• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.69-79
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• 2018

Purpose - Competition among cities around the world are rapidly shifting from competition of production factors such as labor costs and quality of raw materials to competition between the consumption factors such as quality of life, settlement environment, culture, and place. The entry into the era of competition between consumption factors is not only attracting investment for strengthening city competitiveness, but also actively inducing urban image reconstruction and new image making. Therefore, various studies related to urban marketing are being carried out. The object of this study is to investigate the effect of city brand image on city brand recognition and city loyalty based on the questionnaire of external citizens about Changwon city. Research design, data, and methodology - The data were collected from 200 Seoul and Busan citizens. Reliability and exploratory factor analysis were conducted through the SPSS program, and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were conducted by using the AMOS program. Results - As a result of the hypothesis test, six hypotheses were adopted among the nine hypotheses. In summary, pleasant image, dynamic image, and good administrative image have a significant positive impact on city brand recognition. The magnanimous image did not have a significant effect on city brand recognition. In the impact of city brand image on city loyalty, magnanimous image and good administrative image had significant positive impact on city loyalty. Pleasant images and dynamic images did not significantly affect city loyalty. In addition, city brand recognition positively influenced city loyalty. Conclusions - First, it is possible to say that there is an academic significance of this research in its contribution to regional revitalization by investigating mutual influences in urban aspect by combining place marketing with image, recognition, and loyalty. Secondly, kinetic images such as pleasant image and dynamic image have more influence on recognition, and static images such as magnanimous images have more influence on loyalty. So, further research will be necessary to establish theories. Finally, In order to increase city brand recognition and city loyalty to local city, efforts should be made to improve urban images such as pleasant image, magnanimous image, dynamic image, and good administrative image.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1574-1584
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• 2012

This study attempts to explore the design sensitivity of both luxury and non-luxury brand products, and its effect on purchase intention. As a result, there was no difference in design sensitivity between luxury and non-luxury brand product, but the effect of design sensitivity on purchase intention was found different between luxury and non-luxury brand. It shows that for luxury brand, the people with high design pursuit of the brand have high purchase intention while for non-luxury brand, the people with high design value of the brand have high purchase intention. It indicates that for luxury brands, consumers already recognize the value of its design, which does not affect the purchase intention. For non-luxury brands, it would be important to let consumers recognize their design value.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.621-638
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• 2020

Luxury companies are striving to improve their communication with customers while paying attention to online promotion and marketing activities. As companies interact with customers in luxury brand communities via various channels, they yield consumers higher value throughout the effective consumption process. In addition, this connection enhances customers' understanding of the company, making it easier for companies to acquire empathy from customers. This study aims to analyze the value factors that affect luxury brand community members' purchase intention and brand attitude. This study utilizes online survey results of four hundred prestige brand community users in China. The results reveal the positive effects of customer engagement on customer psychological empowerment and flow, the positive impacts of customer psychological empowerment and flow on community identity and brand attachment, the positive effects of community identity on purchase intentions, and the positive effects of brand attachment on purchase intentions and brand attitude. Furthermore, the results show that community types and fashion involvement partially moderate customer engagement. This study provides theoretical suggestions for relationship marketing in the luxury brand community environment. Last, this study presents practical implications that companies could utilize to create an emotional connection with their community members, resulting in an increase of customer support.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.65-77
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• 2013

Apartment brand has been used as a new strategy in Korean housing market to fulfill customer's changing needs for buying houses. A number of construction companies have succeeded in brand awareness and image building, however, they still struggle to establish brand loyalty and manage brand equity elements in balance. The purpose of this study is to analyze the brand equity building process of apartment products in Korean housing market and determine causal relationships among variables to propose strategies for long-term prosperity of the construction companies. System Dynamics modeling method is applied to describe how variables affect and are linked to each other in terms of building equity and enhancing company profits from customers' brand awareness to brand loyalty. Based on the analysis model, strategies for construction companies depending on their market share were proposed and this may support the company to achieve financial success and competitiveness among its competitors in the fast-changing market.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1-17
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• 2021

This study was examined whether the experiential marketing factors proposed by Bernd Schmitt were applicable to the consumer behavior of active seniors. The study was analyzed the influence of SEMs have on value perception of brand and attitude formation as well as the behavioral intentions of active senior consumers and whether this effect differed between the level of commitment. For empirical analysis, frequency analysis, EFA, reliability, CFA, SEM, and multiple-group comparison analysis were performed. The results showed that sense and feel factor did not have a significant influence on the value perception of brand, while think factor had a positive effect on the value perception of brand. Act factor did not affect the value perception of brand; on the other hand, relate factor had a significant effect on the value perception of brand. The result of structural equation modeling also revealed that the value perception of brand had a positive influence on attitude formation and behavioral intentions. The result of multiple-group comparison analysis confirmed that the influence of act factor on value perception of brand differed according to the level of commitment, but the positive influence of act factor on value perception of brand was limited to the high-level of commitment group. As a result of the influence relate factor had on the value perception of brand, differences existed between the two groups, and the low-level of commitment group had a greater influence than the high-level of commitment group. So it will be effective for active senior consumers to form fashion communities and let them participate in to enhance positive consumer behavior toward fashion brands.

• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.21-40
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• 2006

This researches aimed to find out the influence of Attribution making Image of hotel on Brand Loyalty at the Service Encounter. To achieve its goal, variables corresponding to the actual circumstances of hotels have been sampled on the basis of documentary studies. In addition, the research model, hypothesis, range of the research, and samples were selected and set up. Bellow Theoretical Results show us how effectively hotel's Image properties attributed at the Service Encounter can affect in making the Image of hotel positively and form the higher Brand Loyalty. Brand Loyalty can not be established at a time. Hotel's marketer will have to trace every single change of Band Loyalty through Marketing Research and Maintain a dominant position through a continuous relationship with guests.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.127-138
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Socially Responsible Advertisements and Socially Responsible Fashion Advertisements affect brand attitudes, dependent on the level of consumer recollection. The following is a summary of the main findings. Corporate Socially Responsible Advertisements had a positive effect on the behavioral attitude of consumers. However, Socially Responsible Fashion Advertisements more positively affected the emotive attitude. Considering the consumer's recollection, the influences of Socially Responsible Advertisements and Socially Responsible Fashion Advertisements on Brand Attitude were investigated. In the case of Socially Responsible Advertisement, the cognitive attitude factor, that is the rational aspect of consumers, induced a favorable response, whereas, in Socially Responsible Fashion Advertisements, the emotive attitude factor had the highest level of influence on consumers.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.373-378
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• 2021

Sponsorship is one of the communication tools that have been used for a long time to raise corporate awareness and establish favorable customer attitude. This study tried to examine the effect of corporate sponsorship, which has recently been attracting increasing attention. We empirically examined whether sponsorship and program fit, identification with a company or brand, and corporate credibility affect the reputation of the sponsoring company. For this, We conducted a survey using a structured questionnaire for 263 college students, and the collected data were analyzed through a structural equation model along with factor analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that sponsorship and program suitability had a positive effect on corporate reputation, and brand identification and reliability also had a positive effect on corporate reputation. Based on the results of the study, it was possible to obtain the implication that it is important to increase the fit of the sponsor and sponsorship program, to improve the corporate brand identification and corporate credibility in order to increase the corporate reputation through sponsorship.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.366-374
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• 2023

Growing environmental awareness around the world has made environmental issues increasingly important in business. While most past research has focused on consumers' sustainable morals and lifestyles as the main motivations for eco-friendly consumption, few studies have examined the effect of traditional marketing programs on sustainable consumption. In this study, the author posited that delicate visual cues in store retail environments, particularly visual cues of the store interiors, affect the ways consumers evaluate the brand. The author specifically tested the effect of visual congruence, or the perceived fit between brands and visual cues in retail atmospheres, on perceived brand image and trust. The results of the online survey of 622 U.S. consumers indicated that visual congruence has a significant positive effect on consumer trust in the brand. The author also hypothesized that environmental concerns would moderate the relationships. consumers' subjective environmental concerns do not moderate the positive effect of visual congruence on trust in the brand.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.259-274
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• 2017

This study estimates the random utility function of fluid milk using 1,165 survey responses in Laos. It finds that both products' attributes and individual characteristics affect consumers' preference for the milk and the hypothetical brand of Laos-Korea has a potential compared to four real dairy products. Results also show that calories have a positive relationship with consumer's preference while the price and fat content have a negative one. The decision for choosing each brand is significantly affected by individual characteristics such as gender, age, whether or not respondents live with their children, the level of education, income, the frequency of purchasing milk per week, and the region where they live. The preference for five brands appears in the order of Foremost, Nabong, Thai-Danish, Meiji, and Lao-Korea, and probabilities of purchasing each brand at the mean level are 30.9%, 17.48%, 21.48%, 15.0% and 10.39%, respectively. Nabong that was Lao national milk brand still has a significant market power even though it was closed in 2008. The policies to promote milk industry by implementing its national milk brand again would be more effective if it focuses on the young generation, female consumers, families with children, quality of dairy products, and Vientiane capital areas.