ANCHOR: This year’s Seoul Fashion Week is nearing the home stretch with its finale set for Wednesday evening. Tens of thousands of buyers and visitors have attended the event so far consisting of over 50 shows.
Our Kim Eun-ji has more.

REPORT: Crowds have flocked to  Dongdaemun Design Plaza in central Seoul, the site of Seoul Fashion Week where designers have been showing their fall and winter 2015 collections over the past five days.

Hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and organized by the Seoul Design Foundation, the six-day event has attracted more than 38-thousand attendees with its finale set for Wednesday evening.

South Korea’s renowned and emerging designers took part, showing off the upcoming fall and winter season's trends.
 
Park Nae-sun, the fashion team manager of the Seoul Design Foundation, said the trending colors for the season are mustard and khaki green.
 
[Sound bite: Park Nae-sun - Fashion team manager, Seoul Design Foundation (Korean)]
“I was especially impressed with various styles that matched khaki green and mustard tone-on-tone, at [Seoul Collection’s] shows such as Munsoo Kwon and VanHart di Albazar. Also in trend for this fall and winter are stripe patterns matched on both tops and bottoms, which likely carried over from the normcore fever of the previous season.”
 
Merchandisers from 17 countries attended fashion week, including buyers from France’s Galeries Lafayette and Italy’s Yoox Group.
 
Martin Lam, attending Seoul Fashion Week for the first time and a senior buyer of menswear for the international department store Harvey Nichols, said the event was quite international with buyers from Paris, London, Hong Kong and other countries in attendance.

[Sound bite: Martin Lam, senior buyer at Harvey Nichols (English)]
“I liked the classic fabric mixed with sporty elements ... It’s a great opportunity for us to see Korean brands [that] are very trendy in the national level.”

In addition to the Seoul Collection that featured renowned designers, young designers are featured at the Generation Next program, which is specifically for brands that are less than five years old.

Making her third visit to Seoul Fashion Week, Jenny Ryu, a representative of the Hong Kong Design Center in Korea, said Asian communities are paying careful attention to rookie designers in particular.

[Sound bite: Jenny Ryu – Representative, Hong Kong Design Center (English)]
“From what I saw in the Generation Next program, I see great potential in the Korean fashion talent. ... Seoul Fashion Week is definitely becoming a platform to find young designers.
“This is why I see this being an inspiration and vision to other countries in Asia.”

Jeong Young-bin, the Seoul Design Foundation director-general, vowed to make Seoul Fashion Week into a global fashion event in the future.

Kim Eun-ji, KBS World Radio News.