• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.47
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• pp.96-119
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• 2009

Although there ate many studies on cross-cultural comparison of advertising appeals, very little is known about how receivers from different cultures process visual images in global advertising. The purpose of this study is to examine how cultural differences between East Asians and Westerners influence the cognitive process of visual images from standardized global advertising by employing the Nisbett's framework of holistic/analytic thought. Nisbett contends that East Asian tend to attend to the context and the relations between objects and contexts as holistic thinkers while Americans tend to see the worlds analytically. The results of a experimental study conducted using 80 subjects from Korea and the United States suggest that Korean participants are more likely to mention relatively peripheral, nonsalient, or background information than are American participants. Thus, this study support the Nisbett's notion that East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than are Westerners and challenge the belief that standardized visual images are part of a "universal language".

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.143-153
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• 2018

In this study, the difference in specific family of six countries for the representation of the elements of the global advertising through investigate the degree of standardization. National and cultural background, social and economic situation compared to the differences that appear here, would you want to see. Thereby global advertising on the message expressed in this and identify the limiting factor family By country looks for any difference illustrates. The analysis shows various contrasts and differences in products group and countries. But there is no need to pursue standardization of advertising in the global market. Why standardization is needed in terms of efficiency of communication in order to achieve cost savings, and the homogenization of preference. To do this, need to find a way to communicate in a global market of consumers can relate to. After all, this is simply not the standardization of advertising is determined that the communication environment and market conditions to build.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.389-395
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• 2020

Female empowerment advertising campaigns are easily observed in the United States and European countries whereas it is rarely found in Korea. Thus, this study is designed to analyze female empowerment advertising campaigns so-called femvertising through a case analysis method. The case analysis is often employed in the field of advertising and other social sciences, especially is helpful in finding current trends. Study results found that themes of global femvertising campaigns could be categorized into 'redefining women's beauty', 'gender equality', 'education', and 'leadership'. The objective of these femvertising campaigns is to change perspectives of the society on women and change men's perspective. In terms of product category by global femvertising campaign companies, it varies from consumer goods, IT & electronics, automotive, finance, toy, non-profit organization to press. In general, femvertising targets women, but some femvertising campaigns also target men. This study also provides implications in regards with media usage strategy and advertising planning strategy.

• Korean Journal of Communication Studies
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.195-222
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• 2010

This study is aimed at examining the degree in message recognitions with respect to the same global brand Ad. campaign intended for local consumers in Korea, China, and United-States, and applying the results to the forseeable message production of global Ad. campaigns. For this purpose, we conducted a survey by providing those consumers with Anycall Ads. of Samsung mobile phones, which were inserted in local printed advertisements. We concluded that the cultural and environmental differences of markets represent different degrees in message recognitions among these three countries. This result suggests that the localization based on local cultures and market situations is more important than the general standardization in the future global brand Ad. campaigns.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.882-891
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• 1998

This study purported to analyze the condition of the degree standardization and types of global ads. in the multinational fashion brand corporations. The analyzed ads. were sampled from monthly magazines on same seasons in 1997. This study was done by means of checklists were modified other researcher's research measurments. Researcher counted of advertising message. Zero point meant perfect stan-dardization and 13 points meant perfect non-standardization. The types of advertising appeal were analyzed according to constituent unit's expression types. The results of the study proved that the degree of standardization was considerably high, which means that the multinational fashion brand corporations used the standardization strategy. In particular, the degree of standardization in sports wear and casual wear ads. was low compared with the degree of standardization in the other ads. Most of the global fashion ads. were composed of illustrations only. Besides, emotional appeal type was usually used in glabal fashion ads.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.153-158
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• 2021

The objective of this research was to examine how cultural values expressed in the contents of government and public institutions advertising, based on individualism-collectivism. This study investigated the extent to which government and public institutions print advertisements in Korea and U.S. Study 1 examined the extent to which government and public institutions print advertisements in Korea and U.S. use its intrinsic cultural values. Study 2 carried out experiment to study cultural differences in relative reaction of collectivistic and individualistic government and public institutions print advertising appeals in two countries. Findings of this study showed that cultural background plays role in the usage of government and public institutions print advertising messages and persuasive communication processes. Global marketers and advertisers realize the significance of the cultural similarities and differences that occur in diverse cultures.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.141-150
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• 2015

This study examined the negative influence of ambiguity on the attitude toward ads by using mediating variable, perceived interpretation difficulty. It also tested the moderating effect of thinking style between ambiguity and perceived interpretation difficulty. In results, we found as follows. 1) Perceived interpretation difficulty is higher in case of higher ambiguity than lower one. 2) The influence of ambiguity on perceived interpretation difficulty is moderated by thinking style. 3) Attitude toward ads is more unfavorable in higher perceived interpretation difficulty than lower one. The results of this study may provide the implications that ambiguity ads using digital convergence media has to be connected to positive attitude for being successful and marketing staffs must consider thinking style as a key success factor to establish global advertising strategy.

• Women's Studies Review
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.3-42
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• 2011

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of transnational cigarette companies' strategies to expand the female market in Korea after the market opening of 1988. Focusing on 'Virginia Slims' and 'Finesse', which are the PM and BAT's representative female brands, this study explores whether their typical advertising strategies were transformed in Korean market. After 3years from the market opening, 'Virginia Slims' gave up its brand identity and the strategy was so successful that 'Virginia Slims' continued to be 2nd best-selling brand in the imported cigarette market in Korea. In contrast, 'Finesse' maintained a typical women's cigarette image during the 1990s and consequently occupied the highest brand awareness as a female cigarette but lower market share than Virginia Slims. TTCs adapted to a doubly obstructed Korea market with its strong taboo against female smoking and a comparatively stronger legal ban on all cigarette ads targeting women. However, diverse indirect cigarette ads and promotions, which circumvented regulations, suggest that ads transforming was not to give up Korean female customers. Furthermore, the cigarette ads that the soft and mild taste of female brands are associated with healthy image rather than gendered image may appeal to Korean women without touching their emotions and desires.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.67 no.2
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• pp.1-16
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• 2017

This study was conducted to investigate how consumer global-mindedness affects global fashion out-of-home (OOH) advertising which global consumer culture positioning applies, and to examine the relations among global fashion brand OOH advertising, perceived fashion brand globalness, perceived quality and brand reputation. Data were collected from 238 general people in 20~30s in seoul and were analyzed by using statistic methods such as frequency analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural d modelling by running both SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 7.0 program. The results of this study were as follows. First of all, it indicated that the fit indexes were satisfied and the overall model of this study showed a favorable goodness of it from the results of confirmatory analysis. Secondly, consumer global-mindedness had a positive impact on preference towards global fashion OOH advertising. Finally, preference towards global fashion brand OOH advertising positively affected perceived fashion brand globalness, perceived quality and fashion brand reputation. The results implies that it is necessary that fashion brands fully understand consumers' tendency and the benefits of marketing can be maximized through global positioning OOH advertising on subways which makes consumers recognize fashion brands as global ones.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.121-128
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• 2019

This study, after analyzing 2019 Cannes Lion winners, suggests five creative trends. It was found that these global five creative trends are multi-sensory experience, integration between data and creativity, real humanism, brand activist, and consideration for socially disadvantaged. Not only visual impact or stimulus, but audio or scent could be utilized in an effort to stimulate consumers and promote brands. In 2019 Cannes Lions advertising campaigns which sought to find consumer insight through data and apply it to creativity received applause from Cannes Lions judges. In addition, advertising campaigns based on real humanism suggest that attitudes are best changed through positive experiences. Nike's 'Dream Crazy' campaign is a good example which shows a company's philosophy and brand purposes. Brands are becoming activists and are being encouraged to take real action, and for good reason. Lastly, projects such as Ikea's 'ThisAbles' and Microsoft's 'Xbox Adaptive Controller' are contrived for the socially disadvantaged.