미용실의 배리어프리 디자인 평가 및 적용현황에 관한 연구

A Study on the Evaluation and Application of Barrier Free Design in Beauty Salons

Today, South Korea is rapidly entering into a super-aged society. It is anticipated that there would be significant changes in social structure. Therefore, Korean government has sought diverse policies and ways to respond to such unfavorable circumstances. Specifically, policymakers have focused on barrier-free environments for all users in a super-aged society. In addition, there have been a lot of studies on the development of systems for elderly people. However, there have not been many changes in beauty industry yet. In other words, it is time for beauty industry to take a proper action against such social issue. This study attempted to investigate barrier-free beauty salons. It targeted to enhance the utilization of guidelines by reflecting the latest standards such as welfare facility-related laws, guidelines and manuals and suggesting practical plans. For this, a meeting was held on October 1 and 8, 2023 to make them play as a guideline as a medium of communication for environmental design and services among beauty specialists, architectural design & construction engineers and welfare facility managers & users. To examine if such barrier-free design is applied, a total of 10 beauty salons in Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongsangnam-do were investigated from October 10 to November 30, 2023. For this, frequency analysis was performed, using SPSS 26.0, and the results found the followings: Beauty salons were short and needed of barrier-free design. This study confirmed a necessity of barrier-free design in beauty salons as a starting point of such design approach in beauty industry. However, it is required to collect more samples from more subjects across diverse regions and perform an in-depth study.