• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.328-339
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• 2021

In the age of global competition, city brand is a significant element for establishing a city's competitiveness. City branding is the process of building a storytelling about cities' content. Among the various contents that differentiate cities, this study seeks to discuss the role of an event and a city brand in the process of city branding based on the city marketing and event tourism literatures. This research uses grounded theory and a case study to examine Seoul exploring the changes in the Hi Seoul Festival and the Hi Seoul city brand over the last two decades. The qualitative research includes a secondary data analysis based on case studies from domestic and foreign regions and their festivals. The analytical results indicted three limitations: inconsistency, a lack of identity, and political leverage. Based on the limitations, this study discusses the importance of the connection between city identity and event content, suggesting implications for moving forward toward a stable Seoul city branding strategy for the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.623-639
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• 2020

This study explores the factors associated with the amount of time use in leisure and social gathering activities. The analysis shows that the engaging role types of the youth, for example housekeeping and care giving, or working on the paid job are associated with the amount of time use in leisure activities. However, the factors related to time use in social gathering activities are the engaging role types of youth as well as the socializing opportunity. Compared to the other role types of the youth, the youth who are preparing for a job and is not engaged in employment, education, and training(NEET) spend more time in media leisure, travel and cultural activities, sports and reports activities, however spend less time in social gathering compared to students. The youth who have a job spend the least time in all of the leisure activities except travel and cultural activities for a weekend. Policy should remove the barriers in leisure activities and increase the opportunities for socializing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.472-485
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to look through consumer perception and image positioning, present the thoughts over the competitive strength and make better the efficiency of long-term communication strategy. It is analyzed that consumers realized differentiated value choice on seasonal destination for honeymoon. MDS is applied to provide the marketers with the framework to develop marketing strategy for destination positioned in the mind of consumer and make products efficient to create and keep the desirable position. The data was collected from the honeymooner who have planned to travel or have experienced traveled 7 different types of honeymoon destinations(Guam/Saipan, Australia/New Zealand, China, Japan, Hawaii, Thailand and Europe). It is hoped that these results will be useful for tourism and organizer to develop marketing strategy for products.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1017-1025
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• 2013

As various types of regional festivals are contributing to the growth of local economy, promoting the culture, and enhancing the region's images, representative festivals are getting more important for local governments. This study analyzed the correlation between satisfaction on festivals' attractiveness and images of the region, based on an actual field study taken with respondants who visited 2012 Anseong World's Folkloriada Festivals. Among various facets that affect festivals' attractiveness, 4 factors such as services aside from transportation and promotional guides, programs, convenient facilities, and food significantly affected tourists' satisfaction level. Tourists' satisfaction level was found to have significant impact on the enhancement of local images. Based on these findings, this paper suggests implications and limitation of the research as well as future directions for the study.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.322-331
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to suggest guidelines for analysis acknowledgement, preference with 19 local foods and 3 Koguryo foods in Dan Yang county. The questionnaires are distributed each 150 residence and tourist who visited in Dan Yang county, collected 261, then used for data analysis 232. The results are as followed. First, 4 items among 22 regional foods' marsh snail broth', 'mixed rice with acorn-starch paste', 'mixed rice with various herb', and 'baked deodeok' are ranked highly in acknowledgement and preference. Second, 4 variables which are sex, age, residence or tourists, and income had significant in acknowledgement. Therefore, making Koguryo food town near movie setting place, introduction geographically mark system, and put Dan Yang mark into merchandise would be increased acknowledgement, and also promoted local economic. Third, 3 variables except income had significant in preference. Therefore, functional effect of each food and taste for young generation would be reinforced in preference.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.54-61
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• 2007

Chungchong-namdo area is place that Baekje cultures are straggling. Many ruinses of grant exist and is having special quality of seeing area such as Muryeongwangreung, Busosanseong, Gongsansung as Baekje cultural areas' center with Kongju of Buyeo. More than goods that equip the area's color if see culture goods been selling in tourist resort that there are many resemblant goods that can see in any local and goods development is insufficient misgovernment. Tourists understand history of the area and culture through head relic of having wide knowledge official rank and master basic knowledge. This research proposes culture goods design that apply relic that is excavated in Baekje culture station as a way to based Chungchong-namdo area culture and keep another province station and discrimination. Meantime, interest about Baekje histories was lacking but interest about Baekje histories is decaying through movie or history drama etc. the latest. Hereupon, Chungchong-namdo area culture expects to be activated developing goods design that combine traditional culture and modem thing accomplishes with beauty appropriateness and formative.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.283-292
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• 2007

Recent studies on business performance in the operation of travel agency services note the importance of non-financial factors, in addition to financial factors. They also indicate that in order to enhance the business performance in travel agency services, it is necessary to emphasize the most competitive key factors based on the understanding of the circumstances with which those services are faced. The analyses of business performance in travel services and of related research Papers have showed that the major factors influencing the operation of travel agency services include the relationship with tourism-related companies the introduction of e-commerce and knowledge-based management, the services of employed workers, and brand awareness and advertising. The present study attempts to propose an approach to the efficient operation of travel agency services by reviewing and analyzing the different studies regarding these factors. To do so, this study employs the existing study reports and publications related to the operation of travel services, focusing mainly on literature review. The paper is composed of four chapters: The first is an introductory chapter; Chapter 2 provides the theoretical background; in Chapter 3 an analysis of the previous studies is attempted; and Chapter 4 presents the results of analysis and other considerable suggestions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.521-535
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to analyze the priority of curriculums on students preparing to become flight attendants using paired t-test, Borich method, and Herschknowiz's criticality function. As a result of this study, it was discovered that what flight attendants and students needed to study the most were foreign language subjects as English, Chinese, and Japanese. Therefore, a department of universities related to airline service should develop new curriculum to adapt to the trend of globalization. Also, flight attendants need curriculum including subjects related to tourism as an introduction to airline service. This means that the role of flight attendants needs to be expanded and specialized. In conclusion, a department related airline service should try to elevate its quality of education and design curriculum which will help flight attendants become specialists in their field.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.582-590
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• 2015

Road type classification and K-factors are important role when design of number of lane. In this study not only classifies road type and estimating of K-factor but also economic evaluation tries for feasibility verification. Road type analysis results, time of day traffic volume variation, weekend-factor and vacation-factor are large in recreation roads. Weekday traffic volume and weekend traffic volume are similar patterns in provincial roads. AADT is high and time of day traffic volume variation is small in urban roads. In this study compares with economic analysis that designing of number of lane between KHCM's K-factor and this study K-factor. Economic analysis results, designed roads by this study's K-factor reduce cost about 4,708 hundred million won. So this study's K-factor is economical on provincial 4 lane roads.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.208-221
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedent variables of customer citizenship behavior selected by a social exchange point of view on the Boryeong Mud Festival. Of all the questionnaires collected, 239 were included in the analysis which was performed using SPSS. Date analysis method used to frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and canonical correlation analysis. As the results of the canonical correlation analysis between the customer citizenship behavior and the social exchange point of view, there was a significant relationship between the attributes of customer citizenship behavior - loyalty, cooperation, Participation and social exchange point of view - customer satisfaction, customer confidence, perceived support of customers, justice perception. Therefore, marketing practitioner should recognize the importance of customer's perception in the service circumstance and make a managerial effort to offer the best service to customer. The result of this paper may help local festival planner and marketers for festival marketing strategy.