The Comparative Study of Purchasing Characteristics of the Apparel Products Consumer using Internet Shopping Mall and the Cable TV Home Shopping

인터넷 쇼핑몰과 케이블 TV 홈쇼핑 이용자들의 의류제품 구매특성 비교연구

The purpose of this study is to research the reasons of this outcome by comparing the consumers purchasing characteristics of the Internet shopping mall and cable TV home shopping. A questionnaire was designed for on-line survey panels residing in Korea and the period of the survey was from July 30 to August 6, 2002. 1362 questionnaires were collected and 665 were chosen. The Frequency, %, t-test, and x2-test was performed using Korean version of SPSS 10.0. The summarized results of this study are as follows: The reasons of purchasing Apparel products through Internet and Cable TV home shopping are low price, time Saving, and convenience. The Item that is purchased most often at the Internet shopping mall is casual T-shirt. In case of the cable TV home shopping, it is inner-wears. Most of the users were satisfied with the home shopping. There are significant difference in ‘inexpensiveness of price’, ‘variety of product’, ‘sufficiency of product information’, ‘easiness of searching product’, ‘security of personal information’, ‘convenience of order’ in the side of consumers satisfaction. The reason of not using the media shopping are as follows: ‘Distrust of the product’ appeared one of the main reason of not using internet shopping mall and cable TV home shopping, accounting for 34.3%(Internet)/25.3%(Cable TV) of all respondents, followed by ‘absence of products(18.7%)’, In case of the cable TV home shopping, ‘lack of necessity of home shopping(24.7%)’ was the main reason.