natural forms, and Korean ideas of living in harmony with nature.
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Roundban
2012
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The Moon_White 53
2023
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Ten-panel Landscape Folding Screen
1944 to 1960s
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Black Gat and White Gat
Late Joseon period
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Portrait of the Three Jo Brothers
Late 18th century
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Jeogori Resembling Jogakbo
2000s
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Magazines and Cosmetics Showing Period Makeup Styles
1950s to 1980s
Being Together
Use this short transition as the social close of Permanent Exhibition 1. Greetings, songs, cheering, and shared food show how ordinary acts of connection accumulate into today's K-culture.
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K-Culture: Being Together
Contemporary section
Jeongwol and Spring Beginnings
Enter Permanent Exhibition 2 with the year's opening rhythm: New Year wishes, first-month rites, games, plowing, fishing rites, and spring foods. This section sets up the annual cycle as blessing, renewal, and preparation.
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Bokjori (Fortune Strainer)
19th to 20th century
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Tteokguk and Garaetteok (Rice Cake Soup and Cylinder-shaped Rice Cake)
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Yut Nori and Juldarigi (Tug-of-war)
19th to 20th century
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Jaenggi (Plow)
19th to 20th century
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Yeongdeung Gut and Spring Namul
19th to 20th century
Summer Work, Heat, and Play
Continue into summer, where farming labor, Dano customs, ramie clothing, fans, ssireum, and swinging appear together. The point is to see summer as both the busiest agricultural season and a time for cooling rituals and play.
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Nonggi (Farmers' Flag) and Weeding
Korea after Liberation / Joseon Dynasty
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Dano Fan
Korea after Liberation
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Ramie Clothes
19th to 20th century
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Ssireum and Swinging
Korea after Liberation
Autumn Harvest, Winter Preparation, and Hanok Seasons
Follow Chuseok foods and rites into winter preservation, calendars, red-bean porridge, and the immersive hanok sequence. This final seasonal cluster helps visitors read the home as a place where the year is stored, warmed, and remembered.
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Songpyeon (Half-moon Rice Cake)
Korea after Liberation
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Ganggangsullae and Chuseok Charye Ritual
Korea after Liberation
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Meju Mold and Jangdokdae
19th to 20th century winter food culture
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Dongji Calendar and Red-bean Porridge
19th to 20th century winter customs
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Seasonal Landscape and Life in Hanok (Immersive Exhibit)
Current immersive exhibition
Birth, First Milestones, and Education
Enter Permanent Exhibition 3 with life passages from birth into childhood. Childbirth prayers, newborn clothing, prenatal learning, family letters, first-birthday rites, and early education make the family cycle easy to follow.
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Baenaet-jeogori (Newborn First Jacket)
Japanese colonial period, 1932
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Samsin Ritual Table
Modern Korea, 2006 reproduction
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Taegyo Singi (New Records on Prenatal Education)
Japanese colonial period, 1938
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Father-in-law's Letter Comforting His Daughter-in-law
Japanese colonial period, 1914
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The Thousand-Character Classic Written by a Thousand People
Japanese colonial period, 1934
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First-birthday Table and Doljabi Ritual
Post-Liberation Korea
Coming of Age, Marriage, and Family
Continue from childhood into adulthood, marriage, and changing family forms. Coming-of-age signs, strength tests, sewing, bridal robes, and wedding dress changes show social roles becoming visible through ritual objects and clothing.
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Gwanrye Congratulatory Address and Gat
Joseon Dynasty
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Lifting a Deuldol Stone
Joseon Dynasty
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Saeksilcheop (Colored Thread Case)
Late 19th to first half of 20th century
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Sewing Machine
First half of the 20th century
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Hwarot (Bridal Robe)
1910
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Wedding Dress
1998
Leisure and Healing
Use masks, play, medical tools, amulets, and ritual settings as a compact pause on body and mind. This section shows how entertainment, medicine, and belief helped people sustain everyday life.
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Masks and Play
1930s
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Acupuncture Needles and Stethoscope
Late Joseon Dynasty to present
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Amulets and Gut Ritual Altar
Late Joseon Dynasty
Funeral and Ancestral Memorial Rites
Close the life-cycle gallery with mourning dress, burial-clothes records, funeral standards, the bier, and ancestral rite vessels. These final stops show how families honor the dead and maintain bonds with ancestors.
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Bokcha (Chart for Appropriate Mourning Clothes)
1910
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Suuicheoksubalgi (List of Burial Clothes and Their Measures)
Joseon Dynasty to early 20th century
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Regulations on Family Ceremonies - Funeral Ceremony
Mid-20th century or later
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Funeral Palanquin of the Jeonju Choe Clan in Sancheong
1856
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Ancestral Rite Table and Ritual Vessels
Joseon Dynasty to early 20th century