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Yun-Kyung Lee

Ewha Womans University · Arts and Humanities

About the Lab

Professor Yun-Kyung Lee's research lab focuses on sustainable and innovative fashion systems, integrating technology, education, and cultural practices to address environmental and social challenges in the fashion industry. The lab explores real-time fashion systems using AI and 3D virtual environments, promotes collaborative design and upcycling in educational-industry partnerships, and investigates youth engagement with handcraft and secondhand fashion across cultures. A central theme is the democratization of fashion through personalization, circular practices, and emotional connections to clothing. The lab also examines the socio-political dimensions of fashion, particularly in relation to gender, violence, and cultural memory.

sustainable fashionreal-time fashion systemsupcyclingyouth and handcraftsecondhand fashion

Research Overview

Papers
81
Total Citations
291
Papers (5y)
29
Primary Field
Arts and Humanities

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
29total
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Citations per year (5y)
67total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|67 citations·2021
Transformation of the Innovative and Sustainable Supply Chain with Upcoming Real-Time Fashion Systems
Yoon Kyung Lee
SJR Q1SustainabilityOA

Technologies that are ready-to-use and adaptable in real time to customers’ individual needs are influencing the supply chain of the future. This study proposes a supply chain framework for an innovative and sustainable real-time fashion system (RTFS) between enterprises, designers, and consumers in 3D clothing production systems, using information communication technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and virtual environments. In particular, the RTFS is targeted at customers actively involved

Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringEngineering
2
Article|36 citations·2022
How complex systems get engaged in fashion design creation: Using artificial intelligence
Yoon Kyung Lee
SJR Q1Thinking Skills and Creativity
Social PsychologyPsychology
3
Article|18 citations·2016
American and Korean Youths’ Attachment to Handcraft Apparel and Its Relation to Sustainability
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q1Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

This research explored teenagers’ use of handcraft apparel in the United States and South Korea. Teenagers were selected for a cross national comparison of youth and their emotional attachment to handcraft apparel in terms of: use of handcraft items compared with purchased products; the relationship between the craft user and creator; and the influence of emotional attachment to handcrafts on the friendship and self-esteem of youths. Responses of US and Korean high school and middle school stude

MuseologyArts and Humanities
4
Article|18 citations·2018
Rebirth Product Development for Sustainable Apparel Design Practice in a Design Studio Class
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q1Fashion Practice

A continuous collaborative design process is explored within an educational–industry partnership involving critique, redesign and refinement, in which unsold products were upcycled and reconsidered for their appropriateness to brand esthetics and consumer use. Such collaborative partnerships help to prevent the wasteful disposal of unsold products. Students who experience the collaborative and iterative process early in their education may learn to accommodate a more sustainable set of constrain

Mechanical EngineeringEngineering
5
Article|16 citations·2021
Promoting Sustainable Clothing Behavior in South Korea with Focus on Users of Secondhand Clothing
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q1Fashion Practice

The aim of this study is to learn what is needed to improve the user’s experience of the purchase and wearing of used clothing from the secondhand marketplace. In South Korea user experiences related to purchase of secondhand clothing have been most positive when related to luxury accessories, such as designer handbags. Few studies explore the experience of South Koreans with other categories of secondhand clothing; therefore, for the purpose of this study six volunteer participants were provide

MuseologyArts and Humanities
6
Article|12 citations·2013
르네 지라르의 희생양 메커니즘으로 읽는 입다의 딸 이야기
이윤경
구약논단

지금까지 여성신학자들이 입다의 딸의 죽음의 원인을 주로 입다의 서원에서 찾으려고 한 것과 달리, 이 논문은 이 사건의 이면에 복합적인 정치적, 사회적, 문화적 모방 위기가 있음을 보이고자 한다. 필자는 이 논문을 통해 애곡제의가 단순한 애곡이 아니라, 입다의 딸이 남성들의 폭력적 모방 경쟁의 희생양임을 폭로하고, 이를 ‘되풀이하여 자세히 말하는’ 제의임을 밝힌다.

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Article|7 citations·2016
Improving Creative Design Skills : The Effects of Past Experience on Apparel Design Education
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q2Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyPsychology
8
Preprint|7 citations·2023
A Portrait of Emotion: Empowering Self-Expression through AI-Generated Art
Yoon Kyung Lee, Yong-Ha Park, Sowon Hahn
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We investigated the potential and limitations of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in reflecting the authors' cognitive processes through creative expression. The focus is on the AI-generated artwork's ability to understand human intent (alignment) and visually represent emotions based on criteria such as creativity, aesthetic, novelty, amusement, and depth. Results show a preference for images based on the descriptions of the authors' emotions over the main events. We also found that imag

Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyPsychology
9
Article|7 citations·2016
Re-Birth Design Analysis for Developing Sustainable Fashion Products
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q2Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles

Sustainability in fashion cannot ignore fashion attributes required for the design of rapidly changing and innovative products. This study examines Design development and provides a means to apply academic and industry perspectives to the investigation of Re-Birth fashion produc...

MuseologyArts and Humanities
10
Article|7 citations·2018
Re-birthed fashion handbags as a collaborative design project
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q1Fashion and TextilesOA

Abstract The term ‘re-birth’ refers to the redesign of stock items originally released through the distribution route for sale to consumers but returned to headquarters as unsold stock. As a sustainable fashion practice, products are analysed and redeveloped by designers for resale as new products. During this 4-month project, a South Korean handbag company partnered with senior apparel design students in Seoul to execute a re-birth collaboration for fashion handbags. This study addresses some o

MuseologyArts and Humanities
11
Article|6 citations·2025
Effective Fashion Design Collection Implementation with Generative AI: ChatGPT and Dall-E
Chaehi Ryu, Yoon Kyung Lee
SJR Q1Clothing and Textiles Research JournalOA

This study explored how ChatGPT, a natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) technology, can be utilized in the complex, diverse, and creative field of fashion design. This study aimed to develop effective prompts that can enable designers to efficiently utilize OpenAI. The study also explored how ChatGPT can be used to improve the efficiency of seasonal trend analysis and seasonal collection design creation. First, the authors analyzed fashion trends and fashion collection data f

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
12
Article|5 citations·2020
Collaborative economy and shared clothing: Sustainable clothing use of retired Korean men
Yoon Kyung Lee, Marilyn DeLong
SJR Q1Fashion Style & Popular Culture

The concept of a ‘sharing economy’ and practice of ‘collaborative consumption’ suggest making use of market intelligence to foster a more collaborative and sustainable society. The clothing behaviour of retired men can be explained by social and economic changes that expose them to new cultural influences. Our goal was to evaluate the probability of success of a clothing sharing service in a collaborative economy. Hence, we examined the possibility of sharing idle clothing through a sustainable

MarketingBusiness, Management and Accounting
13
Article|5 citations·2017
The Age of 4.0 Industry, the ICT Convergence in Fashion Industry
Yoon Kyung Lee
JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY DESIGN CULTURE

제4차 산업혁명은 각 영역의 경계가 무너지고 수평적, 개방적, 다양한 다양성을 바탕으로 한 창의적인 융합이 이루어지는 시대 특징을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 제4차 산업혁명을 통해 나타나게 되는 패션산업전반의 변화를 분석하고 이에 따른 패션산업이 앞으로 나아가야할 방향을 예측하고 이를 바탕으로 패션에 나타난 ICT융합 패러다임을 제시하는 것이 그 목적이다. 본 연구의 범위에는 2000년 이후 디지털 시대가 도래된 이후부터 2017년까지 패션산업과 관련하여 ICT분야가 변화 발전되어온 과정을 분석하기 위해 2010년 이후의 논문, 2015년 이후의 출판물 등의 문헌과 인터넷 사이트, SNS 등을 통한 보고서, 보도자료, 전문가 인터뷰를 조사의 대상으로 하였다.BR 패션에 나타난 ICT융합은 SW3I (Sharing Fashion, Wearable tech Fashion, IoT, Interactive Fashion, Interface Fashion)으로 나타났으며 각각 SH3C (

MarketingBusiness, Management and Accounting
14
Article|5 citations·2017
여성 승전가의 여론 형성 기능: “미리암과 드보라의 노래를 중심으로”
이윤경
구약논단

본 논문은 여성들이 부른 승전가의 목적을 살펴보고자 한다. 여성들은 악기와 춤을 동반한 노래를 통해 무엇을 말하고자 했는가? 여성들의 승전가의 목적은 무엇이었는가? 본 논문은 이 질문의 대답을 찾고자 미리암의 노래와 드보라의 노래를 분석하고, 엄격한 가부장적 사회 속에서 어떻게 집단의 여론을 형성하고, 심지어 주도하였는지를 살펴보고자 한다. 미리암은 개별 여성의 목소리가 들리지 않는 가부장적 사회문화 속에서 여성들의 무리를 이끌고, 공적 영역에서 노래와 춤과 소고라는 음악적 수행 행위를 진행한다. 이를 통하여, 미리암은 개별 여성의 목소리를 집단화하고, 목소리를 전달하며, 여론을 형성한다. 미리암과 여성들은 자연스러운 부대 도구를 활용한 승전가를 통하여 ‘모세가 아니라 야웨가 영웅’이라는 핵심 사실을 여론화한다. 드보라의 노래는 다양한 관계망을 담고 있고, 그 관계망 속에서 고정 관념을 해체하고 새로운 관계상을 형성하도록 여론을 주도한다. 드보라와 바락의 관계를 통해, 남성과 여성은

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Article|4 citations·2021
Fashion CAD education during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea: comparison of online and offline learning achievements
Yoon Kyung Lee
SJR Q1International Journal of Fashion Design Technology and Education

The 2019 Coronavirus Infectious Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has maximized interest in the need for and the effectiveness of e-learning classes as an alternative to face-to-face classes in schools. This study aimed to identify the factors that determine the successful implementation of e-learning classes. In this study, 99 fashion majors who attended the computer-aided design (CAD) programming classes held in the spring semesters of 2019 and 2020 participated. This study analyzed and evaluated

Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringEngineering

Research Areas

MarketingMuseologyReligious studiesExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringMechanical Engineering

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