• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.118-132
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• 2017

This study developed key elements of dental service guidelines for the disabled patients. In order to provide consumer-oriented service guidelines for the dental patients with disability, service design method was applied. Using service design method guided by the double diamond design process, this study implemented consumer survey, observation, and contextual interviews for consumers' needs assessment. And customer journey map, mind maps, and blueprints were utilized to visualize consumer needs and guidelines for dental care services for the disabled. According to the study, disabled consumers have needs for expertise of the medical staff, dental care institutions specialized on the disabled, financial support, establishment of the facilities for the disabled, comfortable atmosphere in the institutions, and communication with medical staffs. Based on the needs of the disabled, 5 key elements of the dental care services were developed: convenience, expertise, empathy, financial support, and education and management. And service design guidelines were proposed to implement key elements of dental care services for the patients with disability. This study is significant in that it is the first attempt to apply the service design technique from the consumer perspectives in the field of dental care for the disabled. Furthermore the process of this study has become a reference that can be utilized and applied to other medical institution.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.997-1006
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• 2007

The consideration of the effective corresponding system is required to enhance expectation of consumers and satisfy consumer needs in response to recent fashion market trend showing polarized phenomena. One of the solutions is to establish Korean style SPA brand which not only utilizes traditional fashion markets and but also adopt a production system of the fast fashion. A traditional market can provide some advantages such as low price, a variety of items in an integrated buildings, fast propagation of fashion trends and a flexible production system reflecting consumer's need immediately. The production system of fast fashion has integrated system of planning, manufacturing and distributing to provide trendy products with low price on time. Therefore, The Korean style SPA offers trendy, cheap and chic clothing to customers as quickly as possible.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.159-175
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• 2001

The internet which is only opened for special class at the past, diffuse to all classes like junior.senior highschool and woman in general and it boost the internet's popularize. So the consumers can reduce the all physical.time cost, and now the internet settle in the most important method to find the informations. I hope this project can expect the protection the over-carrying of consumer information on internet and consumers can activity acquire the information in consumer's side. Also in the business's side, it promote the developing of fair information offers for lighten the inequality of information. And in the governments side, it's a basic information to plan the legal system for help the consumers to use the safe and correctness internet.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.177-186
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• 2007

The purposes of this study were to investigate consumer's needs for golf wear and to suggest a direction of product development and planning, based on the analysis of golfer's needs. The subjects used for the research were 150 male and female golfers who were in golf practice fields. The data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, ANOVA, t-test and Duncan test. In summary, the results of this study were as followers; Dimensions of consumer's needs for golf wear were extracted from factor analysis as following properties; fashion/design property, textile property, hygiene property, body-shaped property. The most important consumer's need for golf wear was "wearing comfort" and second one was "moisture absorbency" Respondents evaluated that wearing comfort, stretchability, tactile, size of golf wear were very important but price, pilling, shrinkage or color-fading after laundry of golf wear were relatively less important. The evaluation of consumer's needs for golf wear according to demographic information had significant difference. The female golfers were found to consider that fiber characteristics, easy-to-laundry, wrinkle resistance, stretchability, sewing quality were relatively more important, when compared with the male golfers. Also, There were significant differences on the evaluation of consumer's needs for golf wear on fiber characteristics, stretchability, brand name between age groups.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.673-686
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to identify consumer needs and sensory evaluation of jacquard fabrics for blind using low melting polyester. Ten kinds of jacquard fabric used for this study were developed. Developed jacquard fabrics were assessed subjectively by 164 consumers using 7-point scale of 22 consumer needs and 43 sensory descriptors. The results were briefly summarized as follows: the most important parameter to choose fabric for blind was 'Easy-use' and the other parameters are 'Lightproof', 'UV-protect', 'Design', 'Price', 'Color', 'Insulation', 'Easy-care'. The image sensibility of jacquard fabrics was explained by six factors: feminine, active, modern, traditional, pure, cozy. Higher preference was found in jacquard fabrics of clear, natural, luxurious, simple, feminine, young, cozy, graceful image. The preference was predicted 38.2% with feminine, modern, pure, cozy, traditional factors. Correlation coefficient between image sensibility factor 1 and preference was 0.437. The 3 factors (feminine, modern, pure)were selected as significant image sensibility affecting preference.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.231-241
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to identify the buying intentions for luxury fashion brands. The data used in this study were gathered through surveying university students living in Seoul metropolitan area. The variables included in this study were demographics, which are gender, age, academic major, area of residence, expenditure for apparel, pocket money, and family income, and fashion orientation and consumer needs for uniqueness were included as personal value variables. All demographic variables except academic major and area of residence were significantly related to the buying intentions. Among the fashion orientation factors, fashion intered was significantly related to the buying intentions while fashion leadership and importance of being well-dressed were not. Consumer needs for uniqueness was indirectly related to the buying intentions for luxury brands through fashion interest. The creative choice counterconformity was positively related to fashion interest, whereas the unpopular choice counterconformity was negatively related to it.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.43 no.12 s.214
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• pp.43-59
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• 2005

Needs fulfillment is one of the most critical concepts in defining and managing an Institutional Household (IH). Though most major studies in the field have emphasized the importance of needs fulfillment, few studies have focused on the concrete concept and/or strategy for needs fulfillment. This study delved into elaborated concepts and management strategies for needs fulfillment in IH. First, the paper redefined the concept of customers' needs for IH by contrasting the basic needs as a human being with those provided by the family and the employees' needs within IH. The paper dimensionalized the needs and matched them with specific management aspects of IH. Based on the refined concepts of needs, the second part of the paper dealt with the management strategies for needs fulfillment in IH. Needs fulfillment management strategies were discussed in three aspects: needs assessment, needs fulfillment program performance, and program evaluation. Finally, the authors discussed how needs fulfillment management discussed in this paper could be applied to the curriculum development for educating and licensing IH Managers.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Floral Art and Design
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• no.41
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• pp.25-44
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to identify the differences between consumers and suppliers about the necessity and effectiveness of hand-tied bouquet packaging in a retail shop and consumer needs of floristry packaging for sustainable condition were surveyed and analyzed using questionnaire format. In the introduction, the understanding and sustainability of floristry design were considered. The questionnaire consisted of general purchasing type, packaging related items, and consumer and supplier profile. Consumers were middle class residents living on Mokdong apartment complex, a small number of consumers who aren't living on Mokdong and workers and suppliers were florists currently active nationwide. This study suggests an effective and strategic packaging direction that reflects consumer needs, focusing on the similarity and difference of their needs and it presents them as business models. The results of the future research are expected to be the basis for producing and distributing packaging design.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.201-208
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• 2012

Recently the market of the food waste disposer has increased. Therefore, many companies in the development of food garbage disposer has been increasing interest. In this study, we used QFD (Quality Function Development) to find out the quality factors for the development of the food waste disposer reflecting the consumer needs. HOQ (House Of Quality) showing the correlation between consumer characteristic and engineering characteristic was written by investigating the consumer needs based on the consumer complaints and survey. In addition, we generated the CTQ (Critical To Quality) reflecting the weighting of the importance of the parts. As the research result, the important quality factors for the food garbage disposer were the grinding capability, drying, and odor emission features. The crushing motor associated with grinding and dehydration appeared as the most important quality factors among the parts. Second thing was the fan motor associated with odor. The findings will be able to contribute to the development of the food waste disposer reflecting the consumer needs.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.85-94
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• 2017

The paper examines critical factors affecting consumer behavioral intentions in accepting online health communication through social networking sites. Unlike recent research under this topic, the paper assimilates some components of service quality dimensions and consumer behavior theories. The paper employs factor analysis and structural equation modelling analysis with latent variables to identify critical factors from the survey data collected from Korean consumers. The results of the study identifies three major constructs: consumer needs for health information, the perceived value of tangible attributes of health information providers, and the perceived value of intangible attributes of health information providers. The results show that consumer needs for health information and the tangible and intangible attributes of health information providers should be considered as important antecedents of accepting online health communication through social networking sites. The findings suggest that the success of online health communication via social networking sites largely depends on the tangible and intangible attributes of health information providers.