LAUNDRY MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME

A laundry machine and a control method of the same are disclosed. The disclosed method, which controls a laundry machine to execute a refreshing course through supply of steam, includes a course selection operation of selecting one of a plurality of washing courses (820, 830, 849), a steam water supply operation (S2) of supplying wash water to a tub (200) up to a water level for generation of steam while preventing the wash water to pass through a drum (300), when the refreshing course is selected, a steaming operation (S3) of heating the wash water by driving a washing heater (600), thereby generating steam, and a refreshing operation (S4) of refreshing the laundry by alternately executing, after the steaming operation, a tumbling driving operation to tumble the laundry within the drum (300) through rotation of the drum and a spin driving operation to rotate the laundry within the drum (300) in close contact with an inner surface of the drum, in accordance with high-speed rotation of the drum, whereby a time taken for the tumbling driving operation is longer than a time taken for the spin driving operation in the refreshing operation and whereby during a drum driving cycle the tumbling driving and the spin driving operations are repeated multiple times in the refreshing operation.