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유료 유튜브 채널멤버십 이용동기가 이용만족과 지속이용의도에 미치는 영향: 소비가치이론을 기반으로 (The Effect of Paid YouTube Channel Membership Motivation on Usage Satisfaction and Continuance Intention: Based on Consumption Value Theory)

  • ;권지윤;양성병
    • 서비스연구
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    • 제13권2호
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    • pp.181-203
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    • 2023
  • 유튜브는 OTT와 개인방송 플랫폼의 특성을 모두 갖춘 하이브리드적 성격을 띠고 있다. 그러나, 이러한 하이브리드적 특성을, 특히 유료 채널멤버십의 맥락에서 조사한 선행연구는 제한적이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 소비가치이론과 선행연구를 바탕으로 유튜브 유료 채널멤버십과 관련된 소비가치 요인이 이용만족도와 지속이용의도에 미치는 영향을 검증하고자 한다. 구체적으로, 본 연구는 유튜브 유료 채널멤버십 맥락에서 인지된 네 가지 소비가치 요인(기능적 가치, 사회적 가치, 감정적 가치, 진귀적 가치)을 도출하고, 각 요인이 이용만족과 지속이용의도에 미치는 영향을 검증한 후, 이러한 관계에서 상황적 가치(유료 유튜브 멤버십 채널에서의 실시간 방송 시청경험)의 조절효과를 추가적으로 살펴보고자 한다. 데이터는 여러 유료 유튜브 채널멤버십에 가입한 한국 성인을 대상으로 온라인 설문조사를 통해 총 274부가 수집되었다. 구조방정식모델링 기법을 활용하여 연구모형을 검증한 결과, 네 가지 소비가치 요인이 모두 이용만족에 유의미한 영향을 미치며, 이용만족은 지속이용의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 상황적 가치 또한, 기능적/감성적 가치와 이용만족 간의 관계와 이용만족과 지속이용의도 간의 관계를 유의하게 조절하는 것으로 조사되었다. 본 연구는 OTT와 개인방송 플랫폼의 특성을 모두 포괄하는 유튜브 채널 유료 멤버십에 초점을 맞춘 최초의 연구로서, 본 연구의 결과를 통해 개인방송 진행자 및 이해관계자들에게 시청자의 이용만족에 영향을 미치고 채널멤버십 가입 및 지속유지를 유도하는 동기부여 요인에 대한 인사이트를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

Exploring the Role of Preference Heterogeneity and Causal Attribution in Online Ratings Dynamics

  • Chu, Wujin;Roh, Minjung
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.61-101
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    • 2014
  • This study investigates when and how disagreements in online customer ratings prompt more favorable product evaluations. Among the three metrics of volume, valence, and variance that feature in the research on online customer ratings, volume and valence have exhibited consistently positive patterns in their effects on product sales or evaluations (e.g., Dellarocas, Zhang, and Awad 2007; Liu 2006). Ratings variance, or the degree of disagreement among reviewers, however, has shown rather mixed results, with some studies reporting positive effects on product sales (e.g., Clement, Proppe, and Rott 2007) while others finding negative effects on product evaluations (e.g., Zhu and Zhang 2010). This study aims to resolve these contradictory findings by introducing preference heterogeneity as a possible moderator and causal attribution as a mediator to account for the moderating effect. The main proposition of this study is that when preference heterogeneity is perceived as high, a disagreement in ratings is attributed more to reviewers' different preferences than to unreliable product quality, which in turn prompts better quality evaluations of a product. Because disagreements mostly result from differences in reviewers' tastes or the low reliability of a product's quality (Mizerski 1982; Sen and Lerman 2007), a greater level of attribution to reviewer tastes can mitigate the negative effect of disagreement on product evaluations. Specifically, if consumers infer that reviewers' heterogeneous preferences result in subjectively different experiences and thereby highly diverse ratings, they would not disregard the overall quality of a product. However, if consumers infer that reviewers' preferences are quite homogeneous and thus the low reliability of the product quality contributes to such disagreements, they would discount the overall product quality. Therefore, consumers would respond more favorably to disagreements in ratings when preference heterogeneity is perceived as high rather than low. This study furthermore extends this prediction to the various levels of average ratings. The heuristicsystematic processing model so far indicates that the engagement in effortful systematic processing occurs only when sufficient motivation is present (Hann et al. 2007; Maheswaran and Chaiken 1991; Martin and Davies 1998). One of the key factors affecting this motivation is the aspiration level of the decision maker. Only under conditions that meet or exceed his aspiration level does he tend to engage in systematic processing (Patzelt and Shepherd 2008; Stephanous and Sage 1987). Therefore, systematic causal attribution processing regarding ratings variance is likely more activated when the average rating is high enough to meet the aspiration level than when it is too low to meet it. Considering that the interaction between ratings variance and preference heterogeneity occurs through the mediation of causal attribution, this greater activation of causal attribution in high versus low average ratings would lead to more pronounced interaction between ratings variance and preference heterogeneity in high versus low average ratings. Overall, this study proposes that the interaction between ratings variance and preference heterogeneity is more pronounced when the average rating is high as compared to when it is low. Two laboratory studies lend support to these predictions. Study 1 reveals that participants exposed to a high-preference heterogeneity book title (i.e., a novel) attributed disagreement in ratings more to reviewers' tastes, and thereby more favorably evaluated books with such ratings, compared to those exposed to a low-preference heterogeneity title (i.e., an English listening practice book). Study 2 then extended these findings to the various levels of average ratings and found that this greater preference for disagreement options under high preference heterogeneity is more pronounced when the average rating is high compared to when it is low. This study makes an important theoretical contribution to the online customer ratings literature by showing that preference heterogeneity serves as a key moderator of the effect of ratings variance on product evaluations and that causal attribution acts as a mediator of this moderation effect. A more comprehensive picture of the interplay among ratings variance, preference heterogeneity, and average ratings is also provided by revealing that the interaction between ratings variance and preference heterogeneity varies as a function of the average rating. In addition, this work provides some significant managerial implications for marketers in terms of how they manage word of mouth. Because a lack of consensus creates some uncertainty and anxiety over the given information, consumers experience a psychological burden regarding their choice of a product when ratings show disagreement. The results of this study offer a way to address this problem. By explicitly clarifying that there are many more differences in tastes among reviewers than expected, marketers can allow consumers to speculate that differing tastes of reviewers rather than an uncertain or poor product quality contribute to such conflicts in ratings. Thus, when fierce disagreements are observed in the WOM arena, marketers are advised to communicate to consumers that diverse, rather than uniform, tastes govern reviews and evaluations of products.

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수급사업자의 기업가정신이 관계몰입을 유도하는 경로 (The roles of Subcontractors' Entrepreneurship on the Relationship Commitment towards the Parent Companies)

  • 최낙환;변철섭;이용균
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.51-84
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    • 2011
  • 이 연구는 기업가정신이 유발하는 시장지향성이 성과를 유도한다는 기존연구를 확장하여 시장지향성을 매개변수로 하고 성과와 신뢰 요인을 도입하여, 수급사업자의 기업가정신이 원사업자와의 관계를 견인하고 협업적 네트워크를 구축하는데 필요한 수급사업자의 관계몰입을 유도하는 경로를 탐색하고 실증 분석하였다. 시장지향성이 구조적 결합요인인 거래특유자산의 투자를 촉진할 수 있고, 또 사회적 결합요인인 커뮤니케이션에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 식별하고, 기업가정신-시장지향성-커뮤니케이션-신뢰-관계몰입의 경로, 기업가정신-시장지향성-성과-관계몰입의 경로, 기업가정신-시장지향성-거래특유자산투자-신뢰-관계몰입의 경로를 식별하였다. 그런데 기업가정신이 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자에 대한 효과가 없는 것으로 분석되었다. 즉 수급사업자의 기업가정신은 시장지향성을 통해 관계몰입에 영향을 미치는 것으로 탐색되었다. 따라서 원사업자는 수급사업자에게 거래특유자산을 투자하고 커뮤니케이션을 통하여 신뢰를 확보해야 한다. 그리고 수급사업자는 투철한 기업가정신으로 시장지향성을 실현하고 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자와 커뮤니케이션을 유도하고, 또 이익을 실현해야 한다. 이러한 수급사업자의 이익성과와 신뢰, 그리고 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자가 B2B시장에서 원사업자에 대한 수급사업자의 관계몰입을 유도하고 유기적인 기업계열화를 촉진하는 요인이기 때문에 정부도 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자를 유도하여 원사업자와 수급사업자의 신뢰를 촉진하는 정책이 필요하다.

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급식관리자의 개인적 감성지능이 직무태도 및 조직성과에 미치는 영향 (A Study on Influence of Foodservice Managers' Emotional Intelligence on Job Attitude and Organizational Performance)

  • 정현영;김현아
    • 한국식품영양과학회지
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    • 제39권12호
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    • pp.1880-1892
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구에서는 급식관리자를 대상으로 감성지능의 수준에 따른 관리자의 관련 변인, 직무 태도, 조직성과와의 관련성을 토대로 감성지능의 효과성 모형을 구축하고 구조방정식을 이용하여 모형검증을 위하여 경로분석을 실시하였다. 감성지능은 자신 및 타인의 감성을 인지하고 이해하며, 자신의 감성을 이해하고 조절할 수 있는 능력의 정도와 자신의 감성을 활용할 줄 아는 능력으로 정의된다. 조사대상자인 급식관리자의 감성지능 수준에 있어서는 급식관리자 본인의 감정 상태와 원인을 인식하고 있는 정서자각 능력과 동료의 감정에 대해 인지하고 이해하는 능력인 정서이해 능력이 5.10점으로 4개의 감성지능 영역에서 가장 높은 점수를 보였으며, 그 다음으로 정서적 사고촉진이 높은 점수(4.90점)로 조사되었고, 본인의 감정을 조절하고 해결하는 정서관리 능력이 가장 낮은 점수(4.55점)로 조사되었다. 급식관리자의 인구통계학적 특성에 따라 감성지능 수준을 살펴보면, 급식관리자의 연령이 높아질수록 감성지능의 4요인 모두 정(+)의 상관성을 보였다. 즉 연령이 높아질수록 감성지능 수준은 높아진다고 할 수 있다. 학력이 높을수록 감성지능의 '정서지각', '정서관리' 요인에서 모두 유의하게 높았다. 또한 감성지능의 '정서지각', '정서이해', '정서적 사고촉진', '정서관리'와 급식업계근무경력은 정(+)의 상관관계를 나타냈다. 급식 관리자의 직무에 대한 태도를 분석하기 위하여 직무만족, 조직몰입, 이직의사를 분석한 결과 직무만족에 있어서는 '동료들과의 관계'에 대해서는 상당히 만족하고 있었으며, '자신의 업무'에 대한 만족도가 비교적 높은 편이였으나, '급여수준'이나 '승진제도'에 대해서는 불만족하고 있는 것으로 나타나 급여나 승진 등의 근무조건 개선이 여겨졌으며, '전반적인 만족도'는 3.04로 '보통(3점)'을 약간 상회하는 정도였다. 전반적인 조직몰입의 수준은 3.41로 '보통(3점)'을 상회하는 수준이었다. 조직몰입도가 특히 높은 항목은 '현재회사의 선택', '타인에게의 현재 회사에 대한 평', '회사에 대한 충성심'으로 분석된 반면, '자신이 일할 수 있는 회사 중 가장 좋은 곳이라는 인지', '상황변화에 따른 타사로의 이직희망도' 측면에서는 몰입도가 비교적 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 조직몰입 요인 2가지 중 '충성도' 요인이 3.57로 '일체감' 요인 3.33보다 높았다. 회사를 이직하고자 하는 견해에 따라 4단계로 나누어 조사하였다. 회사를 이직하고자 하는 견해에 따라 '자발적 이직 의향', '이직 모색단계', '구체적 실천단계: 동종업계', '구체적 실천단계: 타업계'로 나누어 구분하여 조사한 결과, 전반적인 이직 의사수준은 '보통(3점)' 이하(2.82)로 나타났고 대부분은 주로 이직 행동 단계 중 '자발적 이직 의향 단계'에 머물러 있는 것으로 분석되었으며, 이직 할 경우 급식업계 내에서보다는 타업계로의 이직 희망도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 조직성과는 조직의 초점을 내부적 차원과 외부적 차원으로 구분하고 각 차원에 대해 구현되는 성과를 능률성(efficiency), 효과성(effectiveness), 공정성(fairness) 3가지 차원으로 구성하여 조사하였으며, 전반적인 조직성과의 인식수준은 3.34로 '보통(3점)'을 상회하는 수준이었고, 조직성과가 특히 높은 항목은 '비용절감 노력'으로 분석된 반면, '인사관리에 있어서의 공정성', '직책에 상관없이 공정한 대우'에 있어서는 상대적으로 낮은 성과를 보였다. 급식관리자의 감성지능 수준과 급식관리자 관련 변수인 직무만족, 조직몰입, 조직성과 이직의사간의 관련성을 파악하기 위하여 상관분석을 실시한 결과, 급식관리자의 감성지능 4가지 모든 요인 '정서지각', '정서이해', '정서적 사고촉진', '정서관리'는 직무만족, 조직몰입, 조직성과와는 정(+)의 상관관계를 가지는 것으로 분석되었다. 감성지능 '정서지각', '정서이해', '정서적 사고촉진', '정서관리'는 이직의사 4요인 중 '구체적실천단계: 타업체'와 모두 부(-)의 상관관계를 보였으며, '정서이해'는 '이직의향'과 '구체적실천단계: 타업체'와 부(-)의 상관성이 있음이 분석되었다. '정서관리'는 이직의사 4요인 모두와 부(-)의 상관관계를 보였다. 이를 토대로 관리자 개인의 감성지능의 수준은 스스로의 직무만족과 조직몰입, 조직성과와 정(+)상관성이 있으며, 이직의사와는 부(-)의 상관성이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 감성지능 관련선행 연구 이론을 근거로 본 연구에서 측정된 개념인 감성지능의 수준과 조직 및 종사자 관련 변인, 조직성과에 대한 가설을 토대로 감성리더십의 효과성 모형을 구축하여 구조 방정식(SEM)을 이용하여 이를 검증하였다. 경로계수를 중심으로 검증한 결과 관리자의 감성지능의 수준은 조직몰입, 조직성과에 정(+)의 방향으로 영향을 미쳤으며, 관리자의 직무만족과 조직몰입은 이직의사에 부(-)의 방향으로 영향을 미쳤다. 또한 관리자의 직무만족과 조직몰입은 조직성과에 정(+)의 방향으로 영향을 미쳤다. 감성지능에 대한 연구가 현재까지 대부분 교육학 심리학 분야에서 연구되어 왔으나, 최근 감성역량, 감성경영이 기업의 조직성과에 중요한 영향을 미친다는 결과들이 보고되면서 경영분야에서 관심이 뜨겁게 대두되고 있다. 특히 감성능력이 타고난 개인적인 능력뿐 아니라 지속적인 개발이 가능하며, 유동적이고 끊임없이 변화함이 알려지면서 감성능력의 개발은 기업의 경영에 있어서 필수요소가 되어지고 있다. 특히 본 연구의 결과를 종합하여 볼 때, 다른 산업분야에 비해 인적의존도가 높은 급식업계에서 감성능력의 개발과 감성능력이 높은 관리자, 종사자가 높은 성과를 나타내고 있어, 향후 급식회사의 최고 경영층은 감성능력에 관심을 가지고 관련 프로그램을 개발하여 급식 현장에 접목하고, 경영활동에 적용하는 것이 필요할 것으로 사료된다. 본 연구는 급식회사의 급식관리자를 대상으로 하였으므로 향후 학교급식, 병원급식, 군대급식 등의 다양한 단체급식 영역과 패밀리레스토랑, 패스트푸드레스토랑 등의 다양한 외식산업 영역을 대상으로 확대하여 감성지능 관련 연구가 이루어져야 하겠다.

농촌인구의 특성과 그 변화, 1960~1995: 인구구성 및 인구이동 (The Characteristics of Rural Population, Korea, 1960~1995: Population Composition and Internal Migration)

  • 김태헌
    • 한국인구학
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.77-105
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    • 1996
  • 농촌사회의 당면한 문제는 농촌인구의 극소와 잔존인구의 성·연령별 인구구조의 왜곡에서부터 제기되므로 농촌인구의 변화추세를 검토하였다. 그리고 최근 군부로의 전입과 전출 인구를 비교하여 최근 농촌으로의 인구회귀현상의 실태를 분석하였다. 끝으로 농촌의 인구실태를 파악하기 위하여 실시한 농촌마을 조사자료를 분석하여 농촌으로 전입하는 인구의 영향을 밝혔고, 특성별 농촌마을의 장래를 예측하였다. 군부의 인구는 도시로의 인구전출이 지속되면서 젊은 연령층과 영유아의 인구구성비가 낮고 노인연령층이 두텁게 되었다. 산업화 이전단계인 1960년 군부의 0∼4세 인구구성비는 시부보다 높았으나 농촌인구의 도시전출이 누적되면서 1975년부터 시부보다 낮아졌다. 그러나 1995년의 군부 0∼4세 인구구성비가 6.2%로 5년전보다 상승하여 시부와 차가 감소되었다. 또한 1980년대 후반에 시부에서 군부로 이동하는 인구의 연령별 구성에서 20∼34세에 총이동인구의 51.8%가 집중되어 있었으며, 이들의 교육수준은 시부로의 전입인구보다 오히려 높았다. 이러한 사실은 농촌사회의 변화로 나타내게 될 것이다. 그러나 순수농촌마을이라고 할 수 있는 보은군의 농촌마을과 원래 농업중심 마을이었으나 최근에 급속히 변하고 있는 파주군의 근교농촌마을의 인구구조를 비교한 결과 최근의 농촌인구구조의 변화와 젊은 연령층의 군부로 전입하는 현상은 일부 농촌, 특히 근교농촌의 변화에 의한 현상이지 전체 농촌인구형상의 변화라고 할 수 없었다. 이들 마을 실태조사에서 밝혀진 마을 인구구조의 특성에서 우리는 산업화나 도시의 영향을 받지 않는 순수농촌마을은 거주민의 노령화가 극단적으로 진행되어 마을 자체의 존속이 어려워지는 반면에 근교 농촌마을은 농촌의 성격이 흐려지면서 도시화 내지 산업화가 진행되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 않는 임신, 성감염증, 그리고 인공유산 등의 위험으로부터 제대로 보호를 받아야 한다고 믿는다.보완하는 벤치마크 기능도 수행하기 때문이다.국의 대외 이미지 개선을 위한 적극적인 PR활동과 기업의 최고경영자 차원의 로비활동 추진으로 대미(對美)로비체제를 적극적이며 능동적으로 수행할 수 있도록 하여야 한다.였고, W.X 조국은 동쪽으로 265.2m, W.Y 조국은 북쪽으로 279.5m, 그리고 X.Y 조국은 북서쪽으로 224.3m 편위하여, Loran - C 위치가 GPS 위치보다 약 250m 더 편위 된 것을 알 수 있었다.경우 본 논문에서 계산한 각 침로교각에 대한 최소피항개시거리와 안전피항개시거리을 미리 염두해 두고 피항조선을 하게 되면, 감각에 의한 조선방법으로 야기되는 충돌해난사고를 지양 할 수 있으리라 사료된다.만도에 따른 유의적인 증가를 (p<0.05)보여주었으나 여자의 경우는 유의적인 차이가 없었다. TG의 수치는 남자의 경우 KI가 110%미만인 그룹은 $102.9\pm108.2mg/dl,$ 120% 이상인 그룹은 $112.2\pm40.0mg/dl로$ 비만도가 증가함에 따라 TG가 증가되었으나 유의적인 차이는 없었으며, 여자의 경우 유의적인 차이가 없었다. 남자의 경우 HDL-C은 비만도가 증가함에 따라 유의적으로 감소하는 경향을 보였으나(p<0.05) 여자의 경우는 유의적인 차이가 없었다. 6. 조사 대상자의 체지방량 측정결과 체기방률은 남자의 겨우 16.4% 여자의 겨우 24.0%로 나타나 여자의 체지방률이 남자보다 높았다. 7. 신체계측치, 혈압, 혈청 지질간의 상관관계를 살펴보면 TC, TG는 KI, BMI와 유의적인 양의 상관관계를 보였고 (p<0.01), HCL-C은 비체중, BMI, LBM, TBM와 유의적인 음의 상관관계를 보였으며,

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A Study on the Meaning and Strategy of Keyword Advertising Marketing

  • Park, Nam Goo
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제8권3호
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2010
  • At the initial stage of Internet advertising, banner advertising came into fashion. As the Internet developed into a central part of daily lives and the competition in the on-line advertising market was getting fierce, there was not enough space for banner advertising, which rushed to portal sites only. All these factors was responsible for an upsurge in advertising prices. Consequently, the high-cost and low-efficiency problems with banner advertising were raised, which led to an emergence of keyword advertising as a new type of Internet advertising to replace its predecessor. In the beginning of 2000s, when Internet advertising came to be activated, display advertisement including banner advertising dominated the Net. However, display advertising showed signs of gradual decline, and registered minus growth in the year 2009, whereas keyword advertising showed rapid growth and started to outdo display advertising as of the year 2005. Keyword advertising refers to the advertising technique that exposes relevant advertisements on the top of research sites when one searches for a keyword. Instead of exposing advertisements to unspecified individuals like banner advertising, keyword advertising, or targeted advertising technique, shows advertisements only when customers search for a desired keyword so that only highly prospective customers are given a chance to see them. In this context, it is also referred to as search advertising. It is regarded as more aggressive advertising with a high hit rate than previous advertising in that, instead of the seller discovering customers and running an advertisement for them like TV, radios or banner advertising, it exposes advertisements to visiting customers. Keyword advertising makes it possible for a company to seek publicity on line simply by making use of a single word and to achieve a maximum of efficiency at a minimum cost. The strong point of keyword advertising is that customers are allowed to directly contact the products in question through its more efficient advertising when compared to the advertisements of mass media such as TV and radio, etc. The weak point of keyword advertising is that a company should have its advertisement registered on each and every portal site and finds it hard to exercise substantial supervision over its advertisement, there being a possibility of its advertising expenses exceeding its profits. Keyword advertising severs as the most appropriate methods of advertising for the sales and publicity of small and medium enterprises which are in need of a maximum of advertising effect at a low advertising cost. At present, keyword advertising is divided into CPC advertising and CPM advertising. The former is known as the most efficient technique, which is also referred to as advertising based on the meter rate system; A company is supposed to pay for the number of clicks on a searched keyword which users have searched. This is representatively adopted by Overture, Google's Adwords, Naver's Clickchoice, and Daum's Clicks, etc. CPM advertising is dependent upon the flat rate payment system, making a company pay for its advertisement on the basis of the number of exposure, not on the basis of the number of clicks. This method fixes a price for advertisement on the basis of 1,000-time exposure, and is mainly adopted by Naver's Timechoice, Daum's Speciallink, and Nate's Speedup, etc, At present, the CPC method is most frequently adopted. The weak point of the CPC method is that advertising cost can rise through constant clicks from the same IP. If a company makes good use of strategies for maximizing the strong points of keyword advertising and complementing its weak points, it is highly likely to turn its visitors into prospective customers. Accordingly, an advertiser should make an analysis of customers' behavior and approach them in a variety of ways, trying hard to find out what they want. With this in mind, her or she has to put multiple keywords into use when running for ads. When he or she first runs an ad, he or she should first give priority to which keyword to select. The advertiser should consider how many individuals using a search engine will click the keyword in question and how much money he or she has to pay for the advertisement. As the popular keywords that the users of search engines are frequently using are expensive in terms of a unit cost per click, the advertisers without much money for advertising at the initial phrase should pay attention to detailed keywords suitable to their budget. Detailed keywords are also referred to as peripheral keywords or extension keywords, which can be called a combination of major keywords. Most keywords are in the form of texts. The biggest strong point of text-based advertising is that it looks like search results, causing little antipathy to it. But it fails to attract much attention because of the fact that most keyword advertising is in the form of texts. Image-embedded advertising is easy to notice due to images, but it is exposed on the lower part of a web page and regarded as an advertisement, which leads to a low click through rate. However, its strong point is that its prices are lower than those of text-based advertising. If a company owns a logo or a product that is easy enough for people to recognize, the company is well advised to make good use of image-embedded advertising so as to attract Internet users' attention. Advertisers should make an analysis of their logos and examine customers' responses based on the events of sites in question and the composition of products as a vehicle for monitoring their behavior in detail. Besides, keyword advertising allows them to analyze the advertising effects of exposed keywords through the analysis of logos. The logo analysis refers to a close analysis of the current situation of a site by making an analysis of information about visitors on the basis of the analysis of the number of visitors and page view, and that of cookie values. It is in the log files generated through each Web server that a user's IP, used pages, the time when he or she uses it, and cookie values are stored. The log files contain a huge amount of data. As it is almost impossible to make a direct analysis of these log files, one is supposed to make an analysis of them by using solutions for a log analysis. The generic information that can be extracted from tools for each logo analysis includes the number of viewing the total pages, the number of average page view per day, the number of basic page view, the number of page view per visit, the total number of hits, the number of average hits per day, the number of hits per visit, the number of visits, the number of average visits per day, the net number of visitors, average visitors per day, one-time visitors, visitors who have come more than twice, and average using hours, etc. These sites are deemed to be useful for utilizing data for the analysis of the situation and current status of rival companies as well as benchmarking. As keyword advertising exposes advertisements exclusively on search-result pages, competition among advertisers attempting to preoccupy popular keywords is very fierce. Some portal sites keep on giving priority to the existing advertisers, whereas others provide chances to purchase keywords in question to all the advertisers after the advertising contract is over. If an advertiser tries to rely on keywords sensitive to seasons and timeliness in case of sites providing priority to the established advertisers, he or she may as well make a purchase of a vacant place for advertising lest he or she should miss appropriate timing for advertising. However, Naver doesn't provide priority to the existing advertisers as far as all the keyword advertisements are concerned. In this case, one can preoccupy keywords if he or she enters into a contract after confirming the contract period for advertising. This study is designed to take a look at marketing for keyword advertising and to present effective strategies for keyword advertising marketing. At present, the Korean CPC advertising market is virtually monopolized by Overture. Its strong points are that Overture is based on the CPC charging model and that advertisements are registered on the top of the most representative portal sites in Korea. These advantages serve as the most appropriate medium for small and medium enterprises to use. However, the CPC method of Overture has its weak points, too. That is, the CPC method is not the only perfect advertising model among the search advertisements in the on-line market. So it is absolutely necessary that small and medium enterprises including independent shopping malls should complement the weaknesses of the CPC method and make good use of strategies for maximizing its strengths so as to increase their sales and to create a point of contact with customers.

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UCC(user-created-contents) 웹 사이트에서 사용자의 인성이 감정적, 인지적 평가와 UCC 활용에 미치는 영향 (The Effect of Users' Personality on Emotional and Cognitive Evaluation in UCC Web Site Usage)

  • 문윤지;강소라;김우곤
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.167-190
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    • 2010
  • The research conducted here focuses on the effect of factors that affect the behavior of UCC (User Created Content) website users, other than user's rational recognition of how useful a UCC website can be. Most discussions in the existing literature on information systems have focused on users' evaluation how a UCC website can help to attain the users' own goals. However, there are other factors and this research pays attention to an individual's 'personality,' which is stable and biological in nature. Specifically, I have noted here that 'extroversion' and 'neuroticism,' the two common personality factors presented in Eysenck's most representative 'EPQ Model' and 'Big Five Model,' are the two personality factors that affect a site's 'usefulness,' by this I mean how useful does the user consider the website and its content. How useful a site is considered by the user is the other factor that has been regarded as the antecedent factor that influences the adoption of information systems in the existing MIS (Management Information System) research. Secondly, as using or creating a UCC website does not guarantee the user's or the creator's extrinsic motivation, unlike when using the information system within an organization, there is a greater likelihood that the increase in user's activities in relation to a UCC website is motivated by emotional factors rather than rational factors. Thus, I have decided to include the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable in the research model. Thirdly, when based on the S-O-R Paradigm of Mehrabian and Russell, the two cognitive factors and emotional factors are finally affected by stimulus, and thus these factors ultimately have an effect on an individual's respondent behavior. Therefore, this research has presented an assumption that the recognition of how useful the site and content is and what emotional pleasure it provides will finally affect the behavior of the UCC website users. Finally, the relationship between the recognition of how useful a site is and how pleasurable it is to useand UCC usage may differ depending on certain situational conditions. In other words, the relationship between the three factors may vary according to how much users are involved in the creation of the website content. Creation thus emerges as the keyword of UCC. I analyzed the above relationships through the moderating variable of the user's involvement in the creation of the site. The research result shows the following: When it comes to the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable it is extroverted users who have a greater likelihood to feel pleasure when using a UCC website, as was expected in this research. This in turn leads to a more active usage of the UCC web site because a person who is an extrovert likes to spend time on activities with other people, is sensitive to new experiences and stimuli and thus actively responds to these. An extroverted person accepts new UCC activities as part of his/her social life, rather than getting away from this new UCC environment. This is represented by the term 'Foxonomy' where the users meet a variety of users from all over the world and contact new types of content created by these users. However, neuroticism creates the opposite situation to that created by extroversion. The representative symptoms of neuroticism are instability, stress, and tension. These dispositions are more closely related to stress caused by a new environment rather than this creatingcuriosity or pleasure. Thus, neurotic persons have an uneasy feeling and will eventually avoid the situation where their own or others' daily lives are frequently exposed to the open web environment, this eventually makes them have a negative attitude towards the web environment. When it comes to an individual's personality and how useful site is, the two personality factors of extroversion and neuroticism both have a positive relationship with the recognition of how useful the site and its content is. The positive, curious, and social dispositions of extroverted persons tend to make them consider the future usefulness and possibilities of a new type of information system, or website, based on their positive attitude, which has a significant influence on the recognition of how useful these UCC sites are. Neuroticism also favorably affects how useful a UCC website can be through a different mechanism from that of extroversion. As the neurotic persons tend to feel uneasy and have much doubt about a new type of information system, they actively explore its usefulness in order to relieve their uncomfortable feelings. In other words, neurotic persons seek out how useful a site can be in order to secure their own stable feelings. Meanwhile, extroverted persons explore how useful a site can be because of their positive attitude and curiosity. As a lot of MIS research has revealed that the recognition of how useful a site can be and how pleasurable it can be to use have been proven to have a significant effect on UCC activity. However, the relationship between these factors reveals different aspects based on the user's involvement in creation. This factor of creationgauges the interest of users in the creation of UCC contents. Involvement is a variable that shows the level of an individual's mental effort in creating UCC contents. When a user is highly involved in the creation process and makes an enormous effort to create UCC content (classed a part of a high-involvement group), their own pleasure and recognition of how useful the site is have a significantly higher effect on the future usage of the UCC contents, more significantly than the users who sit back and just retrieve the UCC content created by others. The cognitive and emotional response of those in the low-involvement group is unlikely to last long,even if they recognize the contents of a UCC website is pleasurable and useful to them. However, the high-involvement group tends to participate in the creation and the usage of UCC more favorably, connecting the experience with their own goals. In this respect, this research presents an answer to the question; why so many people are participating in the usage of UCC, the representative form of the Web 2.0 that has drastically involved more and more people in the creation of UCC, even if they cannot gain any monetary or social compensation. Neither information system nor a website can succeed unless it secures a certain level of user base. Moreover, it cannot be further developed when the reasons, or problems, for people's participation are not suitably explored, even if it has a certain user base. Thus, what is significant in this research is that it has studied users' respondent behavior based on an individual's innate personality, emotion, and cognitive interaction, unlike the existing research that has focused on 'compensation' to explain users' participation with the UCC website. There are also limitations in this research. Firstly, I divided an individual's personality into extroversion and neuroticism; however, there are many other personal factors such as neuro-psychiatricism, which also needs to be analyzed for its influence on UCC activities. Secondly, as a UCC website comes in many types such as multimedia, Wikis, and podcasting, these types need to be included as a sub-category of the UCC websites and their relationship with personality, emotion, cognition, and behavior also needs to be analyzed.

여헌(旅軒) 장현광(張顯光)의 지리인식(地理認識)과 문인(門人)들의 지지편찬(地誌編纂) 의의 (Yeoheon's Recognition of Geography and the Significance of the Compilation of Geographical Records by His Disciples)

  • 최원석
    • 동양고전연구
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    • 제49호
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    • pp.73-107
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    • 2012
  • 여헌 장현광(1554-1637)은 조선중기를 대표하는 유학자이면서 우주론과 자연학을 가장 체계적으로 저술한 사람이다. 조선조 유학의 지리적인 학맥에서 여헌은 남명 조식과 한강 정구의 학풍을 이어받으면서 풍수와 지지편찬을 계승한 사람으로 자리매김 될 수 있다. 여헌은 주자학에 영향을 받았지만 역학(易學)의 기틀을 견지하였으며, 사변적인 공리공론에 머무르지 않고 실용적 경세학(經世學)으로서의 지리를 인식하였다. 여헌의 지리인식 방법은 역학(易學)의 체계와 구도 상에서 이루어졌다. 여헌은 자연에 대한 인간 본위(本位)의 인식태도를 드러내며, 따라서 인사의 공능이 지리의 조건보다 우선되는 준칙이었다. 여헌에게 산수와 자연은 비덕(比德)의 공부대상이었고, 자연공부 방법은 대상물의 관찰을 통해 생명의 이치를 자득하고, 무심한 경지를 통해 천지의 마음에 이르는 것이었다. 유학의 가르침을 삶의 지침으로 삼았던 여헌에게 있어서 낙토(樂土)는 안분자족(安分自足)함에서 얻어지는 것이었다. 여헌에게 지리인식의 의의는 생활의 실용적인 이익 됨에 목적을 둔 필수적인 지식정보였다. 여헌은 은거지의 생활현장에 자신이 견지한 유학적 우주관과 세계관을 '우주사업'의 일환으로 구현하였다. 이러한 의식과 태도는 주거지의 장소경관과 자연경물(自然景物)을 북극성과 주위 28수의 별자리로 상징화하여 명명하고 우주적 중심 공간으로 구성하는 방식으로 나타났다. 주자의 무이구곡(武夷九曲) 경영에서 비롯된 유학자들의 동천구곡(洞天九曲) 전통은 조선시대에 유행되었지만, 여헌의 장소 구성 체계는 여타의 형태와 방식을 뛰어넘은 우주적 구도의 독창성이 있다. 여헌의 장소 명명 의식에는 선현을 본받고자하는 태도, 자연물의 형용과 성정에 대한 비덕(比德), 그리고 은거(隱居) 의식의 반영이 나타난다. 여헌의 국토관 및 국토이해는 지형개관, 산수이해, 도읍입지, 지역이해, 풍토론, 현실인식의 방식으로 체계적으로 드러나고 중국의 지리적 조건과도 비교되어 파악되었다. 그의 국토인식과 이해방식은, 국토의 유기체적인 인식, 주자학의 자연관이 반영된 기적(氣的)인 국토인식, 산천 인식과 도읍 입지의 풍수적 이해, 지역구분을 통한 비교론적 이해, 인물과 풍속에 대한 풍토론적 이해 방식 등으로 요약할 수 있다. 여헌은 역의 포괄적인 사상체계 범주에서 풍수도 수용하였다. 그가 풍수를 수용할 수 있었던 배경에는 남명과 한강을 계승하는 학풍에서 연유되는 바가 있었다. 여헌은 풍수지식을 활용하여 주거지의 입지를 정하기도 하였고, 고향 연고지의 여러 곳에 대해 풍수적 견지로 언급하기도 했다. 그의 풍수관을 보면, 묘지풍수에서 형세론적 이치는 수긍하고 있지만 장례기일을 미루는 발복 목적의 행위는 비판하였다. 그리고 고을의 풍수에서 숲의 조성을 통한 비보의 필요성을 인정하였다. 이러한 풍수관은 문도(門徒)들의 지지편찬에도 일정하게 반영되었다. 여헌 학풍에서 주목할 만한 지리학적 특징으로 꼽을 수 있는 것이 지지(地誌)의 편찬이다. 이것은 남명과 한강의 치용(治用) 정신과 경세적(經世的) 실천을 계승한 학풍이기도 했다. 여헌은 지지를 중요시하게 생각하면서 문인들에게 편찬을 독려하였다. 고을의 통치자나 지식인으로서 지역의 역사와 옛 일을 잘 알아야하고, 권면하고 징계하는 기준이 마련될 필요가 있다는 것이다. 이러한 여헌의 견해는 이후 문인들의 지지편찬 취지와 내용 구성에 지침이 되었다. 이 연구는 여헌의 지리인식에 관한 사실적인 면모의 정리와 지리적 학풍의 계승 맥락에 관한 고찰에 그친 한계가 있다. 다음에는 여헌 전후 유학자들의 지리인식과 지지편찬 전통이 어떻게 전승되면서 전개 발전되었고 질적으로 변천해 나갔는지를 살피고자 한다. 이러한 연구는 학계에서 공백으로 남아있는 조선 초 중기 유교지식인의 지리학사를 정립하는데 일조할 수 있으리라 믿는다.

문화예술상품 소비자의 가치인식이 추구혜택과 상품속성에 미치는 영향 (The Effects of Consumer Value Cognition on Benefits and Attributes of Culture-Art Products)

  • 신은주;이영선
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.177-207
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    • 2012
  • 문화예술상품은 일반 소비재와 달리 소비자의 가치인식에 따라 중요한 소비의 대상이 되기도 하고 그렇지 못할 수도 있는 특별한 상품이다. 물질적 소비재나 서비스 상품은 상품속성이 주는 물질적 및 비물질적 혜택을 상정하여 상품을 개발하고 그에 따른 마케팅전략을 수립하는 것이 효과적일 수 있다. 그러나 문화예술상품 소비는 소비자의 경험과 교육 등에 의해 형성된 문화예술에 대한 가치인식에 따라 소비추구혜택이 달라질 수 있고, 가치인식과 추구혜택은 문화예술상품의 속성을 선택하는 기준에 영향을 미칠 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구는 '문화예술상품에 대한 가치인식과 추구혜택에 관한 질적 연구'의 후속연구로서 질적 연구에서 나타난 개념구조를 바탕으로 문화예술상품에 대한 소비자의 가치인식 및 추구혜택과 상품속성의 하위차원을 규명하고, 수단-목적 사슬이론을 역으로 적용하여 문화예술상품에 대한 소비자의 가치인식이 추구혜택과 상품속성에 미치는 영향을 규명하고자 하였다. 그리하여 문화예술상품 생산 및 문화예술 정책기관과 문화예술을 활용하는 기업의 문화마케팅의 효율성을 제고하기 위한 실무적 시사점을 제시하고자 실시되었다. 10대 이상 50대 남녀 662명을 대상으로 자료를 수집하고 요인분석과 경로분석을 실시하였다. 예술상품에 대한 소비자의 가치인식과 추구혜택의 하위차원은 질적 연구 결과와 유사하게 나타났으며, 가치인식은 대부분 추구혜택을 매개로 하여 상품속성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타나 질적 연구결과와 마찬가지로 수단-목적사슬을 역방향으로 적용하는 것이 타당함을 입증하였다. 즉, 문화예술상품에 대한 소비자의 가치인식이 실제적 편익으로 구체화되고, 소비자는 이러한 추구혜택에 따라 상품속성의 중요도를 고려하여 구매의사를 결정하는 것으로 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 문화예술상품에 대한 소비자의 가치인식을 긍정적으로 형성·강화시키는 것이 가장 중요한 소비 촉진 요인임을 입증하였으며, 문화예술상품 생산기관에서 소비자 중심의 상품개발과 기업의 효율적인 문화예술마케팅 전략을 개발하기 위한 소비자 정보와 실무적 시사점을 제시하였다. 또한 본 연구 결과는 국민의 삶의 질을 향상시키고자 하는 국가기관의 정책 수립을 위한 유용한 정보로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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가족계획과 모자보건 통합을 위한 조산원의 투입효과 분석 -서산지역의 개입연구 평가보고- (An Intervention Study on Integration of Family Planning and Maternal/Infant Care Services in Rural Korea)

  • 방숙;한성현;이정자;안문영;이인숙;김은실;김종호
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.165-203
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    • 1987
  • This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However, $85{\sim}90%$ of the services provided by the health workers were other than FP/MCH, mainly for immunizations such as the encephalitis campaign. In the control area, a similar pattern was observed. Over 75% of their service was other than FP/MCH. Therefore, the pattern shows the health workers are a long way from becoming multipurpose workers even though the government is pushing in this direction. 3. Villagers were much more likely to visit the health sub-center clinic in the study area than in the control area (58% vs.31%) and for more combined care (45% vs.23%). C) Organization factors (admistrative integrative issues) 1. When MW (new workers with higher qualification) were introduced to HSC, it was noted that there were conflicts between the existing HSC workers (Nurse aids with less qualification than MW) and the MW for the beginning period of the project. The cause of the conflict was studied by an anthropologist and it was pointed out that these functional integration problems stemmed from the structural inadequacies of the health subcenter organization as indicated below; i) There is still no general consensus about the objectives and goals of the project between the project staff and the existing health workers. ii) There is no formal linkage between the responsibility of each member's job in the health sub-center. iii) There is still little chance for midwives to play a catalytic role or to establish communicative networks between workers in order to link various knowledge and skills to provide better FP/MCH services in the health sub-center. 2. Based on the above findings the project recommended to the County Chief (who has power to control the administrative staff and the technical staff in his county) the following ; i) In order to solve the conflicts between the individual roles and functions in performing health care activities, there must be goals agreed upon by both. ii) The health sub·center must function as an autonomous organization to undertake the integration health project. In order to do that, it is necessary to support administrative considerations, and to establish a communication system for supervision and to control of the health sub-centers. iii) The administrative organization, tentatively, must be organized to bind the health worker's midwive's and director's jobs by an organic relationship in order to achieve the integrative system under the leadership of health sub-center director. After submitting this observation report, there has been better understanding from frequent meetings & communication between HW/MW in FP/MCH work as the program developed. Lessons learned from the Seosan Project (on issues of FP/MCH integration in Korea); 1) A majority or about 80% of the couples are now practicing FP. As indicated by the study, there is a growing demand from clients for the health system to provide more MCH services than FP in order to maintain the achieved small size of family through FP practice. It is fortunate to see that the government is now formulating a MCH policy for the year 2,000 and revising MCH laws and regulations to emphasize more MCH care for achieving a small size family through family planning practice. 2) Goal consensus in FP/MCH shouBd be made among the health workers It administrators, especially to emphasize the need of care of 'wanted' child. But there is a long way to go to realize the 'real' integration of FP into MCH in Korea, unless there is a structural integration FP/MCH because a categorical FP is still first priority to reduce the rate of population growth for economic reasons but not yet for health/welfare reasons in practice. 3) There should be more financial allocation: (i) a midwife should be made available to help to promote the MCH program and coordinate services, (in) there should be a health sub·center director who can provide leadership training for managing the integrated program. There is a need for 'organizational support', if the decision of integration is made to obtain benefit from both FP & MCH. In other words, costs should be paid equally to both FP/MCH. The integration slogan itself, without the commitment of paying such costs, is powerless to advocate it. 4) Need of management training for middle level health personnel is more acute as the Government has already constructed 90 MCH centers attached to the County Health Center but without adequate manpower, facilities, and guidelines for integrating the work of both FP and MCH. 5) The local government still considers these MCH centers only as delivery centers to take care only of those visiting maternity cases. The MCH center should be a center for the managment of all pregnancies occurring in the community and the promotion of FP with a systematic and effective linkage of resources available in the county such as i.e. Village Health Worker, Community Health Practitioner, Health Sub-center Physicians & Health workers, Doctors and Midwives in MCH center, OBGY Specialists in clinics & hospitals as practiced by the Seosan project at primary health care level.

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