The purpose of this study is to survey the system of the Korean Shaman`s costume and its formative character and to find out the symbolic meaning of it. This study focuses on a shaman`s costume in Seoul-Gut, Seoul-Gut belongs to `Gangsin-mu`. Therefo...
The purpose of this study is to survey the system of the Korean Shaman`s costume and its formative character and to find out the symbolic meaning of it. This study focuses on a shaman`s costume in Seoul-Gut, Seoul-Gut belongs to `Gangsin-mu`. Therefore a shaman`s costumes in Seoul-Gut remains even today. Korea shamanistic ritual is gut. Its basic structure generally consists of 12 `Geori(a process is made up Gut)`. In Gangsin-mu, a shaman changes his / her spirit`s costumes in each Geori, so that a shaman`s costumes means the spirit. The shaman`s costumes of 12-Geori in Seoul-Gut has only 5 or 6 kinds because shamans wear the same costume when the spirit`s characters are similar with each other. Therefore, shaman`s costumes in Seoul-Gut are consistsof Poungsangbok, Pulsajangsam, chulik, Kugunbok, Monduri, and Wonsam. There are some differences between modern shaman`s costumes in Seoul-Gut and traditional costume in the basic pattern and the wearing method. Modern shaman`s costumes in Seoul-Gut has become simpler in the basic pattern and more gergeous in the color or adornment, and more various in the kinds of shaman`s costume than that of Yi Dynasty. This tendency in modern shaman`s costumes reflects modernized folk`s viewpoint in dress, which thinks highly of their individuality, and function and variety in it. Korean shaman`s costumes means the extintion of the earthly world and symbolizes the holy, symbolizes the spirits character, Ying Yang Theory, and represents shaman`s wishes. The wishes are the desire of prefection and stability in this world, the desire of ideal love and rebirth, and the desire of lofty life in this world.