韓國 傳統家具의 發展過程과 展望에 관한 分析的 考察

An Analytical Study on the Developing Process and the Prospect of the Korean Traditional Furniture

The formal Korean traditional furniture has its beginning in the Yi Dynasty period when they preferred and pursued the unartificial beauty and the naive formalism emphasizing the proportional contour and structural mass in furniture design. This means that the original form and function of the furniture of the Yi dynasty were handed down and not quite different from what they are, although they have been influenced by the imported furniture from the late Yi Dynasty era. Of course, it should have faced the some change of its design reflecting the people’ s life and character of those days. The urgent problems of the home furniture industries are to enhance the quality and to lower the price of the products to strengthen their competitive position in world markets. To accomplish this purpose, the industries must develop the original and traditional furniture design and the new technology to use the new material and to adopt the new engineering methods. Enlarging the furniture market is also the mome ntous task to survive and maintain the business in the arena of competition.