Dobok
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| Dobok | |
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| Hangul: |
도복
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| Hanja: |
道服
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| Revised Romanization: | dobok |
| McCune-Reischauer: | tobok |
The dobok is the uniform worn by practitioners of Korean martial arts. The dobok comes in many colors, though white and black are the most common. The dobok is fashioned after the Japanese gi, but often the pants are wider and longer. Due to this, Korean practitioners often wear a dobok modeled after the Korean hanbok. The dobok of taekwondo-practitioners are usually v-necks, tailored after the design of the hanbok. It is also is quite common for doboks to have the revers in a different color than the rest of the dobok.
Around the dobok a ti (belt) is worn, the color of this belt is the grade of the student. Colored belts are for gup-holders (gup/kup = belt ranks before black belt) while the black belts are usually worn by dan-holders (dan = black belt ranks).
The order of the belt colours differs from school to school. Most commonly the first belt one gets to wear is a white colored belt. Other colours one frequently sees are yellow, blue, green, red and brown. There are schools that also use other colours.
Practitioners of sword-arts like kumdo usually wear wider pants, called chima baji (치마바지). Which literally means "skirt-pants".
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