For more than three decades since 1960's up to now, Korean textile industry has continuously grown as a Key export industry, and textile has been doing a major role in expor industry of Korea as seen in such records as achievement of US$11.8 billion o...
For more than three decades since 1960's up to now, Korean textile industry has continuously grown as a Key export industry, and textile has been doing a major role in expor industry of Korea as seen in such records as achievement of US$11.8 billion of textile export in 1987 and marking 3rd biggest textile export country in the world Recently, however, our textile industry is taced with much diffculties. The biggest reason for those difficulties among many other resons is that our textile industries are doing excesseive tacility investment for the mass volume production of medium/low price products while we are negligent in the investment for design development that can enhance the level of quality and design, and this investment trend make us unable to cope with advanced countries because of inferior quality and design level under the international market situation of transferring to quality first trend. Also, in the price aspect, our products are much more expensive than those of lately developing countries. Therefore, the fact that our textile products can not acquire the competitve power at any side in the international market is the biggest reason for the difficulties of our textile industry. To acquire competitive power of our textile products in the market quality improvement by design development must be preceded, and for that objective new concem and support to Korean textile design that we have been negligibie in the meantime is absolutely required.
Despite that the textile design is an important measures in acquiring competitive power of our textile products raising qualitative value, we have been ignorant of the importance of it and that caused deteriorated situations and many problems to our textile industry nowadays. Because of these problems the development of our textile design field is making poor progress. If these problems are eft not solved, the government policy to advance and internationalize the textile industry and make this country world's 1st ranking textile export country and fashion cente country of 2000's will be unable to be fulfilled. Since the establishment and direction of former government's promotion policies has experienced many failures because of lack of professionalism continuity, variety and corelationship, the future promotion policies must securo improvement of the present and detection of the future harmonizing the control, performance and the composition of policies.
The textile design promotion of government must be the measures for the export promotion knowing that the current worldwide status of design is activating the principle of reality rather than the ideal aspect and recognizing the value of design as the measures of country's economical development with a realistic and strategfic viewpoint.
Under such situation, this thesis pointed out that the reasons for the problems of textile industry is in absence of textile design promotion policy based on the experiences and practical survey as a textile designer who has practically worked for a long perild of time under existing problems of surrounding environment of Korean textile design, and presented proposal to solve and improve this problem in detail dividing into the areas of educational policy, public relation policy, method of financial support, protection and management of design and vitalization and unifying of each related bodies. Therefore, this thesis has shown a conclusion that our textile design will be promoted and textile industry will be advanced and continuously be developed when allout errorts are exerted relating each other among government, industry circle, education field and the designers.