Chemistry and Craft in Korean Safflower (Hongnyeom) Dyeing
Colour development across forty-four traditional dyeing cycles, documented with Hongnyeomjang Master Kim Gyeong-yeol from March to April 2026. Silk samples from rounds 5, 12, 28, 36 and 44 were measured in CIE L*a*b*: redness rose from 42.33 to 64.23 and the total colour change reached ΔE 41.17.
Red and the Record: Archive Ecology and the Historiography of Color in Korea
A Korea-centred narrative review tracing red from Joseon royal clothing to the 2002 FIFA World Cup. It reads the scholarship through two lenses — state control of a costly commodity and folk meaning such as Obangsaek — and shows how war, colonial seizure and selective digitisation shaped the surviving archive.
