• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.163-199
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• 2010

A frequent flyer program is a loyalty program offered by many airlines. Typically, airline customers enrolled in the program accumulate frequent flyer miles corresponding to the distance flown on that airline or its partners. There are other ways to accumulate miles. In recent years, more miles were awarded for using co-branded credit and debit cards than for air travel. Acquired miles can be redeemed for free air travel; for other goods or services, such as travel class upgrades, airport lounge access or priority bookings. The first modern frequent flyer program was created Texas International Airlines in 1979. This program was also adopted in Korean Air in 1984. Since then, the mileage programs have grown enormously. As of June 2009, the total member of two national airlines in Korea had been over thirty million. However, accumulated miles could be burden of airlines, because the korean corporations should record the annual financial report the accumulate mileage on a liability account by 'the international financial report standards(IFRS)' next year. The korean airlines need to minimize the accumulated miles, so that for instance Korean Airlines SKYPASS-miles expire 5 years after being earned. It means that miles earned on or after July 2008 will expire after five years if unredeemed. Thus, this paper attempt to analyze the unfairness of the mileage rules of korean airlines by examining a specific portion of the conditions relating to consumer protection, because many mileage users has difficulties using mileage programs and complained the amendment of the mileage rules. In conclusion, the contemporary mileage rules in Korea are rather unsatisfactory, because airlines is not only recognizing a mileage into a kind of benefit but also denying inheritance of mileage and the legal nature of mileage as a property right. It is necessary to amend relevant mileage rules in view of consumer protection, because air mileage is not simple benefit but a right of mileage user.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.202-216
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• 2020

In this study, we studied the utility and value of the mileage program as a strategy to strengthen the relationship with customers in the surrogate operation industry. To this end, we conducted a survey of 1,000 customers who used the service more than once, mainly from D company, which has operated the agency operation business for more than 20 years, and analyzed 309 sincerely respondents. Five characteristics of mileage use (emotional benefits, ease of use, economic usefulness, effort to acquire, variety of benefits). Two parameters (brand attitude, brand loyalty) were set, and the dependent variable was set for reuse. As a result of hypothesis test, emotional benefit, convenience of use, and economic usefulness were significant in terms of brand attitude and brand loyalty, and acquisition effort and benefit diversity did not show significant results. The results of this study showed that the surrogate operation industry should strive to strengthen the emotional benefits, convenience of use, and economic usefulness to customers in order to strengthen the relationship with the customers.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.61-69
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• 2000

인터넷이 글로벌 네트워크로써 자리를 잡으면서 전자상거래와 관련된 많은 용어를 낳고 있으며 그 중에서도 가장 많이 회자되고 있는 단어는 사이버 쇼핑몰일 것이다. 이러한 상황 속에서 시간과 공간의 제약을 받지 않는다는 사이버 쇼핑몰의 특성은 소비자와 상인 모두에게 가장 큰 매력으로 다가왔고, 촌각을 다투며 생겨나는 수많은 쇼핑몰들 속에서 경쟁력을 가질 수 있는 부분은 쇼핑몰의 구축과 운영의 방법이라는 점에 공감을 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 쇼핑몰을 자동으로 생성해주는 상점입점마법사를 구축하고 기존의 상점입점마법사들이 안고 있던 문제점을 해결하기 위한 7가지의 추가기능을 제시하고 있다. 상점입점마법사는 세 단계로 구성되고 각 단계는 복수개의 스텝으로 이루어져 있으며 각각의 스텝은 독립 모듈의 형태를 취함으로써 이를 통해 구축되는 쇼핑몰들의 차별성이 최대화 될 수 있도록 고려하였다. 추가기능은 상품 카테고리 생성, 관련 상품, 가격 비교, 인기 상품, 상점 홍보, 대체 상품, 마일리지 제도로 구성되며 이를 통해 상점입점마법사를 이용하여 구축된 쇼핑몰에서는 적용이 어렵다는 문제점에 대한 해법을 제시하고 더 나아가 SuperMall에 적용을 시킴으로써 기존의 Mall & Malls보다 경쟁력을 가질 것으로 기대할 수 있다.