'Exclusive World' hanbok artisan and hanbok researcher Park Sul-nyeo cried, saying there is something she regrets even after 48 years of a hanbok life.
The MBN 'Exclusive World' that aired on the 5th featured hanbok researcher Park Sul-nyeo. At the Insadong hanbok branch, busily designing and sewing and kindly taking photos for fans who came to see her, Park Sul-nyeo said "I am just grateful." Rather, Park Sul-nyeo said humbly, "I reflect every evening. Even while sewing I have to go in at night and make phone calls, I'm really busy. I haven't been able to rest for a week so I can't take good care of people. I'm sorry I can't respond to each and every one."
The hanbok shop was filled with celebrities' autographs and photos. From K-pop idols to Hollywood stars visiting Korea, when they wore Korea's traditional costume hanbok, they wore Park Sul-nyeo's hanbok. Park Sul-nyeo named celebrities, saying, "Pop star Britney Spears signed this 23 years ago," and "I don't really get close, but it's BTS's hanbok."
Not only that, she made the wedding hanbok for Shim Hyungtak and Saya, and she was a person full of affection. Park Jung-soo and Geum Bo-ra, who met as an actor and a designer but are friends who confide in each other, praised Park Sul-nyeo until they ran out of words. Geum Bo-ra said, "She really knows only one thing. She only knows hanbok," and Park Jung-soo said, "She only looks big, but she's delicate. She likes small things, she's a woman by nature. Her feelings are so tender, and her words are frank. But her heart is not like that," giving an interview that conveyed both artisan Park Sul-nyeo and human Park Sul-nyeo.
But Park Sul-nyeo was filled with apologies and regrets toward her family. Her husband lived alone in Tongyeong, her son was independent, and her daughter was studying in Germany.
Park Sul-nyeo said, "My husband took care of all the children alone. He looked after them like a husband without a wife. I couldn't endure it and resigned. I couldn't take care of the child alone, so I ended up resigning," and said, "I was a bad mother. My husband ended up doing all the housework and all the childcare," saying she managed to continue the hanbok work thanks to her husband.
Of course her driving force was poverty. Park Sul-nyeo said, "In the past I was sent to work as a maid, as a house helper. But my mother brought me back," and said, "I was truly desperate. I hated being poor. If I had lived comfortably, would I have dragged hanbok along so long and tenaciously? Would I have tried? I sometimes think that."
After sending her mother away like that and not even being able to keep vigil at the deathbed, she now cried and prepared a burial shroud in front of the death of her eldest brother, who was like a father. Park Sul-nyeo said, "My brother suffered from a brain aneurysm. I didn't even know that. My brother had surgery, it recurred, he collapsed, and then he couldn't get up and was in a life-sustaining condition," and said, "I am making a burial shroud. They say that if you make a burial shroud in the past one lives long. I have that feeling in one corner of my heart."
When she opened the hanbok shop, her eldest brother, who readily gave his money like their father, and Park Sul-nyeo, unable to do anything more, handed the burial shroud to her nephew and cried with him.
[Photo source] MBN 'Exclusive World'
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