Fashioning tradition in contemporary Korean fashion

This article reconsiders the debate of ‘self-orientalization’ in Asian fashion within the context of contemporary Korean fashion and its place in the promotion of the national economy and culture through distinctive national images and identity. Case studies of Korean fashion labels such as Tchai Kim and Isae reveal that they have challenged the typical images of hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, and provided styles and brands that resonate with local Korean characteristics as well as global fashion concerns. By reinterpreting traditional shapes and purposes of hanbok, employing traditional dressmaking methods and craft skills, and cleverly presenting and promoting their products and brands, these fashion companies have created a hybrid design and style. This has been built from the development of complex and mutually reinforcing interactions between local and global fashion knowledge and practice. This article argues that these new movements in contemporary Korean fashion provide further understanding of the complex and multifaceted dialectics of Korean fashion, beyond the dichotomy of tradition versus modernity

Development of a multimedia model (POPsLTEA) to assess the influence of climate change on the fate and transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in East Asia

A dynamic multimedia model (POPsLTEA) for an East Asia region was developed and evaluated to quantitatively assess how climate change (CC) alters the environmental fate and transport dynamics of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air, water, soil, and sediment. To cover the entire model domain (25°N-50°N and 98°E-148°E) where China, Japan, and South and North Koreas are of primary concern, a total of 5000 main cells of 50 km × 50 km size were used while 1008 cells of a finer spatial resolution (12.5 km × 12.5 km) was nested for South Korea (33°N-38°N and 126°E-132°E). Most of the predicted concentrations agreed with the observed values within one order of magnitude with a tendency of overestimation for air and sediment. Prediction of the atmospheric concentration was statistically significant in both coincidence and association, suggesting the model's potential to successfully predict the fate and transport of the PAHs as influenced by CC. An example study of benzo(a)pyrene demonstrates that direction and strength of the CC influence on the pollution levels vary with the location and environmental media. As compared to the five year period of 2011 to 2015, the changes across the model domain in the annual geometric mean concentration over the years of 2021 through 2100 were predicted to range from 88% to 304%, from 84% to 109%, from 32% to 362%, and from 49% to 303%, in air, soil, surface water, and sea water, respectively, under the scenario of RCP8.5.OAIID:RECH_ACHV_DSTSH_NO:T201700197RECH_ACHV_FG:RR00200001ADJUST_YN:EMP_ID:A003201CITE_RATE:3.976FILENAME:published main article.pdfDEPT_NM:환경계획학과EMAIL:[email protected]_YN:YFILEURL:https://srnd.snu.ac.kr/eXrepEIR/fws/file/a615ac5c-bdd0-4856-8433-f28d135249e3/linkCONFIRM:

re: focus design - Design Histories and Design Studies in East Asia - Conclusion

This is a three part series articles organised by Yuko Kikuchi. This is Conclusion written by Kikuchi included in Part 3

Angstrom‐confined Electrochemical Synthesis of Sub‐unit Cell non van der Waals 2D Metal Oxides

Bottom-up electrochemical synthesis of atomically thin materials is desirable yet challenging, especially for non-van der Waals (vdW) materials. Thicknesses below few nm have not been reported yet, posing the question how thin can non-vdW materials be electrochemically synthesized? This is important as materials with (sub-) unit cell thickness often show remarkably different properties compared to their bulk form or thin films of several nm thickness. Here, we introduce a straightforward electrochemical method utilizing the angstrom-confinement of laminar reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanochannels to obtain a centimeter-scale network of atomically thin (< 4.3 Å) 2D-transition metal oxides (2D-TMO). The angstrom-confinement provides a thickness limitation, forcing sub-unit cell growth of 2D-TMO with oxygen and metal vacancies. We showcase that Cr2O3, a material without significant catalytic activity for OER in bulk form, can be activated as a high-performing catalyst if synthesized in the 2D sub-unit cell form. Our method displays the high activity of sub-unit cell form while retaining the stability of bulk form, promising to yield unexplored fundamental science and applications. We show that while retaining the advantages of bottom-up electrochemical synthesis like simplicity, high yield, and mild conditions, the thickness of TMO can be limited to sub-unit cell dimensions