• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.509-526
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• 2015

The study investigated the N-Screen strategies of paid digital contents of foreign newspapers belonging to advanced companies: USA, United Kingdom, and Japan. This research employed the time to launch paid digital content business, whether or not to segment market, and 4p marketing mix strategies for analyzing the strategies. The results show that the strategies, starting around the year 2000, had experience chasm, and then revived since the year 2010, when the penetration rate of mobile devices proliferated. Most newspapers still supply contents under the assumption that they paly in a mass market. The items of paid digital contents are mainly composed of e-paper and digital contents. Regarding the price strategy, soft paywall and combination paywall are largely used. Distribution strategy is subject to whether or not to discriminate the path of digital contents. As for promotion strategy, bundling strategy with newspaper is mostly utilized. The difference between western countries and Japan was found in term of the free trial service.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.46-56
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• 2003

Recently, digital contents have become increasingly perceived as a axe aspect of national development, and as such their generation and widespread promotion is being now pursued on a global basis, as govemment move to assist corporations in the realization of consistent industrial develo- pment. Efforts are also being made to seek avenues for the paid use of qualitativefy excellent contents, instead of relying upon traditional methods of free-of-charge provision. This paper examined the role of public institutions for the charging and development of contents industry. And it is suggested that promotional strategy and mode! for paid digital contents. ln particular, it is focused on those cases by the the Korea Institue of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) as a non-profit institution in public information sevice.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.277-290
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• 2003

Recently, digital contents have become increasingly perceived as a core aspect of national development, and as such their generation and widespread promotion is being now pursued on a global basis, as federal governments move to assist corporations in the realization ofconsistent industrial development. Efforts are also being made to seek avenues for the paid use of qualitatively excellent contents, instead of relying upon traditional methods of free-of-charge provision. International corporations as well as governments are committing themselves to the search for a more developed approach to paid contents. In this report, the role of public institutions in executing plans and promotional strategies for the charging and development of the contents industry is examined. In particular, the case of paid contents is analyzed in relation to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), which is assigned the task of contents distribution to the general public in its capacity as a public information service institution, not as a profit-oriented general corporation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.151-162
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• 2020

In this paper, a research model was designed to investigate the factors affecting the purpose intentions to the online paid knowledge contents in China. The research model includes the contents characteristics, recognition of copyright, recognition of paid, the theory of planned behavior factors. In this research, the data was collected by online survey, and in final analysis, 457 users' questionnaires were used. The empirical paper proves research hypothesis by using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 23.0. The results of the study are as follows: the contents characteristics partially give positive effects to attitude. In addition, recognition of paid and planning behavior theory factors have positive effects to purpose intentions. This paper provides a useful scheme to promotion the purpose of purchase for paid online knowledge contents.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.2C
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• pp.200-207
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• 2006

Recently, with the development of information and communication technology, digital pay-TV technology is paid attention. So the Protection of the provided contents is becoming more important. However, in order to encourage an active based on digital TV, the contents and information sent and received respectively by the broadcaster and the subscriber must be protected. Therefore, in this paper, I analyze the requirements to protect the digital contents, the security and efficiency of the previous digital pay-TV system model. Then I proposed a key management model for digital pay-TV system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.468-481
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• 2018

This study aims to empirically investigate how users' online engagement behaviors predict their uses of paid contents. To this end, the data from the 2016 Korean Media Panel Survey, which has been conducted annually by the Korea Information Society Development Institute(KISDI), were analyzed. Major findings(N=8.313) were as follows. First, the active type of online engagement(e.g., posting, commenting), which contributes to direct creation of online contents, was the most powerful predictor to explain the DV. On the other hand, relatively passive actions of user engagement(e.g., sharing, endorsing, voting) turned out to have no significant effects on the uses of paid contents, just as personality traits and online privacy concerns did. Based on these results, it is recommended that online contents or platform service providers should try to establish clearly-targeted marketing strategies, after thoroughly collecting and analyzing the data of users' various online behaviors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.20-28
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• 2016

Recently, with various smart devices being used, more attention is paid to digital content development for kids. Many parents and teachers are using digital contents both at home and the classroom. However, there are many concerns on the delayed language ability development and lack of social skills due to children's overuse of digital technology. This study reviewed related literature on digital content for kids including storytelling videos, flash, animation, multimedia fairy tales, and app-books. Based on that, digital contents design guidelines were proposed. It was expected that by appropriate digital content design, children would like reading books just as they like watching digital contents.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.211-217
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• 2016

There have been gradually established paid using system on contents, such as sound source, webtoon etc, with which licences are systematically managed. However, rampant free sites still mostly relying on advertising revenue make difficulties on lots of contents developers and obstruct the protection of their resonable right. In this situation, we need systematic measures to protect copyright of authors and to maximize use of contents of users. Therefore, it is important to handle the convenience of digital contents distribution and the diversity of contents license(differentiating permission rate according to user's purpose, scope, service period etc), based on the need of contents users. This paper implies to guideline to install contents distribution platform of individuals and to apprehend the need and acceptability of users in order to activate digital contents transaction on individuals.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.122-138
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• 2015

This research examines factors affecting behavioral intention to use integrated platform (IP), which is one of the business models regarding paid digital contents, based on extended United Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). IP is a service which is designed to make digital content charged. It combines digitalized format of newspaper, premium news or behind news, and additional information. The results of this paper show that effort expectancy, social influence and hedonic motivation have positive relationship with behavioral intention to use IP (BI). Satisfaction with newspaper shows negative relationship with BI, which means that newspaper and IP can be replaced with each other. Newspaper subscribers tend to have higher BI than non-subscribers. Performance expectancy, gender, age, and satisfaction with website do not have significant effect on BI.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.101-137
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• 2010

This paper defines markets relating to each paid broadcasting service by applying the test method of critical sales loss to the results of survey to the paid service subscribers. The result confirms the existence of a meaningful competitive relationship--in terms of the Competition Law--among all paid broadcasting services included in this study, or at least analog cable broadcasting, digital cable broadcasting, and real time IPTV(Internet Protocol TV) service. This indicates that current regulations which are being applied to cable TV, satellite broadcasting, and IPTV are actually discriminatory. Based on these analysis results, this paper suggests that the main attention for the improvement of regulations should be focused on regulations which are differently applied to different paid service providers. In particular, Article 20 in the Internet Multimedia Broadcasting Law is interpreted as defining the real-time IPTV as an independent market, thereby having leeway to harm fair competition among different paid service providers. Therefore, that article needs to change to give the right of equal access to contents to all the competing paid service providers. Furthermore, to put teeth in the contents equal access rule, most popular pay channels need to be designated as target contents of the rule. As for the market-share limitation regulations, the paper suggests that an upper limit on the market share should be set based on the total number of subscribers of all the competing paid services and the same limit applied to all the competing paid service providers.