Consumer Trend in Korea 2013 : 트렌드 코리아 2013 영문판

COBRA TWIST : The Top-10 consumer trends in Korea in 2013

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2008년부터 해마다 다음 년도 한국 소비자들의 움직임과 다양한 사회적인 경향을 예측해온 트렌드 코리아가 발간 5년째를 맞이하여 영문판을 출간했다. 이로써, 과학적이고 체계적인 분석을 동원하면서도 대중적으로 친근한 방식으로 트렌드 소통의 문을 연 《트렌드 코리아》는 이제 한국을 넘어 세계로 나갈 채비를 마쳤다. 최근 폭발적인 관심을 불러일으킨 K-팝과 드라마의 열풍에 힘입어 한국에 대한 세계적인 관심이 증폭한 가운데, 서울대 소비트렌드분석센터를 이끌고 있는 김난도 교수는 이 책이 한국 트렌드를 궁금해 하는 외국인(비즈니스맨과 투자자, 그리고 일반인을 통틀어)들에게 적절한 정보를 제공해줄 것이라고 말한다. 세계 어디에도 없는 다이내믹한 시장. 한국이라는 나라와 거기 사는 소비자들의 다채롭고도 역동적인 움직임을 담은 트렌드 코리아에 세계의 이목이 쏠리고 있다.

Part 1. 2012 in Retrospect

Deliver authenticity 17

Rawganic fever 27

Attention, please! 34

Give''em personalities 41

Over the generation 49

Neo-minorism 56

Blank space for my life 63

All by myself society 72

Let me choose plan B 81

Lessen your risk 91



Part 2. 2013 Trends Outlook

City of hysteria 99

OTL…… nonsense! 113

Bravo, Scandi-mom! 125

Redefined ownership 139

Arrival of detox fever 157

Tiding over burnout society 169

Whenever U want ?- the absence of seasons 182

Inconvenience is welcomed 196

Solitary lounging 210

Taste, the ascent thereof 223



Coauthors 236

2007~2012 Keywords Table 237

Index 238

김난도 Rando Kim

A professor in the Department of Consumer Sciences of College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University. He is a researcher of consumption trends and a bestselling author. He currently does consulting for Samsung Group, Amore Pacific, CJ CheilJedang, Lotte Mart, Cheil Worldwide, Halla Meister, Woongjin Coway, AeKyung Department Store (AK Plaza), I-Fashion Business Center and others, synergizing his theoretical knowledge and empirical experience.

Since 2008, Consumer Trends in Korea has been released every year-end, offering indicators of the Korean economy and consumer culture for the near future to leaders and executive managers in every industry, in addition to general consumers. His critical study on society's fervor for noted brand-name products, Luxury Korea 2007 drew an enthusiastic response from readers and selected as "the book of the year" by The Chosun-Ilbo. Based on statistical data on Korean consumer preferences, he co-authored 2011 Korea Consumption Map. His essay on the perturbed youth of our times, Youth, It's Painful ranked first among bestsellers for 30 weeks in 2011, sold more than two million copies, and was translated into foreign languages in 10 countries. Published in 2012, It Takes a Thousand Episodes of Agony to Grow Up also garnered a sensational response in bookstores, getting onto the bestseller list in the latter half of the year.