• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.66-77
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• 2009

Recently, the youth unemployment has increased due to depression, so it appreared that the importance of license is a requirement to get a job. This study aims to make investigations into an attitude about license of clothing-related among university students of clothing department and to consult a method to ability of clothing-related license. The questionnaire method was selected for the study which used the responses of 309 copies from students of university and the program and made an analysis of SPSS 10.0 statistics program. The results of study are as follows. Firstly, College students more aware of the need for the licence of clothing-related than University students but they had a lot difficulty getting a license. On the other hand, University students realized the license of language or computers than the license of clothing-related. College students responded that they were planning to set a Fashion Merchandise Certificate and University students responded that they were planning to set a Colourist Certificate.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.158-169
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• 2008

This study aims to survey the perceptions held by students and field workers regarding the clothing-related qualification certificates, which can serve as the base for becoming clothing professionals, to compare and analyze the actual state of qualification certificates on the basic research level, and thus to search for the directions suitable for the clothing-related qualification certificates. The questionnaire method was selected for the study. The responses of 406 copies from students and 81 copies from field workers were used, and frequency analysis and t-test were done with the assistance of spss 10.0 statistics program, The findings are as follows. First, as to the qualification certificates perceived by the students, the certificates of colorist engineer and colorist industrial engineer were known most. 237 students, or 58.4% of the student respondents, had obtained the information about the qualification certificates mainly through the internet and mass media, and 77.3% of the students had a plan to get the qualification certificates. Second, as to the qualification certificates perceived by the field workers, the respondents indicated that school grades(43.2%) would be given the highest additional points at the time of employment, while the clothing-related qualification certificates gathered low responses of 11.1%. The field workers perceived that the qualification certificate of Western suit engineer(pattern) was needed for the job, while 45.4% of them perceived that no qualification certificate was required for the job. Third, both the students and the field workers showed low acquisition levels of the qualification certificates, and in view of their perceptions that the qualification certificates of languages or computer skills were more useful, the improvement is needed in order for the national certificates for the clothing-related skill qualification to develop in the more job-related directions.