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Street snaps of Seoul and Pyongyang show that clothing styles among South Koreans and North Koreans are drastically different. In this Research Review, Hyun-Sook Choy, Honorary Professor and Former Dean of the Graduate School of Fashion at Dongduk Women’s University, explains the trajectory in which fashion in North Korea has changed. While the concept of fashion was largely absent due to the distribution of “uniforms” by the authorities prior to the mid-1980s, fashion in North Korea became a concept following the period. Wider and more diverse channels of clothing distribution marked a change in the history of North Korean fashion. This Research Review provides a broader perspective on the trend of fashion by taking into account the Kim Jong Un regime for research related to North Korean clothing culture, which has been extremely understudied.
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