• Journal of the Health Care and Life Science
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.295-303
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes in smoking rates and smoking cessation plans before and after the cigarette price increases in 2015. Therefore, based on the National Health and Nutrition Survey, this study analyzes the correlation of the change in smoking rate and cessation plans with sociological variables (gender, age, income quintile, occupation, education level, hypertension, diabetes) and health behaviors (drinking, stress perception, obesity) in 2013 before the cigarette price increases and in 2015 and then in 2017. Results indicated that the smoking rate in 2013 was 23.3%, the smoking rate in 2015 was 20.5%, and the smoking rate in 2017 was 21.0%, indicating that the smoking rate decreased compared to before the cigarette price was raised. Among the sociological variables, the cigarette price increases showed a difference in the smoking rate of income, occupation, and education level, and health behavior was found to have no significant effect on smoking rate. In addition, the cigarette price increases showed a temporary effect on the increase in the smoking cessation plan, but the increase in the smoking cessation plan did not necessarily lead to decrease the smoking rate. Therefore, in the future, efforts will be needed at the national level to provide customized smoking cessation programs by gender, age, and social factors so that the smoking cessation plan can lead to decrease the smoking rate. In addition, Research on health behaviors that were not identifited in this study should also be conducted. We hope that this study will help the prediction of the impact of smoking rate in case the price increases policies are considered or implemented.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.41-54
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• 2015

Despite a great performance of Korean online game in Chinese online game market, Korean companies were faced with decreasing market positions in China from 2006. To overcome this problem, I will suggest a research model about determinant of repurchase behavior of on-line game user and moderation effect of online review. Data collected from questionnaire survey were used in empirical analysis on research hypothesis through moderated multiple regression method. There are several conclusions as such; first, perceived value and loyalty of consumer have great positive relationships with repurchase behavior. Second, online review has positive direct influence on repurchase behavior and moderation effect of relationships among them. Third, game company has great efforts to develop online games and game contents which were guaranteed before in price, quality, information, and accurate consideration of online review.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.136-138
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• 2015

Recently, with the rapid expansion of the mobile phone, such as the high price of the smartphone is being constantly handset subsidies at issue in the social harm caused by excessive competition in the mobile communications market. In this research, we aim to analyze factors influencing of the policy to subsidy regulatory on decision to continue purchasing intention of consumers. Predictor factors were selected the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease of use and the policy to subsidy regulatory on the previous study. Participants of this study be going to 200 mobile users in Busan Gyeongnam and Jeonbuk province in accordance with convenience sampling. IBM SPSS Statistics 19 were employed for descriptive statistics, Smart PLS(partial least squares) was employed for confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis of casual relationship among variables and effect. This study suggests practical and theoretical implications based on the results.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.29-36
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• 2012

Research on subjective well-being (SWB) has flourished in recent years. As SWB determines cognitive and motivational processes, including social comparison and cognitive dissonance, it determines how consumers make decisions, including the comparison and evaluation of alternatives. Considering that the comparison and evaluation of alternatives is related to social comparison and cognitive dissonance, the influence of SWB on the comparison and evaluation of alternatives needs to be investigated. This research aims to examine the effect of SWB on the comparison and evaluation of alternatives, especially when people acquire additional information about their chosen or non-chosen alternatives, leading to a change of absolute/relative value of alternatives. The reasonable price of an alternative as evaluated by individuals is used as a measure reflecting the perceived value of an alternative. Putting all of this together, the current study intended to investigate the influence of absolute and relative value on the reasonable price of an alternative depending on SWB. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two experiment groups (deterioration of non-chosen alternative vs. improvement of non-chosen alternative). After reading consumer report ratings of alternatives shown on monitor screens, participants chose one of the alternatives, followed by the change of the consumer report ratings (deterioration of non-chosen alternative vs. improvement of non-chosen alternative). Participants evaluated the reasonable price of their chosen alternative based on the provided price of the non-chosen alternative. Two weeks after the experiment, they were asked to answer survey questionnaire on SWB measures. A regression was performed on the reasonable price with experiment groups, mean-centered SWB, and their interaction. There was a significant simple effect of groups and SWB. More importantly, these effects were qualified by the predicted interaction of groups and SWB. To interpret this interaction further, simple slope tests were performed on the price when SWB was centered at one standard deviation above (i.e., happy people) and below (i.e., unhappy people) the mean. As predicted, happy people rated the reasonable price of the chosen alternative higher in the improvement of non-chosen alternative group than in the deterioration of non-chosen alternative group. Conversely, unhappy people showed no price difference between groups. These results show that happy people pay attention to the absolute value of the alternative, whereas unhappy people give more weight to the relative value as well as to the absolute value of a chosen alternative, indicating that unhappy people are more sensitive to the negative information of a non-chosen alternative compared to happy people. The present research expanded the existing research stream on SWB by showing the influence of SWB on the consumers' evaluation of alternatives. Furthermore, this study adds to previous research on SWB and social comparison by suggesting that unhappy people tend to be more sensitive to negative social comparison information of alternatives even when a target of social comparison is not explicitly present. Moreover, these results yield some managerial implications on how to provide product information based on SWB in order to make products more attractive among the alternatives available to consumers.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.499-520
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• 2020

Input ratio of electricity to other production inputs in the Korean manufacturing sector has been higher than for the other OECD countries. In addition, electricity prices in Korea has been relatively lower than the average of OECD countries. Moreover, electricity sector is responsible for most CO2 emissions in Korea as coal and natural gas account 41.9% and 26.8% of electricity production as of 2018. Therefore, it looks inevitable to raise the electricity tariff for the manufacturing sector in Korea, but there is a concern that increase in the electricity tariff might affect small and medium enterprises (SMEs) more than large firms. This study estimates electricity demand's price and output elasticities for large firms and SMEs in steel industry by employing a time varying parameter model (Kalman filter). The analysis shows that changes in output levels regardless of firms' size affect electricity demands more significantly than do changes in electricity prices. Second, large firms have higher variances for both price and output elasticities of electricity demand. Third, large firms have higher price elasticity but lower output elasticity of electricity demand relative to SMEs. Policy implications are suggested in association with how to reduce electricity demands in the energy-intensive industry.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.357-358
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• 2006

전력 산업이 자유화되고 경쟁을 통해 효율성을 증가시키려는 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 전력이 시장을 통해 거래되는 형태가 완전경쟁에 가까울수록 사회후생이 증가한다는 것이 알려져 있다. 하지만 발전 회사가 시장지배력을 행사하여 가격을 경쟁가격에서 벗어나게 함으로서 자신의 이익을 취하려 할 때 시장의 효율성은 감소하게 된다. 시장 지배력을 감소시키는 한 수단으로서 발전회사에 선도계약을 부과하는 방법이 있다. 발전 회사에 선도계약을 부과하는 방법을 사용할 때 어떤 회사를 선도계약 부과대상으로 삼을 것 인지와 계통의 송전제약 통에 대한 고려가 필요하다. 이에 대한 연구가 2모선 계통에 대해 게임이론의 혼합균형 개념을 통해 부분적으로 이루어져 있다. 본 논문에서는 3모선 계통에서 선도계약의 영향을 분석하고자 한다. 본 논문의 해석 결과에 의하면 3모선 계통에서도 선도계약은 상황에 따라 시장지배력의 감소 혹은 증가를 모두 불러올 수 있으며 기대사회후생에 부정적 영향 뿐 아니라 부정적 영향 역시 줄 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.19-33
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• 2007

The current advance of IT and the e-commerce triggers the wide practice of dynamic pricing in all industries although the price discrimination has been very cautiously applied in the limited areas in the past. The price discrimination which offers different prices for each customer depending on their preference and buying behaviors has recently gained attention as it could provide superior benefits to sellers. The wide adoption of price discrimination, on the other hand, is reported to face buyer resistances and complaints. Our limited understanding on the perception of price fairness, which we think is key concept in the price discrimination on the Internet-enabled transactions, motives us to investigate factors that affect the perception of price fairness. This study focuses on illusion of control and lateral customer relationship to investigate their effects on price fairness in online auction and group purchase context. By conducting laboratory experiments, our study demonstrates that customers' perception on illusion of control in price determination and advantageous lateral customer relationship significantly affect price fairness perception in both online auction and group purchase environment. The findings are expected to provide researchers and managers with useful insights to develop better pricing strategies and design effective dynamic pricing mechanisms.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.195-202
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to study the perceived value of consumers of traditional Chinese music training institutions, and the resulting research on the impact of customers' purchase intentions. This research refers to relevant literature on customer perceived value and customer purchase intention, and divides customer perceived value into five value dimensions: emotion, quality, experience, price and reputation. Questionnaire survey method, using SPSS analysis AMOS tool to conduct empirical research, the research results show that customer perceived value has an important positive impact on purchase intention in five value dimensions of emotion, quality, price, experience and reputation, which is a traditional music training institution. Provide reference and suggestions for improvement.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.1218-1221
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• 2011

전 세계적으로 인터넷 보급률이 높아지고 전자상거래가 활발해지면서 직접 발품을 팔아가며 보다 비싼 가격에 물건을 구입하는 일보다는 인터넷몰을 이용하여 제품을 구매하는 일이 늘어나고 있다. 특히 인터넷몰 중에서도 의류를 판매하는 인터넷 쇼핑몰은 새로운 산업으로 각광받으며 하루가 다르게 새로운 사이트가 우후죽순 생겨나고 있다. 자리에 앉아 직원의 직접적인 홍보에 대한 부담을 갖지 않고 차분히 제품을 싼 가격에 구입할 수 있다는 이점을 갖고 있는 인터넷 쇼핑몰이지만 직접 제품을 눈으로 확인하지 못하기 때문에 실제 제품과 동일한 제품인지 조작된 사진인지의 여부를 확인하기 힘들고 직원과의 상담 역시 전화나 인터넷을 통해 진행되기 때문에 환불이나 교환과 같은 의사소통에 문제가 생기고는 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 오피니언 마이닝을 통해 웹 서버에 저장되어 있는 수많은 쇼핑몰의 리뷰를 정리하고 각 사이트의 서비스, 품질 등에 대한 평가를 카테고리 별로 분석하여 소비자가 현명하고 효율적인 소비 결정을 내릴 수 있도록 도울 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.147-175
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• 2006

This paper attempts to incorporate three important factors-perceptions, behavior and valuation-in analysing consumers' responses to health risks from environmental pollutants. Using a survey sample of 500 consumers in the Chonbuk province area, this paper empirically investigated determinants of risk perceptions from using tap water as drinking water. Most consumers were considerably concerned about health risks from drinking tap water. Moreover, those subjective concerns were not random, but were systematically related to individuals' demographic variables such as age, gender, and family size. Those subjective beliefs also influenced respondents' purchase intentions on safer water bottles, in response to a contingent behavior question of presenting two types of water bottles. The technical risk information provided in the survey had significant effects on purchase intentions only when it was interacted with respondents' actual averting practice. In addition, the sample selection effects were present by eliminating respondents who decided not to purchase either of two types of water bottles. The potential selection bias had impacts on the coefficients of the price difference variable, and subsequently the estimates of the price increments for health risk reductions.