Women are shown washing laundry in the stream running through a side street. In traditional Korean society it was common for women washing laundry in the open. Drinking water, on the other hand, for commoners was supplied mainly from communal wells, except for some 'yangban' (aristocratic) households that had their own. Source: Kim, Chewon. Seoul, 1969. (This Beautiful World v. 2)
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