• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.623-628
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• 2021

The paid knowledge platforms market is growing rapidly due to the constant demand for high-quality knowledge and a change in the positive perception of paid contents. Among them, the growth of paid knowledge platforms in China is overwhelming. The various paid knowledge platforms have emerged in China over the years, and Zhihu occupies the largest share among them. There have been some studies on paid knowledge platforms in China, but studies centered on Zhihu were relatively insufficient, so I conducted the research on Zhihu. In this paper, the development status of China's paid knowledge platform was investigated, the functions provided to users based on the menu configuration of the Zhihu app were analyzed and the business model of Zhihu was explored. In addition, the features of Zhihu were analyzed. It is expected that this paper will be an important data for research on paid knowledge platform.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.209-211
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 지상파 UHD 방송망 기반으로 제공되고 있는 공통경보프로토콜(CAP) 메시지 기반의 리치미디어 재난경보 서비스를 케이블 방송이나 IPTV 등 유료방송 플랫폼으로 확대적용한 시스템의 현장실험 결과를 분석한다. 우선 현재 서비스중인 지상파 UHD 방송망 기반 리치미디어 재난경보 서비스를 유료방송 플랫폼으로 확대하기 위한 시스템의 개념도를 설명하고, 시스템을 구성하는 모듈의 기능 및 동작을 서술한다. 이를 적용하여 구현된 시스템에 대해 실환경 지상파 UHD 방송망 및 유료방송 플랫폼에서 현장실험을 수행한 결과를 분석한다. 이를 통해 현재 서비스 중인 지상파 UHD 방송망 기반 재난경보 방송 서비스를 다양한 형태의 방송 플랫폼으로 확대 적용하고, 정보 취약계층 등으로의 서비스 확산에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.

• 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.13 no.8
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• pp.348-359
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• 2013

The core of contents monetization is the consumer's willingness to pay. In the past, the terrestrial contents can be used through the frequency for free. As the terrestrial contents use via online services has been increased, the importance of willingness to pay for the broadcasting contents is getting bigger. To find critical factors which can influence on the willingness to pay for the terrestrial contents, independent factors are categorized into three. The independent factors are users' awareness for copyright protection, contents characteristics, and platform characteristics. The results show that attitude for paying, subjective norms for copyright protection, rapid providing of contents, quality of service, social critical point, and expected service value are found out as significant factors. This result implies that it is necessary to enhance platform competitiveness to survive in convergence environment and customer relationships should be reinforced to maintain them as loyal customers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.122-138
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• 2015

This research examines factors affecting behavioral intention to use integrated platform (IP), which is one of the business models regarding paid digital contents, based on extended United Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). IP is a service which is designed to make digital content charged. It combines digitalized format of newspaper, premium news or behind news, and additional information. The results of this paper show that effort expectancy, social influence and hedonic motivation have positive relationship with behavioral intention to use IP (BI). Satisfaction with newspaper shows negative relationship with BI, which means that newspaper and IP can be replaced with each other. Newspaper subscribers tend to have higher BI than non-subscribers. Performance expectancy, gender, age, and satisfaction with website do not have significant effect on BI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.141-143
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• 2023

콘솔 및 PC 게임이 모바일 플랫폼으로 진출하는 경우 기존에 출시했던 플랫폼과 다르게 모바일 플랫폼에 맞는 조작, UI, 과금 정책 등의 다양한 부분을 고려할 필요가 있다. 모바일 플랫폼의 화면 크기 조작의 한계를 반영해 전투, 퀘스트 진행, 파티 조합, 장비 장착, 캐릭터 육성 등 게임 플레이 전반의 자동 시스템을 구축해 유저에게 조작 편의성을 제공할 필요가 있다. 또한 기존의 유료화 게임 형태의 판매 전략에서 부분 유료화의 전환에 따른 기존의 유저가 느낄 수 있는 과금 거부감을 해소하기 위해 시즌 패스, 월정액 시스템 등을 도입해 소 과금으로 유저들에게 게임 내에서 만족감을 느낄 수 있도록 하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 게임의 일회적인 판매량이 매출에 영향을 주는 것과 다르게 주기적인 유저들의 접속(DAU, MAU)에 따른 과금 정도가 매출 및 게임 순위 등에 영향을 주게 된다. 따라서 꾸준한 업데이트와 이벤트 제공을 통해 기존 유저들이 장기적으로 게임에 접속하도록 유도하고, 신규 유저들이 게임에 유입될 수 있도록 하는 과정과 같은 발전 방안을 제시해 본다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.101-137
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• 2010

This paper defines markets relating to each paid broadcasting service by applying the test method of critical sales loss to the results of survey to the paid service subscribers. The result confirms the existence of a meaningful competitive relationship--in terms of the Competition Law--among all paid broadcasting services included in this study, or at least analog cable broadcasting, digital cable broadcasting, and real time IPTV(Internet Protocol TV) service. This indicates that current regulations which are being applied to cable TV, satellite broadcasting, and IPTV are actually discriminatory. Based on these analysis results, this paper suggests that the main attention for the improvement of regulations should be focused on regulations which are differently applied to different paid service providers. In particular, Article 20 in the Internet Multimedia Broadcasting Law is interpreted as defining the real-time IPTV as an independent market, thereby having leeway to harm fair competition among different paid service providers. Therefore, that article needs to change to give the right of equal access to contents to all the competing paid service providers. Furthermore, to put teeth in the contents equal access rule, most popular pay channels need to be designated as target contents of the rule. As for the market-share limitation regulations, the paper suggests that an upper limit on the market share should be set based on the total number of subscribers of all the competing paid services and the same limit applied to all the competing paid service providers.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.9-28
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• 2001

최근 인터넷 시장의 가장 큰 이슈는 무선환경과 컨텐츠의 유료화 움직임이다. 다양한 모바일 컨텐츠들이 무선인터넷을 지원하는 단말기의 보급과 더불어 빠른 성장세를 보이고 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 무선 인터넷 환경에 적합한 각 무선 응용프로토콜르이 보안을 고려한 보안 메커니즘을 설계하며, WAP, ME및 i-Mode방식에 대한 보안 요구사항을 분석한다. 또한, 향후 IMT2000에서도 사용 가능한 상업용 모바일 서비스 플랫폼을 검토하고, 표준화가 진행중인 자바모바일 서비스 플랫폼을 기반으로 하는 J2ME 기술인 CLDC와 MIDP를 이용해서 M-Commerce 환경에서 사용되어질 보안 플랫폼을 제시한다. 본 논문의 결과는 향후 활성화될 M-Commerce의 안전한 응용서비스 제공을 위한 보안 플랫폼 구현의 기반이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.99-109
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• 2020

Paid membership is a useful marketing method that can acquire long-term customers. This study benchmarked representative overseas memberships, Amazon Prime, Alibaba 88 Membership, and Rakuten Super Point, so that domestic shopping platform companies can refer to launch the paid membership. The membership services have in common: economic benefits, convenient experiences, and discriminatory treatment. Domestic companies should set the core customer value they want to deliver to consumers and organize the benefits so that paid membership can be operated from a long-term perspective. This study has a high practical contribution and it is necessary to conduct an empirical analysis of experts and a customer user survey in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.524-532
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• 2021

Smart TV is rapidly growing with the provision of OTT services, and has become an alternative to pay-TV services. Yet smart TV in Korea has been diffused slowly, and thus few research has paid attention to smart TV. With the global growth trend of smart TV, research on smartTV, focusing on users' characteristic and their behaviors, is critical to explain smart TV's usage. To employ the Mediapanel dataset, this study explores the impact of smart TV users' demographic factors and their pay-tv usage on smart TV usage. The results suggested that age, the type of household, household income, and market size are associated with smart TV usage. Pay-TV usage, specifically IPTV subscription and VOD expenses, have impacts on smart TV usage. Lastly the interaction effect between IPTV subscription and movie VOD expenses, has negatively associated with smart TV usage. This study may bring to re-attention to smart TV and to give insights into the industry field.