• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.201-210
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• 2017

This study investigated the effect of K-POP characteristics on Korean consumers' liking, intention of listening and purchase intention of Korean products. For this purpose, K-POP characteristics were classified into musical characteristics and star characteristics. The results of the study are as follows. First, both musical characteristics and star characteristics of K-POP characteristics had a significant effect on favorability of Korean Wave content. Second, both musical characteristics and star characteristics of K-POP have a significant effect on K-POP listening intention. Third, both musical characteristics and star characteristics of K-POP characteristics had a significant effect on the purchase intention of Korean products through Korean Wave content. However, the relative influence of star characteristics is higher than K-POP characteristics. The results of this study will be useful data for promoting Korean pop among Chinese consumers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.105-113
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• 2015

This paper investigated Korean popular entertainment (K-entertainment, hereafter) tourism using theory of intention-behavior. Dividing the sample of international visitors to Seoul into the groups of "inclined actors", "inclined abstainers", and "disinclined abstainers," we examined the factors affecting such a division. The results showed that between the inclined actors and the inclined abstainers, there was no significant difference in the years of exposure to K-entertainment contents or the frequency of going to K-entertainment performance in the past. In contrast, the inclined actors were found to have a greater level of knowledge, ability, and cooperation compared to the inclined abstainers. In addition, we found that the K-entertainment performance in Korea was perceived as a substitute, rather than a complement to the performance held elsewhere in the world. Our findings suggest that interests in K-entertainment alone are not sufficient to drive the international visitors' intention to the action of attending K-entertainment performance during their visit to Korea. To this end, this study implies that it is necessary to design attractive tourism packages that include K-entertainment performance.

• Digital Contents
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• no.4 s.143
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• pp.42-53
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• 2005

디지털콘텐츠 산업도 수출 황금시대가 열렸다. 지난해 최고 키워드가 됐던‘한류’는 디지털콘텐츠시장에도 남의 말이 아니었다. 국내 선진 기술을 바탕으로 세계시장을 들썩이게 했다. 이제 국산 콘텐츠가 일본, 중국, 동남아시아를 넘어 유럽, 북미지역에서까지 잇단 성공신화를 일구고 있다. 이에 정보통신부는 올해 목표를‘세계로, 메이저 진출 원년으로’라고 잡았다. PC · SW산업에서는 서구 국가에 선수를 빼앗겼지만, 새로운 산업으로 각광받는 디지털콘텐츠산업만큼은 우리나라가 세계 시장을 선도할 수 있다는 긍정적인 전망이 쏟아지고 있다. 이에 월간 <디지털콘텐츠>는 ‘디지털콘텐츠 한류’를 꿈꾸며 해외시장 진출을 위해 노력하고 있는 국내 디지털콘텐츠 업계를 위해 해외 주요국가의 디지털콘텐츠 시장에 대한 분석자료를 연재한다. 연재 내용은 한국소프트웨어진흥원이 조사한‘2004년 디지털콘텐츠 산업 해외시장 조사 연구 보고서’를 재구성한 것으로, 이 글을 통해 해외로 진출하고자 하는 국내 디지털콘텐츠 업계 관계자들의 해외시장에 대한 보다 현실적이고 정확한 정보를 얻을 수 있기를 기대한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.431-438
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• 2016

This study focused on the Korean-wave content consumed in the global market and analyzed success/failure factors of services through business model analysis. It aims to offer an effective new media content platform model. ViKi, Drama Fever, Maaduu.com which are representative global OTT were researched on management strategy by case analysis. The success of the global OTT platform is organized into three factors, target customer coverage, revenue model and community activation. Clear and wide coverage of target customer is important to determine the value of the service. Also, revenue model based on the pay service and community for Korean-wave fandom are essential to make good performance in new media platform business.

• Digital Contents
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• no.5 s.144
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• pp.44-53
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• 2005

디지털콘텐츠 산업도 수출 황금시대가 열렸다. 지난해 최고 키워드가 됐던 ‘한류’는 디지털콘텐츠시장에도 남의 말이 아니었다. 디지털콘텐츠 업체들은 국내 선진 기술을 바탕으로 일본, 중국, 동남아시아를 넘어 유럽,북미지역에서까지 잇단 성공신화를 일구고 있다. 이에 정보통신부는 올해 목표를 ‘세계로, 메이저 진출 원년으로’라고 잡았다. 이에 월간 <디지털콘텐츠>는 ‘디지털콘텐츠 한류’를 꿈꾸며 해외시장 진출을 위해 노력하고 있는 국내 디지털콘텐츠 업계를 위해 해외 주요국가의 디지털콘텐츠 시장에 대한 분석자료를 연재한다. 연재 내용은 한국소프트웨어진흥원이 조사한‘2004년 디지털콘텐츠 산업 해외시장 조사 연구 보고서’를 재구성한 것으로, 이 글을 통해 해외로 진출하고자 하는 국내 디지털콘텐츠 업계 관계자들의 해외시장에 대한 보다 현실적이고 정확한 정보를 얻을 수 있기를 기대한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.39-54
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• 2018

This study aims to expand K-Wave business. For this, it firstly investigated previous studies and pointed out limitations of the current scope of the K-Wave business. Therefore, as a theoretical background, it attempts to construct an analysis framework based on four types of creativity type model and to redefine the concept of K-Wave business, which refers to a series of business activities that create, utilize the asset, and reuse the originality of intellectual property assets. This study analyzes the business activities of K-Wave's asset creation, utilization, and talent linkage during 2013~2017. The scope of the asset creation covers the highest ranked movies, dramas, and K-pops, while the utilization of those is analyzed in cosmetics, food, and fashion industries. The personal talent is the source of new K-Wave value creation and Webtoon IP is analyzed. As a result, in the case of movies and dramas, the representative market is China, which is the result of the efforts to avoid the continuation of China's regulation and the development of local OTTs. It is confirmed that the product development for Chinese consumers is active as activities of K-Wave utilization in cosmetics, food and fashion. Interesting is that new K-Wave content is circulated in the beauty sector. Finally, it is confirmed that Webtoon IP, which has been structured with a solid story in individual talent, is the origin of new K-Wave asset creation such as movies and dramas.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.92-101
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• 2013

Hallyu in Malaysia is considered to be in the growth stage as in countries such as Philippine, Myanmar, Hungary, and Uzbekistan. In the growth stage, Hallyu becomes increasingly popular and familiar to the general public and the sales of Hallyu-related products starts to increase. The purpose of this research is to compare how Hallyu is perceived among Malaysian youths and adults. Analysis is carried out using FGD. The two groups are asked about what they think of Korea and the success of Hallyu, how much interest they have in foreign cultures in general, and how they come into contact with them. Based on these results, problems currently facing Hallyu and possible solutions are examined. The analysis shows that the interest in Hallyu among Malaysians varies according to age and gender. Both male and female participants in their 20's have shown a much greater interest in Hallyu than the participants over 30's. But Malaysians are known to be relatively open-minded about accepting foreign cultures, and this is reflected in the current study. They view the popularity of Korean drama, movies, and music as a trend, rather than being intolerant of them. There is no concern for negativity toward Hallyu in Malaysia, but it is likely that Hallyu may be replaced by another foreign culture unless its influence is constantly maintained in the area. Therefore, it is essential to develop measures and models to not only retain, but strengthen Hallyu's influence.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.421-434
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• 2016

This research paper aims to inform and suggest methods in which Korea Media content could successfully enter the African broadcasting market. It also seeks to suggest preparatory steps and propose various policies that Korean government could provide, to aid the export process. In order to maximize the Korean media content exposure in the Kenyan market, increased financial support for subtitles and dubbing as well as launching a Korean culture center is suggested. In addition, to encourage more diverse channels to show the Korean content, joint content production between Korea and Kenya should be considered. Moreover, in analyzing the social, cultural, ethnic and local characteristics of the Kenyan people, the paper seeks to identify the most efficient method in which Korean wave could be more widespread in Kenya. Since virtually no prior research papers exist on Kenyan's social and cultural characteristics and their thought process on the Korean media content, this paper seeks to provide valuable insight and policy implications for Korean media policy makers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.33-46
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze how China, which is the largest consumption area of Hallyu broadcasting contents but the most illegal copy market infringe the rights of domestic broadcasters and what of the policy of regulatory authority in this illegal market. To this end, this study investigate the most common types of paths and methods of copyright infringement in the Internet and mobile multi-platform environments, and investigated how broadcasters responded to them with in-depth interviews. As a result of research, the most frequent type of infringement of rights of reproduction were to use links with web and apps and TV pads. In this regard, it was not easy to solve the problem of illegal copy in China in the way that domestic companies responded to individually, and it was very rare that the lawsuit was filed. In the future, the government will need to provide side support for Korean Wave broadcasting contents through steady monitoring as well as market research for eradication of illegal copy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.762-772
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• 2021

This study examined the influence of viewing motivation of the Korean wave video content on viewing attitude, national image of Korea, and behavioral intention among users of the Chinese online video platform, 'bilibili.' Using an online questionnaire, a total of 355 copies were collected. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that the four items of viewing motivation (i.e., entertainment, information, relationships, and vicarious satisfaction) exerted a positive impact on the viewing attitude, while real-time discussion showed no significant impact on it. In addition, viewing attitude exerted a significant positive impact on the national image of Korea, which in turn showed positive influences on the behavioral intention (i.e., visit intention, WOM intention). This study contributed to expand the literature by discussing the Chinese major online content platform, Korean culture, and visit intention to Korea focusing on the Korea wave content. A series of theoretical and practical implications were discussed along with the directions for future research.