• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.871-881
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• 2008

In this study, internships in fashion-related areas were explored based on survey data obtained from 64 companies running an internship program, 55 internship participants and 118 internship applicants. In results, both internship participants and company practitioners were fairly satisfied with internship programs. Also, the academia and the industry were well collaborating for an internship operation. Internship in the fashion industry is considered as an important way to build practical abilities for college students. Product development and design were job areas that interns often took charge of. Active and sincere personnel who have good interpersonal skills, creative abilities, communication skills, and foreign language skills are welcomed as a good candidate for an intern. Reflecting the results, implications for internship offering companies and internship participants were generated.

• Proceedings of the Costume Culture Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.28-30
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.55 no.8 s.99
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• pp.30-47
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• 2005

The purposes of this study were to analyze the consciousness of the professors and college students about the fashion industry internship and to provide basis data which were to develop an internship program of the fashion company and university and to activate it. The whole country were classified as Seoul and Gyeonggi division, Gangwon division, Chungchung division, Yeongnam division, and Honam division for this study. As object of the questionnaire, the professors of 50 universities and 132 college students from every division were selected by stratified cluster sampling. The investigation tool for this study was composed of 95 items for two kinds of professor's and two kinds of college student's survey. The question results were analyzed by frequency analysis and variance analysis, t- test and f- test by spss 10.0. The contents of research result were as follows : First, it arranged the opinions of the college students and professors about the internship experience and execution reason, the internship application methods and execution contents, the type of preference company and worked company, the company education contents, internship evaluation and postmortem. It also proposed the roles of the academic world, fashion industry circles and government for the internship activation.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.14 no.3 s.62
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• pp.483-496
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to develop a pragmatic fashion internship program as a following study of 'An analysis of the consciousness of the professors and college students for the fashion industry internship'. The methods of the quantitative analysis and some case studies were used for this study. The results of this study were as follows : Internship program has 6 steps ; ready, introduction, selection, operation, reputation, management. It will help professors and college students to execute the program systematically. The contents of the fashion internship program model for professors were as follows: 8 recruiting methods to find internship companies, the contents of the internship agreement, 6 types of internship, the contents of the recommendation letter, advanced education contents for a fashion internship, e-mentoring program model, a curriculum of the cultural study and the major course, evaluation standard elements of the intern students, the methods of evaluation etc.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.205-218
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• 2008

This study was to develop a fashion internship pragmatic program for college students. Preceded researches were reviewed and some case studies were used for this study. The results of this study were as follows : Pragmatistic program has 6 steps such as preperation, introduction, selection, operation, reputation, management. pre-internship schedule, resume and self-introduction form, preparing for the interview and details, how to write a follow up letter after the interview, advise during the intern period, 7 contents that you should include in the final report, Presentation Strategy, SWOT analysis table were included in this study. So this study would be helpful for the college students who are searching for internships and jobs.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.13 no.5 s.58
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• pp.699-711
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• 2005

This study was following one of 'A study on the consciousness of fashion industries internship'. The purposes of this study were to develop the internship program which focused on practical use to introduce and carry out for fashion industries, and secondly to propose some regime for government to activate fashion internship. Reference searching method and depth interviewing method were used for this study. The results were as follows : Fashion industry internship was grouped into two classes, 'on-the-job training'; educating students fields and 'talent hunting'; selecting good persons. Internship of industry-academic world was classified into two types; the one is 'credit type' which has curriculums between universities and industries and the other is 'non-credit type' which has not any credit and is operated by industry own system. This study provided the development courses of pragmatic program to perform internship systematically and it also provided the program models for guide line in fashion industries. Six grades such as ready step, introduction step, selection step, management step, evaluation step and feed-back step were proposed for the internship program development steps of fashion industries. A virtual organization, 'The Fashion Industry and Academy Association' was proposed as a policy for activating internship between universities, industries and government.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.13 no.4 s.57
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• pp.604-621
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• 2005

The purpose of this study were to analyse the consciousness of persons in charge of fashion industries and to provide some basis data for development of the fashion internship program which could reduce differentiation between fashion colleges and fashion companies. Fifty national fashion brands had been randomly selected and question researches had done from August twenty-seventh to October thirtieth by the visit, mail, fax and e-mail etc. Date analyses were conducted with SPSS program on the frequency, t-test and ANOVA. The results were as follows. The companies selected interns by documents and interview, however, in the future they will prefer to accept interns by appraising some task. They preferred to apprentice for two months with some simple job and tasks. The companies wanted some prerequisite study such as major curriculum, human nature education, computer education. And each division wanted different curriculum. They wanted to be joined with industrial disaster insurance for intern and to be given allowance and credit. They also preferred reputation ratio of industry : college as $70\%$ : $30\%$ for intern reputation. There were some vitalizing method of fashion internship such as discriminated fashion internship program, government support for industries, universities and students, organization opening to connect industry and . university, mentor-system and credit system introducing, curriculum reforming in the university.