• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.81-101
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• 2015

This study considered eWOM communication not as persuasion process but as diffusion process and identified factors affecting eWOM spread. eWOM diffusion process can be divided into initial transmitting process and retransmission process. The current study analyzed the effects of informational traits(level of agreement, vividness, neutrality) of eWOM on the intention to retranmit eWOM and moderating effect of eWOM involvement. Research sample was gathered from young people because they are familiar with online communication process. Statistical analysis showed informational traits of eWOM all had a significant effects on the credibility of eWOM, credibility of eWOM influenced on the intention to retransmit eWOM significantly, and eWOM involvement moderated the relation between information traits of eWOM and the intention to retransmit eWOM. And then academic and managerial implication was discussed based on these findings.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.143-154
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• 2007

인터넷이 대중화대면서 온라인 쇼핑이 가능해졌고 구매자들은 인터넷을 통해 구매와 관련 된 경험, 서비스 등을 다른 사람들과 공유할 수 있게 되었다. 인터넷 쇼핑의 특성상 제품을 직접 눈으로 보고 만져 볼 수 없기 때문에 온라인 구전(Online Word of mouth)이 상품 구매 판단의 잣대로 활용되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 온라인 쇼핑몰에서 구전 정보 특성이 구매자들의 인지된 구전 정보 가치에 영향을 미치는지 실증적으로 분석하였다. 구전정보의 객관성, 관련성, 신빙성, up-to-dateness는 인지된 구전정보가치 즉 구매 불확실성 감소에 긍정적인 영향을 주었다. 구매 불확실성 감소는 온라인 쇼핑몰의 신뢰에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.281-288
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• 2018

The current study examined the moderating effect of visual cues in eWOM on the relationship between perceived risk and purchase intention. Specifically, the study tested the different directions of the moderating effect in positive and negative eWOM. Two studies from a 2 (perceived risk: high vs. low) by 2 (visual cue: presence vs. absence) experimental design were used with online subjects. Findings from study 1 (n=123) supported that visual cues in positive eWOM help to reduce the negative effect of perceived risk on purchase intention. However, study 2 (n=122) showed that visual cues in negative eWOM intensify the negative effect of perceived risk on purchase intention. The findings demonstrated that visual cues in eWOM influence consumers' decision under high risk conditions. We discussed findings of this study how visual cues in positive and negative eWOM can be strategically managed for new online sellers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.545-559
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• 2016

Recently consumers to access various Word-Of-Mouth information on online. And eWOM (eWOM : electronic Word-Of-Mouth) information had an important effect on consumer attitude(purchase intention). The purpose of this study is to investigate what the general characteristics of eWOM and the effects of how these factors will affect credibility, eWOM acceptance and purchase intention. In this study, the model contains information characteristics variables(consensus, newness), community characteristics(tie strength, interaction) on eWOM characteristics. This study makes contributions as follows. First, information consensus had not effect on credibility. Second, information newness and community characteristics(tie strength, interaction) had a significant on credibility. Third, credibility is the important factor on eWOM acceptance. Lastly, eWOM acceptance had a considerable influence on purchase intentions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.424-432
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• 2011

Today's wide-spread Internet technology allowed consumers to access much Word-of-Mouth information through an online board. As communication and exchanging information between travelers becomes easier and faster, e-WOM (Electronic Word-of-Mouth) is recognized as one of the most influencing communication methods in today's society. This new trend implies a significant impact to travel industry. This study focuses on interaction between Credibility on e-WOM, brand attitude, WOM acceptance, WOM activity and purchasing intention of travel product. The result of this study suggests: (1) Credibility in e-WOM provides positive effect in brand attitude, (2) Brand Attitude gives positive effect on WOM acceptance, WOM activity and purchasing intention of travel product, (3) WOM acceptance gives positive effect on WOM activity, but it is not effective on purchasing intention of travel product. Regarding e-WOM management of travel agencies through its website or online community, authors would like to argue that travel agencies need to build positive brand attitude based on Credibility in brand, which would lead consumers to positively acknowledge its brand and spread words out to other consumers.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.81-93
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• 2016

An actual analysis was made regarding how different the effect of the online WOM information characteristics on the expansion of the WOM information characteristics was depending on the level of the receiver's expertise in consideration of the sender's expertise, the vividness and Consensus of WOM information which can affect the acceptance of WOM information in this study. To begin with, the analysis results showed that the online WOM information characteristics had the positive effect on the information acceptance intention in proportion to the sender's expertise and the vividness and Consensus of WOM information. Secondly, the information acceptance intention was found to have a positive effect on the re-WOM intention. Finally, the level of receiver's expertise was found to control the effect of the online WOM information characteristics on the information acceptance intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.707-723
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to focus on the effects of different channel types of Word-of-Mouth on the product attitude. Additionally, the product involvement and gender are considered as moderating variables. The results of this study show that different word-of-mouth channel types have different effects on the product attitude, that is, off-line has more influence than on-line does. Also the product involvement moderates the relationship between the channel types of word-of-mouth and the product attitude, while the gender does not. The results imply that while building the word-of-mouth marketing strategy, companies should not only pay attention to the on-line media channel, but lay importance on the off-line communication channel.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.307-314
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• 2016

This study empirically validate the impacts of WOM information characteristics on the WOM effect in accordance with SNS media due to the increased the WOM role under SNS. The key results showed that the more vivid, negative, and objective WOM information was, the more positive impacts on the intention to adopt information. In addition, the intention to adopt information had a positive impact on the re-WOM intention. Second, there was no significant difference between Facebook and Blog groups regarding the impacts of the WOM information characteristics on the WOM effect. This can be inferred from the fact that consumers recognize all SNS media as a single online medium regardless of their characteristics in the process of accepting and spreading information. Based on these results, this research drew the following implications. It conceptualized the information characteristics factors that influence the online information acceptance process and the relationship with WOM effects by focusing on SNS and high-tech products that are rapidly emerging. This study is also significant because it attempted to expand the characteristics of WOM information and WOM effects to Facebook and blogs, which are SNS media, and proposed a future research direction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.7-11
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• 2003

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.53-68
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• 2015

This study analyzed online word-of-mouth information using content analysis to help practical categorization of two-sided eWOM. A total of 402 online consumer reviews on search goods and experience goods were collected. Descriptive characteristics(information direction, length of review line) and content structural characteristics(product benefit types, information presentation methods) were used as analysis criteria. The study results are as follows. First, the types of two-sided e-WOM direction were made of positive/negative, negative/positive, positive/negative/ positive, and negative/positive/negative. Second, the length of two-sided eWOM was longer than the length of one-sided eWOM and blended type accounted for the highest proportion both one-sided and two-sided eWOM at the aspect of product benefit. Third, holistic presentation method was overwhelmingly high in one-sided eWOM, whereas blended and analytic presentation methods were somewhat high in two-sided eWOM. Fourth, holistic presentation method was high in search goods, whereas blended and analytic presentation methods were high in experience goods. Based on these results, implications for two-sided e-WOM study and further research issues were discussed.