A Study on the Characteristics and Vitalization Strategy for the Multi-Complex Shopping Mall

복합쇼핑몰 활성화 방안에 관한 사례연구

Recently, Korea became the 7th country in the world which has got into the 20-50 clubs that means the population is 50 million and per capital income is $20,000. From the view point of the retail industry, it suggests that Korea should have its own self-sufficient market by itself. With abundant labor and increased disposable income, it made the consumer's needs change. Responding to the change, retail and F&B oriented retail malls are now starting to add culture, art and entertainment facilities in the configurations. Such complexity and variety of the shopping malls became trendy and many shopping complexes are scheduled to open in the near future across the country. Due to above reasons, it became the common trend to develop shopping complex all over the cities now. However, the history of the shopping mall in Korea is much shorter than developed countries such as America and Japan. Thereby, a lot of problems, trial and error have occurred in the process of developing and operating them. If development of shopping complex failed, it would return lots of damages to the stakeholder. Therefore, the corporations should develop the mall properly and government might support positively. In this study, we would like to propose on how all the mall should be developed and well managed and what are the ways for the vitalizing factors of the shopping complex after benchmarking other shopping mall cases. Through the case study, we realized that the most crucial factors for vitalizing shopping complex were interior design, merchandising and how well they operate the mall. In case of the failed shopping mall, developers sell each store to individual proprietors and never take care of them after they get the profit, which make it hard to have integrated marketing strategies. That causes the overall slump of the mall. Corporations developing the mall should operate it as well, so that it could be possible to make the mall consistently well managed and promoted. There is a certificate for the shopping mall expert in The States and Japan. However, we do not have this kind of certificate. In fact, if we judge the capability of a person who is involved in the shopping mall industry, we usually measure how many years they stick to the same industries and that is not equally the same as their competence. Therefore it is necessary to organize "Shopping Mall Associate" and introduce shopping mall license for the mall expert. Due to retail trends, we can easily see a lot of shopping facilities all over the cities but not every mall is able to be successful. We think it's essential that the government should certify the malls which are qualified for the design, merchandising and proficiency of the operation. For the qualified mall, the government could confer a benefit on the company such as reducing corporation taxes. In multi-complex shopping mall it is possible to make convenient for customers. However, if a mall failed to succeed, it would be disaster. To build a shopping complex, developers should invest huge money even take out loan so that many people would be connected to the project, which may affect their whole financial conditions. In addition, only qualified corporation should develop and operate shopping complex and the government must support and aid the developers in order to make a better shopping environment in which customers might be happy during their shopping experience.

미래 소매 유통의 핵심인 복합쇼핑몰 전성시대가 도래하였다. 본 연구는 복합쇼핑몰의 시대적 등장배경과 개념 및 유형 그리고 우리나라에 비해 이미 오래전에 쇼핑몰이 보편화된 미국과 일본, 유럽 쇼핑몰의 발전 역사를 살펴보고 국내 쇼핑몰의 발전단계와 특징 그리고 기존 복합쇼핑몰 관련 문헌조사를 실시하였다. 문헌조사 결과 복합쇼핑몰에 대한 연구는 그동안 많이 이루어지지 않았으며 더욱이 활성화 방안에 대한 연구는 거의 없었던 것으로 확인 되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 국내 복합쇼핑몰의 사례를 조사하여 활성화방안을 찾고자 하였다. 사례는 소매유통 전문가들에게 추천을 받은 복합쇼핑몰들을 심층적으로 조사 하였다. 이를 통하여 성공요인과 실패요인을 도출하고 시사점을 발췌, 정부 차원에서의 활성화 방안을 제시하였다.