• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1222-1228
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• 2009

Recently, industrialization of sports is consisting rapidly as social part of sports is magnified by diffusion of domestic sports market and sport consumer's increase. Sports sponsorship has property of a communication policy too and contributes to climb general communication effect of corporation. The purpose of this study is that we are to review relationship among the sports sponsorship, product attitude and purchase Intention. The results of research hypotheses are that sports players, events sponsorship have effect on product attitude except teams sponsorship, then product attitude has an effect on purchase intention.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.363-374
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data to identify the communication effect of food and beverage companies' sports sponsorship activities and to find out the communication effect of food and beverage companies' active sports sponsorship activities. To this end, a survey was conducted on 300 people who participated and watched sports competitions hosted by food and beverage N companies in January, and 267 copies were used for statistical analysis to obtain the following results. First, it was found that sports sponsorship had a positive effect on corporate attitude. Second, among the factors of sports sponsorship, image enhancement, promotion, and promotion were found to have a positive effect on product attitude, but event contribution did not affect product attitude. Third, it was found that corporate attitude had a positive effect on product attitude. Fourth, corporate attitude was found to have a positive effect on purchase intention. Fifth, product attitude was found to have a positive effect on purchase intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.550-559
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• 2015

We empirically examined the effect of sponsorship on firms' performance. Among many indices measuring a firm's performance, we focused on its revenue and revealed that the performance of players sponsored by the firm has a significant and positive impact on the firm's revenue. In light of transaction data on sports equipments from its importer, our paper makes the following primary contribution by empirically examining the short run effect of sports sponsorship. We believe our findings based on the field data provide strong implications for firms faced with similar decisions.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.411-422
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of food corporations'sponsorship activities on Brand Images and Purchase Intension in professional sport industry in Korea. To accomplish the purpose, SPSS 18.0 Ver., had been conducted with 263 actual returned questionnaires. After the relevant literature reviews and analysis statistic data, three outcomes were deducted, those are, first, sponsorship factors for food corporations in professional sport industry significantly influenced on brand image. Second, Sponsorship factors for food corporations in professional sport industry significantly influenced on the purchase intension. Third, brand image of food corporation in professional sport industry significantly influenced on purchase intention. With this study, undiscovered several marketing strategies of food corporations with professional sport of Korea for their future marketing strategies could be discussed and proposed.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.99-122
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• 2005

This study intends to divide consumer's psychological attachment of pro-sport into the identification of attitudinal dimension and the identification of behavioral dimension. And then intends to examine the relationship effect between motivation variables associated with pro-sport team(concern with the team's ranking, ability of players, attraction of players) and inspection intention, sponsorship effect(sponsor brand attitude). Almost all previous studies measured such relationship at the fragmented level, then there were no previous studies on the complicated relationship between sport team and sponsorship. Because of mentioned facts, this study used structure equation model to verify such relationship. Briefly, verifying hypothesis is as follows. First, almost all motivations related to the team are connected behavioral identification through attitudinal identification. Second, when examining the relationship between psychological attachment and inspection intention, sponsorship brand attitude, psychological attachment had positive effect on inspection intention and sponsor brand attitude in the case of attitudinal identification, but it had positive effect on only inspection intention in the case of behavioral identification. Findings and corresponding implications are discussed & future research directions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.187-197
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• 2010

This study compares the national telecom commercials during the World Cup in order to investigate the communication effects of sponsorship and ambush advertising. It conducts KTF and SKT advertising in 2006 as empirical study for exploring the communication effect. As a result, empirical study says that there is no difference between sponsorship and ambush advertising in terms of attitude toward advertising, and ambush advertising results in higher attitude toward brands than sponsorship ads. The significant difference is not found in free recall, the higher rate of miscognition occurs in ambush advertising. Thus, this study confirm the significant implication that sponsorship advertising and ambush advertising should be conducted under the long-term and consistent communication strategies. This means that corporate communication strategies through sports events should be carried out centering around the campaign. It is expected that the findings of this study contribute to develop the sponsorship theory and provide practical implications on campaign strategy to advertising specialists.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.830-839
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of sport sponsorship on the advertising effectiveness by distinguishing products of high sponsorship products from low sponsorship products. For this study, 450 samples who directly spectated their game were selected using convenience sampling method, finally 426 data were used except data which didn't respond or trustlessly responded. Data was collected through questionnaires. Data was analyzed through PASW 19.0 version frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, independent sample t-test analysis, one-way ANOVA analysis paired sample t-test analysis was performed. All tests were performed using a .05 significance level. The results are as follows. First, This is the Result of T-test between brand effectiveness and gender. There is a non difference between male and female. Second, The results showed that there was statistically significant difference between the low perception perceived quality and low perceived sponsor familiarity according to current level of Education. Thirdly, This is the Result of T-test between low involvement perceptual quality, low sponsor friendly image and high involvement perceptual quality, high sponsor friendly image. There is a difference.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.214-221
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• 2018

This study was conducted to identify the negative effects of sports sponsorships on consumer attitudes towards sports celebrities and the products advertised by them. The results of this study verified the main effects of sports celebrities' responsibility level on consumer attitudes toward the sports celebrity and his/her products in cases of negative incidents. Furthermore, the moderating roles of sports celebrities' response strategies were identified. Data were collected from 135 undergraduate students in the Republic of Korea using a questionnaire. The data from nine participants were discarded because of disingenuous answers to the questionnaire; thus, the final sample consisted of 126 participants. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) of the obtained data revealed that a sports celebrity's responsibility level has negative effects on consumer attitude toward the sports celebrity and the product. The moderating effects of the sports celebrity's response strategies were also significant.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.613-636
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• 2009

This paper examines the performance of assessing sponsors and non-sponsors recall and recognition at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games perceived by Korean and Chinese university students. Using a sample of 1,573 respondents, a survey was administered in Seoul and Beijing before and after Games to compare the recall and recognition that changed between two periods. The findings reveal that the effectiveness of the 2008 Beijing Olympic sponsorship has was lower than we expected. Results were founded that while Samsung(mobile), Coca-cola, McDonald's, and Visa achieved the desired sponsorship marketing effectiveness in Korea. On the other hand, non-sponsors of Nike, Dell, AIG, Samsung(computer) and Hyundai led to obtain the benefit and resulted in increasing consumer confusion as to who is a sponsor. In China, Samsung, Coca-cola, Lenovo, Volkswagen, Visa, and PICC achieved the desired sponsorship marketing effectiveness. On the other hand, Lining, Nokia, KFC, China Merchants Bank had some impact on the effectiveness of a rival brand from an official sponsor's product category. The paper concludes by considering some issues for sponsorship marketers.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.921-937
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• 2013

Sportswear brands in particular have been intensely competing to get an opportunity to prove the value of their new technology and products through sports sponsorship. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among sports involvement, the attitude toward sports sponsorship carried by sportswear brands, brand equity, and purchase intention of the products of the sponsor's brand. The study was implemented though a descriptive survey method using a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 455 men (n=289) and women (n=166) in their twenties, residing in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and path analysis of structural equation modeling. The results revealed that sports involvement has an influence on the consumers' attitudes toward sports sponsorship performed by sportswear brands. Also, the sports sponsorship attitude of consumers had an influence on the brand equity and purchase intention toward the sponsor's brand products. It was notable that the attitude toward the manner of sponsoring of the sponsor than the contents itself of the sports event sponsored had an influence more on brand loyalty. Among the component factors of brand equity, brand loyalty showed the biggest impact on purchase intention. Considering the results, in order for sports sponsorship to be more effective, sports involvement of the target market should be considered more carefully.