Comparative study on body shape features of Korean and Chinese young women

The measurement of 400 women aged from 20～39 from China and Korea were taken through scanning with Martin′s measuring apparatus and Karada scan to obtain the basic statistics of circumference items and body fat rate etc,and analysis of variance of the data obtained was performed by means of SPSS(10.0) package.It is found that in terms of body shape and body fat rate,the young women at the age of 20～39 both from China and Korea are quite similar.Finally,the conclusion is drawn through anthropometry that the indexes of obesity of both Chinese and Korean young women fall in the normal range.However,the body fat rate and body mass index(BMI) of Korean women were a little higher than those of Chinese women.This research was done with a view to presenting more exact data of body measurement for the clothing industry.