Flip the Script

AS BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT AS THEY ARE, HANBOK are generally pretty uncomfortable, since they have long and poufy double-layered skirts.

Since they were hard to get in Florida, I didn’t grow up wearing the traditional clothes of my ancestors, so I always feel like an imposter in them, like I’m an American trying to be Korean.

But thanks to the power and awesome skills of the costume and makeup ladies, I look like full-fledged Korean royalty by the time I get on set, regardless of how I really feel inside.

When I watched Korean dramas from the comfort of my own home, I always thought the actors and actresses looked so glamorous in their fancy hanbok. But now I know that there’s nothing glamorous about acting out a historical part of a Korean drama.