• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.87-107
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• 2022

This study aims to understand the possibility of small city marketing strategies using B-grade cultural contents. This research focused on the case of Chungju City which applied B-grade cultural contents to city marketing. The process using B-grade cultural contents to small city marketing was investigated and hash-tags and comments on social media were coded and analyzed based on grounded theory. Also, the details were examined through in-depth interviews with the local government official in charge. The result has shown the characteristics of B-grade cultural contents describing the differences from the original B-grade culture as subcuture. First, publicity materials showed the characteristics of general B-grade culture such as retro, puns, and escape, showing the process of communication/participation/empathy. Second, improbability, intertextuality, extensibility, subversiveness, and authenticity were the five main factors for responses and empathy from the audience. Third, the ripple effect was formed through the simple narrative structure of 'intro-conclusion'. Finally B-grade cultural contents of Chungju showed new possibilities for sustainable small city marketing through the formation of new cultural assets.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.179-188
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• 2022

This study discovers the general characteristics of B-class Emotional Advertisements and analyses their trend. A content analysis was conducted on 498 advertisements on-aired between 2015 and 2020, which were sampled from the advertisements registered in the TVCF(www.tvcf.co.kr), the largest advertisement web portal in the Republic of Korea. The analysis concludes that the B-class Emotional Advertisements, employed in a wide range of genre, is most incorporated in comedy/exaggeration genres and is on a rising trend due to 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. Furthermore, it is confirmed that the utilization of B-class emotional advertisement has also increased in domain of non-commercial advertisements, such as Public Service Advertisements, Governmental/Organizational Advertisements, and Corporate Public Relations (PR) Advertisements. The study validates the transformation of the B-class emotional advertisements from a demonstration of an eccentric minority subculture to an epitome of a new and adventurous mainstream culture, successfully serving a central role in both the commercial and non-commercial sectors. Depicting the caricatures of the social, cultural and economic phenomenon and the recent surge of individual's depression, fatigue and pessimism, B-class emotional advertisements provide sympathetic and emotional alleviating ground for people that contributed to its rise.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.361-366
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• 2020

The Korean movies, and are suitable for "B-movie" for spending low budget and utilizing subculture factors such as kitsch, parody. Using surrealistic space and arbitrary language is the most prior element in constituting 'B-affection'. In that sense, Behind the Dark Night, Super Margin have characteristics overcrossing the media from comics to film. Despite absurd story, Behind the Dark Night has a realistic and concrete sense of what is the making films. The hero in Super Margin was swindled, so he strikes a blow the breeding-place of crime himself. In conclusion, showing comics characteristic aspects has been increasing comedy effects. But, on the other hand, Behind the Dark Night, Super Margin have pointed out that there are many kind of social problems such like career, fraud etc. In addition, they introspect the meaning what is that to making films.

• Science & Technology Policy
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.38-41
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• 2015

'배달의 민족'으로 서비스와 B급 문화를 바탕으로 일약 우리나라 전체의 음식업계와 배달업계에 회자되고 있는 '우아한 형제들'은 현재 1,800만명이 다운로드 받아 사용하고 있는 음식배달 전문 모바일 기반 서비스 기업이다. 2011년 3월 법인 설립 이후, 2014년 11월 골드만삭스 컨소시엄으로부터 400억원을 투자받으며, 국내 시장을 넘어 세계 시장을 넘보고 있는 우아한 형제들에서 글로벌 파트너십과 기업 M&A 관련 업무를 맡고 있는 Mike Kim 사업개발(Corporate Development) 책임자. 그의 실리콘 밸리와 링크드인(LinkedIn)에서의 경험이 우아한 형제들의 행복한 기업문화와 어떻게 상생의 시너지를 발휘하고 있는지 살펴본다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.621-631
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• 2017

In March of 2014, after Eduwill's new TV commercial, Seo Kyung Seok, appeared as a model, unusually, various professional comedians have spontaneously made many TV ad parody contents. It is a kind of GCC (Gagman Created Contents), which is a content created by comedians if it is called User Created Contents (UCC) by a consumer voluntarily making contents. Various popular programs of TV stations such as tvN, KBS, SBS, MBC Eduwill TV commercial parody contents was broadcasted. Euduwill TV advertising parody contents can be classified as parody contents that mimic Eduwill CM songs and comic dancings by Seo Kyung Seok. In this study, we analyzed how the characteristics of class B culture such as 'twist' and 'satire' are reflected in Eduwill TV commercial parody, and discussed the correlation between advertisement, parody contents and socio-cultural phenomenon.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.629-633
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• 2008

In Korean society, digital contents such as VCC has introduced a new medium of advertisement and has become a culture. This research aims to investigate consumer characteristics for different types of consumption patterns for services dealing with digital contents. A total of 96 statements were extracted from literature review and popular press articles and 39 participants participated in this study. The results show 6 types of consumption patterns: Gak-jang-ee, Second-level Celebrity, Viewers, Politicians, Humanists, and Paris Hilton. These groups demonstrate consumer's behavioral characteristics and personal values. This study is meaningful in that it provides an insight for marketing strategies for corporations dealing with digital contents such as VCC.