Abstract
Abstract This study reported present state of clothing technical designers' work duties and working conditions, soas to suggest effective ways to develop professional training methods for them. Technical designers workingfor vendors and agents were surveyed as they represent the majority of technical designers in Korean clo-thing industries. Survey participants were 62 technical designers working for 6 clothing vendors and 2 clo-thing agents, and the survey closely inspected their work qualifications, duties and responsibilities, workingconditions and training conditions. Survey was conducted from June 27 th to July 17 th , 2012. The question-naire examined frequency analysis and multiple response analysis using SPSS 19.0 Windows after investi-gating documents and work fields through personal experiences and interviews from technical designers fordata collection and analysis. A chi-square test analyzed the preferred type of fitting for technical designersof vendors and agents. The results showed that 32.3% of those surveyed have more than 7 years of workexperience and the highest level of education is predominantly a bachelor's degree (57 people, 91.9%). Amongthe work responsibilities, respondents did sample measuring more than four times a day. Also, the resultsshowed that technical designers needed to qualify: first ‘Fitting Technic’, second ‘Pattern Correction Capa-bility’, and third ‘English Skills to Communicate with Buyers’; subsequently, education on several technics(such as measuring, grading, and fitting) were required for the job. Current technical designers answered thatthey need more various work-related education. However, the analyzed results showed that pre work-relatedtraining was insufficient. The data shows that technical designers require re-education in ‘Pattern CorrectionMethod’ (61.3%) and ‘Sewing Education’ (64.5%).Key words: Technical designer, Agent, Vendor, Sample measuring, Pattern correction capability; 테크니컬 디자이너, 에이전트, 벤더, 샘플 측정, 패턴 수정 능력
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