• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.72-83
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was firstly, to explore the design preference, consumer experience and purchasing factors of parents for smart animal toys and secondly, investigate whether there is a difference by children's sex and age. For this purpose, the questionnaire survey was conducted with 344 parents of younger children in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. As a result, the white or brown colored 20~30cm, dog-type smart toy was preferred and the sound was considered as the most important function. Besides role of toy, smart toy was expected to play as a pet, a friend and a younger sibling. Actually, dog-type smart toy were most frequently purchased. And main satisfied causes were fun, interactivity and design and dissatisfied causes were noise, price, battery life and durability of purchased smart toys. Finally, the important factors in purchasing smart toy were the safety, durability, battery life, sustainable play, education and washability. The parents' preference, customer experience and purchasing factors showed little significant differences according to the sex and the age of the children. This research will be useful in understanding parents purchasing activity of smart animal toys and provide valuable data for function construction, design and service planning necessary to develop the smart animal toy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.165-178
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• 2014

Recently, the social network game (SNG) industry is expanding at a fast pace by the increase in the charged item sales. The objective of the present study is to explore factors influencing user intention to purchase charged items. Based on the literature review, flow has been introduced as an influential factor of the intention to purchase and individual influence, social relationship, and social influence as factors of flow. Enjoyment and self-competence are assumed to be measurement constructs for individual influence, social interaction and self-presentation for social relationship, social norm and perceived critical mass for social influence. Empirical analysis show that enjoyment and self-presentation has significant influence on users' flow while self-competence and social interaction has not. Also social norms and perceived critical mass directly influence intention to purchase items. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed by this results.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.347-355
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• 2014

In this research, we analyzed the effect of environmental friendliness on consumer's purchase intention with an energy saving product. We found that the economic benefit, easy to use and environmental friendliness have significant positive(+) effects on environmental friendliness of the energy saving product. We also found that the effects of economic benefit and environmental friendliness differ by the level of consumer's environmental consciousness. Consumers with high level of the environmental consciousness are less sensitive on the change of the economic benefit and more sensitive on the change of the environmental friendliness than consumers with low level of the environmental consciousness. The results of this research imply that when planning a marketing strategy for an environmental friendly product it is important to emphasis the economic benefit to consumers with low level of the environmental consciousness while it is important to emphasis the environmental friendliness to consumers with high level of the environmental consciousness.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2017

The study figured out the preference factors which should be considered for investor on decision making of unsold apartment and analyzed by comparing the difference according to the type. Then, it investigated the preference factors through the previous studies to analyze the influence factor of decision making and demonstrated the effects through the PLS (Partial Least Squares) regression. In addition, it separated the target type to tenants and construction firms and carried out the survey for comparing the preference factors of investor type. The result of analysis found out that tenants emphasis on preference factors such as the internal factor (1.141), conditional relaxation (1.114), environment factor (1.107), social factor (1.048), external factor (1.030), educational environment factor (1.010) and etc. Then, construction firms emphasis on preference factors such as the social factor (1.401), environment factor (1.251), conditional relaxation (1.133) and etc. In addition, common preferences factors are the conditional relaxation, social factor, environment factor.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.386-396
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• 2020

This study aimed to examine the influences of an experience of purchasing random items and gambling behaviors among adolescents in South Korea. This study performed a series of binominal logistic regression analyses by using a sample of 17,520 adolescents from the 2018 Survey on Youth Gambling Problems. The findings are a follows. First, 49.9% of the adolescents had experience in buying random items. Second, an experience of buying random items among adolescents who have experienced betting games are related to problem gambling(OR=1.48, p<.001). Third, an experience of buying random items among adolescents who have no experienced in betting games are related to intention to participate in legalized gambling(OR=1.89, p<.001). Fourth, there were no gender differences in the influence of an experience of purchasing random items on gambling behaviors. Based on the findings, implications for addressing gambling problems among adolescents were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.73-81
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• 2016

The electronic commerce environment allows customers to search for information and purchase products and services via direct contact with internet markets. Purchasing through the internet is not a real experience of purchasing, but is based on some pictures, information and advertisements of products. To improve E-commerce environment in Iran, purchasing behavior of Iranian young adults in the internet shopping mall is analyzed in this study. The factors which influence the motivation of internet shopping and the selection of internet shopping mall is investigated, and statistical tests were applied between these factors and other variables such as gender, job, age and education. The results of the tests showed that there is a gender difference on one of the shopping mall selection factor (i.e., abundant information about products); also there is a gender difference on the one of the shopping motivation factor (i.e., possibility of comparing products). Besides, there is a job difference (student or non-student) on the factor of 'Purchase frequency per month'. Other facts are also found that Iranian consumers are not sure about a product's quality, so they refuse to buy products such as foods, clothes and other products. Additionally, they are dissatisfied about the safety of internet shopping malls.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.134-145
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• 2020

This study focused on the effects of Korean cosmetics selection attributes on Mongolian consumers' brand reliability and purchasing intentions. We are also to verify the relationship impacts between consumers brand reliability in advertising media and the purchase intention on the type of promotion. 255 questionnaires were collected for Mongolian consumers and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. The analysis shows that product price, image and quality that they have a positive effect on brand reliability, while familiarity has not had a meaningful impact on brand reliability. Moreover, brand reliability has been shown to have a positive effect on purchasing intention. As a result of the adjustment effect test according to advertising media, the relationship impacts between product selection attributes and brand reliability were shown positive effect in part. Finally, the type of sales promotion were found to have a controlling effect between brand reliability and purchasing intention. These results show applicable implications for Korean cosmetics companies in terms of marketing and operations when entering Mongolia's cosmetics industry.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.302-310
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• 2007

This research, through an empirical analysis of the management of food materials in the super deluxe and deluxe hotels in Seoul, verified the difference, and established strategies according to the difference. According to the study, to enhance the level of the food material management, the introduction of scientific methods and system of the deluxe hotels has to be preceded, the training of special inspectors and the utilization of inspection methods needs improvement, and the purchasing contracts and effective purchasing methods have to be renewed. As for the storing management, the difference between hotel grades was low. The implication of this study as follows. First, to enhance the efficiency of man power operation, we have to introduce computer systems. Second, training based on the food materials purchasing manual has to be achieved. Third, we have to increase inspectors' specialty through the arrangement of man power rotation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.454-464
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• 2015

In this study, we examined the motivations of using Kakaotalk's gift that is one of services provided by Kakaotalk, the most popular mobile-based messenger. We also investigated possible effects of these motivations on the satisfaction of the Kakaotalk's service and a potential association of these motivations with the frequency of purchasing gifts using the service. In order to answer the research questions, we conducted a survey that recruited 220 users ranging from teenagers to in forties. As the main results of analysis, we identified four different types of user's motivations for Kakaotalk's gift: beneficial motivation, convenient motivation, improvised buying motivation, and entertaining motivation. Both the beneficial motivation and the entertaining motivation were significantly associated with the gratification of using Kakaotalk's gift, which was in turn significantly associated with the frequency of purchasing gifts through the service.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.332-343
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• 2020

As a study on the purchase intention of digital music, the research applied the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behavior(EMGB) with the perceived value and empirically evaluated the impact of variables such as attitude, subjective norms, positive and negative anticipated emotions, perceived behavioral control and desire on the purchase intention. The study was conducted using a survey data collected from valid questionnaires of 342 copies aimed at Chinese mobile music application users and employed the structure equation model. The findings indicate that attitude, negative anticipated emotions, perceived behavioral control towards digital music purchasing and the frequency of past behavior positively influenced users' desire for digital music purchasing. Another result has been confirmed that perceived value, which was an added variable, showed a significant impact on attitude. Along with the frequency of past behavior and desire, perceived value also exerted positive influence on purchase intention.