한국인의 모발색 계측에 따른 분류 연구

Classification Study by Measuring the Hair Color of Koreans: Focusing on Busan and Gyeongnam Areas

This study attempted to measure and quantitatively analyze Korean people’s hair colors and examine characteristics to classify standard types. For this, the color of virgin hair was measured among 725 men and women in Busan and Gyeongnam, using a spectrophotometer. Collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis and descriptive statistics. And k-means clustering, using SPSS ver. 23.0, and the results found the following: Three different hair colors (Type I: dark hair, Type II: neither dark nor bright hair, Type III: bright hair) were classified. Specifically, ‘Type II (neither dark nor bright hair)’ was the most common with 336 subjects (46.3%), followed by ‘Type I (244 respondents, 33.7%)’ and ‘Type III (145 respondents, 20.0%)’. In terms of the characteristics of Korean people’s hair colors, L* (lightness) value was 16.77 while a* (red) and b* (yellow) were 0.57 and 2.39, respectively. When analyzed by gender, women were higher than men in terms of L* (lightness) value. As the respondents were younger, the L* (lightness) value increased.