• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.39
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• pp.73-100
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• 2014

For a society to be constantly sustained, it needs its past memories to be made present into cultural memories. The state of oblivion resulted from the time difference of the past and the present is commonly made present into commemoration days or memorial spaces. Each has its own form of representation it reflects, but all are related to how past is remembered and how it will be formed. Records, especially the authentic records the nation secured, have an ontological feature of proof that is able to persuade the current present of the past present, and inherent in it is faith that originates from fundamental objectivity. Therefore the image of silence that such strictness of records creates realizes the detonation of specific memories through the act of visual exhibition. Hence, this paper endeavors to examine how the national records, particularly the photographical records, was utilized and how it influenced the people and the society after its organization, through analysing examples of memorial spaces.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.247-259
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• 2024

This study assessed the effectiveness of brand image communication on consumer perceptions of cruelty-free fashion brands. Brand messaging data were gathered from postings on the official Instagram accounts of three cruelty-free fashion brands and consumer perception data were gathered from Tweets containing keywords related to each brand. Web crawling and natural language processing were performed using Python and sentiment analysis was conducted using the BERT model. By analyzing Instagram content from Stella McCartney, Patagonia, and Freitag from their inception until 2021, this study found these brands all emphasize environmental aspects but with differing focuses: Stella McCartney on ecological conservation, Patagonia on an active outdoor image, and Freitag on upcycled products. Keyword analysis further indicated consumers perceive these brands in line with their brand messaging: Stella McCartney as high-end and eco-friendly, Patagonia as active and environmentally conscious, and Freitag as centered on recycling. Results based on the assessment of the alignment between brand-driven images and consumer-perceived images and the sentiment evaluation of the brand confirmed the outcomes of brand communication performance. The study revealed a correlation between brand image and positive consumer evaluations, indicating that higher alignment of ethical values leads to more positive consumer assessments. Given that consumers tend to prioritize search keywords over brand concepts, it's important for brands to focus on using visual imagery and promotions to effectively convey brand communication information. These findings highlight the importance of brand communication by emphasizing the connection between ethical brand images and consumer perceptions.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.161-167
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• 2021

This study was conducted for the purpose of comparing the advertising effect of Korean companies and Vietnamese domestic companies by applying the balance theory to Vietnamese consumers emerging as a new market for Korean companies. An experiment was conducted on female university students, and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to advertisements in the two countries were investigated. The results showed that there was no difference in the cognitive dimension of Vietnamese consumers' evaluation of advertisements in Korea and Vietnam, but there is a difference in the emotional dimension and the behavioral dimension. This study contributed theoretically to the possibility of applying the balance theory to the study of international advertising effects, and the implications of international advertising of Korean companies in the underdeveloped markets were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.667-678
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• 2016

National preference enables a nation to achieve more advantageous position regarding international relations. Considering this benefit, the purpose of this study is to explore determinants of national preference between Korean and Japanese college students. To pursue this aim, two versions (translated to Korean and Japanese) of survey were conducted in Korea and Japan in 2015. A total of 370 (206 of Koreans and 164 of Japanese) college students were participated in the survey. Specifically, participants were asked to respond perceptions toward multiculturalism, international experiences, and consumption of media contents. Further, participants were asked to describe their knowledge and perception toward cultural contents of partnered country via open-ended questions. The results implies that Japanese music and books are significant determinants among Korean students in developing national preference toward Japan whereas Koran drama is more an effective factor among Japanese students to build national preference toward Korea. Based on the result, theoretical and practical implications were discussed.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.89-103
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• 2011

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of the country of origin image of beef on consumers quality perception, attitude and purchase intention. In order to conduct the research, 300 questionnaires were distributed to consumers who have purchased beef in Seoul during a two-week period from December $27^{th}$, 2010 to January $10^{th}$, 2011, but only 244 were analyzed for this study. The results are as followed First, country - of-origin image of beef had significant relations with consumers quality perception, attitude and purchase intention. Second, consumers quality perception had positive relations with attitude and purchasing intention. Third, consumer's attitude had positive influence on purchasing intention. In order to enhance the country-of-origin image of beef, cows should be raised in an environmentally friendly way. Having regular checkups and using good quality feed would produce reliable products. As well, in order to strengthen the image of beef, aggressive marketing strategies are also recommended.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.2
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• pp.125-138
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to enhance document recognition system which is essential for developing full-text retrieval system of the document image data stored in the digital library of a public institution. To achieve this purpose, the main tasks of this research are: 1) analyzing the document image data and then developing its image preprocessing technology and document structure analysis one, 2) building its specialized knowledge base consisting of document layout and property, character model and word dictionary, respectively. In addition, developing the management tool of this knowledge base, the document recognition system is able to handle the various types of the document image data. Currently, we developed the prototype system of document recognition which is combined with the specialized knowledge base and the library of document structure analysis, respectively, adapted for the document image data housed in National Archives of Korea. With the results of this research, we plan to build up the test-bed and estimate the performance of document recognition system to maximize the utilization of full-text retrieval system.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.1069-1074
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• 2007

청각장애인이 PC환경에서 영화, 방송, 애니메이션 등의 동영상 콘텐츠를 이용할 때 장애의 정도에 따라 콘텐츠의 접근성에 있어서 시각적 수용 이외의 부분적 장애가 발생한다. 이러한 장애의 극복을 위해 수화 애니메이션이나 독화 교육과 같은 청각장애인의 정보 접근성 향상을 위한 콘텐츠와 기술이 개발된 사례가 있었으나 다소 한계점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현대 뉴미디어 예술 작품의 예술적 표현 방법을 구성요소로서 추출하여, 기술과 감성의 조화가 어우러진 독창적인 콘텐츠를 생산할 수 있는 기술을 개발함으로써 PC환경에서 청각장애인의 동영상 콘텐츠에 대한 접근성 향상 방법을 추출하고, 실질적으로 청각적 효과의 시각적 변환 인터페이스 개발 및 이미지 캡션 생성 소프트웨어 개발을 통해 청각장애인의 동영상 콘텐츠 사용성을 극대화시킬 수 있는 방법론을 제시하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 첫째, 청각장애인의 동영상 콘텐츠 접근성 분석, 둘째, 미디어아트 작품의 선별적 분석 및 유동요소 추출, 셋째, 인터페이스 및 콘텐츠 제작의 순서로 단계별 방법론을 제시하고 있다. 이 세번 째 단계에서 이미지 캡션 생성 소프트웨어가 개발되고, 비트맵 아이콘 형태의 이미지 캡션 콘텐츠가 생성된다. 개발한 이미지 캡션 생성 소프트웨어는 사용성에 입각한 일상의 언어적 요소와 예술 작품으로부터 추출한 청각 요소의 시각적요소로의 전환을 위한 인터페이스인 것이다. 이러한 기술의 개발은 기술적 측면으로는 청각장애인의 다양한 웹콘텐츠 접근 장애를 개선하는 독창적인 인터페이스 추출 환경을 확립하여 응용영역을 확대하고, 공학적으로 단언된 기술 영역을 콘텐츠 개발 기술이라는 새로운 영역으로 확장함으로써 간학제적 시도를 통한 기술영역을 유기적으로 확대하며, 문자와 오디오를 이미지와 시각적 효과로 전환하여 다각적인 미디어의 교차 활용 방안을 제시하여 콘텐츠를 형상화시키는 기술을 활성화 시키는 효과를 거둘 수 있다. 또한 청각장애인의 접근성 개선이라는 한정된 영역을 뛰어넘어 국가간 언어적인 장벽을 초월할 수 있는 다각적인 부가 동영상 콘텐츠에 대한 시도, 접근, 생산을 통해 글로벌 시대에 부응하는 새로운 방법론으로 발전 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.738-749
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• 2020

The stamp commemorating the inauguration of a president is the smallest historical symbol that contains a nation's vision and wishes of the times. The stamp itself is just a collection of images but contains the meaning of the highest leader's perceived image at the time through their face and a symbol. This paper regarded presidential inauguration commemorative stamps in the context of advertisement or promotional materials to structurally analyze the images of the political leaders embedded in stamps utilizing 'semiology' theory, which is considered to be a useful method of advertisement. In accordance with social and cultural changes, the 2000s, when the changes in the presidential inauguration stamp was most distinctively noticeable, was set as the time frame. Only the presidential inauguration commemorative stamps of Moo-hyun Roh, Myung-bak Lee, Geun-hye Park, and Jae-in Moon were selected for this study. In order to interpret the image, a semiotic structure was applied to reconstruct the meaning of the image of the political leaders. Since this can lead to subjective judgment in image analysis, it attempted to find the truth through comprehensive interpretation and approach it from the social and cultural contexts, not a static approach. In this paper, the images of the Korean political leaders in the 2000s shown on stamps are no longer influenced by traditional political factors such as political parties, political ideologies, and regional origins due to the evolution of democracy. This study derives the characteristics of the images of independent and characteristic leaders centered on a person according to the situations and social phenomena of the times.

• Archives of design research
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.203-213
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• 1998

The forthcoming twenty-first century is at the mercy of information and culture. A quality of humanlife is under the control of a cultural level. A nation's creative culture and a cultural level represent all things about the nation; and a national image, as a whole result of culture, is enormously influential. This new era of culturalism gives us a significant responsibility for getting ready for the late industrial society by practically harmonizing rationality of modem culture with conception of traditional culture. Industrializing culture and culturalizing industry will be the most important strategy for existence in these days of borderless international competitiveness. Cultural products which is containing a nation's own culture can not only enhance the national image, but also become high value-added industry. While general products are developed for the purpose of convenient and practical use, cultural products are created with the intention of informing international society about a nation or a region. In order to confront with a global market system and a change of cultural environment, it is necessary to create a proper design with cultural inheritance for modem likes and senses, to produce the design on a commercial scale, and to strengthen its competitiveness on international markets. In order that a commodity is born, distributed throughout markets, and delivered to a final consumer, it is essential to understand complicated process such as development, distribution and marketing of products and to systematize each part. Although we should not neglect any part, a political and systemical plan or a distributional and marketing idea will be beside the point in this article. This article presents importance of traditional patterns as a Korean cultural image, and it shows the process of designing and developing products in order for traditional patterns to be utilized for products effectively. I expect that concrete activation and systematization for those works can be carried out successively.

• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2023

Objectives: This study aims to discover how the spread of K-POP and the diversification of the Korean Wave affects Korea's national reputation. K-POP stars are diversifying their interactions with fandom by creating an online space to consume various products and services related to their stars and engage in fan activities. Because of this, this study aims to examine the relevance of K-POP to national reputation through a parasocial relationship with K-POP stars by fandom forming a community and utilizing media. Methods: An online survey was conducted in English using the Amazon survey company Mechanical Turk for BTS fans living in the United States. A total of 195 people's data, excluding incomplete responses, were used for the analysis. Results: It was found that BTS fans' social media participation activities themselves did not directly affect Korea's national reputation. But the mediating effect of BTS fans' parasocial relationship was found. That is, BTS fans' social media participation activities had a positive effect on their parasocial relationships with BTS which in turn had a positive effect on their national reputation. Conlusions: The use and participation of BTS fans in social media in Korea's national reputation has no significant effect on itself, but it has been found that it affects the national reputation through forming parasocial relationships. From the study results, the parasocial relationship of K-POP fans can be used as a strategic mechanism to enhance the national image and Korea's national reputation.