• 벤처창업연구
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.71-88
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• 2009

The Korean online gaming industry has seen rapid growth since the boom of information technology (IT) related industries, especially Internet and PC-bang or local area network (LAN) use, throughout the country. Online games are real-time games in which two or more players meet, compete, and cooperate in the same game space using the same communication network. Even though the growth rates of IT-related industries have recently slowed, the growth of the online gaming industry has increased, and Korean firms are expanding their businesses to countries all over the world. However, the online gaming industry is becoming an oligopoly, in which 4-5 leading companies occupy most online gaming markets. This situation presents a disadvantage to the Korean online gaming industry, since online players usually seek a diversity of online gaming contents and high quality online game services. Therefore, small- and medium-sized game developers must survive in this market by upgrading the quality of their online gaming services in an effort to provide differentiated goods and services in monopolistic competition markets. However, most venture companies in the online game industry, whether new or previously existing, are not able to obtain adequate financing. The objective of this paper is to examine the management environment for medium- and small-sized game developers in the Korean online gaming industry. By introducing the case of Grigon Entertainment, we try to identify the source of difficulty obtaining external financing for Korean venture firms in the online gaming industry.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2018

온라인 소매업은 인터넷 기반 회사들에게 전 세계의 온라인 고객들과 연결될 수 있는 기회를 제공했다. 그러나 많은 고객들은 온라인 지불결제 서비스의 위험성이나 사용의 어려움으로 인해 원하는 상품을 선택하고도 온라인에서 거래를 완료하지 못하는 경우가 종종 있다. 그동안 많은 연구자들이 온라인 지불결제에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 조사했지만 온라인 시장 환경이 급격하게 변화되면서 향후 5년 또는 10년 후의 전개될 상황을 예측하기란 매우 어렵다. 본 연구의 목적은 온라인 지불결제에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 검토하고 제3자 결제 회사 및 온라인 서비스 제공 업체에게 장기적인 동태적 의사 결정 모형을 제공하는데 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 온라인 지불결제 서비스 수용 모형을 개발하고 향후 10년 동안 전개될 상황을 시뮬레이션하기 위해 시스템 다이내믹스 기법을 사용하였다. 분석결과 온라인 지불결제 고객은 10년 안에 지속적으로 증가할 것이며 핵심 영향 요인으로는 서비스 품질, 시스템 품질 및 예상 소요시간인 것으로 나타났다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.440-451
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• 2013

Because of the e-shopping market consumers now have diverse options to choose when placing their orders, and find it easy to obtain the required information through the Internet. Especially, for consumers, product reviews posted on an e-tailer's website have become more important criteria than such information available elsewhere. Hence, this study investigated the influence of the direction and evaluative contents of online reviews on consumer attitudes toward clothing products. Four types of online reviews based on direction (positive/negative) and evaluative content in review information (objective/subjective) were used in the experimental design. Further, stimulus reviews were developed. Credibility, usefulness of reviews, product preference, and purchase intention were the measured dependent variables in each of the four situations of online review presentations. The results indicated that, overall, positive and objective online reviews resulted in a higher level of consumer attitude. The content in these reviews had a relatively stronger influence than the direction on attitudes toward online reviews. Overall, objective reviews generated a higher level of credibility and usefulness of information than subjective reviews. Regarding subjective reviews, negative information was more related to credibility, whereas positive information was more related to usefulness. Further, positive information had a higher influence than negative information on consumer attitudes.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.267-287
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• 2013

As the online bookstore market has been saturated and the level of competition has become more intense, maintaining competitive advantage by mitigating consumers' perceived risks can be considered as one of good alternative strategies a company should use. Although studies that identify the types of consumers' perceived risks in the context of online bookstores as well as validate the relationships between perceived risk and its antecedent/consequent factors in an integrated manner are strongly required, there has been less attention paid to these matters. Therefore, based on previous literature, we identify five types of perceived risks (financial, performance, online payment, delivery, and seller's response risk) and validate the impacts of online bookstore specific characteristics and user specific characteristics on perceived risk. In addition, we also verify causal relationship between perceived risk and intention to use online bookstores. The results of PLS test using 108 samples collected from undergraduate and graduate students confirm that perceived risk has a negative impact on intention to use and four antecedents (reputation, service quality, self-efficacy, and user experience) are significantly related to perceived risk.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2017

Purpose - Online product review has become a crucial part of the online retailer's market performance for a wide range of products. This research aims to investigate how an individual reviewer's review frequency and timing affect her/his average attitude toward products. Research design, data, and methodology - To conduct reviewer-level analysis, this study uses 42,172 posted online review messages generated by 6,941 identified reviewers for 59 movies released in the South Korea from July 2015 to December 2015. This study adopts Tobit model specification to take into account the censored nature and the selection bias arising from the nature of J-shaped distribution of movie rating. Results - Our estimation results support that the negative impact of review frequency and timing on valence. Furthermore, review timing has an inverted-U relationship with the user's average valence and enhance the negative effect of review frequency. Conclusions - This study contributes to the growing literature on the understanding how eWOM is generated at the individual consumer level. On the basis of the main empirical findings, this study provides insights into building a recommendation system in online retail store based on the consumer's review history data - frequency, timing, and valence.

• 경영과학
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.41-57
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• 2006

The purposes of this research are to identify causalities among flow and customer loyalty In Chinese online games, and to identify the factors by which flow are influenced. This research tests the model with Chinese on-line game users and compare this result with Korea and Japanese results which were conducted by Lee's research. These implications are thought to be helpful for Korean online game companies to understand the Chinese online game user and to develop the penetration strategies. The results indicated that significant Path coefficients to flow were the convenience of operator, the provision of information, the reality of design. The results indicated that significant path coefficients to customer loyalty were the involvement of virtual community and flow. The involvement of virtual community to flow was not significant but to customer loyalty was significant. The provision of information was negatively influenced on flow. The result of comparison indicated that the path coefficients were different among nations. Korea online game companies need to develop the indigenized online game and to Provide the information to their Chinese partner correctly and quickly.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2016

온라인 동영상 플랫폼은 유튜브나 넷플릭스 등 다양한 콘텐츠를 수집하여 무료 또는 저렴한 가격으로 소비자에게 전달하는 서비스를 제공한다. 국내 온라인 동영상 플랫폼의 더딘 성장세와 달리, 중국은 세계적인 수준으로 그 시장규모와 이용자수가 빠른 속도로 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 중국 콘텐츠산업 내 온라인 동영상 시장의 성장에 주목하는 한편, 그 원인을 중국 특유의 외부환경과 플랫폼의 비즈니스 모델에 두고자 한다. 중국 온라인 동영상 플랫폼의 발전과정과 현황을 살펴본 후 유쿠투도우와 아이치이PPS의 비즈니스 모델을 분석하여 중국 온라인 동영상 시장의 발전 원인을 찾아본다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aims at investigating consumers' choice in online food purchasing behavior and the impact on repurchase for fresh food delivery which has recently shown rapid growth in Korea. The study focuses on the user experience factors af fecting satisfaction and intention to continuously use the online food market. Research design, data and methodology: The survey was conducted by 309 people who had purchased fresh food online, and the analysis was conducted using SPSS and AMOS. Structural Equation Modeling was used for the analysis for the verification of hypotheses. The factors that consumers value when ordering fresh food delivery services were defined as system quality, service quality, commodity quality, brand characteristics, and economics from the preceding study and the relationship between satisfaction and willingness to repurchase was verified. Results: When consumers purchase fresh food online, system quality, product quality, brand characteristics, and economics have had a significant impact on satisfaction. Meanwhile, of the five optional attributes of consumers, only economic efficiency has been verified to have a statistically significant impact on repurchase intentions. Conclusions: The results of the study suggested factors that consumers consider important when ordering fresh food online, providing basic data for companies to develop related strategies.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.39-56
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• 2018

Since trusting in other consumers may refer to having similar needs and preferences on fashion goods with them, interpersonal trust can be a reliable and practical criterion for market segmentation online. Therefore, this study aims to identify fashion online consumers based on interpersonal trust. This study segments fashion consumers based on interpersonal trust and experience and describes characteristics of each segment by examining demo-psychographic and behavioral variables as well as clothing consumption values. An online survey was conducted to collect data from 426 adult consumers who had bought fashion goods from their patronized e-tailer in the past one month. They completed a self-administered questionnaire inquiring about interpersonal trust, trust in e-tailers, purchase intentions, clothing consumption values, and their purchasing behavior online. Two-step cluster analysis generated four segments: distrustful doers, trusting doers, inactive trusters, and distrusters. They exhibited different characteristics in gender, online experiences, interpersonal trust, clothing consumption values, trust in the e-tailers, and attitude toward the e-tailers. Providing a new effective segmentation base, this study suggests that fashion marketers identify customers with a high level of trust in other customers and develop an encouraging environment that customers can interact with others in order to increase the effectiveness of trust. Because customers with a higher level of interpersonal trust are likely to have stronger trust in e-tailers with, more favorable attitude and purchase intention, and highly perceive the value of clothing consumption than those who have a lower level of interpersonal trust.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.811-822
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• 2020

This study investigates the gender differences in determinants of customers' satisfaction when purchasing online beauty and cosmetics products in Vietnamese market. To do so, we construct a data set via online survey of 419 Vietnamese customers including both males and females, and examine such sample using t-tests and multiple regressions. Our regression model is constructed based on our five-construct model including online shopping experience, customer service, external incentives, security and privacy, and personal characteristics. The t-tests results reveal that the mean difference of customer satisfaction (negative coefficient) between the two groups of customers (females and males) is statistically significant. This suggests that the purchasing satisfaction of male customers is significantly higher than that of their female counterparts. Similarly, we also find that male customers are more satisfied with their online shopping experience, customer service and external incentives offered by the online sellers than female peers. Furthermore, regression results for full sample show that, on average, the online shopping experience, customer service and external incentives are significantly and positively related to customer satisfaction. Yet, such positive effect of customer service on customer satisfaction is more likely for males while females' satisfaction is more positively influenced by security and privacy.