Korean necktie label -- seeking translation

[mack11211]

This is on a paisley tie labeled "Lady Margaret Boating Club" and "John Comfort, London." LMBC is the boating club of St. John's College, Cambridge. Necktie label seems to be Korean. More licensed Anglophilia, I guess.

But what does it say?

 

[seok]

Top line:
Home-country made (literal translation). Connotes made in Korea.

Bottom line:
Silk: 100%

 

[mack11211]

Thanks!

 

[rach2jlc]

Are you sure it is Korean? The label uses Chinese characters... but, Seok is more or less right about the translation. 100% silk; "Home country product" ...sort of the Asian version of "Made with pride in the USA."

 

[seok]

Chinese characters, but AFAIK, I don't think the expression guk-san-pum (would be guo-chan-pin in Chinese) exists in Mandarin. Does it? I'd be curious to know.

We're so far off topic from Men's Clothing now...

 

[rach2jlc]

I'm not sure either about Mandarin; I was thinking of it as Japanese Kanji (Chinese characters)...

We're taking a nice little voyage with Asian languages here.

 

[hossoso]

That is not Korean.

 

[acidboy]

It's Chinese.

 

[mack11211]

Irrespective of the language in which the characters are written/woven, this is a Korean-made neck tie, yes?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

They are Chinese characters but I believe the Korean written language includes, or used to include, a few thousand Chinese characters. In contemporary usage Korean is written with what is basically a syllabary. Native Korean speakers, please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[AmInAm]

Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman

They are Chinese characters but I believe the Korean written language includes, or used to include, a few thousand Chinese characters. In contemporary usage Korean is written with what is basically a syllabary. Native Korean speakers, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Not a native Korean speaker, but still competent to say that hangul, the Korean writing system, is an alphabet and not a syllabary, even though Unicode seems to treat it as a syllabary (I suppose because the letters of each syllable are grouped together).

As to whether the tie is Korean-made or not, that depends on the answer to Seok's question. I don't think that all the Chinese characters traditionally used by Koreans are still meaningful to modern Chinese speakers, and if these fall into that category, then I suppose it could be Korean-made. I would guess, though, that Korean-made ties nowadays would mostly use hangul for the tags (although I don't really know).

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by mack11211

Irrespective of the language in which the characters are written/woven, this is a Korean-made neck tie, yes?

Just out of curiosity, what makes you think it is Korean? I don't have too many USA made tshirts with tags in German.

 

[Bic Pentameter]

Originally Posted by AmInAm

As to whether the tie is Korean-made or not, that depends on the answer to Seok's question. I don't think that all the Chinese characters traditionally used by Koreans are still meaningful to modern Chinese speakers, and if these fall into that category, then I suppose it could be Korean-made. I would guess, though, that Korean-made ties nowadays would mostly use hangul for the tags (although I don't really know).

For what it is worth, the characters are meaninful in Japanese as indicating that the product was made in country. I have seen quite a few neckties sold in Japan, but almost all of them have used a different set of graphs. 「日本製」

Bic

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by Bic Pentameter

For what it is worth, the characters are meaninful in Japanese as indicating that the product was made in country. I have seen quite a few neckties sold in Japan, but almost all of them have used a different set of graphs. 「日本製」

Bic

Bic, my Japanese ties are like yours as well, which was the only thing that was keeping me from thinking it more likely a Japanese tie.

 

[iyorito]

looks like Japanese to me. We still refer to Japanese cars as 国産車。