• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.785-801
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of servicescape on customer satisfaction and brand loyalty in Franchise Coffee Shops. Also, this study investigated a mediating effect of brand image in the causal relationship between servicescape and customer satisfaction and, between servicescape and brand loyalty. The results of this study are as follows: Firstly, among components of servicescape, aesthetics, cleanliness and pleasance affected brand image. Secondly, among components of servicescape, aesthetics, cleanliness, pleasance and space affected customer satisfaction. Thirdly, among components of servicescape, pleasance and space affected brand loyalty. Fourthly, Brand image significantly affected customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Fifthly, customer satisfaction significantly affected brand loyalty. Sixthly, brand image had a mediating role in the causal relationship between servicescape and customer satisfaction and, between servicescape and brand loyalty.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.87-98
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• 2020

HANSSEM is a furniture company that leads the market of residential space in Korea. The goal of this case study is to focus on how HANSSEM copes with IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer after entering the Korean market in December 2014. IKEA's entry into Korea is possible to destroy the existing orders in the retail industry and reduce the profit of incumbent local players by realigning industry relationships. However, HANSSEM achieved rapid growth with the largest market share in the furniture market through its internal capabilities. The authors propose the main success factors in three ways: (1) residents-database including apartment floorplans in Korea, (2) high-quality human services provided by construction and A/S (After-sales Service), (3) channel diversification that provides comprehensive consultations (e.g., flagship stores, home shopping channels, stores in marts, and interior dealers). Especially, there have been various consumer needs in Korean market, such as creating their own stylish space economically. HANSSEM meets customer's needs by reinforcing the space-package (complete-interior is provided to customer in a package rather than combining individual piece of furniture) and opening showrooms, which makes customers freely experience the products and receive detailed consultations on interior designs by alleviating customers' difficulties in decorating their homes. Based on HANSSEM's outstanding activities and new investments, we look forward to seeing that HANSSEM will achieve its ultimate goal of maintaining the position of number one furniture company by attaining customer satisfaction through higher quality in Korea.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.19-29
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• 2010

A marketing model is changed from a customer acquisition to customer retention and it is being moved to a way that enhances the quality of customer interaction to add value to our customers. Such personalization is emerging from this background. The Web site is accelerate the adoption of a personalization, and in contrast to the rapid growth of data, quantitative analytical experience is required. For the automated analysis of large amounts of data and the results must be passed in real time of personalization has been interested in technical problems. A recommendation algorithm is an algorithm for the implementation of personalization, which predict whether the customer preferences and purchasing using the database with new customers interested or likely to purchase. As recommended number of users increases, the algorithm increases recommendation time is the problem. In this paper, to solve this problem, a recommendation system based on clustering and dimensionality reduction is proposed. First, clusters customers with such an orientation, then shrink the dimensions of the relationship between customers to low dimensional space. Because finding neighbors for recommendations is performed at low dimensional space, the computation time is greatly reduced.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.333-352
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• 2016

The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect relationships among variables focusing on what kinds of characteristics of LOHAS dining space display affect image, trust, satisfaction, and loyalty in hotels, and establish a relationship model. From the survey design and empirical analysis, examining the hypothesis and applying model was analyzed suitable. The results of the study were as follows. First, it was revealed that the LOHAS dining space display has a positive influence on image, trust and satisfaction of hotel. Second, hotel image has a positive influence on customer trust and loyalty. In addition, customer trust has positive impact on customer trust and loyalty. From the results of this investigation, it was found that LOHAS dining space display affects hotel image, trust and satisfaction, and that the customer satisfaction was positively influential on loyalty. As a result, all hypotheses were partly supported. Overall, when LOHAS dining space display was stressed, it affected image, trust, satisfaction, and loyalty in hotels. It was also verified that LOHAS dining space display affects hotel image, trust and satisfaction. Moreover, it was also confirmed that the higher LOHAS dining space display is, the higher hotel image, trust, satisfaction and loyalty will be, thereby improving the service quality provided by employees.

• Korea Science and Art Forum
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• v.19
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• pp.259-267
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• 2015

Product-Service Systems (PSS) has drawn significant attention since it can effectively address diverse values of consumers by integrating products and services. PSS has been defined as a system of products, services, supporting networks and infrastructure that is designed to satisfy customer needs and to generate values. Manufacturing companies can accomplish business innovation by devising new service elements and providing PSSs starting from their products. Such new efforts are called manufacturing servitization. With analysis of the company's business contexts, diverse strategies could be set for servitization. Services could be developed so that their product functions can be supported. On the other hand, new services could be devised to drive active emotional values of their customers in a broadly related manner with their products. In this way, different servitization strategies in service space could be employed. In this paper, the product-service integration spaces for comparison of product-service systems in manufacturing servitization is briefly sketched. Various issue spaces, termed dimensions, would be used including service space, customer space, value space and business model space. Diverse PSS cases, including well-known PSSs and brand new PSSs, will be classified and compared to demonstrate the product-service integration spaces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2002

In large commercial facilities, customer movements have a close interrelation between space structure and interior environment elements. With the importance of the spacial structure, VMD strategy has recently played greater role In the interior environment image to satisfy customers' needs. This study intends to examine the relationship among customer behavior, customer movement, and VMD by grasping customers shopping behavior characteristics that come from the relatively comprehensive factors in the female sections of the department stores through the environmental image that is composed of spatial and emotional elements. This study also serves the purpose that by tracking shopping time, shopping speed, and the ratio of shopping depth that directly reflects customer behavior characteristics, various causes, either general or specific, which can affect the decision on purchase are to be examined. Based on this research results, we bring up the basic data and foundation for floor MD plan, establishment of movement plan, and VMD plan at a store.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.116-128
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• 2015

This study examined customers from restaurants in hotels in the Busan and Gyeongnam region, South Korea, to confirm if dinging area decoration has any indirect effect on behavioral intention via customer emotional response and the mediating effects of customer emotional response in order to provide the basic materials of marketing strategies for continued customer visit to the hotel restaurants. The implications of the study are summarized as follows: First, if restaurant space is designed in consideration of gustatory, visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory aspects, it becomes a reason for customers to re-purchase and spread good words of mouth. Second, restaurant food space should be designed to make customers pleasant and exciting. Third, the design of food restaurant design that induces customer emotional responses elevates customer re-purchase and intention to deliver words of mouth.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.3-12
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• 2017

As the quality of life has improved today, there is a growing desire among consumers for new space and interest in spending their valuable time in 'the third space' has tended to increase. Cafes have been integrated with sales and exhibition space as the representative third space. For example, it's cafe type automobile exhibition centers. The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of 'the third space' in cafe type automobile exhibition centers and suggest a plan for effective spatial characteristics. It checked the necessity of the third space' in automobile exhibition centers by analyzing automobile consumption trends of the 21st century according to industry change and restructures a checklist by grasping cafe type automobile exhibition centers and the concept and characteristics of 'the third space' based on the precedent studies. A questionnaire is made through the checklist drawn and a survey is conducted targeting users of the target areas of cases. The target areas of cases are 4 cafe type automobile exhibition centers opened in Korea since 2014. The analytical results of the target areas of cases that reflected the characteristics of 'the third space' are as follow: First, cafe type automobile exhibition centers must be built to make customers enter the space and at the same time, receive information on automobiles and space naturally. Second, in order to increase satisfaction with the space and brands, there is the necessity to arouse their interest through various experiences including test driving cars directly. Third, revisit intention can be found to be more influenced by spatial design than brand satisfaction. Fourth, partitions or interior for dividing the space need to be improved. In the next studies, specific research on plans about creating design to improve corporate image and brands and induce customers to revisit cafe type automobile exhibition centers by applying the characteristics of 'the third place' to them is required.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.178-187
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• 2011

This research suggested the hygienic spatial composition of sell-service restaurants applying HACCP(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System). The circulation of the food, dishes, waste, workers and customers were each fractionated and arranged according to the hygienic sequence of cooking food in kitchen and process for eating food within the customer space. The spaces were separated by the degree of cleanness(clean area, semi-clean area, contaminated area). After that, hygiene facilities to remove contamination and pass facilities intended to control moving were added at the possible points of cross-contamination in oder to prevent the cross-contamination. For hygienic spatial composition of self-service restaurant, the following should be acknowledged: In the kitchen, spaces in which the food is handled after being heated should be located in the clean area. As of the customer space, spaces where dishes are prepared, food and water is received, and the table hall should be located in the clean area. Food circulation should flow from the contaminated area to the clean area. Food, dishes, waste should be moved through pass facilities so that workers do not have to come and go between other areas of cleanness. Also lockers for private clothes and lockers for uniforms should be separated. Hygiene facilities should be easily accessible so that workers can use them whenever they enter their working area. The contaminated area where dirty dishes are dealed with should be separated from the clean area. Waste should be thrown out without crossing cooking areas. As of customer circulation, the hygiene facility for hand washing should be located near the space where dishes for self-service are placed. The customer circulation should lead customers to leave restaurants after giving back the dirty dishes in the contaminated area.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.21 no.4_spc
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• pp.415-429
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• 2014

With the advent of smart devices, users are able to connect to each other through the Internet without the constraints of time and space. Because the Internet has become increasingly important to users in their everyday lives, reliance on it has grown. As a result, the number of web sites constantly increases and the competition between these sites becomes more intense. Even those sites that operate successfully struggle to establish new strategies for customer retention and customer development in order to survive. Many companies use various customer information in order to establish marketing strategies based on customer group segmentation A method commonly used to determine the customer groups of individual sites is to infer customer characteristics based on the customers' demographic information. However, such information cannot sufficiently represent the real characteristics of customers. For example, users who have similar demographic characteristics could nonetheless have different interests and, therefore, different buying needs. Hence, in this study, customers' interests are first identified through an analysis of their Internet news inquiry records. This information is then integrated in order to identify each web category. The study then analyzes the possibilities for the practical use of the proposed methodology through its application to actual Internet news inquiry records and web site browsing histories.