• 한국의류학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.56-72
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• 2021

This study examines the effect of influencer characteristics (attractiveness, reliability, expertise, and intimacy) and consumer need satisfaction (autonomy, relatedness, and competence) on attachment to influencer, content flow, and purchase intention. The moderating effect of gender was also investigated. Survey data collected from 515 male and female Instagram users were submitted for analysis. The research findings are as follows. First, the reliability and intimacy of influencers had a positive effect on attachment to influencers whereas attractiveness and intimacy had positive effects on content flow. Second, the relatedness and competence that consumers felt during the use of influencer content had a positive effect on attachment to influencers whereas the autonomy had a positive effect on content flow. Third, the attachment to influencers increased the intention to purchase products introduced by influencers via content flow. Fourth, there were some gender differences in the relationships of attachment to influencer, content flow, and purchase intention. Implications were suggested based on the results.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.574-585
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• 2019

The acceleration of digital transformation (DX) has resulted in SNS influencer marketing trends becoming the mainstream of the new market. SNS influencers act as early adopters in the process of new products being accepted. Chinese consumers are most affected by Hallyu, which increases interest in K-beauty products. This study analyzes how K-beauty SNS influencers are related to Chinese consumers. A survey was conducted among Chinese millennial consumers after watching videos provided by K-beauty SNS influencer; subsequently, 456 responses were used for data analysis. As a result, the analysis based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) distinguishes the central route and the peripheral route in the process of Chinese consumers accepting new SNS products. The study findings suggested that information quality, credibility, accuracy, and usefulness had significant effects on acceptance intention for new products among central route factors, and similarity, trustworthiness, pleasure, expertise, and attractiveness also had significant effects on the acceptance intention of new product among peripheral route factors. It was found that variables of the central route, rather than those of peripheral route, had stronger effects on the acceptance intention for new products. Consequently, the central route of K-beauty SNS influencer is more important to Chinese consumers' acceptance of new products. It is expected that this study will offer beauty influencer marketing-based cosmetics brands efficient consumer management suggestions.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2021

Purpose: This study discusses and discovers the important role of fashion product coolness in affecting consumers' perceived value and consumers' value creation behavior. Accordingly, fashion product coolness exerts a direct effect on perceived value while perceived value has a direct impact on value creation. Besides, fashion product coolness has an indirect effect on value creation through perceived value. Research design, data, and methodology: This study adopts the quantitative research approach by cross-sectional technical on a sample of 319 respondents in Vietnam. PLS-SEM has been used to analyze the survey data. Results: The result indicates that the proposed direct and indirect effects are significant. Specifically, utilitarian "coolness" and hedonic "coolness" have positive impacts on perceived value. The perceived value poses an impact on consumers' value creation behavior, including customer lifetime value and influencer value. Finally, the perceived value links utilitarian "coolness", hedonic "coolness" with customer lifetime value and influencer value. Conclusions: Fashion distribution is playing an increasingly important role in the retail sector of the economy. Fashion distribution activities are greatly influenced by the perceived value of consumers. The findings are supposed to strengthen the beliefs of fashion brands and retailers in the promotion of value creation and consumers' perceived value in the field of fashion distribution.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.557-567
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• 2023

최근 소셜 플랫폼 마케팅 환경은 빠르게 변화하고 있다. 이러한 환경에서 기업은 브랜드와 서비스를 홍보하기 위해 소셜 플랫폼 인플루언서에 대한 의존도가 높아지고 있다. 이처럼 소셜 인플루언서에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있음에도 불구하고 소셜 플랫폼 인플루언서 특성이 소비자 애착과 브랜드 충성도에 미치는 영향을 탐구하는 실증적 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소셜 플랫폼 인플루언서 특성, 소비자 애착 및 브랜드 충성도 간의 관계를 살펴보았다. 중국 소비자를 대상으로 온라인 설문조사를 진행하였으며, 총 360부의 데이터를 분석에 사용하였다. 분석에는 SPSS와 AMOS 프로그램을 사용하였다. 연구 결과 소셜 플랫폼 인플루언서 특성 중 애착에 유의한 영향을 미치는 요인은 신뢰성, 전문성과 친밀성으로 나타났으며, 소셜 플랫폼 인플루언서에 대한 애착도가 높을수록 브랜드 충성도가 높아짐을 확인하였다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.471-483
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• 2021

본 연구는 가상 인플루언서 마케팅의 출발선에서 가상 인플루언서에 대한 수용자의 반응을 알아보는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이에 국내에서 활동 중인 가상 인플루언서의 인스타그램에서 게시글과 댓글, '좋아요' 수와 동영상 리뷰 수를 수집하였다. 자료의 수집과 분석에는 Python 3.7과 Textom을 사용하였다. 감성 분석결과, 긍정 감성이 부정과 중립의 감성보다 높게 나타났으며, 긍·부정 모두 가상 인플루언서의 외모가 주요한 요인으로 나타났다. 중립의 감성에서 가상 인플루언서에 대한 소비자의 관심을 유추할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 가상 인플루언서에 대한 소비자의 반응을 알아보고 가상 인플루언서에 대한 긍정과 부정의 감정에 대한 요인을 파악하여, 가상 인플루언서 마케팅의 전략 수립에 도움이 될 자료를 제시했다는 것에 그 의의가 있다.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2022

The MZ Generation likes watching YouTube videos produced by senior influencers despite the big age gap. In addition, the final goal of collaborative YouTube videos between senior influencers and brands is to increase sales. Accordingly, this study examined this interesting phenomenon and aimed to provide useful insights for creating YouTube videos targeting the MZ generation. This study was divided into two parts. Study 1 explored the viewers' perceived benefits by looking at the YouTube video comments of a senior fashion influencer, and then classified the perceived benefits into informational, psychological, and hedonic benefits. Study 2 analyzed the relationships among the viewers' perceived benefits (informational, psychological, hedonic benefits), attitude toward a brand, and behavior intention. Study 2 found that only informational benefits, among the three perceived benefits, enhanced attitudes toward a brand, thereby affecting behavior intention. Based on the results of two sub-studies, this study highlights the importance of informational benefits to maximize the marketing effects employing the collaborative YouTube videos of senior influencers and brands.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.282-299
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• 2024

This study aimed to examine the impact of virtual influencers' characteristics on purchase intentions through attitudes toward the influencer and the brand, and to identify which factors are important depending on involvement. We used a scenario-based online survey of 320 female consumers in their twenties and thirties, and analyzed their responses through structural equation modeling using AMOS 21.0. Virtual influencers' attractiveness, reliability, familiarity, and virtuality had significant effects on consumers' attitudes toward those influencers, while their attractiveness, familiarity, and virtuality had significant effects on consumers' brand attitudes. Notably, in contrast to the other variables, virtuality had a negative effect. In addition, consumers' attitudes toward the virtual influencer significantly affected their brand attitudes and purchase intentions. We also analyzed which characteristics had significant impacts on high- and low-involvement groups. We found that reliability had the greatest influence on purchase intentions in the high-involvement group and that familiarity had the greatest influence on purchase intentions in the low-involvement group, which confirmed that the variables affecting purchase intentions differ depending on the level of involvement.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2022

본 연구는 전세계적으로 주목받고 있는 소셜 미디어 인플루언서의 국내연구 동향을 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 한국학술인용색인에 등재된 학술논문 가운데, 2009년부터 2021년까지 소셜 인플루언서를 주제로 한 논문 총 178편을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 패션 및 뷰티, 커뮤니케이션 등 특정분야에 국한되어 있던 초기 소셜 미디어 인플루언서 연구는 시간이 흐를수록 다양한 학문분야로 확장되며 양적 성장을 이루고 있었다. 실증연구의 비중은 최근 들어 높아지는 추세이며, 질적 연구방법론을 적용한 연구들은 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 소셜 미디어 플랫폼의 특성은 매우 다양하고 각 플랫폼에서 활동하는 인플루언서의 유형과 속성 역시 이질적임에도 불구하고, 특정 미디어 플랫폼 및 인플루언서 유형에 대한 연구 비중은 오히려 더 낮아지는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 국내 소셜 미디어 인플루언서 연구의 현주소를 조망하는 첫 실증연구라는 점에서 학문적 의의를 지닌다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.200-211
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• 2021

This study examines the effects of fashion influencers' body types (realistic versus ideal body types) on self-expression, self-representation, and recommendation intentions, as mediated by familiarity toward influencers. Although fashion influencers lead to a positive consumer response compared to traditional advertisements, previous research on the effects of fashion influencers on consumers is limited. Thus, this study tests the role of consumers' socio-psychological aspects in understanding how and why fashion influencers affect consumers' behavioral intentions associated with self-expression, self-representation, and influencer recommendation. A total of 180 women in their 20s and 30s participated in the survey. The responses were collected after showing them stimuli featuring fashion influencers with either ideal or realistic body shapes. The data were analyzed using SPSS18.0 for descriptive statistics, and AMOS 18.0 for confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results showed that participants who were shown realistic body types perceived familiarity, which generated positive effects on self-expression, self-representation, and recommendation intentions. Hence, the effects of influencers' body types on recommendation intention are mediated by familiarity. Self-expression and self-representation intentions also increase influencer recommendation intention. Comparatively, participants who were shown ideal body types only induced higher self-representation intention, which increased their recommendation intention. The current findings can help fashion marketers select the appropriate influencers who fit their target customers as promotional models, as well as to induce changes in consumers' behavioral intention.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.295-310
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• 2023

The current virtual fashion influencers are a hyper-real prototype in that it has a higher presence than the virtual humans in the past. Also, they are leading fashion trend with more than tens of thousands of followers on social media. This study investigated the physical and social presence of virtual fashion influencer perceived by consumer and verified effects on evaluation attributes of influencers and the relationship maintenance behavior. A total of 321 Korean women in their 20s and 30s who have Instagram account participated in the online survey. The data was analyzed using AMOS 23.0. The results revealed that the physical presence had a significant impact on attractiveness of virtual fashion influencers. In case of social presence had a positive effect on friendliness and reliability of virtual fashion influencers. In addition, evaluation attributes of virtual fashion influencers' friendliness, attractiveness and reliability in the order of influence on relationship maintenance behavior. This study suggested that the development of social presence of virtual fashion influencers with friendliness and attractiveness is more important than the physical presence that has already reached a high level.