First Lady Kim Hyekyung Attends 'First Wedding at the National Palace Museum': "It's So Beautiful"
On October 2, First Lady Kim Hye-kyung visited the National Palace Museum of Korea at Gyeongbokgung Palace to offer her congratulations at its first outdoor wedding ceremony.
On October 4, Ahn Gui-ryeong, Deputy Spokesperson for the Presidential Office, announced in a written briefing that First Lady Kim visited the site prior to the first outdoor wedding held at the ginkgo tree rest area of the National Palace Museum of Korea at Gyeongbokgung Palace to celebrate the new beginning of the “first couple.”
This wedding ceremony was organized to help the public enjoy Korea's cultural heritage in everyday life and to ease the burden on young people preparing for marriage. For the very first ceremony, Laura Mai Schultz—who came from Estonia and has promoted hanbok and Korean traditional culture through her YouTube channel "Kimchi Ghost Mai"—and her Korean husband were selected as the wedding couple.
When she met Ms. Mai, First Lady Kim remarked, "I heard that you are getting married as the very first couple," and added, "The weather is so beautiful today." After Ms. Mai explained that people had traveled from overseas to attend the wedding, First Lady Kim encouraged her by saying, "You are doing an excellent job as an ambassador."
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The Cultural Heritage Administration announced that, beginning with this event, the ginkgo tree rest area of the National Palace Museum of Korea will be made available as an outdoor wedding venue for young people. This year, a total of 28 weddings will be supported, and next year, the program will expand to 80 couples so that even more young people can have a special wedding ceremony.
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