Ko Young-ok, South Korea’s first ‘full-time’ food stylist for K-dramas and films, recalls a mad dash around Macau for a scene in K-drama Princess Hours, and reveals the advice she gives her students.
Ko Young-ok of Chorokchanjang Studio is a trailblazer in her field, recognized as a pioneering food stylist specializing in drama and film sets. She made history as Korea s first full-time food stylist on a K-drama set, starting with MBC s 2006 romance drama Princess Hours, also known as Goong.
Jongno-gu in Seoul is home to several major tourist attractions, including Insa-dong with its antique shops and traditional cafes, Gyeongbokgung, the main royal palace of the Joseon era built in 1395, and Jongmyo Shrine, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. With traditional Korean architecture standing among modern, glass-clad skyscrapers, the Jongno district is an exciting destination where old meets new. The smal.
When Paul Courtright got a Korean-translated edition of his book, Witnessing Gwangju, the publishers made an odd change when translating the title, which became 5.18 Blue-Eyed Witness.
Early Western accounts of Korea often portray women as meek, subservient and hidden away from view of all males except their husbands, fathers and brothers. A Korean woman was expected to obey, without deviation, every whim of the males in her life and in some cases to follow them into death. These characterizations of Korean women were made by both male and female foreign observers, and, although there was some truth to them, they were generalizations that did not distinguish between social status, class and location. Not all Korean women were docile; many – especially the royal family – wielded influential power and, according to some observers, manipulated politics.