• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.788-807
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• 2007

To better publish geographical information on the Web, it is important to capture how Web technologies are changing. For a recent decade, Semantic Web has been developed by incorporating ontologies into the current Web, with an aim to make computers understand rather than simply display. Ontology, an explicit specification of a conceptualization, and the Semantic Web grounded on the ontology, have the potential for effective sharing and appropriate retrieval of geographical information. This paper describes a Semantic Web Service over the mobile Web that can offer pertinent tourism information according to user contexts. To do this, a tourism ontology was formalized in the PARA(Place-Attraction-Resource-Activity) ontology model by organizing tourist places, tourist attractions, tourism resources, and activities. Locational relationships between tourist places were also included in the PARA ontology model to take into account the movements of tourists on a railway network. The XML(Extensible Markup Language) Web Service in the middle tier manages the client-side request for information retrieval and the corresponding server-side response from the data provider. The PARA ontology was integrated into the XML Web Service for the concept-based discovery of tourism information. The applicability of the proposed system was tested through a simulation experiment for Tokyo tourism.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.187-199
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• 2009

The objective of the research is to investigate the causal relationships among functional value, emotional value, social value, perceived sacrifice, satisfaction, loyalty and behavioral intention. All in all, 296 respondents completed a questionnaire themselves in the presence of an interviewer who could be consulted about the response scales and other technical matters. Behavioral intention models were estimated by structural equation modelling using 7 latent constructs. The results demonstrated that the confirmatory factor analysis model provided a good model fit. The unconstrained model yielded a significantly better fit to the data than the constraint model. The effects of functional value and social value on satisfaction and behavioral intention were statistically significant. The effects of perceived sacrifice, satisfaction and loyalty on behavioral intention were statistically significant. As expected, satisfaction had a significant effect on loyalty. Functional value had an indirect effect on behavioral intention through satisfaction and loyalty. Moreover, social value had an indirect effect on behavioral intention through satisfaction and loyalty. Replicating and extending this study in other regions and other samples would test the generalizability of the present findings and provide a basis for an external validation of the framework developed in this paper.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.109-118
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• 2022

The main objective of this study is to empirically analyze the relationship among the major variables of viewing motivation, audience satisfaction, and behavioral intention in the esports spectatorship based on the uses and gratification theory. Through the exploratory factor analysis, we have identified major motivation measures of esports. Regression analysis also showed key motivation factors on audience satisfaction and behavioral intention.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.111-127
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• 2013

This research introduces a case of NFC (Near Field Communication)-based exhibition support system for analyzing visitors' POB (Point of Behavior) data gathered from the system. The application of NFC technology to an exhibition space allows visitors new experiences of exposition and exhibitors to collect and analyze data about behaviors of visitors. The NFC-based exhibition support system is applied to the 'Korea Travel Expo 2013.' The visitors' behaviors are analyzed based on collected NFC tag touch data and association rules among booths are extracted. Furthermore, the tag touch data are integrated with the survey data for catching the demographics-based implications.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.417-427
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of ecotourism with an endangered species, Crested ibis (Nipponia nippon). To achieve the goal, this study evaluated the concern on the Crested ibis and wetland environment by the public, the interest on the regional development, restoration of the Crested ibis, and interest to the region, and also, the behavioral intentions of the visitors to the Upo wetland. It was found that there were significant relationship between perceptions on the Crested ibis and the interests of the environment, perceptions of Crested ibis and the interest to region, perceptions of the Crested ibis restoration and interest to the environment, perceptions of Crested ibis restoration and the interests to the region, and the interest to the environment and behavioral intentions. But there was no significant relationship between the interests to the region and behavioral intentions.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.37-45
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• 2018

This study was conducted to analyze the effects of NCS-based beverage certificate education satisfaction on major satisfaction and job preparation behavior and to suggest an improvement plan. Questionnaire survey was made from May 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018 for the students who specialize in department of hotel tourism at colleges in the metropolitan area, and 271 copies of the total 300 questionnaires were used for analysis. The results of this study showed that hypotheses in this study were analyzed as having a significant positive effect and the results were found to have important effects especially on items such as 'curriculum', 'professor in charge', 'efficacy of certificate', 'type of certificate', 'satisfaction of professor', and 'major professor'. Thus, when operating the beverage certificate education program in the course of department of hotel tourism, the education program must be operated to increase the satisfaction of students by giving priority to the above items. In addition, beverage certificate has significant influence on job preparation and major satisfaction and therefore, it should be used as a strategy of student guidance to help improve the satisfaction of the department and the employment rate.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.762-772
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• 2021

This study examined the influence of viewing motivation of the Korean wave video content on viewing attitude, national image of Korea, and behavioral intention among users of the Chinese online video platform, 'bilibili.' Using an online questionnaire, a total of 355 copies were collected. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that the four items of viewing motivation (i.e., entertainment, information, relationships, and vicarious satisfaction) exerted a positive impact on the viewing attitude, while real-time discussion showed no significant impact on it. In addition, viewing attitude exerted a significant positive impact on the national image of Korea, which in turn showed positive influences on the behavioral intention (i.e., visit intention, WOM intention). This study contributed to expand the literature by discussing the Chinese major online content platform, Korean culture, and visit intention to Korea focusing on the Korea wave content. A series of theoretical and practical implications were discussed along with the directions for future research.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.156-164
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• 2024

The Metaverse as a combination of physical and digital space, provides many consumers with a different process of search, evaluation, consumption, and disposal than before, based on hyper-connected and hyper-realistic services. Therefore, it is necessary to examine what kind of sensory experiences customers feel when performing various activities in the Metaverse and how these experiences affect customers' behavioral responses. This study measured the temporal and emotional experience of the Metaverse service environment felt during the Metaverse experience journey of customers experiencing medical tourism services. The results of the study showed that the emotional experience through Metaverse had a more positive impact on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty as the intensity of the Metaverse experience deepened. In particular, it was confirmed that the emotional experience at the end of the Metaverse service had a positive influence on repurchase behavior. These results show that, just as in the real world, customer experience in the Metaverse can provide important insight into understanding customers' post purchase behavior and how service providers can develop and implement effective customer experience strategies in the Metaverse environment.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.336-350
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• 2005

The prime objective of this study is to analyze tourist's behaviors and satisfaction of the Gwangneung area and get a reading on the tourist's socio-economic traits and the propensity of activities. In addition, it highlights surveys of the tourist's consciousness of cultural, ecological and environmental tourism resources available in the Gwangneung area and the possibility for sustainable development and ways to make the most of these resources. This study found that even though Gwangneung is mostly a place for one day family outings. the tourist's demand for actually unreachable ecological resources is high while existing cultural tourism resources have less than the expected drawing power. It was also found that tourists recognize the need for preservation of the tourism resources of Gwangneung and its potential for further sustainable development. In particular, most tourists to Gwangneung are relatively satisfied with the status of preservation of its cultural and ecological resources and environment On the other hand, accessibility, tourism facilities, and management are estimated at less than desired. Gwangneung would benefit by making efforts for the positive use of its tourism resources and improvement of convenience facilities, management and operation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.447-449
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to derive related marketing implications through survey of smartphone usage of wellness tourists. Recently, wellness tourism, which combines preventive services related to health and tourism activities, is rapidly expanding. In particular, analyzing behavior such as how smartphone usage is affected by wellness activities is significant. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, we analyzed the influence of smartphone information on wellness tourists through questionnaires for tourists. In this study, we surveyed 230 tourists in April, 2017, and analyzed the wellness activities and the effect of smartphone using questionnaires. Through this analysis, it is possible to provide practicable and meaningful implications to related tourism industry providers through linkage with related companies through behavioral analysis by smartphone use of wellness tourists.