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A 16-year-old girl who was buried alive 1,500 years ago during the Gaya Dynasty has been restored into statue form based on her skeletal remains retrieved from a tomb in Changnyeong County, S. Gyeongsang Province. The Gaya Nat'l Research Institute of Cultural Heritage unveiled the statue Wednesday at the Nat'l Palace Museum of Korea. (Yonhap News)
10:25 am on December 3rd, 2009 1
Why was she buried alive?
7:31 pm on December 3rd, 2009 2
The burying of servants with their master was not unusual in ancient Korea and China. It was also practiced in Japan until the 4th century A.D. when doll earthenwares replaced a human sacrifice.
8:25 pm on December 3rd, 2009 3
Servants wore rags not colorful fine cloth. Also she sure was TALL. Looks all fake to me. Like some kind of propaganda.
9:33 pm on December 3rd, 2009 4
I believe some ancient cultures buried servants alive with their masters to serve them in the afterlife. Why they didn't kill the servants first, I don't know. I wonder how scientists knew she was buried alive since only her skeleton remained. Did they presume this because it was an established custom?
9:47 pm on December 3rd, 2009 5
You hit the nail on the head. All the Korean TV mediaval history dramas dipict people wearing colorful fine clothes. They are all lies. They did not have color pigments. Look at photos of people in the late 19th century. They all wore plain white cotten clothes. There were no colorful paintings or porcelain. Only aristocrats could afford to have colorful cloth imported from China or Japan.
10:17 pm on December 3rd, 2009 6
They were kept alive for a while inside the tomb so that the master could have sex with his girls after his death.
10:39 pm on December 3rd, 2009 7
Nice custom, burying some kid alive.
12:51 am on December 4th, 2009 8
She's not tall at all. Korea Times says she was only 153 cm or just barely over 5'0".
2:00 am on December 4th, 2009 9
Gaya had peculiar custom called "sun-jang" to bury a wife alive with her dead husband.
Referred to my memory from history class in my middle school, I remember sun-jang but can't recall costume of Gaya.
But ancient dynasty had method to dye clothes with various materials like fruit, grass and etc for sure.
8:42 am on December 4th, 2009 10
Hey that's Hae Jin, my favorite juicy girl!!!
10:35 am on December 4th, 2009 11
I thougt I knew that face—
12:59 pm on December 4th, 2009 12
Still funny how they conveniently decided to dress her up in winter clothes. It was fashionable for Korean women, especially those who've had a son, to go bare-breasted in those days. She may have only been 15 years-old, but that was practically middle-aged in those days.
In the mid-20th century, it was still fashionable for Korean women to bare their midriffs in very loose fitting tops.
Bring that up next time a Korean friends tells you Koreans are very traditional.
Probably not safe for work…
http://www.occidentalism.org/jisan/11.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/457868028_72fe…
4:36 pm on December 4th, 2009 13
I've never heard of that kind of costumes before.
Those pictures shocked me.
I have no idea where you guys get some wrong information about other country's tradition which the people of the country never heard of.
Don't generalize with only two shocking pictures.
5:06 pm on December 4th, 2009 14
"Don't generalize with only two shocking pictures."
Shocking? What was so shocking?
I saw a young healthy asian woman with small breast, and one older healthy (not so attractive) woman.
I saw nothing "shocking" in either photo.
Were you not breast feed as a child? Do you find breast "shocking"?
You do not like breast?
I saw korean women in their yards, working topless back in the 80s.
It was not "shocking" to me.
"I've never heard of that kind of costumes before." Obviously, there are some things you don't know.
Are all korean guys shocked by a woman's breast?
7:05 pm on December 4th, 2009 15
Retired GI,
I was shocked at not human's body, but kind of weird costume of first picture and unexpected exposure.
Tried to say those customes were not common or general.
7:55 pm on December 4th, 2009 16
He probably believes the explanation they give to kids and foreigners about the stags and peaches depicted in Chosun-era paintings.
8:00 pm on December 4th, 2009 17
That's how most people dressed. You've clearly made the mistake of viewing movies and TV shows as accurate depictions of the past.
12:27 am on December 6th, 2009 18
I couldn't notice those were han-bok bc I was too shocked to look at them in detail, rushed to close them down.
But pictures don't present normal and general way how to wear han-bok.
First one, I guess someone let her fold up clothes to expose breast intentionally, second one lost long, white skirt covering from breast to legs.
Han-bok is designed to cover whole of body.
I guess first one was taken in 1920's and second one 1950s.
And who are so foolish enough to confuse dramatization with fact?
I've told based on knowledge from historical classes and costume history section from household classes in middle school.
12:50 am on December 6th, 2009 19
The pictures exist. So, it happened.
What should we believe; the word of mouth you heard in a history class, from gentle people who are equally as "shocked" as you? OR the photographic record.
I"ll take the Photo record over your "history class" of han-bok.
If in your mind I am "foolish" to believe the example over your hear-say—oh well.
YOU, have no facts.
You are too prone to making a snap judgement and too "shocked" by exposed breast for me to ever take seriously anyway.
As I said before, while in korea in the 80's, I saw women working in the yard with their tops off and in some cases simply open. It was very warm out. No big deal.
4:41 am on September 29th, 2010 20
when buying winter clothes, i always chose wool because i love the feel of it'*"
3:23 am on October 25th, 2010 21
am already preparing to get my winter clothes because winter is coming fast again. i could already feel the winter breeze.`;