Fashion retailing, where and how to purchase

 The ddp, a landmark of Dongdaemun market, has many monumental attractions. Among them, the Kansong Art Museum, which displays valuable cultural assets, will be an exciting tour course for anyone. The cultural property displayed there, Goryeo celadon (Goryeo dojagi, also known as Goryeo cheong-ja) is one of the rare exhibits that are well known worldwide.  A famous scholar of the Goryeo Dynasty, Yi Gyu-bo left a review on such the exhibit, Goryeo cheong-ja, as follows. + “Blue as jasper, bright as crystal.”  As impressed by what I saw and felt at the British Museum in London 40 years ago, Goryeo cheong-ja is still widely loved by people around the world. Needless to say, Goryeo cheong-ja seems to hold a mysterious beauty thanks to its iconic blue-green color and its perfectly balanced shape. The praise of Goryeo cheong-ja by the people of the Song Dynasty in ancient China was surprisingly high. “Jade-colored Goryeo cheong-ja is the best under heaven.” ++ From historical f...

 Among the many global shopping markets, Dongdaemun market is a unique mall where a lot of small-scale wholesalers maintain sustainable management in a state of perfect competition. At first glance, we cannot believe that the small size wholesalers will be able to survive in such a perfectly competitive market.  In fact, just as to live is to fight, trading in the market is fighting. In other words, commerce itself is an economic behavior that fights like a war. Right or not, it is a fact. For that reason, everyone may think that a big company with economies of scale, such as monopoly or oligopoly, has great market power in the situation. However, that’s not true. Or rather, in a perfectly competitive market, small size wholesalers can have higher market competitiveness in the long run and sustained business performance. In such a marketplace, there is the golden rule of Adam Smith’s laissez-faire economy, and it is also the land of dreams for the happiness and peace of all. M...

 “The founder’s mission was not only to make his clients, indeed all women, more beautiful, but also to make them happy, to help them dream.”  Dior, a global fashion company has inherited the management mission of Cristian Dior, one of fashion legends. As Toledano Speech pdf, the fundamental value that Mr. Dior aimed was the beauty in women and the best in all people. People often view factors that influence fashion as design work, celebrities, movies or music, fashion stylists’ behavior and economy of a country, and so on. Among them, music is one of the most emotional factors. As an example, the famous Tchaikovsky’s music seems to have a great influence on fashion and its style. “Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, Swan Lake is a timeless love story that mixes magic, tragedy, and romance into four acts. It features Prince Siegfried and a lovely swan princess named Odette. Under the spell of a sorcerer, Odette spends her days as a swan swimming on a lake of tears and her nights in he...

“Fine feathers make fine birds.” Widely understanding, this proverb has the same meaning as “Fine clothes make a man.” At the Fairy and the Woodcutter, one of the most popular of all Korean folktales, is telling a story about the wing clothes and the beautiful love of the two protagonists. + “There once was a poor woodcutter who lived with his mother. One day, he helped a wounded deer escape from hunters.” “As a show of gratitude, the deer informed the woodcutter of a nearby pond where fairies came down from heaven to bathe every month. According to advice of the deer, the woodcutter hid the fairy’s winged clothing and was able to marry one of the fairies.” In this beautiful love story, the poor woodcutter lived happily with the fairy until he had two children. However, he forgot her deer’s advice to never return her fairy wings, which he had hidden before giving birth to three children, and gave them back to her fairy. Then the fairy returned to heaven. In this way, the fair...