• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.614-624
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• 2014

This study is intended to offer basic data for developing outdoor clothing exported to China by identifying how Chinese consumers use outdoor clothing. To accomplish the objective, a survey was conducted on 300 male and female Chinese tourists in their 10s to 40s who have purchased outdoor clothing before. As more than twice as many respondents said they wear sweatsuit or everyday clothes for mountain-climbing instead of outdoor clothing, the necessity of outdoor clothing is obviously perceived at a low level. Among them, 57.4% wear outdoor clothing as townwear in everyday lives, and other respondents are dissatisfied with the design. Thus, it is necessary to develop townwear-style design. When buying outdoor clothing, wearability was the biggest consideration. Also, the first criteria for evaluating outdoor clothing was practicality for mountain-climbing activities. The functionality of outdoor clothing they needed the most was air permeability. As for outdoor clothing top, the main inconvenience was tightness around the neck. As for bottoms, it was tightness of pants when bending knees. In terms of areas to be improved, the No. 1 was unformed design. Thus, it is imperative to develop design of diverse styles. As the Chinese outdoor clothing market has grown significantly in recent years, the following should be executed by domestic companies before advancing to the market. First, they should form Korean brand image and boost the brand awareness with various activities, amid Korean Wave. Second, they should develop preferred designs among Chinese consumers and strengthen functionality of products, based on consumer survey.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.641-656
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to compare Chinese-Korean adolescents' with Korean adolescents's academic achievement motivation, parental expectation, teacher expectation, self-efficacy. The object is 492 students in the middle school 2th and high school 2th grade who are from Chinese-Korean school and Korean school in Seoul and Incheon. The major results of findings were as follows: First, Chinese-Korean adolescents were more high than academic achievement motivation in Korean adolescents. Second, juniors in middle school were more positive than parental expectation in high school. Third, Chinese-Korean adolescents were more positive than teacher expectation in Korean adolescents, and juniors in middle school are more positive than ones in high school. Forth, Chinese-Korean adolescents were more high than self-efficacy in Korean adolescents.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.56 no.6 s.105
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• pp.153-167
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• 2006

This study was purposed to analyse the registration of Korean Fashion brands in China and to point out problems by the registration of analogous trademarks to Korean brand names. List of total 137 Korean national brands were used to collect trademarks in Chinese Trademark Office and each trademark was analysed by the nationally and the date of registration. Analogy of registered trademarks were classified by the common traits. In Result, only 61 Korean national brands were registered by Korean fashion firms in China and 37 Korean national brands were registered by Chinese firms or individuals in the same product classification or in the similar fashion product classification. And 22 Korean national brands out of 61 registered by Korean firms were also registered by Chinese firms, which may lead confusion and misidentification to Chinese consumers. Pre-registration by the Chinese firms f9r analogous or identical trademarks of the Korean fashion brand names in analogous product classification should be a serious entry barrier to Chinese market.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.103-118
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• 2020

Chinese economic growth and Chinese adoption of foreign cultures have changed varied phenomena, consumption patterns and consumer life-styles, in particular. In order to understand behavior of Chinese consumers, it is critical to explore their lifestyles and its effects on their purchase behavior. For attaining this goal, our research classifies Chinese consumer lifestyles related to cosmetics, into four types: brand oriented, price sensitive, rational consumption, and impulse buying. The research further analyzes the effects of consumer lifestyles on perceived value, satisfaction, and purchase intention in each case of skin care cosmetics and make-up cosmetics. Significant difference are found in perceived value, satisfaction, and purchase intention of skin care cosmetics exists between brand-oriented type and rational consumption type. This is also the case between rational consumption type and impulse buying type. Purchase intention is only found to be different between rational consumption type and price sensitive type. In case of make-up cosmetics, significant differences in perceived value, satisfaction, and purchase intention in the pairs of brand-oriented type and rational consumption type, rational consumption type and impulse buying type, and rational consumption type and price sensitive type. This implies rational consumption type should be more appropriate target consumers in the Chinese cosmetics market.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.139-157
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• 2019

This study is intended for demonstrating the impacts of different factors on the formation of online consumer engagement behavior of young Chinese moviegoer in Korea. Based on Value-Exchange Model [Itani et al., 2019], we build research model to reveal the relationships among perceived enjoyment, perceived movie information value, multiplex-audience relationship quality, multiplex usage satisfaction, and online consumer engagement through experiments on valid data we collected from 186 participants who had lived in Korea and experienced the multiplex pages of top 3 movie theaters, where Smart PLS 3.0 is the tool used for statistical analysis. The experimental results show that both perceived enjoyment and perceived movie information value positively correlate to multiplex-audience relationship quality, and multiplex audience relationship quality significantly influences multiplex usage satisfaction and online consumer engagement. In addition, it is found that relationship quality plays the role of mediator between perceived enjoyment and satisfaction. The findings from this study offer both academic and managerial implications for movie distributors who are interested in developing potential Chinese consumer market in Korea.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.501-508
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Chinese consumer characteristics as internal inclination on the trust and purchase intention of on-line shopping mall. Two hundred sixty subjects, who were living in Shanghai, China and were university students, were randomly selected for questionnaire. The effective two hundred forty four questionnaires were used to conduct reliability tests for internal consistency and multiple regressions for relationship between independent and dependent variables with SPSS 10.0. The results from this study were as follows. It showed a significant relationship between the on-line shopping experience, consumer innovation, consumer risk and the trust of on-line shopping mall, however, it didn't show any significant relationship between convenience shopping orientation and the trust of on-line shopping mall. Also, It showed a significant relationship between the on-line shopping experience, consumer innovation and the distrust of on-line shopping mall, however, it didn't show any significant relationship between consumer risk, convenience shopping orientation and the distrust of on-line shopping mall. It showed a significant relationship between purchase intension, the consumer risk and on-line shopping experience which appeared a high trust in on-line shopping mall, however, it didn't show any significant relationship between purchase intension and consumer innovation which appeared a high distrust. Therefore, it could be concluded that in China it is decreasing to purchase through the internet shopping mall every year because the group of consumer innovation, which most of internet users in China belong to it, distrusts the internet shopping mall.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.420-430
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• 2016

This study was conducted to investigate the awareness and preference regarding Korean Samgyetang by the Chinese. An online survey was conducted to determine the awareness regarding Korean Samgyetang among the local Chinese, and a consumer preference test was performed to design the recipe of Samgyetang for Chinese students in Korea during April 2016. The results of the online survey showed that 88.2 % and 88.4 % of local Chinese men and women, respectively, were aware of Korean Samgyetang. Samgyetang recognition by the local residents of China was the highest in the Hubei region that includes Beijing. Traditional Samgyetang received the highest preference and Samgyetang with mung bean received the lowest preference in the preference test based on the Samgyetang type. In consumer preference tests among Chinese students, Samgyetang with broth of chicken feet (Sample-1) and Samgyetang with medicinal herbs (Sample-3) showed high acceptability than Samgyetang in water (Sample-2) in terms of the overall sensory properties. According to the results of the electronic tongue, Sample-1 showed a high value in terms of the strength of the saltiness and Sample-3 showed a high value in terms of the strength of bitterness and sweetness. Sample-2 showed a high value in terms of the strength of umami and sourness.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.109-125
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• 2021

China has achieved remarkable economic growth through an extended period of rapid industrialization. However, adverse environmental issues have become more prevalent during this time of development. In particular, car exhaust emissions in the country have become one of the most substantial causes of environmental degradation in China. To combat these issues, the Chinese government is actively implementing green car policies to mitigate the negative environmental concerns. Likewise, Chinese consumers' interest in green cars has also increasing. Despite these changes in consumer perceptions, research on Chinese consumers' green consumption behavior is still in its infancy. Therefore, an empirical study was conducted to measure the relationship between zhongyong(中庸) values, new ecological paradigm(NEP), and green consumption behavior for 334 Chinese consumers. As a result, the study found that the three sub-dimensions of zhongyong(中庸) values(multi-dimensionality, flexibility and compatibility) and NEP had a significantly positive(+) effect on the purchase intention of green cars. It was also found that NEP positively mediates the effect of flexibility and harmony on purchase intention of green cars. This study is expected to provide academic outcomes on China, which is currently the world's fastest growing green car market, as well as providing practical strategic implications for establishing unique green marketing strategy for China.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.101-130
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• 2016

Recently, by increasing the importance of China as consumer market, the need for a systematic and scientific study of Chinese consumers has been raised. This study researches how country image and product attributes as well as brand personality influence Chinese consumers'selection of Korean product through a comparative study of gender differences. This study used the data which were collected through Chinese adult consumers'survey on Korean cell phone products who reside at Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The main findings presented through empirical analysis results are as follows. First, Country image and brand personality have more influence on female consumers than male consumers on selection of Korean cell phones. Second, Male and female consumers have more influences by product attributes than other two factors. This study has presented the main implications of the preferred marketing strategies for Chinese enterprises of Korea on the basis of these research results.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.105-117
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• 2012

This study examined Chinese students' satisfaction level regarding their Korean Internet shopping mall experiences and the measured factors were pre-purchase, purchase, delivery, A/S and security, additionally, evaluate the level of repurchase intention on Chinese students living in South Korea. To accomplish these goals, an online questionnaire survey was conducted between October 1 and 10, 2011. A total of 365 questionnaires were used for the final analysis. The analysis process involved many statistical methods such as frequency, correlation and regression. The results indicate the following finding: First, Chinese students normally visited and purchased from popular Internet shopping malls and the items that they purchased the most frequently were clothing and shoes, makeup, computer and electronics. Second, the Chinese students' satisfaction level regarding their Internet shopping mall experiences was not high. They were especially worried about security matters regarding their personal or financial information. Third, their satisfaction level with the delivery process has the largest influence on their repurchase intention. Also, their gender, the length of time they had lived in Korea, the length of time they spent on Korean Internet shopping mall websites, the amount of frequency of online shopping in Korea, and their satisfaction with their purchase, the delivery process, the A/S process and security affected their repurchase intention in different degrees. The conclusion provides valuable information for devising a strategic direction for improving the foreigners' satisfaction level regarding and repurchase intention on Korean Internet shopping malls.