• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.72
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• pp.92-120
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• 2015

The objective of this study is to find out how reality game shows, the relatively new television genre, produce a sense of reality and what differences we can find from the reality they produce in compared to that of traditional reality television shows. The researchers anaylized , aired in 2013and 2014 by tvN, with focus on the show's studio setting and characters in the show. During this process, the 'game elements' and 'reality factor' were considered to be the key words. Finally, the reality produces was examined from two aspects: the production and reception. As a result, we found that the reality it produces is more than just a imitation of the real world. It shuttles between the game world and real world, and encourages audiences to recognize the plural realities in our postmodern society. We hope this study stimulates further researches on reality game show genre, which had rarely gained academic attention.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.57
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• pp.181-201
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• 2012

Classic cultivation theory and research has been noted for its failure to capture subtle variation in effects by genre and to consider tangible and practical dependent variables. Redressing these limitations, this study aimed at extending cultivation theory frame to incorporating fatalistic attitudes and reality television viewing, especially with the mediator of perceived realism. We first replicated the original cultivation effect by showing the significant effect of overall TV viewing. Even controlling for overall TV viewing, reality-based program use showed positive association with fatalistic beliefs; furthermore, the effect remained significant, additionally controlling for news(fact) use and drama(fiction) use. In a nutshell, the cultivation effect of reality-based TV program on fatalistic beliefs turns out quite stable even after controlling other competing genres.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.361-363
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• 2009

미디어 문화는 대량 생산과 거대한 수용자 집단을 구성하고 있으며, 대중의 일상성의 문화로 자리매김 하고 있는 특징을 갖고 있다. 그러나 리얼리티 TV는 대량생산과 확산에 따른 다양한 사회문화적 현상을 야기하고, 비판적 견해도 따르고 있다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 리얼리티 TV에 대한 재해석의 필요성이 요구됨을 인식하고, 이를 바탕으로 사회문화적으로 미치는 영향에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1648-1654
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to understand how the reality show program spread into global with a variety effects on social and cultural phenomenon, and textual analysis of TV reality show program 'Scandals' with a specific status. As a result of this study shows that TV reality show program 'Scandals' involves in a characteristic and a diversity of TV genre. On the other hand, textual analysis of TV reality show program 'Scandals' is about understanding the situation which create meaning in TV industry with a negative aspects of phenomenon. More over, TV industry creates lower cultural aspects of situation relate in someway to the target audiences to whom they are aimed.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.48
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• pp.231-256
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is that we regard the notion of reality that television viewers feel as presence, point out problem of measurement tool that appropriate for TV, clarify the subordinate concept of presence, and develop measurement tool that have reliability and validity. To achieve this, we paid attention to reality of television as a determinant of presence and tried to elicit proper subcategories. That is, we progressed two steps research that distinguished external characteristic and content of the media into sensible reality and cognitive reality, and develop measure item and verified statistical validity. We analyzed the second research result about measurement category of presence selected by first research and then we did Exploratory factor analysis and Confirmatory factor analysis. As a result, the first characteristic that make people experience presence is sensible reality, that is, it is the factor of sensible faithfullness, image faithfullness, and image reality as the form factor of the media. The second characteristic is cognitive reality. That is the factor of social reality, relational reality, and practical reality as the factor of media content. Synthesizing these subordinate factor, we can conceptualize presence experience as a reality of media form and content in HDTV viewing environment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.120-131
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• 2012

This study has attempted to explore the way to construct the reality and its implication of the narrative elements in TV Audition Reality Show. According to the study results, first of all, two audition reality show has added the special tasks to characters based on the competition and has developed the dramatic events sequentially. And they has suggested the course of way between survival and fail, that is, inclusion and exclusion. As that results, audiences has be immersed in the process of the justification of the star(hero) myth and the dealings of musical elements to see dramatized show of narrative. And they knew audition reality show as non-real fiction, so they enjoyed the pleasure spontaneously. These means that the empowered media reproduced the illusion like star(hero) with the purpose of the commercial and political aim and one of the ideology to acquiesce in the appropriateness of the competition.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.925-933
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• 2014

This study investigates the impact of watching motives of parenting reality TV Program, (MBC), (KBS2) on user satisfaction and rewatching. Viewing motives of parenting reality TV Program are found as 'interest', 'charm of children characters', 'relief of loneliness' and 'express everyday feelings'. The result shows that there is significant difference in watching time according to the factor of 'charm of children characters'. Also 'interest' and 'expression of everyday feelings' affect viewing satisfaction of viewers. It is necessary to plan interesting reality program and arrange attractive characters to improve viewing satisfaction of TV program.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.375-376
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• 2015

최근 들어 스타와 그의 자녀가 함께 출연하는 대형 야외 리얼리티 프로그램인 <아빠 어디가>가 중국에서 높은 시청률을 내고 있다. 2013년 첫 방송이후 많은 팬들의 사랑을 받으며, 대중들이 가장 좋아하는 프로그램으로 자리매김하고 있다. 본 연구는 중국판 <아빠 어디가>의 사례를 중심으로 프로그램의 내용 및 현황을 소개하고 이를 사회현실, 경제발전, 문화 창의성 및 프로그램 자체의 구성적 특징을 토대로 그 성공요인에 대해 조사하였다. <아빠 어디가>의 성공요인 분석은 중국 리얼리티 프로그램의 현지화와 창의성에 참고할 수 있도록 기초 데이터로 활용될 수 있으며, 향후 이러한 프로그램의 발전방향에 관한 시사점을 제시하고자 한다.

• Trans-
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• v.11
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• pp.1-35
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• 2021

This study looks to explore situations in which the authenticity of reality audition programs is inherently distorted by subjective intervention through a theoretical model of existentialism and case study of how it was practiced in an actual program. In detail, we examine the impact on the essence of human subjective intervention and the behavior by free will and use Sartre's existentialism a theoretical model and a Korean audition program series as the case for the study. We believe that the producers intended to narrow the audiences choices by creating a favorable environments for certain participants (trainees as they were called) to be recognized and liked by the voting audiences. We look to "subjectivity," the first principle of existentialism, people determine their essence through free will, and all actions in the production process are aimed at achieving that goal, which keeps the position balance of final debut group by creating the character image and personality through character making, storytelling and increasing or decrease the assigned air-time of each individuals.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.235-246
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• 2022

This study explored the effects of recent 'single life' media contents on the spread of singlehood culture for Korean youth. Extant research on the changing trends across present-centered vs. future-oriented lifestyles had focused mainly on demographic or sociological factors. "Lifestyle transforming (entertainment) reality contents" perspective suggests that reality contents revealing one's personal daily life provides not just entertaining enjoyment but also and more importantly meaningful life-changing experiences for viewers. Given the dependency of single household youth on media use, it is expected that 'singlehood life' media contents such as reality television and YouTube Vlog would have greater influence on viewers' own reality and lifestyles. Survey results indicate that viewership of 'singlehood life' contents showed significant impacts on youth viewers' identification and unmarriedness, as well as present-centered and future-oriented lifestyles. Theoretical and practical implications of these results were discussed.