• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.2 s.74
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• pp.77-91
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate general tendencies in credit card use, and determine the causes of the use of cash advance service and deferred payment among college students. Socio-demographic variables(gender, year in college, allowance, family income, parents' education and occupation, having taken a personal financial management course), knowledge and attitudes toward credit card, and financial management practices were incorporated as antecedent variables. Logistic regression analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted to test the hypotheses. The results were as follows ; First, $32\%$ of the college students with no regular income experienced deferred payment, and $60.4\%$ of them had used a cash advance service. Second, the frequency and amount of cash advance service use were affected by family income, financial practices, and allowance. The financial practice as a parameter was affected by their completion of a personal finance course and their allowance. Third, deferred payment of credit was affected by their knowledge on credit cards and their financial practices. The financial practices as a parameter were affected by the family income and their completion of a personal finance course, and the knowledge on credit cards was affected by gender. Lastly, implications and suggestions for credit card use behavior research and consumer credit education are discussed in this article.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.191-202
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of late credit card bill payers. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey of 621 credit card users residing in five metropolitan cities including Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The results indicated that credit card delinquents showed irrational behavior in managing the use of credit cards. That is, they unnecessarily subscribed for credit cards, used their credit cards without signature, or excessively used the credit cards regardless of their payment capability. From these study results, two recommendations were made : 1) consumer education on credit card use and credit management and 2) law revision on regulating credit card use.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.139-152
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to (1) identify sociodemograghic, economic, psychological and use of credit variables that influence the late payment behavior of three types of consumer credit which are service credit, credit card, installment purchasing credit, (2) compare the levels of the credit counselling between the normal payment behavior group and the late payment behavior group about both of the counselling experiences and needs. Data were collected from questionnaires with 337 adults who were residents of Seoul. The major findings are as follows ; (1) There are independently significant probability differences for measure of the sociodemographic, economic, psychological and use of credit variables on dichotomous Logit analysis (2) Both the experience and need levels of credit counselling were concentrated on the family.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.129-147
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• 2007

At the time the local credit-card companies plunged into a liquidity crisis in 2002, S-Card was urged to take into account the estimated customer income (ECI) to enhance its customer credit evaluation function for the first time in Korean financial industry. Before this new attempt by S-Card, most credit-card companies including S-Card had performed a customer's credit evaluation based on the customer's behavioral factors such as the amount of purchase on credit, debt payment, and financial history that is provided from the Credit Bureau. However, this approach failed to measure customer's potential value which is one of the major factors in judging the customer's ability to pay, and hence, led to difficulties in risk management. The purpose of this case study is to present the better approach to sophisticated risk management for financial firms in Korea by reviewing S-Card's process of customer income estimation and its application to risk management.