Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library Title: Gentlemen of Corea Date: ca. 1904 Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul Type: Postcards/Ephemera Description: Men's everyday garments of three different age groups in the upper class of old Korea. The man's cloth on the right shows 'topo' (ordinary overcoat for scholars) or 'chongjibok' (common robe). They wore it for outings or under the 'chobok' (official robe). They wore a black, wide-brimmed 'kat' (black horsehair hat), a string belt with a tassel, and 'taesahye' (black silk shoes). A young man in the middle is pictured wearing a robe that government official or students of Confucianism wore once they reached the age of adulthood. A young boy on the left is shown wearing an everyday 'chogori' (blouse) and 'paj'i (trousers) and 'chokki' (vest). This picture was obviously taken in a professional studio (western curtains to the right, the arrangement of the table). Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998. Inscription/Marks: Image imprinted with legend: 'Gentlemen of Corea.' Identifier: 1260.74.11.05 Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xrv There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. We had some help with the geocoding from Web Services by Yahoo!