한국과 일본의 기하학적 전통문양의 비교 고찰

Abstract

A Korean traditional pattern can be described as the cultural heritage that contains the identified emotions and history of our ancestors. They created beauty in life by decorating their surroundings with particular and distinct patterns. Now that the interests in culture has been the focus of a lot of research fields, and that is related to rediscovering the cultural identity of our past. One of the recent trends in the field is to apply these cultural aspects, such as historical patterns, into modern design in order to promote the Korean culture and the arts to the world. Therefore, creating designs that contain originality based on the traditional patterns can become the ompetitive advantage of the Korean design as a whole. For example, Japan has already been promoting their traditional patterns as various design products to the world. Similar to what Japan has been doing, Korea needs to emphasis on the traditional patterns in order to create synergy in modern designs by implementing the old into new. Indeed, comparing and analyzing the traditional patterns of the two countries is critical in developing a superb conceptual guideline for Korea’s path in design. This study focuses on comparing and analyzing geometric patterns of Korea and Japan. This research will contribute to the field by providing in depth intellectual means of patterns as cultural and traditional heritage. Furthermore, it will be a foundational work to spread distinct Korean designs to the world.