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[KBS NEWS] "Please Teach Me Just Once!" …Women Who Dedicate Their Lives to ‘Sambe’

In an era that values convenience and speed, our traditional Korean fabric, Sambe, has become an expensive and outdated garment worn only on special occasions. However, a craftsperson is determined to modernize Sambe in the face of this decline. In the village of Geumsori in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, there are two elderly women known as the "Tigers of Sambe." One of them is Woo Bok-in (87), a renowned Sambe artisan who has been weaving Sambe for 60 years using a 100-year-old traditional loom.

[Aither Story] Go to Cambodia, the story of Shia.

"Is there a way to understand my mom better?" Twelve-year-old Sia, who wanted to get to know her mother's homeland, set off on a solo trip to Cambodia. The neighborhood where her mother lived, the traditional Cambodian house where her mother used to reside – every glance reveals unfamiliar landscapes different from what Sia knows in Korea.

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