Successful Completion of the Spring Conference of the Korean Society of Clothing Industry

Professor Dowolhee of Chonnam National University: "It Will Be an Opportunity to Promote Changes and Future Development in the Fashion Industry"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Korea Apparel Industry Association (President Do Wolhee, Professor at Chonnam National University) recently held the ‘2022 Spring Academic Conference’ jointly with Konkuk University Ubiquitous Information Technology Research Institute (UBITA), previewing the metaverse world that the fashion industry will encounter.

Co-hosted with KATRI, this academic conference was held in real-time online on the Gather.town metaverse platform under the theme ‘Evolution of Fashion NFTs in Metaverse’.

The conference began with a keynote speech by Professor Kim Hyungjoong of Korea University on the topic ‘DAO, NFT, Metaverse and the Fashion Industry’.

In the special forum, presentations followed including ▲‘The Next Level of Brands and Designers Responding to Digital Fashion in the Metaverse Era’ by Hong Hyejin, CEO of The Studio K Co., Ltd., ▲‘Fashion, E-commerce, Digital Art, NFT Technology and Business Convergence in the Metaverse Space’ by Lee Dusik, CEO of I’m Cloud Co., Ltd., and ▲‘Wear to Flex, Wear to Earn: Wearable NFT and its Non-fungible Impact on Metaverse and Reality’ by Hong Jishin, CEO of Fame Universe Co., Ltd.

Additionally, in a special session prepared by the Size Korea Center of the Korea Apparel Testing & Research Institute, lectures were given on ▲‘2022 SIZE KOREA Metaverse Business Operation Direction’ by Kim Sunyoung, Center Director of KATRI, and ▲‘Metafashion Implementation through Realistic Avatar Creation’ by Kim Bomin, CEO of AIba Co., Ltd.

During the event, over 120 poster and oral presentations and discussions were held across six divisions: fashion marketing, fashion design, clothing construction, textile science, healthcare, and beauty and cosmetics.

President Do Wolhee of the association stated, “Recently, the global fashion industry is undergoing changes in the form of a fusion of fashion-metaverse-NFT, increasing interest in digital fashion.” He added, “This academic conference will serve as an opportunity to promote new changes and future development of the fashion industry riding the NFT-metaverse fusion platform.”

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