• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.509-522
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of adolescent consumers' attitudes toward money and conspicuous consumption on unethical consumption behavior in commercial transactions. The main survey was conducted targeting 290 middle and high school students. As a result of this research, first in the case of adolescent's attitudes toward money, the symbol for happiness and success was 3.11 and the means of control was 1.77 respectively. The level of conspicuous consumption behavior was 2.75 and the level of unethical consumption behavior scored as passive unethical consumption behavior was 1.38 while the active unethical consumption behavior was 2.10. Second, in the case of the attitude toward money as a means of control, it differentiated according to the level of living and the amount of allowance. Conspicuous consumption behavior differentiated according to the amount of allowance and the father's education. Active unethical consumption behavior showed a difference according to the amount of allowance and the father's education. Multiple linear regression analysis conducted to identify relative effects of the variables that affect unethical consumption behavior, in case of passive unethical consumption behavior, showed that conspicuous consumption(${\beta}$=.23, p<.01) and attitudes toward money as a means of control(${\beta}$=.29, p<.001) with an explanatory power of 18%. In the case of active unethical consumption behavior, showed that sex(${\beta}$=.16, p<.05), father's education(${\beta}$=-.15, p<.05), attitudes toward money as means of control(${\beta}$=.18, p<.5) and conspicuous consumption(${\beta}$=.36, p<.001) with an explanatory power of 26%.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.643-650
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• 2003

We analyzed the amount of environmental loads, and the amount of energy consumption through life cycle assessment from a discharge stage to the ultimate disposal to municipal solid waste in Seoul. We carried out inventory analysis of the amount of environmental loads that made the object range collection, intermediate treatment, and the final treatment, and took into consideration each stage exceptions CO$_2$ and NOx , the amount of SOx discharge, and energy consumption. We applied the data of an object model, and acquisition processed the scale of an object model suitably and applied to it to difficult data using the data of the Yokohama City incineration plant in Japan. The amount of environmental loads per Iton of municipal waste were analyzed CO$_2$ 0.4C-ton, SOx 0.4kg and NOx 0.8kg. Moreover, the amount of energy consumption which is 2.4Gcal was computed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.131-144
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• 1998

This study attempts to analyze the propensity for conspicuous consumption of the adolescent consumers and related variables such as socio-economic variables, consumer experience, materialism and consumption-oriented attitudes to provide a basis for the development of consumer education program. The survey of this research was conducted by means of self admistered questionnaire with 788 adolescent consumers attending middle and high school located in Ulsan. The results of this research were as follows: 1) The average level of the propensity for conspicuous consumption was a little high median point. This implies that consumer education is necessary for the adolescent consumer in order to reduce the level of conspicuous consumption. 2) The adolescent consumers' propensity for conspicuous consumption varies significantly according to the socio-economic variables such as sex, grade, the allowance interval, the amount of allowance, the mother's education and the subjective level of household consumption. 3) The propensity for conspicuous consumption is positively correlated with materialism and the consumption-oriented attitudes. The consumer experience is positively correlated with materialism and not significantly correlated with the propensity for conspicuous consumption and the consumption-oriented attitudes. Materialism is positively correlated with the consumption-oriented attitudes. 4) According to the results of the regression analysis examining the influences of variables affecting the propensity for conspicuous consumption, the relative importance of the variables are in the order of; materialism, the consumption-oriented attitudes, sex and the amount of allowance. These independent variables explains 49.3% of the total variance about the propensity for conspicuous consumption.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.15-27
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• 1988

This study was designed to measure the amount of formaldehyde in the disposable napkins of eighteen (18) different products. It was aimed to investigate the actual situation of the napkin consumption and to relate it to the amount of formaldehyde measured. The degree of recognizability on the harmfulness of formaldehyde was also studied. The amount of formaldehyde was measured by means of the Acetyl Acetone method. The actual situation of consumption and the recognizability of the formaldehyde were investigated by questionnaire. in the survey, the subjects was 12~53 years old and lived in Seoul Kyoungki-city. The statistical methods used were simple frequency and chi-square. The results obtained from this study were as follows; 1) Among eighteen (18) different disposable napkins, all was found to have less amount of formaldehyde than the japanese regulation. 2) From the survey on the actual situation of consumption, most resondents (66.1%) experienced the dermaptological problem after using the disposable napkins. 3) The recognizability of formaldehede was very low. The recognizability on the harmfulness of formaldehyde was low too, which represented the consumers had least or no knowledge about the formaldehyde release problem.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.105-126
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• 2007

The aims of this study were to examine the actual conditions surrounding the purchasing of online game items and Internet cyberspace items by adolescents the propensity of adolescents to consume these items, to determine the difference in the propensity for high and low consumption of these items among adolescents, and to investigate the characteristics of the adolescents who show a high propensity for the consumption of Internet items. The data for this study were collected from 483 adolescent consumers who were middle school and high school students in the city of Bucheon in Gyeonggi Province. The statistical methods used for the data analysis included frequency, percentage, standard deviation, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. The results of the present study can be summarized as follows. The majority(79.5%) of the students surveyed had had the experience of purchasing items. Most students(67.5%) had a rare frequency of buying ($1{\sim}2$ times in a period of 6 months or less). Nearly half (47.9%) of the students spent less than 1000 won per month on the item(s) purchased. Most of the students purchased items with their parents' permission, but 26.6% of the students bought the items without their parents' permission. Most of the characteristics of the items purchased, such as the major item purchased, payment method, amount purchased per month, average amount spent per buying experience, and whether or not they had their parents' permission differed according to gender, grade level, record, and monthly allowance. The level of propensity to consume the items was not high. The propensity of imitation consumption (1.96) was lower than that of impulsive consumption (2.38) and conspicuous consumption (2.45). Most of the buying characteristics, including the major item purchased, payment method, amount purchased per month, average amount spent per buying experience, parents' permission, grade level, and monthly allowance were different between the high and low propensity for consumption groups.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.19-30
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• 1999

This study attempts to identify the level of the propensity of college student's conspicuous consumption and clarify the related variables such as socioeconomic variables, consumption-oriented attitude, and influence of reference groupl Data used in this study were collected from 485 college students in seoul. The samples were analyzed by frequency, mean, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan's Multiple Range Test, and regression. The results can be summarized as follows: 1) The average level of the propensity for conspicuous consumption was a little higher than middle point ; 2) the propensity of conspicuous consumption of college students was significantly different according to age, sex, the amount of monthly allowance, and the parents' level of education; 3) the variables with statistically significant effects on college students' conspicuous consumption include the consumption-oriented attitude, the influencing degree of reference group, the amount of monthly allowance, and sex.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.126-131
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• 2008

The large buildings in Korea usually use the generators to control the peak load of electronic consumption during the summer. It is necessary that these generators emit carbon dioxide, since they use gas or gasoline for their fuel. This study is to analyze the data of electronic consumption and operation of the generators at COEX, one of the representative complex building clusters in Korea, and to compare to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per 1kWh from the domestic power plant by analogizing the frequency of using the generator during the summer and the amount of fuel consumption by the capacity of the generator and estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the generator.

• Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.37-46
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• 2019

The energy of the building is influenced by the user 's activity due to the population, society, and economic characteristics of the building user. In order to obtain accurate energy information, the difference in the amount of energy consumption by the activities and characteristics of building users should be identified. The purpose of the study is to identify the difference in the amount of energy consumption by the user's activities in the same building, and to analyse the relationship between user's activities and demographic, social and economic characteristics. For research, energy simulation is performed based on actual user activity schedule. The results of the simulation were clustered by using K-Means clustering, a machine learning technique. As a result, four types of users were derived based on the amount of energy consumption. The more energy used in a cluster, the lower the user's income level and older. The longer a user's indoor activity times, the higher the energy use, and these activities relate to the user's characteristics. There is more than twice the difference between the group that uses the least energy consumption and the group that uses the most energy consumption.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1530-1535
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• 2011

Heat radiation of LED luminaires has risen a problem when applied indoor. LEDs can save energy with higher efficacy than other light sources. However, their heat radiation may increase power consumption for air-conditioning. Therefore, this paper carried out a comparative analysis on the amount of heat radiation for MR16, E26 bulb, and down-light which will be replaced to LED luminaires. Heat amount of LED-MR16 and LED-downlight was 48% and 87.5% lower than that of conventional lamps, halogen MR16 and E26 CFL, respectively. Consequently, the heat amount and indoor temperature were proportional to the power consumption of luminaire. Therefore, the use of LED luminaire can reduce the amount of heat radiation as well as power consumption.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.21-32
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects socio-demographic and socio-psychological variables on the proppensity for conspicuous consumption of adolescents. The data used in this study were collected through questionnaires on 488 adolescents living in Kyongju City. The data were analyzed by using SPSS-win program. The specific objectives of this study were to invetigate the difference of adolescent consumers’ propensity for conspicuous consumption and to predict the independent effects on the propensity for conspicuous consumption by socio-demographic & socio-psychological variables The results of this study were as follows: 1) The adolescent consumers’propensity for conspicuous consumption was different significantly according to the socio-demographic variables such as school. the subjective level of household consumption. the allowance interval. the amount of allowance. 2) According to the results of the multipul regression-analysis were in the order of: materialism the frequency of communication with their friends. the perceived level of living. and the amount of allowance. These independent variables explain 29.8% of the total variance.