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Examination of funeral service concept and role of Service-Dominant Logic (서비스중심논리의 장례서비스 개념과 역할 고찰)

  • Lee, Pil-do;Lee, Jeungsun
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2020
  • A service involves a human interaction between a consumer (customer) and a provider (service worker). In particular, services in today's intangible economy are understood as creative activities that exercise human capital as related goods. Since most service activities are human activities, not objects, they depend on direct interaction between users and service workers, and funeral services are understood as human activities provided by service providers to service targets (deceased, families, condolences). In other words, the funeral service is a service for the deceased, survivors, and condolences in a special situation of death, and can be viewed as a human activity that is exerted by the integration of the interactions between service workers, survivors, and condolences. Functions of funeral services expand for convenience of consumers through the smooth provision of funeral supplies and a variety of complex interpersonal services so that the deceased can perform solemn funeral ceremonies. In this study, the concept and role of funeral services were studied in order to find the direction of funeral services centering for next of kin(families) and condolences, who are the subjects of services from a service-oriented logic perspective. In order to derive meaningful results of people-centered funeral services, funeral services and funeral supplies are classified from the perspective of dynamic resources, guarantees consumers a wide range of funeral choice, and customer dissatisfaction and improvement requests are handled transparently. It suggested a possible plan. Now, in order to improve the quality of life, it is necessary to make efforts to improve the quality of funeral services that improve the quality of death.

The IPA of Multilateral Perception on Foodservice Quality of Hospital Funeral Centers : Focusing on Foodservice Operators, Chief mourners/the bereave and Funeral Visitors (의료기관 장례식장 급식품질의 다자간 인식차이 및 IPA 분석: 장례식장 급식운영 담당자, 상주 및 유족, 조문객을 중심으로)

  • Park, Moon-Kyung;Lee, Jung-Yoon;Jeong, Yun-Hui
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.228-238
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    • 2014
  • This study identified the importance and performance perceptions of funeral foodservice service quality toward funeral foodservice employees, chief mourners/the bereaved and funeral visitors. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires from 102 funeral foodservice employees, 71 chief mourners/the bereaved and 293 funeral visitors. According to the result of the survey, 'hygienic food production process' was recognized as the most important attribute while 'neat appearance of food' had the least performance. By comparing the importance of service quality attributes between three subject groups, it can be identified funeral foodservice employees had the highest recognition while funeral visitors had the lowest (p<0.001). Furthermore, funeral foodservice employees had a significantly high performance level compared to chief mourners/the bereaved in all 19 service quality attributes (p<0.001). The IPA result toward funeral foodservice employees indicated the following attributes that required improvements: 'reasonable menu price' and 'kindness of helpers'. Another IPA result from chief mourners/the bereaved recognized 'reasonable menu price' as a service priority. Overall, implications for funeral foodservice managers regarding service quality improvement are discussed.

The Effects of Funeral Service of an Aid Company on customer Satisfaction (상조회사의 장례행사가 고객만족에 미치는 영향 및 만족도 분석)

  • Park, Seong-Hun;Lee, Sang-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 2006
  • This study has conducted to analyze the effects of funeral service of aid companies on customer satisfaction. The study got following results by collecting and analyzing 120 customers who performed a funeral service. The results indicated that overall satisfaction of a serviced commodity, linguistic service of a funeral commissioner, and behavioral service of a funeral helper affected on reuse intent.

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A Study on the Direction of Funeral service focused on Thick Data Analysis (Thick데이터 분석에 기반한 장례서비스 방향성 연구)

  • Ahn, Jinho;Lee, Jeungsun
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.85-96
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    • 2020
  • In Asia, where the aging population is growing rapidly, as the funeral service industry develops and the market grows. The economic value and interest of funeral services is increasing. However, Korea's funeral services are being developed in a biased direction, focusing only on funeral services, after death. Compared to the case of advanced funeral services in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, not only the funeral but also the care of the deceased's family and acquaintances around us are developing. It is appropriate to use a method based on ethnography and User eXperience. For this purpose, the method of collecting and analyzing the ethnography and user experience data of actual resident and visitor was deduced in persona method in the next ten years, and funeral service centered on resident and visitor. In this study, qualitative data centered on the future direction of funeral services, focusing on the resident (family) and the guest who are the principals of services from the perspective of service science. It is difficult to derive meaningful results from the process of collecting, processing, and interpreting big data in general, and in this case, the data analysis method is based on ethnography and user eXperience.) Is appropriate. For this purpose, the method of collecting and analyzing the ethnography and user experience data of the actual resident and the visitor was deduced in the persona method in detail after 10 years. In addition, the future direction of funeral services centered on residence and visitor was presented.

Service Quality Systems Related Ceremony (예식 서비스 관련 품질 시스템)

  • Choi, Sung-Woon
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.469-474
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    • 2007
  • This study presents service quality systems such as wedding ceremony service, postpartum care service, funeral home services, crematory services, cemetry and charnel grave services, and charnel house services. These service quality systems include process, infrastructure, and terminology.

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A Pilot Study on the Funereal Garments Culture (장례 복식 문화에 관한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Min-Jeong;Lee, Hyun-Mee;Bae, Mi-Kyoung
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.293-304
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to revoke attention to the funeral costumes which has been neglected by academic fields and fashion industries. We investigated the traditional funeral garments by the literature reviews and the actual conditions by the questionnaire. For the data analysis, 525 questionnaires for male and female in Seoul, Daeagu, Jeonju and Busan were collected. Men mainly wore the western style black suits, women wore the traditional white funeral costumes during the funeral service. Most of the respondents were dissatisfied with the funeral garments. We investigated the styles, the materials and the colors of the funeral garments which were favored by the consumers. The preferences and the criteria of the funeral garments were different with sex, age, income, educational levels, religion and occupational status of husband partly.

A Study on the Operate of Business Models to the PFC (PFC의 비즈니스 모델 운영에 관한 연구)

  • Youn, Myoung-Kil;Chung, Dong-Keun
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.125-170
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    • 2004
  • In the field of funeral, there are many studies on the Hardware System to encourage a culture of cremation, but few on the Software Program to solve the problem of the high-expense or to improve funeral services. We think the only way to solve on Korean Funeral is the pacification of the destruction and improvement of the Korean-funeral-culture. At this point, we establish a virtual company called PFC(Public Funeral Company) on the basis of the business model. and we will solve the Software Problem and propose the method of a strategic plans for it.

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Application of Funeral Make-up (장례메이크업의 적용 방법)

  • Kim, Mi-Hye;Seo, Ran-Sug
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.223-235
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    • 2010
  • As the funeral service is on ritual of addressing death that is the final phase of life, it can be said to be the final stage of welfare service. It is developing into the stage of make-up, which reproduces the image of reality or expresses with the better appearance from the level of recovery technique, which restores the final form of the dead. This is caused by a request of the bereaved family with the aim of remembering the dead's final image with good looks. Methods, which are being changed by period, can be found in a record. As this funeral make-up is one field of special make-up, it is systematically made into proper application method along with the development in special materials. Thus, it will become one of the most important courses henceforth in our funeral culture available for beautifully decorating the dead's final image. In order to satisfy the request of the bereaved family, it is necessary to made floral decoration, casket cloth, and acoustic effect including the casket stage of worshipping the dead inside the funeral hall.

A Study on customer experience centered innovation model for Funeral Mutual Enterprise - Centered on Funeral service - (상조기업의 고객경험 기반 혁신모델 연구 - 장례서비스 산업을 중심으로 -)

  • Ahn, Jinho;Lee, Jeungsun
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2021
  • This study is a study on the methodology of establishing an innovation strategy centering on the customer experience, which is essential in order to transform the existing collection and preservation-centered mutual aid company service into a visitor-centered service. To this end, we conducted literature research on environmental changes in the funeral industry from the perspective of service science and the significance and value of customer experiences within them, good customer experiences and bad customer experiences from the perspective of customer experience management. A study was conducted to present and prove a specific model. The customer experience-oriented innovation strategy of the funeral industry means to search for various alternatives that can reach the target state from the present state, focusing on the customer, and select the most appropriate transformation plan among them. As an effect of application, it was found that it is a source of differentiation by generating positive emotions to customers, and that customer experience data is highly helpful in making important decisions for the actual resource input of the parent company. This innovation model was presented, and its value was firstly proved by analyzing the difference from the existing evaluation method. Finally, as a result of analyzing the causal relationship through regression analysis using the customer experience measurement procedure, customer experience diagnosis/evaluation, customer experience innovation strategy, and cooperative company's performance as variables, the relationship proved to be significant.

A Study on the Design of Flower Decoration at the Funeral Altar according to the Social Status of the Deceased (고인의 사회적 신분에 따른 장례 제단 꽃 장식 디자인에 관한 연구)

  • Ye, Eon Gyeong;Jeong, Jun Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Floral Art and Design
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    • no.40
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    • pp.25-43
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of flower decoration at the funeral altar is to create various flower decorations at altar according to the social status of the deceased, to console psychological shock and pains of mourners and the bereaved families, and to make them remember the life of the deceased beautifully. In this study, five top funeral service companies in Korea selected by the Fair Trade Commission in 2017 and five repr And this researcher identified problems in flower decorations at the funeral altar in Korea, by comparing and analyzing the styles of flower decorations at funeral altars in Korea and Japan. In addition, this researcher surveyed consumers' preferences by age group. According to the results of the survey, most of the entire age group responded positively to the flower decorations at the funeral altar which focused on the job of the deceased. This means that consumers are demanding changes to the flower decorations at the funeral altar which are made up of the products of funeral service companies. In addition, the results of the survey, it can be seen that most consumers prefer to decorate the altar flowers according to the occupation, hobby, and taste of the deceased and present the altar in three dimensions like a landscape of nature. esentative funeral service companies in Japan were surveyed on the status of flower decorations at the funeral altar.