• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.139-141
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• 2016

With the introduction of national standards (KS) for call centers, customers are expected to have access to better-quality services in the future. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative importance of certification criteria for call center services using the Fuzzy AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) approach. Fuzzy AHP is the combination of the fuzzy set theory and AHP to deal with the uncertainty or ambiguousness of the decision-making process. The evaluation method proposed in this study can be applied to the KS services certification promoted by government.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.808-822
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• 2011

In the subject experiment of this paper, contrary to the existing thesis about the emotional labor of people in the face-to-face service industry, I have chosen call center agents as they are primary first point of contact with customers in the airline industry. The main purpose of this experiment is to understand the relationship in between workplace burnout and emotional labor. In this study, I have investigated the following concepts; the effect of mediation on emotional labor, the different levels of emotional labor, and recommendations for improvement of competitive power to the call center agent as a member of the organization. The main results of experiment are as follows. First, the emotional labor given by the airline call center agents affects the rate of burnout. Second, support from workplace superiors showed that mediation had an effect on the relationship between emotional labor and burnout, however support from co-workers had no effect whatsoever. It is hope that this paper would supply information to give a competitive edge for airline call centers and their agents.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.71-84
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• 2005

Recently, the expert call center solution has become the center of interest, since finance and tele-marketing system, which is focused on a communication industry, have been increasing, Specially, the call center market is growing up with a supporting Caller-ID for a cellular phone in Korea, In the present, although large size companies are developing expensive solutions and instruments to service only for the big companies, there little solutions for SOHO markets, Therefore, in this paper we have shown a design and an implementation of a CTI system which is capable of in/outbound call processing by using CTI, and providing stable services by linking the customer's DB. And these functionalities have become possible by integrating functions of PBX and the computer control of the PBX. First, we have constructed call flows and analyzed packets for the standard communication through the PBX in call. Then, we have designed and implemented a middleware which linked a call between a client and a customer. Finally, we have constructed a database module for applying the CRM technology to the management of customer's contents.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.561-572
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• 2007

In this paper, we describe various efficient optimization algorithms for obtaining an optimal customer allocation in the telephone call center. The main advantages of the proposed algorithms are simple, fast and very attractive for massive dataset. The proposed algorithms also provide comparable performance with the other more sophisticated linear programming methods. The proposed optimal allocation algorithms increase the customer contact, response rate and management product and optimize the performance of call centers. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.91-100
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• 2018

Recently, the traditional call center, which has an important role as the customer's primary contact point, has been transformed into the omni-channel contact center which supports an additional variety of access channels in addition to phone calls in order to improve customer accessibility and convenience. The omni-channel contact center has agents on each channel which are vital in determining the response rate and waiting time for the customer. In traditional call centers, agents can be assigned to a call based on the characteristics of the call, however in omni-channel contact centers, the characteristics of issues vary and come in through multiple channels, each with their own characteristics, making it difficult to assign the appropriate agent for the issue. Customers must also be processed at the same time, adding an additional layer of complexity to the issue. This paper analyzes and simulates an omni-channel contact center that accommodates email, chat, voice calls and video consultation, and investigates how to optimize the allocation of agents.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.461-497
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• 2008

The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of the Call System of agricultural extension services in Korea. The respondents were satisfied on the speedy solution (74.5%), consultation (88.4%), and accessibility (79.7%) of the call system. However, satisfaction of farmers on in-depth consultation was higher (74.3%) than the satisfaction rated by the public servants of RDA (48.9%). Both groups replied positively (70.4%) on the need for expansion of the call system. The analyses of the results leads to a conclusion that there is a need to increase marketing on the importance of RDA's Call System to customers of agricultural extension and to improve accessibility through expansion of the system in other areas. These could solve the decreasing number of extension professionals and improve the quality and efficiency of extension services. These analyses may be useful as bases for a nationwide Call System that connects the center with other districts and for planning a renovation of information-oriented agricultural extension services. The issue that needs improvement is to abandon the grounds of agricultural technology information provider and respond to the customers' needs efficiently by building an established Call System which can minimize the side effect of the trends of reforming and downsizing the organization. It is needed to develop a unified management Call System of agricultural technology information that could provide real-time information, and database the results simultaneously for use as feedback to the Rural Development Programs. Related laws and policies need to be improved to establish a nationwide information network that maximizes the current network in agricultural regions to spread information, to provide institutional support, and to encourage development of training system and research and development by concerned institutes.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.750-762
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• 2019

The importance of the call center as a contact point for the enterprise is growing. However, call centers have difficulty with their operating agents due to the agents' lack of knowledge and owing to frequent agent turnover due to downturns in the business, which causes deterioration in the quality of customer service. Therefore, through an N-bank call center case study, we developed a system to reduce the burden of keeping up business knowledge and to improve customer service quality. It is a "real-time agent advisor" system that provides agents with answers to customer questions in real time by combining AI technology for speech recognition, natural language processing, and questions & answers for existing call center information systems, such as a private branch exchange (PBX) and computer telephony integration (CTI). As a result of the case study, we confirmed that the speech recognition system for real-time call analysis and the corpus construction method improves the natural speech processing performance of the query response system. Especially with name entity recognition (NER), the accuracy of the corpus learning improved by 31%. Also, after applying the agent advisor system, the positive feedback rate of agents about the answers from the agent advisor was 93.1%, which proved the system is helpful to the agents.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.257-265
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• 2013

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the job stress level of call center workers and figure out its relation with cognitive emotion regulation strategies as a cognitive coping strategy. Methods: Data collection was conducted on 985 call center workers, working for K companies in Korea. ANOVA, t-test, Scheffe's test and multiple regression have been conducted for the data analysis using SAS 9.0 software. Results: The total job stress score of subjects ranges $Q_{25{\sim}49}$ (the lower 50%) whereas the score of job demand and job control ranges $Q_{50{\sim}74}$ (the upper 50%), and its sectional job stress level is high. Since job stress is the major factor affecting cognitive emotion regulation strategies, it is shown that when the job stress score gets higher, the score of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies gets decreased but the score of negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies, increased. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to develop and apply an effective stress easing method for call center workers which reduces negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and increases positive ones.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1999.12a
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• pp.381-409
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• 1999

고객상담센터 또는 Call Center(콜센터)는 기업조직상 고객과의 최일선 접점에 위치하여 고객만족 경영의 중추적인 역할인 대고객 communication이라는 막중한 임무를 담당함에도 불구하고, 우리나라학계 뿐만이 아니라, 미국의 학계에서도 연구가 빈약한 분야이기 때문에 연구의 필요성이 강력히 요청되는 분야이다. 2) 본 연구는 지금까지 고객의 요구에 대응하기 위하여 임기응변적으로 설계 및 운영하여 온 우리나라의 고객상담센터, 특히, 전화고객상담 센터(Call Center)의 효율향상을 위한 경영개선 노력을 위한 “리엔지니어링 전략”에 관한 탐색적 연구다. 연구방법으로서는 문헌(주로 미국) 및 미국의 call center 실태조사 자료를 우리나라의 자료와 비교하여 리엔지니어링의 대상을 탐색하는, 소위 선진지역과의 벤치마킹(benchmarking) 방법을 택하였다. 구체적으로, 본 연구는 콜센터의 효율적인 운영을 위한 주요 구성요소인 인적요소 및 기술적 요소 등을 연구한다. 본 연구는 콜센터 리엔지니어링분야의 문헌을 체계적으로 고찰하였으며 특히 미국의 콜센터와 직접적인(head-to-head) 비교를 처음 시도했다는 점에서 이 분야의 향후 연구에 공헌을 할 수 있다고 믿는다. 또한 이연구의 결과는 우리나라 콜센터 관련 기업실무자들이 리엔지니어링을 추진하는데 중요한 참고자료로 이용할 수 있으며 특히, 관련 software 및 hardware의 설계와 개발에 중요한 방향제시를 할 수 있으리라 기대한다.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.161-176
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• 2015

The significance of upgrading current certification service for customer center manager and counsellor in Korea Call Center Information Research Center-affiliated Call Center College is dramatically increasing due to steady applicants for the last few years, while there is a need to expand the numbers of applicants with a new channel. This paper has suggested the directions for developing IBT system to hold a dominant position in the certification business industry. Providing IBT channel, mainly base upon internet and utilizing various IT infra for the PCCM (Preliminary Customer Center Manager)/CCCM (Certified Customer Center Manager), will increase the convenience of taking qualification exams for customer center managers and improve competitiveness in qualification certification business industry. Specifically, this study reviews overview of industry trends of domestic and overseas, success cases of test services, service model and methods of on-line test, and short and long term analysis of the domestic and overseas markets.