Guided tour of the exhibition The Korean Style

How to capture the style of a big city and its historical roots? What makes Seoul unique? In this temporary exhibition in Budapest, the Seoul Museum of History attempts to answer these questions through objects of traditional Korean dress and housing in the museum's collection. The choice has proved fruitful not only because of the spectacular artefacts, but also because the two themes give a sense of Korean everyday life and celebrations, and the system of values and symbols that pervades the whole of society, represented by Korean Confucianism. The backbone of this is the ancestors, the past, the environment and the harmonious relationship with them. The exhibition at the Museum of Ethnography shows how this can be traced in the subtle patterns and variations of clothing and interiors. In each garment, the status, education, rank, position, age and gender of the wearer are present, not only the traditions of Seoul, but also the fate and everyday life of the people who lived there.

A meeting point:

Information Desk (Level -2)

To participate in the programme, you must buy a ticket and pay a guided tour fee. Both tickets can be purchased online and on site.

Tickets for the exhibition

Tickets for the guided tour