• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.113-121
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• 2003

Recently the status of oriental medicine in Korea has been more increased as the alternative medicine which overcome the limitations of western medicine. With the increased status, the development of the oriental medical doctor's gown which is distinguished from that of western medical doctor has been brought up among the oriental medical doctors' group since the middle of 1990. We carried out the former study to know the development's direction of the present oriental medical doctor's gown by the survey the requisites for the oriental medical doctor's gown which they want(OK Suh, 2002). We aim to propose the developed design of the oriental medical doctor's gown which meet their request and has honored tradition according to the data of the former survey. As the result of the production designing of the oriental medical doctor's gown considering tradition, practicality, appreciation of the beautiful etc., in our study, we could lead to distribute 800 gowns through the Association of Korean Oriental Medicine supporting by the brand of Amorepacific's Sulhasoo.