In episodes four and five, Sunja travels from her small village in Korea to Osaka, Japan, and her journey is also told through her clothing. "When she boards the boat to Osaka, she wears the durumagi (a hanbok overcoat), and then when she arrives, there's that great shift to a Western-style wardrobe," Chae says.
The blue durumagi also happens to be Chae's favorite garment. "I remember when we first made it and Sunja (Minha Kim) tried it on, everybody was really blown away. I adore the scene where Yangjin gifts that durumagi to her daughter. It means more than simply a costume — it symbolizes a mother's love. As we were working on these clothes, of course, making them historically authentic was important, but I tried harder to make sure the wardrobe would embody something more than that, like a mother's love or the solidarity of a family and so forth. Just like Yangjin's serving of white rice to her daughter and her newlywed husband symbolizes her love, the blue durumagi also carried a lot of significance."
