Artificial leather and method of manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing artificial leather, comprising:

• step S1 of preparing a back layer formed of woven fabric or nonwoven fabric;
• step S3 of separately forming a pre-foam layer or foam layer and a skin layer by molding;
• step S5 of laminating the back layer on lower surface of the pre-foam layer or foam layer;
• step S7 of laminating the skin layer on an upper surface of the pre-foam layer or foam layer on which the back layer is formed;
• step S9 of coating an upper surface of the skin layer with a water-based surface treatment agent to form a surface treatment layer;
• step S11 of irradiating an upper surface of the surface treatment layer with infrared light;
• and
• step S13 of forming an embossed pattern through vacuum adsorption molding on upper surfaces of the skin layer and surface treatment layer heated by irradiation with infrared light,
• wherein the artificial leather has a microhardness of 45 to 59,
• wherein the microhardness is a maximum value measured immediately after a needle is in contact with the artificial leather at an indentation speed of 1 mm/s in a peak hold mode using a microhardness tester (Micro durometer, Model name:
• MD-1 capa, Brand:
• ASKER), i.e., when load holding time of the needle is 1 second.