At the end of the 19th century, the
tongchima (통치마), seamless one-piece short skirt, came out for convenience. School girls used to wear a white
jeogori and a black
tongchima in modern educational institutions. This fashion gradually faded out in
South Korea while revived and continues in
North Korea.
In Japan In Japan, some ethnic Korean minority schools use a girls' uniform that is based on
tongchima. This form of chima jeogori is modified into white shirt and shorter ankle length black or blue dress. The uniforms sometimes made them target for hate crimes. Children wearing them were sometimes beaten, insulted, or even had their . This led to schools eventually issuing two sets of uniforms: a
chima jeogori for inside the school, and more typical blazers and skirts for outside the school (). ==See also==