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A Study on Foreigners' Experience ofWearingK Fashion -Focusing on Nepalese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Foreigners in 20s and 30s- (K 패션 착용경험에 관한 연구 -20~30대 네팔, 베트남, 몽골 외국인을 중심으로-)

  • Shreejana Maharjan;Sujoung Cha
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.15-32
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    • 2024
  • This study aimed to investigate the perceptions and preferences of foreigners residing in Korea towards K-fashion. It sought to provide suggestions for the future development of K-fashion targeting this growing demographic. The results revealed that the longer foreigners had lived in Korea, the more positively they rated Korean fashion, shopping, and culture. The majority of foreigners purchased K-fashion items online, with popular choices including T-shirts, jackets, shirts, and jeans. Both men and women identified shoulders as a common problematic area when wearing clothing, with some issues also reported in the lumbar region. In terms of preferences, younger males (teens and twenties) were more inclined towards fads and celebrity wear compared to older males (thirties and forties). Similarly, younger females (teens and twenties) showed a higher preference for functionality and celebrity wear compared to older females (thirties and forties). These findings suggest that men tend to prioritize aesthetic factors when choosing K-fashion, while women prioritize practical considerations. To better cater to foreign consumers, suggestions for the development of K-fashion include promoting it through K-pop stars, considering dimensions related to foreigners' shoulders when designing top items, diversifying colors, sizes, and patterns, and providing English versions of online shopping platforms.

The Interaction Effect of Foreign Model Attractiveness and Foreign Language Usage (외국인 모델의 매력도와 외국어 사용의 상호작용 효과)

  • Lee, Ji-Hyun;Lee, Dong-Il
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.61-81
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    • 2007
  • Recently, use of foreign models and foreign language in advertising is a general trend in Korea even though the effect has not been well-known..Most of the previous research shows rather an opposite effect claiming marketing communication is more effective when higher congruity between marketing communication and consumer's cultural values are achieved. However, the introduction of global culture due to the expansion of new media such as Internet or cable television makes the congruity not the best choice of marketing strategy. In addition, use of highly attractive models in advertising to increase the effect of advertising is general. However, recent studies show that targeted women audience tend to compare themselves to the highly attractive models and do experience negative sentiment. Bower (2001) proved the difference between 'comparer' and 'noncomparer' when women face highly attractive models. The results show that a comparer who has an intention to compare highly attractive model (HAM) with herself has a significantly negative effect on model expertise, product argument, product evaluation and buying intention. Therefore, HAM is not always a good choice and model attractiveness plays a role in the processing other cues or changing the advertising effect from result of processing other cues. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the use of foreign language on the advertising response of the audience with regard of the model attractiveness. For the empirical study, the virtual advertising using foreign models (HAM, NAM), brand names and slogans(Korean, English) were used as stimuli. The respondents of each stimulus were 75('HAM-Korean'), 75('NAM-Korean'), 66('HAM-English') and 66 ('NAM-English') respectively. To establish the effect of marketing communication, the attitude for media(AM), the attitude for product(AP), targetedness(TD), overall quality(OQ), and purchase intention(PI) with 7 point likert scale were measured. The manipulation was verified to check the difference between HAM attractiveness assessment (m=3.27) and NAM attractiveness assessment (m=5.12). The mean difference was statiscally significant (p<.05). As a result, all consequences were significantly changed with model attractiveness, and overall quality evaluation(OQ) were significantly changed with language. The interaction effect from model attractiveness and language was significant on attitude toward the product(AP) and purchase intention(PI). To analyze the difference, the mean values and standard deviation of consequences were compared. The result was more positive when model attractiveness was high for all consequences. For language effect, the assessment was more positive when English was used for OQ. Considering model attractiveness and language simultaneously, HAM-Korean was more positive for AP and PI, and NAM-English was more positive for AP and PI. In other words, the interaction effect was confirmed by model attractiveness and language. As mentioned above, use of foreign models and foreign language in advertising was explained by cultural match up hypothesis (Leclerc et al. 1994) which claimed that culture of origin effect. In other words, in advertising, use of same cultural language with the foreign model could make positive assessment for OQ. But this effect was moderated by model attractiveness. When the model attractiveness was low, the use of English makes PI high because of the effect of foreign language which supported the cultural match up hypothesis. When the model attractiveness was low, the use of Korean made AP and PI high because the effect of foreign language was diluted. It was a general notion that the visual cues got processed before (Holbrook and Moore, 1981; Sholl et al, 1995) compared to linguistic cues. Therefore, when consumers were faced HAM, so much perception was already consumed at processing visual cues making their native language of Korean to strongly and positively connected with the advertising concept. On the contrary, when consumers were faced with NAM, less perception was consumed compared to HAM, making English to accompany cultural halo effect which affected more positively. Therefore, when foreign models were employed in advertising, the language must be carefully selected according to the level of model attractiveness.

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Comparison of Anonymous Authentication Protocols

  • Kim, Jongseong;Kim, Kwangjo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.369-372
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    • 2002
  • An anonymous authentication scheme allows a user to identify himself as a member of a group of users in a secure and anonymous way. It seems to be crucial and indispensable components in English auction, electronic voting and open procurement, which are getting very popular business areas in E-commerce. First, we briefly describe the previous anonymous authentication protocols how to work and what cryptographic techniques adopted to increase performance and achieve anonymity. Second, we compare those protocols from the viewpoint of the communication and computation complexity and the specific cryptographic techniques used in their protocols.

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A Global Analysis of Open Access Books: A Study Based on Directory of Open Access Books

  • Dhanavandan, Sadagopan
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.85-103
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    • 2016
  • The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) provides a searchable index peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository. This paper discusses a global analysis of open access books, which are available in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The data was collected from the open access directory at http://www.doabooks.org/ on $20^{th}$ October 2015. In total 3379 books are listed as available on the directory; the first and second books were published in 1866 and 1867 respectively. After 1962, the publication of books, increased gradually and the greatest number of books more than 300, was published in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Nearly 47 percent of the books (1584) were published in the English language only.

A Study on Textile Education for Textile industry in Advanced Textile Countries (섬유선진국의 텍스타일 산업을 위한 텍스타일 교육 경향에 관한 연구)

  • 김희선
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.161-172
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    • 2001
  • Textile education in advanced textile countries focused to provide the best possible opportunities for the graduates. The purpose of this study is to analyze tendency of education in advanced textile countries as German, UK and Italy and apply it to the education of our country. The method is 'content analysis' of articles and literatures. The results of tendency on textile education is as follows. 1. Education to encourage the self-confidence on the textile related jobs 2. To introduce and develop new textile curriculum and contents of subjects. 3. Important curriculum ① IT(information technology) skill ② Business Merchandising ③ Extensive use of CAD/CAM ④ English education 4. To emphasize the multi-disciplinary working and special skill 5. Equipment of new and up-to-date machines to enhance for technical and production skills 6. Close touch with textile industry through the block-release based technical education. 7. Utilize the certificates 8. Further professional education to designers, managers on a part-time day. 9. Making an effort to secure excellent students No tuition-fees and state maintenance grants are available for excellent students from low income backgrounds.

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Prioritizing Core Subjects in ISO 26000 for Achieving Corporate Social Responsibility (기업의 사회적 책임경영 구현을 위한 중점 추진요소)

  • Kim, Yun-Tai;Riew, Moon-Charn
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.415-425
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: ISO 26000 is a newly emerging international standard for corporate social responsibility. This paper aims to derive core subjects of primary concern when introducing and practicing corporate social responsibility. Methods: Perceived performance and importance levels on core subjects in ISO 26000 are investigated, and a survey is conducted from members of organizations having published CSR reports. Frequency analysis, analysis of variance, cross tabulation and IP analysis are used to analyze surveyed data. Results: Items to be improved with high emphasis among 7 core subjects in ISO 26000 are organizational governance for public and private service sectors, fair operating practices for industrial goods manufacturing sectors, and organizational governance and environment for consumer goods manufacturing sectors. Human rights and labor practice are perceived as having high performances in comparison with importance. Conclusion: Organizations should find ways to build social responsibility into their governance systems and procedures with high priority.

Will U-learning Replace Any private Lesson\ulcorner (사교육문제 해소를 위한 U-learning대안에 관한 고찰)

  • Kim, Jae-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.227-237
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    • 2003
  • U-learning stresses the ubiquitous networking environment where different sizes of U-devices, let alone the dominant PCs, comprise a background infrastructure to enhance knowledge and performance. This paper suggests a U-learning system that will provide an alternative for the hectic private lessons, particularly English training among grade-school students. Several points are suggested of the U-system to be a cost-effective alternative. Besides the corresponding advancement of U-networking, the production of a profitable business model harnessing the emerging technology is most urgent. The Government authorities should recognize the potential U-social system solutions, and take an initiative to develop them. The latest technology seems to throw a light to the upcoming social systems applied in various fields of social needs.

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An Empirical Study on Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide

  • Choi, Hyun-Seok;Shin, Dong-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.79-94
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    • 2005
  • This study examines which factors affect on Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide in Korea, perceiving that Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide affects customer satisfaction, and outcomes of business. In the tourism industry, Tour Guides are one of the most important factors influencing customer satisfaction, because they are one of the key front- line players. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is to present the importance of efficient management for human resources through investigating Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide. To active purpose of this study, both literatures and empirical research based on Japanese, and Chinese Tour Guides in Korea were adopted and conducted. In conclusion, in order to improve psychological and behavioral outcomes of the Tour Guides, job satisfaction factors have to be improved in many ways and also travel managers should consider them.

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The Impact of Workplace Culture on Employee Retention: An Empirical Study from Lebanon

  • USHAKOV, Denis;SHATILA, Khodor
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.12
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    • pp.541-551
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    • 2021
  • One of the most important aspects of any firm is to motivate its employees to go the extra mile. In order to do work properly, people must be motivated. The total effectiveness and efficiency of workers, as well as a company's performance, is directly related to the degree of motivation of those who work there. On the other hand, demotivated personnel do not put much effort and, when they get a better opportunity, leave their places of employment. For Survey, this study used online Google forms to collect data from September 2021 to October 2021. The target demographic for the research was those who worked for Lebanon's private businesses. The poll was conducted in English, the second language of Lebanon. Furthermore, 179 workers (N = 179) were utilized for this research. The research suggests that fun events and support for fun managers enable workers to connect informally and help people know each other better, creating an environment that promotes friendship building. Based on these connected reasons, fun activities and the support of managers for fun are considerably linked to turnover.

A Study to Relation between Human Judgment and Automatic Evaluation in English-Korean Scientific Paper MT System (영한 논문 번역시스템의 수동 평가와 자동 평가의 관계)

  • Choi, Sung-Kwon;Hwang, Young-Sook;Kim, Young-Gil
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.65-68
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    • 2008
  • 본 논문은 영한 과학기술 논문 자동번역 시스템을 대상으로 이루어진 수동 평가와 자동 평가 사이의 상관 관계를 밝힘으로써 수동 평가와 자동 평가 중에 한쪽의 방법에 의해서 평가가 이루어지더라도 다른 쪽의 수치를 파악할 수 있도록 하는데 목표가 있다. 본 논문에서 수행한 수동 평가는 5 인의 전문 번역가가 5 회에 걸쳐 평가한 결과이며, 자동 평가는 영어 원문 1,000 문장에 대한 8 인이 번역한 8,000 문장의 정답문(References)과 자동번역 결과를 어절 단위와 형태소 단위로 N-gram 비교를 통해 평가된 결과이다. 본 논문에서 도출된 식은 사용하는 평가 집합과 대상 번역 시스템 별로 자동 평가와 수동 평가 간의 상관 계수를 만들어내고 수동 번역률을 구하는 식을 동일하게 적용한다면 시스템의 자동 평가 결과로부터 성능을 직관적으로 해석하는데 상당히 도움이 될 것이다.