Chinese painting insulting Korean 'hanbok' gets 50,000 likes on Weibo

Article: [Issue] Another 'Hanbok' insult...Chinese painting gets over 50,000 likes on Weibo"

Source: CBS

Chinese painting insulting Korean 'hanbok' has surfaced on Weibo.

On the 16th, a Chinese painting depicting three women wearing traditional clothing was shared on Weibo. To the left a Chinese woman wore 'Hanfu', in the middle a Korean woman wore 'Hanbok' and to the right a Japanese woman wore a 'Kimono.' The author wrote, "Don't blame the hanbok painting for being ridiculous. I hope you can see it as freedom in creativity." 

But unlike the Chinese and Japanese women that wore colorful and luxurious clothing, the Korean woman was painted drooling in her Hanbok, wearing straw shoes that can be seen through her shabby, colorless and too short skirt. In particular, her 'Jeogori' [top] was too short to the point that her chest was naked and spilling out. 

The Japanese woman next to her sarcastically says, "Get dressed first" and the Korean woman looks at the Chinese woman in 'Hanfu' and asks, "did you take the pretty clothes you're wearing from us?" The Chinese woman side eyes the Korean woman embarrassed.

Chinese netizens that saw the painting responded, "He 100% drew it accurately" "a picture that captures everything in one glance", "Koreans keep insisting on taking from Chinese culture recently."

The post has been shared many times and has over 50,000 likes and 2,000 comments so far.

In the meantime, Chinese historical drama 'Suzhou Tea Manhaeng (少主且慢行)' that aired in February 2020 showed actresses that played "maids" wearing similar pale and shabby looking 'hanbok' and jeogori while the main characters were dressed in beautiful Chinese 'Hanfu' clothing.

In the meantime, Koreans are trending hashtags "#Hanbok_challenge" and "#Korea_hanbok_challenge" on Instagram following absurd claims by the Chinese regarding Korean 'hanbok.'

1. [+681, -10] I don't care to see any more China news good or bad
2. [+675, -19] Ask the Korean-Chinese remaining in our country. There's a reason why you can't tell if the Hanbok is Chinese or Korean. Why? Because of the Chinese..
3. [+317, -11] Wasn't their holy land originally Korea's?
4. [+114, -0] Hanfu is similar to Hanbok because of Goryeo Yang that was popular at end of the Yuan Dynasty. Hanbok was not influenced by China but was worn by the Chinese after the fact. Why are our traditions from thousands of years ago being sold??? 
5. [+76, -0] It's because of their inferiority complex against Koreaㅋ
6. [+49, -0] Ok...but the corona is definitely yoursㅋ ㅋ
7. [+24, -0] The only thing superior about them is the fact that they have a lot of land, other than that they're inferior to every other country. They're just a country full of chodings. So pathetic to the point that they don't realize how embarrassing this is for them..
8. [+23, -0] Why were they so quiet when Dae Jang-geum first came out then?
9. [+21, -0] Wow...this is the level of their envy against Koreans ㅉㅉㅉ
10. [+20, -0] Cockroaches like them need to be eradicated from the rest of the world