• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.320-331
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Korean food contents influence to the Korean wave favorability, country image, and visit intention to Korea. Korean food contents are defined as that information or contents related with Korea food. In this survey, total 4 type of Korean food contents, Korean food recipe contents, Korean food culture story contents, Korean food restaurant guide contents and Korean food media contents were explained. The respondents were 147 young Vietnamese in residing in Ho Chi Minh city. The data were analyzed by PLS-SEM to explore influence of Korean food favorability with Korean food contents usage. After using Korean food contents, Korean food favorability influence country image and visit intention to Korea, mediating with Korean wave favorability. While Korean food favorability was not shown to influence visit intention directly. This study would contribute to make strategic Korean food contents and distribution, further accord with Hansik Globalization.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.147-158
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• 2019

The Korean food, which has been attracting attention only as a unique culture of Korea, has become popular in the world market by being used as a material of Korean Wave and me-media. The systematic organization of knowledge for recipes and related information can highlight the value of Korean food. It will serve as a basis for improving the reusability of Korean food contents through expanded and limited search and effective browsing. This study purports to design an ontology for establishing Korean food knowledge structure. Ontology modeling is based on OWL. Vocabularies of Korean food were examined based on 32 volumes of Korean food information, and data elements were extracted by analyzing five domains and applications. As a result, the study derived classes and properties, and proposed an indexing example.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2013

한식은 최근 한식세계화에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있는 가운데 웰빙을 지향하는 세계 식품소비의 트랜드에 부합하는 만큼 세계인이 함께 즐길 수 있는 음식으로 관심을 받고 있다. 외국인 대상으로 한식에 대한 인식을 살펴보면, 비빔밥은 불고기, 갈비와 함께 인지도 및 선호도가 높은 한국을 대표하는 전통음식이다. 이 중에서 한식의 주식에 해당하는 밥류의 비빔밥은 밥 위에 여러나물과 고기를 볶아서 한데 어울려 먹는 밥으로, 여러 가지 재료가 한 그릇에 고루 들어 있어 이것만으로도 충분히 영양적으로 균형 잡힌 한 끼의 식사로도 손색이 없다. 본 연구에서는 한식을 대표하는 비빔밥과 관련된 기존 연구를 통해 연구의 흐름을 파악하고 연구의 유형을 나누어 분석하였다. 이는 한식세계화를 지향하는 오늘날 세계로 뻗어나갈 비빔밥 연구에 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.515-522
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• 2015

This paper is 1) to find out possibility of expansion which connect with Korea foods and Korea wave, 2) to analyze how Korea Wave effects on Korean food's recognition and purchase intention. The questionnaires are distributed 200 who had visited in Korea and used for data analysis 184. The findings are showed up as followed; The first, Korea wave showed up Korea wave culture factor, and recognition divide into two factors such as Korea food's function and Korea food's recognition. The second, Korea wave culture had strong influence on Korean food's function factor. The third, Korea wave culture had highly influence on purchase intention which is cooking food at home, visiting Korean restaurant, and recommendation to many acquaintance. The fourth, Korea food's recognition had high recognized on purchase intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.472-484
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• 2013

The purpose of this research is to prove a possibility which contributes the globalization of Korean dining and its potential in perceptions from international visitors about images of LOHAS they have. The main study results as follows. There were three subordinate concepts; health, eco-friendly, and substantiality. Second, perceived value noticeably affected the satisfaction of korean restaurant. respectively, the satisfaction of korean restaurant also noticeably affected customer loyalty. This research suggested academic implications of contributable view on foodservice management and tourism study based on the result from Japanese visitors with their Perceived value and domestic restaurant customer loyalty toward Korean dining LOHAS. This study also suggests the implication of the globalization of Korean dining and taking a position as a supporter of the globalization plan from korean dining foundation. Additionally, this study intended to present capable contribution based on the results of study with related proposals of globalization of Korean dining, Korea in-bound tour, and its interagency.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.145-151
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• 2020

'Hansik', or Korean cuisine is one of Korea national brands. To understand the domestic consumer awareness of Korean cuisine, data was gathered under the keyword search, 'Hansik.' Textom 3.5 was used to gather data from blogs, news media found on Naver from November 1, 2018, to October 31, 2019. The results from frequency and TF-IDF analysis indicate that the 'buffet' had the largest proportion in terms of consumer awareness to Hansik. Also, broadcasting contents starring star chefs had a great influence. The Hansik awareness did not remain in the domains of its traditionality, but also branched into extents into areas such as fusional and gourmet cuisine. UCINET6 and NetDraw were used to conduct CONCOR analysis. Four cluster formations have been found; various food cultural cluster, high-end restaurant cluster referring to aired restaurants on media, Hansik brand cluster, and Hansik buffet cluster. This study proposes presenting a various menu of Hansik which use a multiple number of ingredients. Also, a promotion that introduces fine Hansik and a development of marketing views and media contents about the convenient HMRs make the associated imagery of Hansik to be strengthen.

• Review of Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.28-35
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• 2012

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.370-380
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• 2010

This study aimed to look into a comparison of the demographical characteristics concerning behavior toward the consumption of and satisfaction with Korean foods, and intention to repurchase Korean foods by identifying the food-related lifestyles of Korean consumers. As a result of research, food-related lifestyle was divided into five dimensions, namely the pursuit of health, convenience, safety, economic efficiency, and the pursuit of taste factors. Consumers' food-related lifestyles were confirmed to exhibit a significant difference according to demographic characteristics, such as gender, residential area, age, occupation, educational background, and income, and to the characteristics of their consumption behavior of Korean foods. In detail, the food-related lifestyles of consumers in their twenties showed a higher tendency for convenience and the pursuit of taste factors, and consumers in their forties or over were likely to pursue both economic efficiency and taste factors at the same time. Overall, the pursuit of safety was discovered as being the highest tendency. Also, the food-related lifestyle that most significantly affected satisfaction with Korean foods appeared to be health and the pursuit of taste factors, and satisfaction were found to have a significant effect on the intention to revisit.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.442-452
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of job satisfaction on turnover intention by employment type, suggest positive influence to the HRM. The questionnaire was distributed from February 3rd to 23rd, of the 300 distributed questionnaire 271 copies were used in the analysis by t-test and multiple regression method to give a response rate of 90.3%. The results of the study were as followed; Firstly, it was found that the factors of job satisfaction, work itself and superiors are significant differences by employment type. Secondly, it appeared that turnover intention influenced by job satisfaction was revealed to negative significant results by work itself, promotion and payment. Based on these findings, this paper suggests implications and limitation of the research as well as future directions for the study.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.467-478
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• 2011

This study examines international tourists 'perceived images and service quality of Korean foods. A survey was conducted to international tourists(Chinese, Japanese, American) visiting Korea. The results of study show that there is a significant difference in several attributes of Korean traditional foods as perceived by international tourists along their nationality. Particularly, American tourists tend to highly evaluate Korean foods as ones good for health. The perceived attractiveness of Korean foods in terms of color and shape is higher for Chinese and Americans than Japanese. A distinct difference is also found in the importance and performance attributes of perceived quality of Korean foods by the nationality of tourists. The results of IPA for the perceived quality of Korean traditional foods show that the restaurant facility and atmosphere are identified as the ones that need to be improved across all the tourists.