Hanbok
Posted on 06/29/2017 10:39:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The soft diplomacy of Korea’s first lady, Kim Jung-sook, will be put to the test as she accompanies President Moon Jae-in on his first overseas trip since assuming office last month.
Kim, a former member of the Seoul Metropolitan Chorus, has managed to gain a strong fan base here among Moon’s endorsers, who address her as “Cheerful Ms. Jung-sook” due to her hearty laugh and bright demeanor.
The anecdote about how she and Moon married is now well known. Moon told a local broadcaster earlier this year that he was hanging out with his friends one day when Kim approached him and asked, “Jae-in, are you going to marry me or not? Tell me!” Moon said he was startled and replied, “Alright.”
Both Kyung Hee University graduates, Moon and Kim met at a festival on campus through a mutual friend.
The Blue House said in a statement that Kim was planning to participate in an art therapy session at a senior service center during her trip to the United States, highlighting the first lady’s keen interest in senior welfare issues and social facilities for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Her official schedule includes a state dinner with Moon hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, and later lunch with Karen Pence, the second lady. Kim is also expected to have tea with a women’s group of Koreans and Americans, which will serve as a chance to “ruminate over the significance of South Korea-U.S. friendship and trust,” the Blue House said.
At dinner with the Trumps, South Korea’s presidential office said Kim will be wearing traditional hanbok made of fabrics she received from her mother as a wedding gift, to “revitalize the domestic hanbok market at a time when the traditional attire has lost its standing in everyday life.”
Kim’s mother ran a hanbok fabric store at the Gwangjang Market in Jongno District, central Seoul, for decades before shutting down the business due to withering demand.
Kim, who boarded the presidential airplane in Korea on Wednesday donning a v-necked black top, pants and white suit jacket, landed in Washington the following day and came out wearing a plain white dress and a long-sleeved white overcoat with trees imprinted in blue.
The Blue House said that the blue signified “comfort, trust, success and hope,” adding that the first lady will be wearing a lot of the hue to convey the message of a “successful first South Korea-U.S. summit based on mutual trust.”
Hanbok
I can't wait for the meeting of her and First Lady Melania.
(I'm thinking "elfin charm" here . . . )
A wholly different type of beauty from Mrs. Trump, they will make a lovely pair.
She’s beautiful...
Liberal president and his wife. I couldn’t possibly care any less about what she looks like or what color/type clothing she wears.
Please add me to your First Lady Melania & Ivanka Trump’s Ping List.
Thx
You are added for both Donna! :D
FLOTROC is an average looking middle aged woman; certainly not beautiful by Korean women standards but not ugly either.
Another nice looking first lady...
Umm, THIS is the FL
AEIVerified account @AEI now47 seconds ago
President Moon Jae-in's visit today comes at maybe the most dangerous moment in the US-South Korean alliance:
Is it time to reassess the US-South Korea alliance?
When South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in greets President Donald Trump at the White House today, their warm smiles will do little to mask the fact that they meet at perhaps the most dangerous moment in the six-decade old U.S.-South Korean alliance. The failure of a quarter-century of diplomacy has left the North Korean dictatorship on the cusp of possessing a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile. For the first time since 1953, when the United States committed to protecting the South from another invasion from the North, the American homeland will soon come under direct threat from one of the world’s most ruthless regimes.
Interesting backround piece.
According to an article about her, she’s 62.
'Happy Mrs Jung-sook' begins work as S.Korea's first lady among equals
She’s a cutie, not a typical reaction to a wife of a head of state. I’m sure that traditional outfit plays very well at home, but it sort of swallows her whole, though.
Here they are as a younger couple.
I assume they’re promoting her style now that we have a beautiful First Lady who epitomizes style.
Not the same woman......they might as well have posted the “Boo-Hoo” girl!
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