It is highly important issue to use an energy efficiently for sustainable prosperity of mankind. From this point of view, using LED lighting can be a good alternative because it has a lot of advantages such as high efficiency, long life time and eco-friendly manufacturing process. That is the reason why using LED lighting has been encouraged worldwide. However, in situations that LED lighting is replacing traditional lighting quickly, the problem of the flicker of LED lighting has emerged as an important issue. Therefore, in foreign countries like US or Japan in order to ensure the reliability of LED lighting, study for flickering effects of the human body and test methods are have been actively conducted. But related research in domestic situation is an insufficient condition. In this study, a flicker characteristic was measured conventional lamps such as incandescent lamps or fluorescent lamp and 81 items of LED lightings which are distributed in domestic markets.

An LED (light emitting diode) has the advantages of lower power consumption, energy saving, high efficiency, long lifetime, and environmental friendliness so that it has been getting the spotlight as a next-generation light source. Thus, the application range of an LED has been extended to various fields including indoor and outdoor lighting, Recently, the high efficient LED lighting has been developed, an LED has been extended its market rapidly every year and is expected to replace the general light source within near future, In this study were measured electrical and optical properties for 6 types of LED bulbs which are being developed to replace the general incandescent lamps, and were analysed under the standard of the omnidirectional lamp required by the Energy Star.