A lot of work has been done on the topic of Korean traditional costume. In spite of the amount of the work, however, not much work has appeared that summarizes the overall research trend in such a way that we gain insights into the future direction of the Korean traditional costume field. This study aims to work out an analysis of the research trend that may shed light on the current status of the field and also on the things that have to be done to further develop the Korean costume design field. The analysis reported in this work is based on the articles that appeared in two journals: Journal of the Korean Society of Costume published by the Korean Society of Costume (2,661 articles from the year 1977 to 2019) and Journal of Korean Traditional Costume published by the Society of Korean Traditional Costume (762 articles from the year 1998 to 2019). The result of the analysis shows that only a very small amount of work is devoted to actual designing of Korean traditional costume, and this has to change to globalize Korean traditional fashion and draw worldwide attention to it. So more work is needed particularly on actual designing of Korean traditional costume. This does not mean that we simply have to maintain tradition and replicate the original designs, but we have to endeavor to work out novel designs by, for instance, creative destruction and restructuring, maintaining the essence of the tradition of Korean costume.

Abstract
I. Introduction
Ⅱ. Methods
    1. Object of analysis
    2. Method of analysis
Ⅲ. Results and Discussion
    1. Analysis of the studies on the Korean costumeand traditions in each journal
    2. Analysis of the trends in the studies of theKorean costume and traditions
    3. Analysis of the trend in the area of Koreancostume design
Ⅳ. Conclusion
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• Minjae Han(한양대학교 의류학과 휴먼테크융합전공) | 한민재
• Younhee Lee(한양대학교 의류학과) | 이연희 Corresponding author