Gogok
The gogok is the comma-shaped jade ornament threaded onto the gold crowns, belts, and necklaces of the ancient Silla kingdom, excavated in large numbers from the tombs of Gyeongju, and it is the most distinctive form of Korean prehistoric jade. Carved from hard nephrite and often pale green or white, the beads may derive from the shamanic curved beads of the north and are linked by scholars to fertility symbolism and to the bear-woman Ungnyeo's offering in the Dangun foundation myth. In the tombs of Silla's elite the gogok hangs from the crowns and diadems in cascading rows, and the form persi