Ties
Tie
Pin closure
핀 고정pin gojeong
Winds the cloth or tie round the bundle and fixes it with a pin, giving a flat closure with no knot.
- Meaning
- 'Pin fixing' (핀 = pin, 고정 = fixing)
- Does
- Closing without a knot: wind the ties and pin (ham wrap), or pin a rolled 책보 with a safety pin.
- Used in
- Book bundle, Wedding box wrap
- 1Wind the tie or the cloth end twice round the bundle.
- 2Do not knot it.
- 3Fix the end with a pin.
History & tradition
Ham wraps: traditional; school chaekbo: post-war 20th century
Pinning replaces a knot where a bundle should lie flat or be easy to open. The post-Korean-War schoolchild's 책보 was rolled round books and fastened with a safety pin, then slung over the shoulder (boys) or tied round the waist (girls), until schoolbags took over.
Survives mostly as a memory of school life and in some ham-wrap instructions.
The ham-wrap use is from a single wedding community post; not confirmed by the sources read here.
Researched with medium confidence.
Sources
Sources for this entry
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