A Longitudinal Study on the Mostly Visited Plastic Surgery Web Sites in 2006~2011 in Korea

다(多) 방문 성형외과 웹 사이트에 대한 종단적 연구 : 2006~2011년

South Korea became the country where there is the most plastic surgery per person in the world. Plastic surgery already has been the core part in the beauty industry. Therefore, in order to understand the beauty industry, we studied the characteristics of the plastic surgery's websites. From 2006 to 2011, we researched total number of 407 plastic surgery websites including, 166 the most visited plastic surgery websites, 241 comparing of bench mark websites. The collected data was analyzed by using the method of Multiple Discriminant Analysis(MDA). As a result of the research, firstly, the most visited plastic surgery websites were not a contents provider but a community website, secondly, well organized and actively adaptable of the rapid changes from environment. In addition, there were also competitiveness to become the most visited plastic surgery website and by the possibilities, the relatively large size of plastic surgery had high probability to own the most visited website. This research paper is looking forward to be used as the understanding the e-business of the plastic surgery.