This study was conducted with purpose to investigate skin conditions, interest in appearance and dietary style of migrant women so that it could suggest skin care products and methods suitable to them, hoping the study results could be used as basic data for preparing beauty-related program and proposing appearance-related business directions in addition to correct dietary style program in social and political terms for improving the quality of life in migrant women through suggesting the method to manage appearance and its application measures in daily life by the interest level in appearance.
The study subjects were migrant women in Gwangju and Jeonnam regions and the study period was for 3 months from July 1 to October of 2012 in the method of one to one individual interviewing. The procedures of this study was to design the detailed plan of study procedures, and constituted 47 questions in total for general characteristics, dietary habits, skin conditions and interest level in appearance with 10 questions, 12 question, 11 questions and 14 questions respectively. The investigation was commenced by explanation of the investigator on the purpose of this study to the migrant women selected as samples, followed by distribution of questionnaire sheets, then the subjects were asked to respond to the questionnaire in self-administration method and the translation service to their own native language had been provided. The completed questionnaires were retrieved and any data determined as having insufficient responses or lower reliability were excluded from the analysis through data search process. The data of 111 subjects usable was analyzed as follows by using a statistics program SPSS 18.0 according to the purpose of data analysis. Cronbach's Alpha coefficients of each sub-factors of measurement items related to the interest level in appearance were ≥ 0.7 in all, it could be considered as having reliability.
Views of the general characteristics and skin type faces and a comparison of this result, nationality, life period, from the taste of the major food in their home country, a share of the home country's food eating enough can be seen that the association. The type of facial skin, Japanese had responded as complex type at the high percentage of 40.7%, while Thai people had responded as dry skin by 72.7% as the highest percentage, Uzbekistan people had responded as oily skin by 37.5%, and those from the Philippines had answered as dry skin and oily skin by 40.0% as the highest. It was also identified that in terms of facial skin type change, the high percentage has answered as 'no change'. Relevant whether the skin condition with regular meals and a comparison of this result on the degree of acne I can see that. Appearance Concern according to nationality sub-factors, the results of the comparison of the difference 1, extroverted appearance interest introverted appearance interest 2 it can be seen that the association.