• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.66
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• pp.5-27
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• 2014

The past, present, and future of online journalism in Korea are inextricably bound up with the portal site news services. In traditional journalism, finite news media took hold on news consumption completely because of performing news production and distribution simultaneously. Since then, in the age of multi-media and multi-channel, the audience selection has become more important because of greatly increasing news media and then exploding news production. In online journalism, the news distribution have emerged as the most important field because of the intensive consuming the portal site news services making use of various news easier, the characteristic of news consumption focusing on not news media brands but news media contents, etc. Therefore, the news present landscape of Korean journalism oriented news distribution has been completed by that the portal site news services became the symbol of online journalism. That the portal site news services performing only news distribution have more influence than the paper based online newspapers and Internet based online newspapers producing news means the change of media power. By this, a conflict between news media and portal site news services appears at all times.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.399-406
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between corporate reputation and the profitability. In this study, Big Data Analysis was conducted for Hyundai Motor, Shinsegae Department Store, SK Telecom, and Amorepacific to solve research problems. The results of this study show that the effect of each corporate reputation on the profitability is different according to the company. For products such as Hyundai Motor and Amorepacific that are used directly by consumers, the corporate reputation formed by the comments was more influential. In addition, distribution Service company such as Shinsegae Department Store showed more influence by online news. On the other hand, SK Telecom did not have a significant effect on profitability. Based on the results, this study emphasizes the importance of online news and comments on corporate reputation management, and aims to contribute to establishing an efficient reputation management strategy by examining the relationship between corporate reputation and profitability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.293-311
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• 2020

Recently, it is more important to study the reasons for using media than which media is selected. This paper investigates different countries as objects to conduct the survey. In accordance with the research results, in hypothesis 1, there is a positive "(+)" influence of its interestingness, informality, restlessness, news pursuit and convenience on satisfaction when college students in South Korea use net news. Taking Chinese college students as an example, there is a positive "(+)" influence of the using motivation of net news on news pursuit, habituation, interactivity, convenience and the satisfaction with net news. In hypothesis 2, the interestingness, informality, habituation and convenience of the using motivation of online news of college students in South Korea are reflected in the acceptance intention of online news, while for Chinese college students, the informality, habituation and convenience are reflected in the acceptance intention of online news. Finally, in hypothesis 3, there is a positive "(+)" influence of the satisfaction of online news on the acceptance level of online news. In addition, this research also considers that the PLS path coefficient of college students in South Korea and China is different, and the motivations and purposes for using net news by two countries are different due to the characteristics and cultures of news media in different countries, so the satisfaction is also different.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1111-1117
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• 2023

Recently, South Korean newspapers began trying to charge for online news. This study attempts to shed light on the factors that influence payment for online news by analyzing Korea Press Foundation's 2022 Media Audience Survey (N = 58,936). The results of this study showed a steady increase in past payment and paying intent for online news since 2020. Predictors of past payment for online news included gender, age, and education, and interest in political and social issues. News use through specific media (i.e., newspapers, magazines, portals, messengers, social media, video sites, and podcasts), as well as mobile applications and e-mail newsletters, were found to contribute to paid subscriptions. Based on the findings of the study, news organizations should prepare to offer differentiated news content through their own news platforms and establish concrete plans to build trust in news.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.57-67
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• 2019

The way people read news is changing, from print to screen. In this study, we aimed to understand the impact of the use of infographics in news on readers. According to a study conducted by Reuters Research Institute at the University of Oxford in 2017, the proportion of online consumers of news is steadily increasing, with over 51 per cent of Americans receiving news via social media. Additionally, newspaper subscription rates are rapidly declining. According to previous studies, the understanding of text information is higher in print media than on screen. Therefore, to compensate for the weaknesses in the understanding of online news, online news media are providing infographic news services to deliver good news. Therefore, this study attempted to understand the impact of using infographics in the news. To this end, three experiments were conducted. The findings from the study indicate that the use of infographics in news has a positive effect on users in terms of the variables measured, including cognitive effect and acceptance of news. As compared with print news, on-screen news was not as effective in terms of comprehension. However, we propose interactive infographics to enhance communication effect along with improved design.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.105-112
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• 2020

The present study aims to explore news sharers' characteristic. Specifically, it aims to look at news sharers' demographic characteristics, old media news usage and new media news usage. Besides, it also explores factors affecting news sharing behavior. The study used the second data of Korea Press Foundation. Findings from surveys suggest that first, news sharers are younger and have higher education than not news sharers. Second, news sharers use less news through old media while more news through new media. Third, political orientation, portal, SNS and online video platform new usage, messenger news reliability have positive effects on news sharing, while age and portal news reliability have negative effects on it. Based on these findings, implication, limitations, and topics for future research are discussed.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02b
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• pp.313-319
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• 2006

쇼핑, 음악, 영화 등 오프라인에서 즐기던 많은 서비스가 이제는 온라인화 되어 일상화되었다. 그 중 뉴스의 경우도 미국의 리서치업체가 조사한 결과에 따르면, 인터넷 사용자의 21%가 온라인 뉴스를 오프라인보다 더 선호할 뿐만 아니라 온라인에 대한 선호도가 비약적으로 늘고 있다고 밝혔다. 종이 페이퍼로 뉴스를 제공할 때는 정보를 제공하는 공간이 제한적이기 때문에 사용자의 행위를 어느 정도 예상할 수 있다. 그러나 상대적으로 온라인 뉴스와 같은 컨텐츠 서비스는 하이퍼텍스트를 기본으로 하기 때문에 사용자의 패턴을 정확히 파악하기가 쉽지 않다. 컨텐츠 서비스 사용 행위를 분석하기 위해 아이트랙킹, 인뎁스인터뷰 등 여러 방법론을 적용할 수 있으며, 아이트랙킹 연구는 Poynter Institute 에서 2004년도에 진행한 사례가 있지만 여전히 컨텐츠 서비스에서의 핵심 이슈인 컨텐츠 영역에 대한 관심도, 영역별 연관성 파악 등에 대한 객관적 데이터가 부족하다. 따라서 본 논문은 컨텐츠 서비스 사용자의 유저 시나리오 도출을 위해 온라인 뉴스를 대상으로 한 분석 케이스를 소개한다. 본 사용자 행동 분석 리서치 수행을 위해 원격툴을 개발하였으며, 이 툴을 실제로 적용해봄으로써 컨텐츠 서비스 분석시 가능성과 고려사항들을 함께 살펴본다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.47-57
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• 2013

Today a lot of functional areas of a firm are operated on the Web. Online shopping malls analyze web log recording customers' activities on the web to connect them to business outcomes. Not only commercial websites, but online news sites also need to collect and analyze web logs to understand their news readers' interest. However, little research has been performed yet. In this research we mined the web access log of an online news website and conduct Market Basket Analysis to uncover the association rules among the categories of news articles. The research is composed of two stages: 1) Identifying the individual session of a visitor; 2) Mining association rule from news articles read by each session. We gather 7-day access logs two times. The results of log mining and meanings of association rules are suggested with managerial implications in conclusion section.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1795-1805
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• 2015

This paper analyzed the recommendation stories in the online journalism on the user's news choice by college students in two ways. One way is recommendation stories, and the other one is their arrangement and the index of use. From the results of the analysis, 7 out of 11 types of recommendation stories had positive effects on selecting news stories, while the 4 other types had little effect. Most of the recommendation stories that had little effect on the user's news selection were 'comments' or 'things' related to tweets' on SNS. The arrangements of new stories and the searched keywords had some effects on the user's news choice but had no effect on the index of use. In addition, the hours of using news stories and the types of recommendation stories were mostly correlated with each other. Consequently, formal factors, such as the arrangement of news stories and the recommendation stories of online journalism, had positive effects on the user's news selection, as well as headlines and keywords of news stories.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.30-45
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• 2022

This study explored the issues of industrial mathematics in online news articles and online forums in Korea and the US by using text mining and compared the results. Text data about industrial mathematics were collected from news articles of Naver, a major portal site, and postings and replies on Clien as resources of Korea, and from news articles by the New York Times and CNN as well as postings and replies on Reddit as resources of the US. Structural topic modeling analyses were performed, the major results of which were as follows. First, news articles in Korea mainly dealt with the necessity of industrial mathematics and government support. On the contrary, the news articles in the US focused more on various fields where industrial mathematics fields were utilized. Second, in Korea, the same number of issues with different topics were discussed in news articles and online forums, whereas in the US more issues were covered in news articles than in online forums. It was suggested academic implications for researchers and practical implications for the government for settling industrial mathematics in Korea.