Korean Hats – Traditional Hats As Seen On Kingdom’s Kdrama!

Are you looking for information about traditional korean hats as often seen in historical korean dramas? You’ve come to the right place, in this article we will share to you traditional korean hats as seen in Kingdom, famous apocalyptic historical korean dramas.

In this movie, they show the history and korean culture during Joseon era, including the hat they’re wearing during that time. These traditional korean hats has a deeper meaning than just a cover for our head. Let’s take a look at the traditional korean hats shown in this movie.

Korean Hats - Traditional Hat In Joseon Era

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From Commoners to noble scholars, nearly everyone during Joseon eras wearing korean traditional hats. This is because korean hats at that time serve as a reflections of confucian values, both formality, authority and dignity inwhich are the foundation of politics during that time.

Different social class person wear different forms of korean hats. During that time, the society was divided into four main class: Yangban (nobility and aristocrats), Jungin (middle class), Pyeongmin (commoners) and Cheonmin (outcasts).

Eventually, hats came to have different sizes, shapes and purposes, some were for indoor and outdoor use, while some others were for work, funerals or special ceremonies. Here are some korean hats you seen in this movie including.

1. Heukrip or Gat (갓)

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Back from the early 19th century, we can see people using Gat together with traditional korean hanbok. Gat is made from the tail hair of a horse woven in a thin pattern with bamboo into a shape of a hat.

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Gat is a middle upper class or blue blood aristocrats outdoor hats during Joseon era. The strap under the chin is Heukrip. The middle class Heukrip is usually made of black cloth while noble class made of precious beads. This is how we can differentiate whether someone is a middle class or noble class. The master craftman who created this hat was called gatiljang.

2. Jeongjagwan (정자관)

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Jeongjagwan is noble class indoor traditional korean hats. Most noble wear this hat at home and that’ s why you might not see this hat a lot even in a historical korean dramas.

4. Samo (사모)

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Samo is one of the most common hat people wear during Joseon eras. Government officials wear this hat even since Goyeo era (918-1392). This rounded black hat with a low front and a high back serve as part of their uniform.

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During Joseon era, there are two colors of Samo hat, black and white Samo. The different between the two is that the white color Samo is created for attending a funeral ceremony.

5. Jeollip (전립)

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The next in line is Jeollip, a military officers korean hats. Jeollip is made of fur and wool, and sometimes adorned with a peacock feather on the top and an amber-beaded strap.

6. Nambawi (남바위)

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Nambawi is a fleece lined korean hats you can see in the second season of Kingdom Korean dramas. This hat is a winter traditional korean hats specially created to protect both face and ears from cold temperature as well as the cold wind during winter seasons. Nambawi is an additional hats to wear under another hats.

7. Jurip (주립)

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Jurip is another military officials hats seen in many historical kdramas. This red hat adorned with tiger’s whiskers or feather on top of it often matched with their Yungbok (military uniforms). However, by the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shamans usually seen wearing this hats.

8. Paeraengi (패랭이) or Pyeongnyangja

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Paraengi is a common villagers / citizens korean hats during Joseon Era. It is a variation of the Gat made of split bamboo that most commoners wear as they work in the fields. When you see someone use this hat, it signify that the person is from a lower social class.

Sum Up

Traditional Korean Hats serve more than a functionality of a hat which is to cover our heads from sunlight or a cold winter wind. Back in history, traditional korean hat serve as social class differentiator. We can see the social class of someone from the korean hats they use.

We can learn a lot from watching historical korean drama, sometimes they include ancient history and cultural value we can learn from. Hopefully this informations is helpful for you so you can understand the difference when you saw different hats people used on a historical korean drama.

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