[1][4] It is only after the Ji Li ceremony that a woman is considered an adult and is therefore eligible to be married.
[7] The Ji Li ceremony occurs when a girl is engaged or if she is getting married.
[8][1][4][3] If the young girl was still not betrothed at the age of 20, the Ji Li ceremony had to be performed again.
[5] The procedure of the Ji Li ceremony occurs through the following steps:[8][1][4][5] After the Ji Li ceremony, women had to learn how to be proper wives; this learning including the proper manner of speech and dress.
[8] Korean women perform a coming-of-age ceremony that follows the Confucian tradition known as Gyerye (Korean: 계례; Hanja: 筓禮) where they would braid their hair and roll it up into a chignon before putting it in place with a binyeo (i.e., a hairpin) on their 15th birthday.