Das Verpacken von Geschenken ist heutzutage einfacher, aber die Idee, dass „Verpacken ein Teil der Aufrichtigkeit ist“, bleibt in der koreanischen Kultur bestehen.
Viele meiner internationalen Freunde sind fasziniert von den Farben und den Knotenstrukturen traditioneller koreanischer Verpackungen.
Die Kenntnis der Geschichte dahinter macht es noch aussagekräftiger.
Fotobeschreibungen (in der Reihenfolge)
• Fotos 1–3 Historische Bojagi-Verpackung im königlichen Hofstil – mehrschichtiger Stoff, kräftige Farbharmonie und formelle Präsentation.
• Fotos 4–5 Moderne diplomatische Geschenkverpackung – verwendet, als Präsident Lee Jae-myung Hwangnam-bbang (Gyeongjus berühmtes Brot) während des APEC-Gipfels in Korea überreichte, an dem Xi Jinping teilnahm.
• Fotos 6–12 Meine eigene Bojagi-Verpackung – zeitgemäß, praktisch und immer noch in der gleichen Einstellung „Sorgfalt im Detail“ verwurzelt.
Für mich ist Bojagi nicht nur Dekoration – es ist eine ruhige Art zu sagen: „Ich habe an dich gedacht.“
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MICHAEBO! THIS SERIES OF BOJAGI POSTS YOU’RE MAKING IS AWESOME!!!
Thank you sooooo much, it’s so interesting 🤗 🫰
Edit to Add:
I’ve got a small online shop. I started gift-wrapping every item anyone purchased from me, at Christmas, years ago. I was going to wrap everything for protection in the post anyway, so I figured I could just as easily wrap things prettily. The response was better than I could have hoped. Busy people were appreciative that I’d saved them a job of wrapping gifts they could hand straight over. One elderly gentleman wrote to me, that first year, to say all his family were gone and his contemporaries had gone and so he hadn’t received a present for many years. When his order from me arrived in festive paper and ribbons, he told me it made him happy cry! Obviously, I sent him a Christmas present, lol.
I do gift-wrapping all year through since then. Over the years, there have been many people who have loved the „surprise“ packaging and I receive lots of messages and feedback about it. Like you say, OP, it *matters* that people know time and care has been taken. It’s a double portion of joy 😊
Your contemporary bojagi is chef’s kiss, love it! 😘🤌🫴
I’m so glad that gift-wrapping is having a showcase here 👍
I think it’s really nice. I like gifting the seasonal family gifts for 설날 or 추석 in a nice bojagi. 꽃감 or 떡 can never miss.