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Clothing in korea3/14/2024 Han’s snapshots of the city in the 1950s and 60s offer us a timeless look at Korea through a lens of hopeful realism, showing people’s lives against the backdrop of a still war-scarred urban landscape. ©한영수 Han Youngsoo 서울 Seoul 1956-1963 Han Youngsoo Foundation ©한영수 Han Youngsoo 서울 소공동 Sogong-dong, Seoul 1956-1963 Han Youngsoo FoundationĪ fantastic archive of old Seoul can be found in the photos of late Han Youngsoo, a pioneer in the fields of Korean fashion and commercial photography, and a member of the New Line Group, the first realist photographer’s association in post-war Korea. What were the fashions and lives of Koreans who lived in the 1950s and 60s like? By the 1970s the nation would come to rise, phoenix-like from the ashes, to become the Miracle on the Han River, but in the period immediately after the 1950-53 Korean War, the country was still working overtime to rebuild itself.
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