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Lee Young-hee Hanbok designer deadline, Hanbok person who contributed to globalization

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Lee Young-hee, a designer of Korean hanbok representing Korea's actor, Shijo Moiza Korea, died on the morning of the 17th. She was 82 years old. She was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia a month ago, but her condition was aggravated due to old age.

Lee Young-hee was born in Daegu in 1936 and lived as a full-time housewife. In late 1976, she entered the path of designer hanbok. However, it also contributed to the diversification and globalization of Hanbok.

Lee Young-hee presented Hanbok in the Paris collection for the first time as a Korean designer. In 1993, she was the first Korean designer to show her a hanbok skirt without a jacket at the Paris Preta Forte show. At the time, a French fashion journalist from Le Monde, the French daily newspaper, nicknamed the clothes "wind clothes".

I participated in the Paris Preta Forte show for the next 12 years. In 2000, she performed in New York Carnegie Hall fashion show and in 2004, she opened the Hanbok Museum in New York. In 2008, she was selected as one of the "60 Artists in the World" campaign. Recently, she designed a hanbok costume for the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.

There are three brothers and sisters, including Lee Jung-woo's daughter, Lee Sun-woo, the eldest daughter, and Yong Woo Chan. Choi Jin-hyeok, the grandmother of the deceased, and Jeon Ji-hoon married in 2012. The funeral is at the funeral hall of Samsung Hospital, 17, and the visit is on the 19th.