• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2024

Considering the continuous growth in the production and consumption of Gastrodia elata, it's crucial to accurately understand the consumer demand for Gastrodia elata products and develop health products tailored to consumer preferences. In this study, we surveyed 400 consumers each from South Korea and China to gauge their perceptions and buying intentions concerning Gastrodia elata products. The results revealed that Korean consumers predominantly evaluate Gastrodia elata products based on health consciousness, whereas Chinese consumers emphasize the product's external characteristics. In Korea, Gastrodia elata products are mainly promoted for their health benefits and are primarily consumed in ingestible forms. In contrast, in China, Gastrodia elata is frequently used as a culinary ingredient. These findings underscore that consumer perceptions and buying intentions can differ depending on how a product is advertised and presented. Future studies should take into account the evolving international Gastrodia elata market and the surging demand, incorporating diverse countries and cities. It will also be imperative to maintain ongoing monitoring, drawing insights from the industrial growth drive model.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.721-729
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• 2012

This paper aimed to investigate the influence of consumer lifestyle on consumer selection of bakery cafe attributes. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire by 403 random consumers between the ages 20s and 30s in several bakery cafes in Seoul and Gyonggi area. Different methods of statistical analysis had been used such as frequency analysis, factor analysis, k-means clustering analysis, cross tabulation, one way ANOVA and Duncan's multiple range test with SPSS for Window 13.0 package. First, when analyzing the 16 questions of comsumer lifestyles, four factors were extracted: 'dining out-oriented factor', 'achievement-oriented factor', 'brand-oriented factor', and 'health-oriented factor'. Second, the respondents were divided into three groups by k-means cluster analysis: no interest group, dining-out & value oriented group, and health-brand oriented group. Third, consumer's bakery cafe attributes were categorized into five factors including 'food', 'convenience and image', 'store promotion', 'positive dining experience', and 'menu & merchandises'. Finally when analyzing the differences in the selection of bakery cafe attributes according to consumer's lifestyles, it showed a significant differences.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.426-436
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• 2018

This study assessed effective strategies to reduce the sodium intake among consumers using pork cutlet sauce as a model food system. Original pork cutlet sauce and sodium-reduced sauce (29% reduced by a salt substitute) were analyzed to characterize the sensory properties using descriptive analysis. The effects of sodium-reduction of the sauce, consumer type (nutrition teachers vs. general consumers), information related to the sodium content, serving method, and consumer's health, taste and sodium-related attitudes on the consumer's preference, perception, and intake of the sauce were analyzed using a consumer test. In descriptive analysis, the original and sodium-reduced sauce showed similar sensory characteristics but did not differ in saltiness. In the consumer test, there were no significant differences in the overall preference levels between the two sauces. On the other hand, there were significant differences in preference and perception between nutrition teachers and general consumer groups, which were due largely to their age as well as the health and sodium-related attitudes and nutritional knowledge differences. Sodium-reduced information decreased the perceived saltiness intensity. In addition, reducing sodium intake by serving pork cutlet sauce in a bottle can be an effective strategy because this serving method increased the acceptance and induced the smaller intake of sauce.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.398-405
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• 1989

A change in the consumer's surplus was measured in order to evaluate the social benefit to be derived from expanding health insurance to the entire population. The most refined and correct way to measure a project's net benefit to society is to determine a change in the consumer's surplus. Benefits from introducing the health insurance program to the uninsured people can be classified into two elements. The first is the pricing-down effect(E1) which results from applying the insurance price system, which is lower than the actual price, to the uninsured patients. The second effect(E2) is a decrease in actual payment because an insured patient pays only a portion of the total medical bill(copayment). We collected medical price information from the data banks of 93 hospitals, and obtained information of medical utilization by referring to the results of other research and from data published by the Korean Medical Insurance Societies. The total net benefit was estimated as \214 billion, comprising the first effect(E1) of \57 billion and the second effect(E2) of \157 billion. The price elasticity of physician visits is less than that of hospital admissions: however, benefits from the increase in physician visits are greater than those from hospital admissions because there are considerably more of physician visits than hospital admissions. The sensitivity analysis also shows the conclusion that expansion of the health insurance program to the entire population would result in a positive net benefit. Therfore, we conclude that the National Health Insurance Program is socially desirable.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

Purpose - The environment-friendly agricultural product market in Korea sees continual high growth. Recently, the Korean government has been actively fostering environment-friendly agriculture as an engine of future growth. Korean people have increasingly become more health-conscious and interested in food safety issues. Many distribution and retailing companies have responded with various promotional activities. However, most of these are not strategic and appear to have unsatisfactory outcomes. The main purpose of this paper is to suggest effective marketing strategies for environment-friendly agricultural products. To achieve this aim, the study empirically investigates the effects of consumer characteristics and trust on the purchase intention of environment-friendly agricultural products. Research design, data, methodology - Based on the theory of planned behavior, and previous studies related to the purchase intention and consumption of environment-friendly agricultural products, we set up five study hypotheses. These related to the demographic characteristics of consumers, purchase intention, and behavior of the products. We then set up a study model and four study hypotheses relating to health consciousness, environmental consciousness, consumer trust level, purchase intention, and behavior of the products. The data were collected using a questionnaire given to consumers living in Seoul and southern Geonggi Province. The final sample size is 403 and mean age is 44.3. SPSS 15.0 for Windows and Amos 7.0 were used as statistical analysis tools. Meaningful results were derived using frequency analysis, correlation analysis, a t-test, and structural equation modeling. Results - Empirical results of this research are as follows. (1) First, it is shown that consumers consider such attributes as intimacy and health to be important when they buy environment-friendly agricultural products. (2) We also found that consumers recognize the value of environment-friendly agricultural products as high, but their trust level as low. (3) Consumer groups consisting of married couples, with higher education, higher income, and higher age are shown to have a higher intention of buying environment-friendly agricultural products than any other consumer group. (4) It is estimated that the level of consumer trust positively affects the purchase intention of environment-friendly agricultural products. The path coefficient (.138) between consumer trust and purchase intention is statistically significant at the α = .05 level. (5). It is also estimated that environmental consciousness positively affects purchase intention. The path coefficient (.245) between environmental consciousness and purchase intention is statistically significant at the α = 0.05 level. The standardized path coefficients of consumer trust and environmental consciousness with purchase intention are .556 and .288 respectively. Therefore, consumer trust affects purchase intention more than environmental consciousness. (6) Finally, purchase intention is estimated to positively affect purchase behavior. Conclusions - Based upon empirical results, this research suggests that marketers of environment-friendly agricultural products should focus more on increasing consumer trust levels, emphasizing the training and education of employees. The government also should pay attention to a standardized certification system for environment-friendly agricultural products. Marketers of environment-friendly agricultural products should consider the consumer groups of married couples, with higher education, higher income, and higher age as a major target segment.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2012

Consumer's preference and microbial inspections on fresh raw beef were carried out to understand the actual market status in Gwanju, Korea. Over 15 questions on questionnaire by 1,111 randomly selected respondents between April and May in 2011, results showed 65.5% positive on eating fresh raw beef, 63.8% negative on good hygiene condition of fresh raw beef, and 72.5% positive on the secure of the hygiene-safety for priority program, respectively. For microbial inspections, a total of 302 samples were collected from fresh raw beef purchased from slaughterhouse (n=122), transport (n=69) and consumer (n=81) stage, from lettuce (n=30) at consumer stage. The aerobic plate count (APC), E. coli count and food borne bacteria such as Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus(S.) aureus and E. coli O157:H7 were tested in the samples. As results, the level of count on APC of fresh raw beef ranged $6{\times}10^1{\sim}1.8{\times}10^5CFU/g$ from slaughterhouse, $2{\times}10^2{\sim}8.3{\times}10^5CFU/g$ from transport stage and $1{\times}10^2{\sim}4{\times}10^5CFU/g$ from consumer stage. The level of count on E. coli of fresh raw beef ranged $1{\sim}9{\times}10^1CFU/g$ from slaughterhouse, $1{\sim}7{\times}10CFU/g$ from transport stage and $1{\sim}5.5{\times}10CFU/g$ from consumer stage. In total, 26 S. aureus were isolated, 10 (14.5%) from fresh raw beef at transport stage, 12 (14.8%) from fresh raw beef and 4 (13.3%) from lettuce at consumer stage. Enterotoxin of S. aureus was not detected among 26 isolates. All S. aureus isolates were typed using a DiversiLab$^{TM}$ rep-PCR system for genetic similarity test, showing over 95% of genetic relationship amon isolates.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.5-16
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• 2003

This policy alternatives for establishment of rehabilitation health care delivery system for the disabled in the community were developed based on the data of current health status and situations of health care management for disabled persons in Korea. This research was conducted with secondary data analysis for identifying health status and current situations of managing health of disabled persons, and discussed current issues for establishing rehabilitation health care delivery systems in the community. Observing the health status and current situations of managing health of disabled persons, scope and target population of disabled person extended. so prevalence rates increased. and the severity of disability intensified and specified. The summary of issues of health management for disabled persons included; 1) absence of comprehensive and systematic policy in rehabilitation health care systems. 2) absence of consumer based rehabilitation health care facilities and delivery systems that are considered as the characteristics of disabled persons 3) fixed form of projects based on the provider and lack of variety in the programs. Hereafter. to overcome these problems. policy alternatives should 1) establish a comprehensive rehabilitation health care policy for disabled persons. 2) establish comprehensive and specific community based rehabilitation health care delivery systems that can promote preventing disability. providing medical care for disabled persons, establishing rehabilitation management for disabled persons and health care when returning to society. 3) provide training and secure manpower for rehabilitation, but the training case managers who will take the roles as an expert rehabilitation nurse mediators for multidisciplinary team work are needed immediately. and 4) include efficient connection and provision of independent services for welfare rehabilitation service and health care. Conclusively. a community based rehabilitation health care delivery system should be comprehensive policy vision of the government on rehabilitation health care delivery System rehabilitation service has to be constructed systematically under suitable facilities con consumer characteristics and rehabilitation health care policy. By doing this, consumer comprehensive community rehabilitation health care delivery system could be constructed disabled person.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2011

본 연구는 자금의 고령화 사회에서 실버소비자의 웰빙을 향상시키기 위한 근본적인 마케팅노력이 필요하다는 관점에서, 실버마케팅과 소비자웰빙의 연관성에 이론적 근거를 두고 있으며, 그 구체적인 연구목적은 첫째, 실버소비자의 건강기능 제품 만족을 결정하는 소비 전(全) 단계의 여러 가지 만족 요인이 실제로 소비자 웰빙에 영향을 미치는가를 일차적으로 실증 분석하고, 둘째, 제품 만족요인에 의해 소비자 웰빙을 가져오는 그 과정에서 실버소비자의 건강기능제품의 제품지식이 어떻게 영향을 미치는가를 이차적으로 실증 분석하는 데 둔다. 따라서, 실버소비자의 건강기능제품에 대한 제품만족은 건강관련 소비자 웰빙에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것이다. 연구가설 1과 실버소비자의 건강기능제품에 대한 제품지식에 따라 제품만족이 건강관련 소비자 웰빙에 미치는 영향은 긍정적으로 강화될 것이라는 연구가설 2를, 설문조사를 통한 자료수집과 통계적 실증분석에 의해 검증하였다. 검증결과, 연구가설 1은 채택되었으며, 연구가설 2는 부분적으로 채택되었다. 본 연구의 건강기능제품의 효율적 웰빙마케팅을 위한 실무적 시사점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 건강제품의 실버소비자 웰빙수준을 높이기 위해서는 소비 사이클 전반에 걸친 다각적인 노력이 필요하며, 구입-준비-소비-유지-처분 전(全)단계에서 소비자의 장기적인 만족을 위한 건강기능제품을 개발해야 한다. 또한 소비자 웰빙은 다양한 욕구의 총합으로 구성되므로, 긍정적 정서적 경험의 증대와 부정적 정서적 경험의 저감의 목표를 동시에 충족시키기 위한 노력이 필요할 것이다. 둘째, 건강기능제품에 관한 실버소비자의 지식을 높이기 위한 마케팅 노력이 동시에 이루어져야 할 것이다 즉, 실버소비자의 제품지식을 높이기 위해서는 건강기능제품에 대한 친숙성과 전문성을 제고하고 다양한 경로를 통해 그들의 제품지식을 높이는 것이 필요하다. 단, 본 연구의 분석결과는 건강기능제품에 관한 소비자의 높은 지식은 건강기능제품의 준비만족과 유지만족에의 관점에서만 소비자웰빙에 긍정적인 효과의 강화를 보인다는 점에서 제한적이라고 할 수 있지만, 이러한 분석 결과는 제품지식이 준비단계의 욕구와 밀접한 관계를 가지며 유지단계의 정보 이용에 더욱 관련성이 있을 것이라는 선험적 인식을 보여 주고 있다. 결론적으로 실버소비자를 대상으로 제품만족, 제품지식 및 소비자웰빙에 대한 실증 연구가 부족한 실정에서 본 연구의 시도는 시의성이 있을 것으로 판단된다. 특히 실버소비자의 건강기능제품의 소비와 관련하여 제품만족의 전 단계가 소비자웰빙에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지에 대한 인과관계를 규명하였고, 그 과정에서 제품지식 수준의 조절변수 효과가 부분적으로 존재할 가능성이 있음을 관찰하였다는 점이 웰빙마케팅 연구에 기여하는 바라고 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2014

This study was conducted to analyze the differences in consumer behavior of coffee product according to monthly income in franchised coffee shop's consumer in Korea. A total of 293 questionnaires were used out of the 330 that had been distributed for analysis; those that lacked reliability were excluded. Frequency, ANOVA, and Duncan's multiple range test was conducted to analyze the hypotheses of the study. The findings are summarized as follows. There were significant differences in consumer behavior with regard to seeking health, eco-friendly products, product brand, and product taste as well as preferred coffee menu and coffee consumption expenditures. High income consumers rather than low income groups showed much higher score for concerning health, concerning diet, concerning calorie, concerning instant, concerning caffeine and concerning nature, organic in coffee consumer behavior. In amount spent on purchasing coffee products according to income, low income consumers rather than high income groups had much higher financial expense burden.

• 식품보건융합연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2024

Purpose: The research aims to address the intricacies of AI and Big Data application within the food industry. This study explores the strategic implementation of AI and Big Data in the food industry. The study seeks to understand how these technologies can be employed to bolster consumer engagement and contribute to market expansion, while considering ethical implications. Research Method: This research employs a comprehensive approach, analyzing current trends, case studies, and existing academic literature. It focuses on the application of AI and Big Data in areas such as supply chain management, consumer behavior analysis, and personalized marketing strategies. Results: The study finds that AI and Big Data significantly enhance market analytics, consumer personalization, and market trend prediction. It highlights the potential of these technologies in creating more efficient supply chains, improving consumer satisfaction through personalization, and providing valuable market insights. Conclusion and Implications: The paper offers actionable insights and recommendations for the effective implementation of AI and Big Data strategies in the food industry. It emphasizes the need for ethical considerations, particularly in data privacy and the transparency of AI algorithms. The study also explores future trends, suggesting that AI and Big Data will continue to revolutionize the industry, emphasizing sustainability, efficiency, and consumer-centric practices.