Popular music in the contemporary era can be evaluated to proceed with reflecting trend of the times. Owing to rapid development in popular culture of including popular music, it is the image making period that modern people in the 21st century make i...
Popular music in the contemporary era can be evaluated to proceed with reflecting trend of the times. Owing to rapid development in popular culture of including popular music, it is the image making period that modern people in the 21st century make it trend for internal and external elements such as fashion, hair style, and make-up as a tool of expressing oneself in the political, economic, social and cultural aspect. Thus, the hair trend in K-POP stars of leading popular sensitivity became an opportunity of leading popular society in this period.
Hence, the purpose of this study is to make usefulness of supply and development in hair trend by arranging an opportunity of recreating and systematically establishing new hair design with having one icon as hair trend of K-POP stars, who lead fashion in this era with having influence upon their visual and psychological change by stimulating curiosity of youngsters in their 10s-20s.
A ripple effect that K-POP stars' fashion or hair trend image now gives to people is getting bigger. As domestic and overseas fans who yearn for them have interest in K-POP stars's appearance, their hair trend is having influence upon a change in taste and image of the 10s-20s.
This study aims to be conducive to popular hair-style trend in the 10s-20s through researching into K-POP stars' hair trend. In these days, K-POP stars are getting enthusiastic interest from the whole world as well as the country by representing Hanryu. Therefore, it came to have a need of research in a point of trying to grasp which influence the K-POP stars' hair trend(haircut, hair permanent wave, hair color) has upon them and what about preferable hair trend.
The objective of research is to establish and popularize theory and technique in hair style by analyzing which influence the K-POP stars have upon the 10s-20s after surveying preference for hair trend of K-POP stars who lead popular culture. Furthermore, it aims to explore the social, cultural and economic aspect that is given by K-POP stars' hair trend, based on the surveyed and analyzed results.
Specific research objectives are as follows.
It is a preference survey on preference type(10s-20s) for each hair style in male group, female group, and male & female solo singers among domestically K-POP singers, on which influence the hair style(cut, permanent wave, color) has upon the 10s-20s, and on which hair trend is desired on the basis of a imitation desire and psychological change. The survey examines about the present status of hair trend in K-POP stars, inquires into a prior research on hair trend and K-POP stars, analyzes characteristics of hair trend in K-POP stars, and surveys preference in the 10s-20s. Finally, it can be said to be a research that tries to analyze and systematize the influence in K-POP stars upon the 10s-20s based on the analytical results of preference for hair trend in K-POP stars.
In conclusion, it could be known that the soft dandy style in G-DRAGON of being ranked the 1st in preference, and the two-block regent style in Kim Hyeon-jung with the 2nd ranking out of man hair style are being prevalent both nominally and virtually now in K-POP stars and the masses in their 10s-20s. It was surveyed that the 1st ranking in preference for woman hair style is Gu Ha-ra's natural ballon perm hair style and that Yu Ri's lovely perm is preferred secondly. Also, academic background, pocket money, gender, age, job and use frequency were indicated to have significant influence upon preference. The 1st ranking in preference for man hair color in K-POP stars was blue black color with 71 people(32.6%), which possessed the highest ratio. The 1st ranking in preference for woman hair color was choco brown color with 89 people(40.8%), which possessed the highest ratio. The influence of preference for special hair color such as neutral tone color or white blonde color by specific concept was evaluated to be not significant. As to whether or not desiring to try K-POP stars' hair style, the respondents as saying of being 'so' stood at 155 people among 218 people. Thus, a desire for imitating hair style and hair color was indicated to be significant. The response as saying that K-POP stars' new hair style has influence upon own hair style was indicated to be very so with 146 people(67.0%), to be so with 35 people(16.1%), to be moderate with 5 people(2.3%), to be not so with 13 people(6.0%), and to be very not so with 19 people(8.7%). As a result of analyzing research, it was surveyed that K-POP stars have great influence upon the 10s-20s and that the imitating psychology of desiring to take after a favorite star realistically is significant.
There is a need of enhancing brand value of popular hair trend, which reestablishes, systematizes, and supplies theory and technique with being accompanied to be grown even a research of hair trend in K-POP stars along with a research on Korea's K-POP contents in terms of production in global popular culture and of consumption in culture henceforth. The balanced development and the in-depth research will need to be continued.