• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.55-70
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• 2021

This study investigates the following important financial questions using entertainment enterprises: 1) how does cash reserve affect a firm's financial value? 2) what factors influence the level of cash retention of a firm? For empirical tests, we use accounting and financial data of entertainment companies listed in the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets for a long-term time period covering from 2000 to 2018. The main findings of this paper are as follows: First, entertainment companies maintain higher level of cash holdings compared to non-entertainment companies. Second, the cash holdings of entertainment enterprises have positive influence on firms' financial value. Third, among various firm characteristics known for affecting the cash holdings level, leverage and profitability exhibit strong relationships in entertainment enterprises. Entertainment firms with lower leverage and higher profitability tend to reserve more cash inside them. These findings suggest that entertainment companies are highly valued by stock market participants as having prospective opportunities, thus, firms with sufficient cash holdings tend to have higher firm value. In addition, these findings imply that cash in entertainment enterprises functions as a substitute for debts and the cash holdings are less likely driven by agency problems.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.21-34
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• 2021

One of the important issues in finance literature is how the capital structure influences firm performance. This paper aims to investigate this relationship by focusing specifically on the entertainment industry. Taking into account the growing importance of research and development (R&D) activities in the industrial revolution 4.0 era, an additional goal of this paper is to examine how the R&D intensity moderates the relationship between the capital structure and firm performance, particularly in the entertainment industry. We find that the relationship between the capital structure measured by debt ratio and the firm performance in the entertainment industry shows distinctive features from those obtained from entire industries. While the negative influence of the increase of debt ratio is strong and consistent with various proxies when using a sample with entire industries, we cannot find this distinctive influence among entertainment enterprises. The moderating effect of R&D investments on the negative influence of debt ratio on the firm value, observed in the sample with entire industries, is not found in the sample composed of entertainment companies. These findings suggest that the influence of the debt level on firm performance and the role of R&D investments in this relationship in the entertainment industry are perceived and evaluated differently by financial market participants.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.77-78
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• 2019

과거에서 지금까지 연예인의 로맨스 루머는 엔터테인먼트 기업의 측면에서 부정적인 요소였으며 이러한 모습은 기사로도 쉽게 접할 수 있다. 이 연구는 익명성 로맨스 루머가 엔터테인먼트 기업의 가치에 미치는 경제적 영향을 사건 연구 방법을 이용해 살펴보았다. 2013년부터 2017년까지 상장된 기업을 중심으로 총 112건의 로맨스 루머를 수집하였고 80건의 비 익명성 루머. 32건의 익명성 루머로 이루어져있다. 해당 엔터테인먼트의 주식 자료가 분석에 이용되었다. 연예인의 로맨스 정보가 유출된 시점 전후의 비정상 수익률 추정을 통해 연예인에 대한 로맨스 루머 언급에 기업의 가치 변화에 미치는 유의성을 실증적으로 검증하였고, 로맨스 루머에 있어서 익명성에 대한 영향이 비익명성의 영향과 차이가 있는지 비교분석을 하였다. 연구 결과 연예인의 로맨스 루머의 언급 및 유출은 해당 엔터테인먼트 기업의 주가 변동에 통계적으로 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났으며, 추가적으로 연예인의 특성이 엔터테인먼트 기업의 주가에 어떠한 상이한 영향을 미치는지 또한 살펴보았다. 로맨스 루머의 특성은 '성별', '직업'으로 구분하였고, 이에 대한 분석 결과, 특징에 따라 기업의 가치에 큰 영향이 없는 것으로 관찰되었다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 사건연구 방법을 통해 연예인의 익명성 로맨스 루머가 엔터테인먼트 기업의 가치에 미치는 영향을 실제 시장 데이터를 활용하여 실증적으로 분석하였다는 것에 의미가 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.187-195
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• 2010

So that this study confirms going concern's availability laying focus on entertainment industry possibility of default judge, focus in cash flow that is important accounting indicator pointer to do cause of bankruptcy, payable capability, insolvent estimate etc and analyzed effect that governance gets in cash flow. The sampling period was from 2005 to 2008 and the number of samples was 44. In analysis technique, implement basic statistical, t-test, correlation, regression. Is as following if summarize result. CFO, for debt ratio, negative(-), enterprise size was exerting positive(+), and cash flow by investment activity enterprise size negative(-) influence reach.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

Big Hit entertainment corporation has been well known for value creation since it became the contents innovator in Korea to develop global artist musician BTS. By introducing sustainable innovations, as well as a mainstream of successive music entertainment growth, Big Hit entertainment corporation has became a global leader in highly competitive entertainment industry. To explain the Big Hit's contents innovation story, this study suggests a innovation momentum with two core elements: CEO's entrepreneurial leadership and platform strategy. Based on in-depth case study, this study proposes that CEO's entrepreneurial leadership allowed the Big Hit entertainment corporation to take advantage of its existing key resources and execute sustainable contents innovations. Also, creating diverse music and entertainment contents from the Weverse digital platform produce Big Hit's value creation. Based on these research results, both the contributions and implication to entertainment industry and academic field are presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.227-236
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility for Korean entertainment companies to enter into debt financing. In particular, this study focuses on the possibility of issuing corporate bond and the asset backed securities (ABS) by two leading entertainment companies in Korea: SM Entertainment (SM) and YG Entertainment (YG). Depth interview with specialists such as investment bankers (IB), bond brokers, and financial directors and executives in entertainment companies was done. The results show that IB's opinion on issuing corporate bonds by SM and YG is positive. However, they may need to meet four requirements including maintaining stable cash-flow, diversifying sales source, enhancing accounting and legal transparencies and verifying managerial capabilities. In addition, Psy' s 'Gangnam style', his global hit song, turns out to have high potential as a base asset for ABS.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.208-218
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• 2009

Entertainment industries have recently shown continuous growth as a potential high value-added market and are being acknowledged as the most promising high-efficiency industry. The following case study offers the understanding of the financial situation and the diversification of three management companies like SM entertainment, Yedang entertainment, and Sidus HQ. I analyzed through IR which is on homepage of each company, audit reports and some articles of news papers, etc. The results of this study will show that diversification of three companies are relatively stable and make efforts to expand their activities.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.77-89
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• 2019

What are the characteristics of firm executives who have led the fast-growing Korean entertainment industry since the Korean Wave in the early 2000s, and what management implications can be inferred from them? To search for the answer to these questions, we conducted a complete survey of 293 executives from 27 listed Korean entertainment companies. Research has shown that career path diversity has increased in order of general enterprise managers, IT experts, accountants, lawyers and artists, away from the limited human resources level around artists. Thirty three percent of the firms gave stock options to their CEO. This is a positive aspect as data implying that these companies have been striving to do specialization, transparent management, digital and network management, creativity management, and motivational management in the context of sustainablity. However, it was pointed out as an improvement task that the percentage of young(20s and 30s) and female executives is low, even though such people's creativity, sensitivity, initiative and dynamic quality are apt to bring out their advantages especially in the entertainment company, a typical knowledge-creative firms and that the period of the CEO's average tenure was relatively short to 4.02 years.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.11-25
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• 2018

This study analyzed how the entrepreneurial orientation of Korean CEO influenced to the performance of companies in entertainment business. The research verified the direct influence that the entrepreneurial orientation of entertainment business affected the companies' performance, and examined the diversity of TMT and the control effect of corporate governance. This study contributed to previous researches in two ways. The first, the study verified the concept of entrepreneurial orientation on entertainment business which was only focused on manufacturing or IT industry although the entrepreneurial orientation received attention as a significant research issue on middle and small venture businesses. Second, the research also verified the characteristics of CEO and executives bringing the concept of TMT's diversity in entertainment companies which were dependent on person's capacity. As a result of the research, the entrepreneurial orientation (innovation, proactiveness, risk-taking) of entertainment entrepreneurs led to a positive effect on financial performance. The research showed that the more TMT was diverse or ownership oriented management, the more broadened the positive effects.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.19-31
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• 2021

This study investigates how domestic entertainment companies' CSR activities, risk management, and producing abilities affect consumers' perception of their integrated brand assets. A survey was conducted on college students enrolled in a four-year university, and a total of 423 data were used for analysis. The result indicates the following. First, consumer evaluation of economic activity and philanthropic activity showed a positive causal relationship with the perception of integrated brand assets. Second, the higher the risk management and producing ability on evaluation of entertainment companies, the more positive the perception of integrated brand assets. Third, the main effect of producing ability was found to be significant among the four companies. In addition, regardless of the evaluation level of CSR activities and risk management, the group with a high producing ability evaluation showed a higher perception of integrated brand assets than the group with a low level of evaluation.