The Study on the Transmission of the Intangible Cultural Heritage -Focused on the Heritage Skills in the Field of Clothing-

This study investigated on the items which has been listed as a intangible cultural heritage in the field of clothing. The study thoroughly reviewed the titles of intangible cultural heritage and tried to suggested how the transmission training should be headed. In the circumstances that there are barely any studies of the intangible cultural heritage in the field of clothing, I hope this study can provide the beginning to discuss the future value of the intangible cultural heritage. The result of this study is as follows. First, the person who hold the traditional artistic craft which is listed as intangible cultural heritage can be categorized as 2 groups- national intangible cultural heritage and local intangible cultural heritage. Including making the gat, there are 17 listed items on the national intangible cultural heritage. Instead, there are 35 listed items in the 18 field of the local intangible cultural heritage due to reflect the local characteristics. Secondly, the study found that intangible cultural heritage is named in 3 ways. The titles were granted on the people who hold the tradition artistic craft as a Chimseonjang or a Nubijang, or on the craft skill itself as Hansan Mosi Jjagi or Gokseong Dolsillai, or on the process that makes the traditional artcraft as Gannil and Guanmo-gongye. With regard to consider the characteristic of cultural heritage the title could be named follow either the person or the skill itself. However, there are some titles that need sensibility of time. For example, If the the title ‘Lai’ of the Dolsillai would change into ‘Jjagi’, which is universally used as the title of local intangible cultural heritage, It would be helpful to grow the understanding of heritages. Thirdly, It seems that the local goverments support is not enough for the people who hold and try to success the intangible cultural heritage. With regard to national intangible cultural heritage, there are honor heritage retainer, retainer and training assistant and they are all on the list managed by Korean cultural heritage administration. However, when it comes to the local intangible cultural heritage, It’s hard to find people who hold the skills besides official retainers and honor retainers. This study suggest that Korean cultural heritage administration or Korean Journal of Intangible Heritage register skill holders’ name to inspire their self-confidence who protect and develop traditional artcraft skills. At last, this study found out that there are 15 training centers nationally. The centers usually operate the training course in 2ways –transmission education and hands-on education and most of their courses were focused on hands-on training aimed at general public. Devolving intangible cultural heritages on retainer’s private training seems impossible to conserve and transmit traditional heritages. As such, this study recommend administration establish the professional training institution with systematic training course.