• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.554-565
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• 2015

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to measure estheticians' grip and pinch strength in the hand parts and identify related factors according to general characteristics. Methods: A Jamar dynamometer was used to measure grip strength and a Jamar pinch gauge was used to measure tip, palmar and lateral pinch strength. General data were collected through a questionnaire survey among 116 estheticians from 31 skin care centers and spas. Results: The subjects' mean grip strength was 23.95 kgf for the right hand and 23.42 kgf for the left hand with the dominant right hand recording slightly higher mean grip strength. Their mean pinch strength was the highest with lateral pinch(right 4.89 kgf, left 4.69 kgf), which was followed by palmar pinch(right 3.77 kgf, left 3.88 kgf) and tip pinch(right 2.29 kgf, left 2.25 kgf), in that order. Conclusions: The grip and pinch strength of the hand parts was high when estheticians' commonly used both hands for massage instead of just one. The use of both hands is recommended to protect the hand parts during massage.

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.375-384
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• 2006

Hairdressers may be exposed to many chemicals from hair dye, permanent, shampoo, hair spray and so on. The study was conducted to evaluate occupational exposure to 8 chemicals (isopropanol, ethanol, xylene, toluene, ethylbenzene, acetone, ammonia and formaldehyde) for workers and levels of these materials in airborne of a hairdressing salon. Since compared to ACGIH TLVs these 8 chemicals were very low, it is thought that there has no problem to occupational exposure to these chemicals. Even if hairdressing salon is not enforced on Korean Standards for Indoor Air Quality, level of TOVC was thought to be below the standards. At the aspect of indoor air quality formaldehyde needs to be controlled in the future. The results imply that emission of isopropanol, ethanol, acetone and ammonia are related with hairdressing job, but emission of xylene, toluene and ehtylbenzene is more related with traditional indoor air pollution than hairdressing job. Sources of formaldehyde is thought to be little related with hairdressing job. HVAC system was a little effective on general ventilation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.9 s.174
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• pp.107-114
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• 2005

With the recent progress in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) in industry, increasing attention has been given to Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems. An AGV is a self-powered unit for transporting materials between stations without needing to be controlled by an operator. Such a system has several sensors to recognize the external state, and it is designed to travel between stations automatically without external assistance. To manage each device automatically in real time it requires a distributed controller with a main computer as the host, as well as a number of micro-controllers. In this study, an AGV system with dual motor drive was constructed. A Pentium 4 personal computer was set up as the main host for the distributed control, and this communicated with other micro-controllers in the management of the motor. The speed of each motor was also controlled by a micro-controller.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.259-273
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• 2009

The goal of this study is to analyze male college students' awareness and behaviors toward appearance management, and expenditure for appearance management. Male subjects' appearance management behaviors were focused on hair, skin, cosmetic surgery, fashion and body shape. A chi-square test, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis were used. The major findings were as follows: (1) The mean of male college students' 'awareness toward appearance management' is 30.01(out of a possible 50). (2) The variables that significantly influenced their awareness toward appearance management are 'an allowance amount per month' and 'household income'. (3) Subjects' most preferred behavior is a variable of 'fashion care' in the appearance management(29.9%). (4) Appearance management behavior is different, according to demographic variables and awareness toward appearance management. (5) The mean of 'monthly expenditure for appearance management' is 247,194won. Consequently, the study shows that there is a most significant relation of 'awareness toward appearance management' to 'expenditure for appearance management'

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.44-60
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• 2017

This study is to understand the image of the Korean beauty and rewards to be gained by trying to be a beautiful person and to study differences according to demographic characteristics. It was studied with the purpose of industrializing beauty image and selling it to foreign countries. The survey questionnaire was distributed to Seoul and Kyeongkido. Respondents totaled 301. Collected data were analyzed with frequency analysis, factor analysis, $X^2$-test, and regression. Results are ; (1) The external image of Korean beauty emphasizes round face, white skin, big eyes, double eyelids, round head shape, early twenties, tall, low body weight, thin waist, long neck, long legs, and thin fingers. (2) The inner image of the Korean beauty emphasizes mature personality, social economic ability, but not housework, and cultural artistic ability. (3) Rewards gained by trying to be a beauty are psychological, actual, and social ones. (4) External face and body image of the beauty are different by demographic characteristics (sex, age, marital status, final education, monthly average income, religion). (5) The inner image of the beauty is different by age, final education, and monthly average income. (6) Rewards gained by trying to be a beauty are different by sex, age, final education, and monthly average income.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.127-132
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• 2005

Beginning the use of medical order with color contact lens, recently the color contact lens wearer increases for cosmetic order in the world. The marufacture of color contact lenses was the pigment application method, the pigment inlay method, the sandwich method, the vinding method, and so on. Now in domestic, the main use of manufacture has been the binding method. In the point of the use and manufacture of the color contact lenses, the classification of color contact lenses was the tinted and the cosmetic types. However the generally coloring of color contact lenses was the stain-method and the staining was marufactured by the thin film methods.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.89-98
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• 2020

The survey targeted 270 men and women in their from their 20s-50s who live in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the vocation of beauty worker on job satisfaction and self-development. The questionnaire was administered from January 5th to March 10th, 2020, and 243 responses were used for statistical analysis. 27 unanswered or unfaithful questionnaires were disregarded. Using SPSS WIN 21.0 was applied for statistical processing. First, the data was analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, factor analysis, and reliability verification, For validity verification, one-way variance analysis, correlation analysis, and simple regression analysis were used. The results of this study are as follows. First, upon examining the hypothesis that vocation has a positive (+) effect on job satisfaction, a significant positive (+) influence was shown, and it was found that it was determined vocation is an important factor in job satisfaction for beauty industry professionals. Second, upon examining the hypothesis that vocation has a positive (+) effect on self- development, a significant positive (+) correlation was found between the self-development of beauty industry professionals and job satisfaction. Third, upon examining the hypothesis that occupational vocation has a positive (+) effect on self- development, a significant positive (+) correlation was shown between self-development and job satisfaction of beauty industry professionals.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.625-635
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating roles of the relationship quality and the switching cost during the processing of effects of service quality on the service loyalty in the beauty industry. Service quality factors were defined as the interaction quality, the outcome quality and the physical environment quality. The relationship quality were defined as the satisfaction and the trust of customer. Amos was used to analyze the research hypotheses and the proposed model. All research hypotheses were adopted. The empirical results were as follows; Service quality influenced positively on the relationship quality, and then the relationship quality yielded the service loyalty. Also the relationship quality influenced positively on the switching cost and then the switching cost influenced positively on the service loyalty. Each service quality dimension had a significant effect on the satisfaction, the trust and the relative importance of service quality dimensions on the satisfaction, the trust followed the order of the interaction quality, the outcome quality and the physical environment quality.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.952-958
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• 2011

The primary purposes of this study were to investigate on effect of consumer's participation on their emotional response, service quality perception and revisiting intention in the beauty service field. The data were collected from 385 customers of beauty salons in Busan area, Gimhae area in Kyongnam and Daegu area. It was analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and path analysis. The results were as follows: First, consumer was experienced positive emotion toward their participation of service offering course. Second, there were significant influence their participation on their service quality perception. And in the case mediating emotional response, their were more influence. Finally, consumer was perceived positively service quality when they was experienced positively emotion in service field during service offering course. And they had revisiting intention when they was perceived service quality excellently.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.431-440
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• 2007

The study of the awareness on DM, the degree of satisfaction, and intention of word-of-mouth has found that when the confidence factor is stressed, intention of word-of-mouth is seen to rise, and when the perception factor is placed emphasis on, intention of word-of-mouth is also seen to be on the rise. The 790 questionnaires collected were analyzed by frequency, factor analysis, confidence degree, and regression analysis. This means that the higher the degree of satisfaction by means of the recognition, attention, trust of DM advertisement, the relationship reenforcement of DM advertisement and transmission of information is, the higher intention of word-of-mouth is. Beauty art business is characteristic of visits being connected with sales. The awareness has an effect on the degree satisfaction, and it affects intention of word-of-mouth. Therefore, it is thought that Beauty art business requires systematic, analytic and unique DM advertisement.