'In this series of images, I have posed street-cast young Korean women dressed in the traditional Hanbok against a backdrop of Seoul's modern austere architecture. The settings illustrate the country's history, its cultural traditions, and the political tensions between South and North Korea'

Hanbok is a centuries old traditional apparel unique to Korea. Hanbok is brilliant with bright colourings, but subdued in its flowing lines and the way it hides the body shape. As it was a common form of attire throughout the ages, in the past the upper classes wore jewellery to separate themselves from the common people.

Nowadays Hanbok is often worn during national holidays and on festive occasions, although I was also told that some high schools have recently adopted it for their school uniforms. In the past women wore wigs, but today they wear their hair tightly knotted high on their head or loose, both held in place with a long pin.