Yedan Pojagi
Dublin Core
Title
Yedan Pojagi
Description
Description of the object's significance from Seo Young:
Yedan means the wedding gift (traditionally, silk clothes) that the bride's family gives the groom's (extended) family. Pojagi means "wrapping clothes". The groom's family is expected to let the bride's family know about family members who are supposed to receive Yedan.
These days, people prefer cash, and the groom's family is expected to show enough humbleness and thoughtfulness to their partners. So groom's family accepted gifts that are goods but return a partial sum of cash back to bride's family. If certain amount is implicitly expected (say, $20,000), then the bride's family would send double of that amount ($40,000) so that the groom's family can still have 20,000 even after this kind of "courtesy return."
Find out more about the practices associated with Yedan Pojagi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSwArGknBc&noredirect=1
Yedan means the wedding gift (traditionally, silk clothes) that the bride's family gives the groom's (extended) family. Pojagi means "wrapping clothes". The groom's family is expected to let the bride's family know about family members who are supposed to receive Yedan.
These days, people prefer cash, and the groom's family is expected to show enough humbleness and thoughtfulness to their partners. So groom's family accepted gifts that are goods but return a partial sum of cash back to bride's family. If certain amount is implicitly expected (say, $20,000), then the bride's family would send double of that amount ($40,000) so that the groom's family can still have 20,000 even after this kind of "courtesy return."
Find out more about the practices associated with Yedan Pojagi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSwArGknBc&noredirect=1
Source
Donated by Seo Young
Identifier
B2-S01-A
Files
Citation
“Yedan Pojagi,” IMTFI Archives, accessed April 24, 2024, https://imtfiarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1038.