• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.129-142
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• 2014

The age of local government has set in, most of the cities have made the brand slogan to create a competitive luxury city and to enable the local economy to keep pace for digital promotion policy with the regional branding. Age of limitless competition, local governments have continued to digital promotion policy the slogan, local people's awareness and satisfaction about the brand slogan is generally high, but this is noted in seven cities commonly that reflect the characteristics of the region and inconvenient distinctive identity design. This study is the meaningful to derived the problem of city brand slogan development policy through analysis the citizens awareness of seoul and 6metropolitan's brand slogan development digital promotion policy and help to become a future development and management of city brand slogan digital promotion management policy in Korea.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.41-50
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• 2021

All cities have constructed city branding strategically to intensify their competitiveness in global arena. Seoul Metropolitan has launched city brand in policy-level since 2003 and they have struggled to utilize city branding until now. This study explores the changes in Seoul's city brand in order to suggest a future direction for such efforts. The research is grounded in various domestic and foreign theories and case studies are considered from previous studies related to the place marketing, city marketing, and city branding. Relevant data were collected and analyzed, indicating that an unsure city brand requires strategic governance among stakeholders and civic consensus.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.109-118
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• 2015

Brand integration is necessary for the effective development and implementation of local brand. However, integrated brand can't be successfully used without 2 key points, concrete foundation and effective use of the brand image. The brand integration research was operated by selecting eight states council and 10 local cities that have more than one million populations. In states side, seven of eight states were experiencing lack of effective development and controlling process. On the other hand, integration effort need to be made in 10 city brands, though brand controlling process was not bad. It seems that brand improvement process that can express variety of important meaning in one simple integrated brand image is necessary. Therefore, we need to make effort to develop those integrated brands by setting brand strategies that could easily deliver wide range of meanings with simple image and making manuals to systematically manage them.