• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.11-22
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aims to investigate how brand-related user-generated content (UGC) influences consumers' brand attitude and behavioral intention in the context of the Metaverse, and the mediating role of virtual brand experience, perceived information usefulness, perceived interactivity, and attitude toward advertising. Research design, data and methodology: The study was conducted using a survey with 239 questionnaires from frequent social media users in China and hypothesis testing through AMOS 26.0 structural equation modeling. Results: The findings suggest that (1) brand-related UGC positively influences brand attitude and behavioral intention through virtual brand experience, perceived information usefulness, perceived interactivity, and attitude toward advertising. (2) The study identified the fully-mediated effects of virtual brand experience, perceived information usefulness, perceived interactivity, and attitude toward advertising in the impact of brand-related UGC on brand attitude and behavioral intention. (3) The mediating pathway with the most significant impact on behavioral intention was the virtual brand experience and attitude toward the advertising, followed by the effect of the virtual brand experience, perceived information usefulness, and perceived interactivity on brand attitude. Conclusions: This study presents UGC as a new type of digital promotion that can positively impact the effectiveness of brand advertising in the Metaverse.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 2021

This study looked at the conflict between the aspect of the use of personally non-identifiable information for the development of the big data industry and the digital advertising industry and the aspect of personal information protection. In order to achieve the research purpose, this study focused on literature research such as thesis, legal texts, administrative regulations, and recent media articles. As a result of this study, the main issues related to the protection of personally non-Identifiable Information in digital behavioral advertising were 'conflict between freedom of advertising expression and personal rights', 'personalization of unidentifiable information', 'information imbalance'. In this regard, as measures to protect personally non-identifiable information in digital behavioral advertising, it was proposed to 'harmonize with freedom of advertising expression and personal rights, 'improve notification and consent. process', and 'reinforce the right to control personal information'.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.73-82
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• 2022

As digital advertising industry grows, consumers' concerns over personal information protect also rise. Thus, the current study is designed to explore college students' perspectives on digital behavioral advertising and personal information protection through in-depth interviews. According to study results, importance of personal information protection is highly regarded among college students and interviewees suggest individuals, companies, and government organizations work together to protect personal information. College students' behavioral level of personal information protection can be divided into three levels such as 1) no-action taken, 2) passive response, and 3) active response. The study found that college students' attitude toward digital behavioral advertising is positive and also negative at the same time. Lastly, the study suggests that college students have positive attitude toward companies' personal information collection and use for the marketing purpose such as digital behavioral advertising. At the discussion section this study puts emphasis on the need for digital media literacy education and suggests practical implications for personal information collection and its procedures.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.81-90
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine the possibility of combining DOOH advertising, which has fully met the functional requirements of a standalone digital medium, with transmedia storytelling as a expansion of a new advertising area. This researcher examined the concept of transmedia storytelling used in various fields and its application cases in dramas, movies, and webtoons, and analyzed examples of transmedia storytelling approaches in the field of advertising. As a result of the analysis, it was analyzed that although OOH advertising has brought many changes in the way of content implementation with the advent of digital signage, DOOH advertising needs to be approached in a more diverse way in a situation where the boundaries that were considered to be the unique domain of each content are blurring. In particular, it has been analyzed that it can not only fulfill its role as an independent medium but also expand the scope of DOOH advertising by combining it with transmedia storytelling enthusiasts. These results suggest the need to incorporate DOOH advertising with transmedia storytelling strategies.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.163-170
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the research trend on social media influencers in Korea. To this end, a total of 178 papers on social media influencers were analyzed from 2009 to 2021 among the academic papers registered in the Korean Academic Citation Index. As a result, the early social media influencer research, which was limited to only a few fields such as fashion, beauty, and communication, has expanded to various ones as time passed and achieved quantitative growth. The proportion of empirical studies has been on the rise in recent years, and studies that applied qualitative research methodologies have shown a tendency to decrease. The proportion of research focusing on specific media platforms and influencer types gets lower, although both the characteristics of social media platforms and the attitudes of each influencer are very diverse. This study has academic significance in that it is the first empirical study to investigate the current status of the social media influencer research in Korea.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.593-600
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• 2024

This study aimed to investigate the extent to which media advertisements conducted by vocational colleges (such as SNS, banners, university information boards in high schools, terminal advertisements, local daily newspaper advertisements, and elevator video advertisements) influence the formation of a positive image of the college among incoming students. To this end, a total of 430 freshmen at K Vocational College in Jeonbuk were asked about the frequency of their exposure to the college's media advertisements for each type of media. Additionally, they were asked about the impact these advertisements had on forming a positive image of the college, and the results were analyzed accordingly. The frequency of exposure to the advertisements was measured to verify the exposure effect of the advertisements themselves. To determine the impact of the frequency of exposure to each type of media on the formation of a positive image, correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted. The key findings are as follows: First, while there were differences in the frequently encountered media among different age groups, banners and SNS advertisements were the most frequently encountered when considering all age groups collectively. Second, regarding the impact of the frequency of exposure to each type of media on the formation of a positive image of the college, elevator advertisements had the most significant effect, followed by banner advertisements. The purpose of this study is to aid in the formulation of the college's promotional strategies, with the expectation that the college will achieve better results through more efficient advertising.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.895-910
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• 1995

Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles Vol. 19, No. 6 (1995) p. 895~910 The purpose of study was to estimate the consistency between brand image and shopping bag image, and also to find out the important factors which constructed the brand image. This study was conducted by means of a questionnaire survey of female students of moi or universities in Seoul. Frequency, percentage, mean, factor analysis, 1-test, ANOVA, Fisher's LSD, Coster analysis, MDS are used for data analysis. The result are as follows: 1) Brand image was devised into three factors: personality/modernity, nobility and usability. 2) The rate of consistency of brand image and shopping bag image was high in the brands of Benetton, System, Cresson, Be-art, Tomboy, Guess, Esprit, Anacapri, Mercoledi, Youngwoo in descending order. 3) The most important factor which represent the brand image was the choice of color. 4) This study found that shopping bags can be advertising media because they think that shopping bags played an important role as a walking advertising media on the street.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.161-167
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the advertising campaign is spreading in social networks, and how the advertising model plays an important role in advertisement diffusion. In order to grasp the diffusion patterns of advertising, a text mining and social network analysis were conducted using the beer brand 'Kloud' as a collection keyword. After analyzing the social data for two months since the on-air of 'Good Body' advertisement, which was the first ad that "Sulhyun" appeared in. After the launch of the ad, Kloud has been mainly associated with keywords such as 'yavis & trendy style', 'beer brand', 'beer matching food', 'luxury beer drinking place', 'leisure trend', and 'SNS activity', etc. In addition, "Sul Hyun" also showed that an advertising model contributes to the spread of advertisement on social media in terms of image transition as well as brand's name and unique selling point.

• Journal of Science of Art and Design
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• v.8
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• pp.129-159
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• 2005

Web sites have become one of most important factor for sales products as well as advertising communications in these days. So numerous web sites have been developed for corporations and brands. It is not easy to getting more attention as a prominent web site expression among various types of numerous web sites. Due to the voluminous expansion of visual communications and the change of the media. new advertising creative must be needed for serving to differentiate the message, inviting audiences to participate more positively in Web site communications. This thesis aims at reviewing images and semiotics for analyzing web sites. And this thesis is about the significations of web sites for some of supreme brands. Chapter I describes the aim of this thesis about the signification of web sites, especially concentrate on the intro-pages of worldwide supreme brands. such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, and Burberry. And Chapter II introduces the general concept of Image and Semiotics. Chapter III deals with the signification of the web sites with introducing semiotic methods such as the theory of R. Barthes. Chapter IV discusses the signification of Images of web sites as an advertising creative talking into consideration of semiotic theories. And this thesis analyze almost all visual images and verbal message by the theory of R. Barthes. In this matrix, a. particular image of web site can be analyzed into its basic structure of pictorial and word elements , i. e., into the representations the viewer uses and identifies. It's my belief that one of aesthetic engineering approaches such as Semantic Differential Method and semiotic approaches such as the Interpretant Matrix for advertising design images provide basic methods which is about defining the process of constructing and coding the advertising images as well as analyzing and decoding advertising expressions. So I suggest these kinds of studies on the images of web sites as well as advertising design images.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

This study is to seek to find the importance of next digital marketing factors by using AHP method and analyze comparison between an advertising expert and a non-advertising expert. In results, the relative importance ranking is as follows; combination (0.26), transformation (0.259), optimization (0.243), and technology (0.238). The relative importance ranking of sub-factors is as follows: artificial intelligence and maching learning (0.086), big data (0.085), and contents curation (0.060). While the relative importance of combination and optimization for an advertising expert is higher than for non-advertising expert, the relative importance of transformation and technology for non-advertising is higher than for an advertising expert. This study provides managerial implication to build digital strategy based on these result.