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| ▲This photo, provided by Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and National Palace Museum of Korea, show "Princess Hwahyep Mi-ahn-go & Min-ahn-ja-gi." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo, provided by Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and National Palace Museum of Korea, show "Princess Hwahyep Mi-ahn-go." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo, provided by Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and National Palace Museum of Korea, show "Princess Hwahyep Min-ahn-ja-gi." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo show relics found at tomb of Princess Hwahyep. (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- Princess Hwahyeop is daughter of Yeongjo of Joseon, 21st monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea, and sister of Prince Sado.
She is told to have had deep love for her parents but died at early age, 20 years-old, due to measles.
At her grave, located at Namyangju city, Gyeonggi province, cosmetic tools such as comb, mirror, eyebrow ink, etc. and small potteries with makeup inside, which are assumed to have been used by the princess when she was alive, were unearthed, receiving attention from the public.
Cosmetic products, which modernly reincarnated Princess Hwahyeop's relics from around 270 years ago, will be released.
Korea National University of Cultural Heritage under the Cultural Heritage Administration and National Palace Museum of Korea announced on Wednesday that they will release "Princess Hwahyep's ceremic edition" which was invented by analyzing cosmetic products and tools from Princess's tomb.
This is their third product following hand-cream, and lip protectors.
Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and National Palace Museum of Korea has been researching and inventing cosmetic products discovered from Prince Hwahyep's tomb as motifs for their modernized cosmetic products since making business agreement with cosmetic manufacturer COSMAX in 2020. This is so-called "Princess Hwahyep project."
The name of the new product is "Princess Hwahyep Mi-ahn-go & Min-ahn-ja-gi."
Applied to the face for moisture, Balm type "Mi-ahn-go" is a cream with traditional ingredients such as camellia seed oils, autumn squash seed oil added. Curved shaped "Mi-ahn-ja-gi" is a tool to massage face.
The containers of the two products were designed by referring to cosmetic containers from the tomb of Princess Hwahyeop and blue and white porcelain patterns produced during the Joseon Dynasty.
Team of Professor Lee Jung-yong at Korea National University of Cultural Heritage was in charge of the design and completed the patent application and registration with Cosmax.
Korea National University of Cultural Heritage said, "As it is meaningful to revive royal cosmetics of Joseon to 'K-beauty', the container made of blue and white porcelain will provide consumers a sense of the luxurious feeling like the ones Princess used 200 years ago."
The product will be sold at the National Palace Museum's cultural goods store and the Korea Cultural Foundation's online shopping mall later.
An official at the National Palace Museum said, "It is a result of scientific and humanistic research on the materials used in cosmetics in the past," and stressed, "It is a good example of modernizing the traditional culture and craft."
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)
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