A Study on the Value Expression of the Multinational Corporation Advertisements advanced into Korea - especially on newspaper advertisements -

국내 진출 다국적기업 광고물의 가치표현연구 - 신문광고를 중심으로 -

  • 정창준 (청주대학교 언론정보학부)
  • Published : 2003.01.01

Abstract

As the globalization become the main stream in our world, there is no exception also on the cultural section. And we are En the midst of this rapid transition. In the case of advertising market, we opened to those agencies in abroad in the early year of 1990 and now completely opened. On this thesis, the multinational corporation advertising was studied and researched by empirical case study. The main topic is the value expression in the advertising creativity viewed on the cultural level. The multinational corporations that have an eminent, powerful brands produces much of goods wend widely with their powerful brands and extend their marketing activities to abroad. For example, those non-alcoholic beverages, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, electronic appliances, vehicles, sports shoes, clothes are their main exports, and they broaden the product category, market size to the global market. They also use an expert marketing skill accumulated for a long time. The advertising activities is one of the useful method to extend their global market abroad enhacing continuously brand value. And much of the multinational corporation's advertising are suspected of negative effects that advertisements works on a tool which curies so called uniformed ideology - various ruling ideology - with commercial messages. These advertising affect an developing country's moral value, life style, social value, and others. And they weaken those developing country's unique tradition, culture by putting their own ideology. Those who have a critical position on the advertising activities have been careful in judging it's effects. The result of this study which of the value system is expressed in the multinational corporation's advertisements are; First, the self - esteem value is classified by western value, and it was founded out much more in the domestic corporation's advertisements then multinational ones. Second, the security value system is classified by western value system, and it's outcome was much the same as former one. Consequently, the multinational corporation's advertisements have less of an western value expression relative to korean advertisements. Those outcomes may infer that the multinational corporations prefer to an compromise creative strategy in korea for avoiding cultural conflicts.

세계역사의 커다란 물줄기인 세계화 또는 개방화의 가속화는 문화부문에서도 예외일수가 없다. 한국사회도 급속한 변화의 한 가운데 있으며, 광고시장의 경우 1990년대 초부터 빗장을 풀기 시작하여 오늘날에는 완전 시장개방이 이루어졌다. 이러한 시기에 다국적 기업들의 국내광고활동에 주목하여 보았다. 광고는 단순한 마케팅의 도구가 아니라 인간을 둘러싸고 있는 문화장치, 자본주의 사회의 중요한 이념적 국가장치로 불리며, 인간의 이념이나 꿈, 동기, 가치관, 태도 등을 다루는 하나의 사회제도이기도 하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 광고가 끼치는 문화적 영향에 대한 현상을 개괄하였고, 실제적으로 국내에 진출해 있는 다국적 기업들이 국내에서 행하는 광고활동을 추적해 본 결과, 다국적 기업의 광고는 그 가치 표현에서 서구적인 가치를 국내기업들보다 상대적으로 더 적게 구사하고 있는 것이 발견되었다. 이는 국내기업들이 오히려 더 서구적인 가치표현을 구사하고 있으며, 다국적 기업들은 문화적 충돌을 의식하여 광고에서 주의 깊게 대처하고 있는 것으로 파악되었다.

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