Kolon Sports Develops Outdoor Leggings Through Industry-Academic Collaboration with KAIST

Leggings performance verification experiment scene (Photo by Kolon FnC)

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Kolon Industries FnC Division's outdoor brand 'Kolon Sports' announced on the 30th that it has developed functional leggings for outdoor use through industry-academia collaboration with Professor Hyungsoon Park's team at KAIST.

Kolon Sports launched three types of leggings that can be selected according to exercise intensity starting from last spring and summer season. Professor Hyungsoon Park leads a team researching robotics for rehabilitation therapy and neurorehabilitation engineering. Kolon Sports and Professor Park's team at KAIST produced and verified leggings effective in preventing injuries during outdoor activities such as hiking, confirming their performance.

Professor Park's team proposed the idea of adding taping details passing along the calves, back of the thighs, and edges to reduce the burden on the knees when climbing mountains, and verified it through experiments. This taping detail not only supports muscles but also showed effects of reducing muscle fatigue, increasing blood flow, and improving injury prevention rates. The research results are being prepared for introduction in overseas journals. Following Professor Park's team's proposal, Kolon Sports manufactured the leggings using a welding technique without seams for the taping details, enhancing comfort.

Park Sungchul, Kolon Sports brand manager, said, “Kolon Sports has introduced leggings optimized for outdoor activities through industry-academia collaboration,” and added, “Kolon Sports will continue various research activities to advance its leading technology.”