Fashion & Textile Research Journal (한국의류산업학회지)

The Society of Fashion and Textile Industry (한국의류산업학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Research on Employment in Korean Designer Fashion Industry

국내 디자이너 패션산업의 고용 특성 연구

  • 정재우 (동덕여자대학교 패션디자인학과)
  • Received : 2016.05.02
  • Accepted : 2016.06.15
  • Published : 2016.06.30
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

This project aims to provide information on organizations and characteristics of Korean designer fashion industry in order to improve employment environment in fashion designer brands. This study utilizes the questionnaires and interviews with designers or human resources managers in Korean designer brands for forms, size and way of employment. The result shows that firstly, the size of employment in fashion designer brands is almost operated by small-scale human resources. Secondly, It is researched that they recruit less than 10 temporary employees per a brand on average as a problem. Thirdly, there are differences in business according to forms of employment. As researched, permanent employees usually conduct in design, products plan and production management, but, temporary employees conduct as a business assistant and salespeople. Fourthly, it is revealed that average salaries for permanents in fashion designer brands are between 1,510,000 and 2,000,000 won as the most people said. Moreover, the average salaries for temporaries are similar with permanents' as between 1,170,000 and 1,500,000 won. In fifth, in terms of the ways for recruitment, the proportion of job seekers who find a job by nonscheduled admission and special employment is larger than other ways. Finally, as a result of a research on an employment contract, employees have written the employment contract with the brands.

Keywords

References

  1. British Fashion Council. (2010). The value of the UK fashion industry. London; Author. Retrieved April 9, 2016, from http://www.britishfashioncouncil.com/uploads/media/62/16356.pdf
  2. Chung, J. E. (2013). The rise of the British creative industries policy - A study on the conceptual shift. The Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(1), 122-145.
  3. Council of Fashion Designer of Korea. (2014). 2013 Fashion designer brand survey. Seoul: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Council.
  4. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. (2007). Staying ahead: The economic performance of the UK's creative industries. Retrieved March 28, 2016, from http://www.theworkfoundation.com/Assets/Docs/Creative_Industries_Chapter6_annex.pdf
  5. Elliott, J. (2010, July 24). Fashion industry internships: Exploitation or experience?. Retrieved March 2, 2016, from Theguardian.com.
  6. Fox, I. (2012, May 30). Internships: The reality is, that's how people get into fashion. Retrieved March 2, 2016, from Theguardian.com.
  7. Heo, S. (2009). An analysis of the determinants of wage and employment types in cultural industries: Comparisons between manufacturing and cultural industries in Korea. 산업경제연구, 22(5), 2085-2108.
  8. Jung, J. W. (2010). Research on the characteristic of designer fashion industry and government support policy. Journal of The Korean Society of Fashion Design, 10(1), 93-106.
  9. Kang, Y. S. (2013). Characteristics of cultural work and gender issues in UK creative industries. 한국여성학, 31(2), 181-211.
  10. Korea Creative Content Agency. (2015a). A white paper on content industry 2014. Seoul; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
  11. Korea Creative Content Agency. (2015b). Statistical survey of contents industry. Seoul; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
  12. Korea Culture and Tourism Institute. (2010). Fashion Korea Vision 2015. Seoul: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
  13. McRobbie, A. (1997). British fashion design: Rag trade or industry. London: Routledge.
  14. McRobbie, A. (2002). Club to companies: notes on the decline of political culture in speed up creative worlds. Cultural Studies, 16(4), 516-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380210139098
  15. Oh, S. J., & Nah, K. (2015). Analysis of domestic and foreign policy for the startup of rising fashion designer -Focused on the fashion policy between UK and South Korea. Journal of Korea Design Knowledge, 34, 63-73.
  16. The MALCOM NEWBERY CONSULTING Company. (2003). A study of the UK 'Designer Fashion' sector, findings and recommendations. London: The Department of Trade and Industry.

Cited by

  1. A Survey on the Current Status of Management of Fashion Start-up Companies by the Rising Fashion Designers vol.67, pp.2, 2017, https://doi.org/10.7233/jksc.2017.67.2.131