• Archives of design research
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 2001

In order to sustain competitive advantage through strategic product differentiation in global market, this research aims to establishment of strategic design conditions for domestic manufacturing firms through the means of product image alignment and positioning, using visual character of product as the foundation for establishing corporate image. Case studies on how globally successful multinational companies manage design strategy and corporate culture uniformly for coherent product image management are reviewed. To establish product image alignment methodology for manufacturing firms, the criteria for product image positioning and aligned product image development process are developed in three stages. First, in image positioning stage, it is important to set the direction for corporate image and design strategy by identifying consumer needs through market trends analysis and forecasting as well as comparative positioning of the analysis results of the firms's own corporate image and that of the competitor's. Second, in awareness building stage, before building the product image alignment, firm-wide shared awareness of differentiated corporate and product image, establishment of designer's role as the consolidated manager of product image, sharing form language, and building the infrastructure for defining form information should be preceded. Third, in managing the aligned product image stage, the condition for setting up image information management guideline, management of decision making process for arriving at logical decisions on product form, development of guideline for increasing efficiency and its evaluation system, and co-development of related design should be induced. Further research on the product image alignment with corporate image should be conducted through various empirical studies on image and form, building an information system of related design language, and continuous assessment and management of applied solutions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.206-221
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• 2021

The demand of social responsibility for corporate is increasing gradually. The corporate can't secure the royal customers only with the effort of securing the competitiveness through the product, service quality. The corporate should act actively in order to satisfy the social expectation required by customers. With this background, this study conducted the survey that can verify the effect of how usual interest in corporate social responsibility interacts in order to investigate the difference depending on the characters of customers and how the corporate social responsibility has led the brand performance. As a result, the legal and economic responsibilities were found to have significant influence in forming the corporate brand image and the favorability. The ethic responsibility was found to play a key role in forming the reliable image but have the negative impact in forming the achievement image, innovative image. In terms of the effect of social responsibility on the corporate brand performance, the usual interest on the social responsibility was found to have no impact as a regulatory effect.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.79-108
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 한국기업이 해외시장에서 브랜드를 구축할 때 당면하는 문제와 대응방안을 선진국 시장을 중심으로 다루고자 한다. 자체 브랜드 수출의 성공은, 지금까지 성공적이었던 OEM 방식의 수출과는 전혀 상이하기 때문이다. 게다가 많은 한국기업들의 경우 강력한 브랜드를 창출하기 위한 경영자원이 제한되어 있다. 또한, 한국의 기업들은 해외에서의 좋지 않은 한국 제품 이미지로 인하여 부정적인 제조국 이미지를 없애는 방안까지 강구해야만 한다. 이런 이유로 브랜드에 관한 일반적 이론을 넘어서 한국기업의 당면과제를 다루고자 하였다. 이를 위해 주요 한국기업들의 해외시장 마케팅 전략을 살펴보고 이를 평가한 후 향후 브랜드 구축을 위한 방안들을 제시하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과 국제적 파워 브랜드로 도약할 수 있는 한국 기업들의 잠재력을 실현하기 위해서는 광고 주제, 스폰서십의 내용, 제품과 가격 정책의 변화를 통해 고품질 이미지 구축에 힘써야 하는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.176-186
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• 2011

This study analyzed the consequences of using a company's own letter type for the brand image. After evaluating the brand image of companies that have their own letter types, the study concluded that the fact a company has its own letter type works positively for the brand image. In addition, the survey respondents see the corporate activity for developing letter types as an action for the public interest, and they agree with an argument that each company' own letter type can symbolize the company as CI. By studying literatures in the field of cognitive science, the study indicates that for communication through the letter type with consumers, companies should be careful when choosing their specific letter types and that repetitive exposure to a letter type helps people recognize it through a human experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.213-220
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• 2021

With the continuing development of the global economy, the scale of international production and management of companies is expanding rapidly nowadays. As a result, it is increasingly important for multinational companies to establish appropriate marketing strategies for products in order to successfully enter overseas markets. When consumers evaluate the quality of products from various countries, they depend heavily on the image of the product as well as the price of the product. Therefore, this study aim to find out how the price, country image, brand image and country of origin image affect on consumer product evaluation and purchase intention. Based on these concepts, the significance of this study is helping local companies make more appropriate marketing strategies by understanding the importance of price and image of a product to companies and knowing more accurate recognition in Korea and Korean-made products of Chinese consumers. The results of this study which used AMOS model showed that 1) The country image and country of origin image for a product had a positive effects on product quality, 2) The price and country image of a product had a positive effects on service quality, 3) And evaluation of product had a positive effects on purchase intention. Based on these results, we made some proposals and presented the future research directions according to the limitations.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.89-100
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to see whether a corporate's social activity has any influence on purchase intention and corporate image, and how it affects consumers' feelings with that correlation. This study empirically proves that the influence of purchase intention and corporate image can be different according to the corporate's social activities. The study suggested for a crucial marketing direction on a practical affairs level, along with a need of corporate social activities. Corporate social activities affects to build a positive corporate image, product image and purchase intention. When companies need to improve the corporate's image enhance, corporate social activities will be bring social and economic benefits and to be a very useful activity other than the corporate's communications activities. Therefore, corporate needs to pursue a more systematic and strategic social activities under a perception that a corporate social activities.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.715-720
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• 2023

This study aims to select ESG items from a consumer perspective and examine the influence of these factors on corporate image and corporate reputation. ESG-related research tends to be conducted from a corporate or investment perspective. However, based on their evaluation of ESG activities, consumers form corporate image and corporate reputation. Accordingly, the E, S, and G evaluation items were applied from the consumer's perspective to analyze the impact of each item. As a result of the study, the impact on corporate image was found to be in the order of transparent management, support for small and medium-sized businesses, and response to climate change. The results of corporate reputation analysis showed transparent management, response to climate change, and support for small businesses. From the consumer's perspective, activities related to a company's response to climate change are considered a corporate obligation, and demands for coexistence and transparent corporate management of small and medium-sized businesses are growing. The significance of this study is that ESG requires environmental management, symbiotic management, and transparent management from a consumer point of view, suggesting that transparent corporate management is the most important factor. In addition, it suggests that communication with consumers of companies requires communication not only in the environmental area, but also in the social and governance areas.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.237-254
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• 2022

This research paper studied the effect of corporate CEO's image on brand value. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the change in corporate value following the legal arrest of Samsung Electronics CEO. To demonstrate the legal restraint of Samsung Electronics CEO and change in brand value, the argument was made based on analysis data evaluated by the Korea Industrial Policy Institute and Interbrand. In the case of Samsung Electronics, even in 2017 after CEO Lee Jae-yong was arrested, the brand value of Samsung Electronics rose 9% from the previous year to reach $56.2 billion. In 2020, it ranked fifth, and in the first half of 2021, while CEO Lee Jae-yong was arrested, Samsung Electronics ranked fifth in value. In this study, Samsung Electronics' production and brand value continued to rise after the 2000s regardless of the CEO's legal restraint. As a result of this study, Samsung Electronics revealed that the company's management and brand value have been established regardless of the legal restraint of the CEO.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.96
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• pp.22-22
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• 1991

'세상에 내놓고 싶은' 자신의 이야기를 담은 책을 직접 저술하는 기업가들이 늘고 있다. 80년대 말부터 선보이기 시작, 최근에는 일종의 붐을 이루고 있는 기업가들의 저서는 신화적 판매량과 무성한 뒷이야기를 낳기도 했는데, '기업에 대한 부정적 이미지 재고' '편협한 엘리트주의' 등 그 평가가 엇갈리고 있다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.31-38
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• 2005

Consumer perception evaluation depending on the game genre affects many parts of the corporate management including market share, gaining new consumer, maintaining consumer and competition. If consumer perceives a company and a product as bad image, gaining new consumer would be no more available, and enormous amount of time would have to be spent to recover from that bad image. However game companies tend to simply keep spontaneous marketing strategy with the enforcing marketing. Its results will be the short-term success sacrificing the long-term marketing opportunity In order to increase sales and market share, the consumer perception evaluation as well as evaluating the game product and the corporate image is necessary. This article gives emphasis on the general game analysis and formulating strategy in the general game genre rather than a certain corporation and a product. Analyzing a particular product, company, platform and nation is necessary and will be followed subsequently.