• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.87-107
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• 2022

This study aims to understand the possibility of small city marketing strategies using B-grade cultural contents. This research focused on the case of Chungju City which applied B-grade cultural contents to city marketing. The process using B-grade cultural contents to small city marketing was investigated and hash-tags and comments on social media were coded and analyzed based on grounded theory. Also, the details were examined through in-depth interviews with the local government official in charge. The result has shown the characteristics of B-grade cultural contents describing the differences from the original B-grade culture as subcuture. First, publicity materials showed the characteristics of general B-grade culture such as retro, puns, and escape, showing the process of communication/participation/empathy. Second, improbability, intertextuality, extensibility, subversiveness, and authenticity were the five main factors for responses and empathy from the audience. Third, the ripple effect was formed through the simple narrative structure of 'intro-conclusion'. Finally B-grade cultural contents of Chungju showed new possibilities for sustainable small city marketing through the formation of new cultural assets.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.621-631
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• 2017

In March of 2014, after Eduwill's new TV commercial, Seo Kyung Seok, appeared as a model, unusually, various professional comedians have spontaneously made many TV ad parody contents. It is a kind of GCC (Gagman Created Contents), which is a content created by comedians if it is called User Created Contents (UCC) by a consumer voluntarily making contents. Various popular programs of TV stations such as tvN, KBS, SBS, MBC Eduwill TV commercial parody contents was broadcasted. Euduwill TV advertising parody contents can be classified as parody contents that mimic Eduwill CM songs and comic dancings by Seo Kyung Seok. In this study, we analyzed how the characteristics of class B culture such as 'twist' and 'satire' are reflected in Eduwill TV commercial parody, and discussed the correlation between advertisement, parody contents and socio-cultural phenomenon.