• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.205-219
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• 2001

This study analyzes consumer education for consumption values in the elementary school textbooks to provide information useful in revising the curriculum in the future. The textbooks for the 4th, the 5th, and 6th curricula, which are 334 volumes in total, are analyzed by the context-analysis method. Context unit is used as the analysis unit and the number of pages is used as the system of enumeration. According to the analysis, the areas taught most frequently in current curriculum are \"frugality and reuse\" and \"the planned consumption\", while the areas taught least are \"impulsive and conformity consumption\" and \"the concept of consumer and the consumers role\". It was also found that current programs are not well organized in terms of continuity, sequence, and integration.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.79-85
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• 2009

This study examined the effects of added amounts of Lotus root powder on the physical and sensory properties, and consumer acceptability of Jook. As the level of Lotus root powder increased, L-value decreased and a and b values increased. The Jook also had higher viscosity and lower spreadability values as the amount of Lotus root powder increased. Sensory characteristics, such as color intensity, viscosity, nutty taste, and off-flavor increased significantly with the addition of Lotus root powder. A consumer acceptability test indicated that the 25% Lotus root powder group had the highest overall acceptability, appearance, flavor, and texture. In conclusion, to enhance the quality of Jook, a 25% addition of Lotus root powder would be the most beneficial.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.28 no.910
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• pp.1243-1252
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of personal values on fashion orientation. As personal values, this study adopted materialism and consumer conformity. Data were gathered by surveying university students living in Seoul metropolitan area using convenient sampling, and 325 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. In analyzing data, confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis were conducted using structural equation modeling. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that fashion orientation has three factors such as fashion leadership, fashion interest, and importance of being well dressed. Path analysis showed that centrality factor of materialism spurred all three factors of fashion orientation and that happiness factor of materialism gave rise to importance of being well dressed of fashion orientation. Informational conformity also significantly increased all three factors of fashion orientation.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.505-526
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• 2012

The purpose of this research is to investigate changes in ethical consumption practices after taking an undergraduate course 'Consumption and Ethics'. Through Qualitative & Quantitative research methods, students' pre-course and post-course attitudes were compared to understand changes in behavior. Before taking the course 'Consumption and Ethics', undergraduate participants displayed little regard for ethical consumption, instead displaying primary sensitivity to price and values based on self-centered and conspicuous consumption. After taking the course 'Consumption and Ethics', participants displayed a more altruistic awareness of consumption on society and the environment. In addition, participants displayed a stronger sense of pride as ethical consumer. These emerging values were contrasted with conflicting feelings resulting from the higher prices often associated with ethical products, feelings of regret resulting from ethically-based impulse purchases, and an inability to categorically evaluate the reliability of available information on the ethical products. However, participants demonstrated a willingness to practice ethical consumption and recommend ethical consumption to their friends and neighbors. Overall, participants in the study demonstrated a strong shift to be an ethical consumer as a result of taking the course 'Consumption and Ethics'.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.1515-1526
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• 2010

Consumer expectations for ethical businesses have become increasingly high in recent years; the fashion industry is working to implement greater corporate social responsibility (CSR). This study establishes the effects of the evaluation for participation in fashion brand CSR on perceived purchase values. In particular, the process for the evaluation for participation that affect the perceived purchase value through consumer-brand identifications (personal/social) was verified and how the consumer regulatory focuses would influence this process was identified. For this study, an on-line survey was conducted that included a series of filtering questions that measured the level of social concern of respondents. Valid data from 505 female consumers were analyzed for the structure equation modeling. The empirical results suggested that the evaluation for participation in fashion brand CSR positively affected the two dimensions of consumer-brand identification; personal identification and social identification. In addition, consumer-brand identification played a role as a mediating variable in the path to influence the perceived purchase values of CSR brands. Lastly, there were differences in reactions to CSR activities by consumer groups with different regulatory focuses. The effect of the evaluation for participation in fashion brand CSR was shown to be higher for consumers with promotion focuses than on consumers with prevention focuses. The results of this study will help fashion companies understand the importance of the consumer participation in CSR by having consumers participate in ethical consumption.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.107-118
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• 2016

Purpose - In today's markets, new technologies such as social network systems and user generated contents have provided consumers with access to unlimited amounts of information and an ability to communicate with other consumers in the world. Specially, the massive of the internet and the development of online communities and interactive platforms offer the potential to cocreate with a large number of consumers. Significant changes in marketplace suggest that simply being consumer oriented is not enough, so firms must learn from and collaborate with consumers to create values that meet their individual and dynamic needs. In these sense, emergent perspectives in marketing highlight new opportunities for co-opting consumers as a means to define and cocreate value through their engagement. Although the importance of consumer co-creation with firms, the current literature lacks the respond to two questions: (1) who are the most competent consumers for creating the values with firm? and (2) what are the stimulaters to help the consumers engage for co-creation? To this answer the question, this research investigate how to structure consumer motivations to encourage consumers to be more engaged for co-creation and what drives a consumer to get involved to respond to a call for co-creation. Research design, data, and methodology - To empirically test the hypotheses, a survey was conducted among consumers who had experienced the co-creation including upstream, downstream, autonomous, and sponsored co-creation with the firms. We collected a total of 343 responses. After we excluded 37 questionnaire because of incomplete responses, a total of 306 questionnaire remained. Working with a sample of 306 responses in Seoul and Kwangju, hierarchical moderated regression is employed to test research hypotheses. Results - The results indicated that consumer creativity and emergent nature are positively related to engagement in co-creation including upstream, downstream, autonomous, and sponsored co-creation. Also, the relationships between consumer creativity/emergent nature and engagement in co-creation were moderated by intrinsic motivation in case of upstream and downstream co-creation. Finally, interaction effects between consumer creativity/emergent nature and extrinsic motivation were not significant. Conclusions - These results suggest that marketing managers have to consider the consumer personality such as creativity and emergent nature and stimulate the intrinsic motivation of consumer to achieve the co-creation project successfully.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.459-470
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• 1999

The objectives of this study were to investigate the difference the clothing shopping orientation and clothing satisfaction according to satisfaction·dissatisfaction group to examine how the clothing satisfaction was influenced by consumer values demographic variable clothing shopping orientation. The subject were 457 women in Seoul Korea The results of the study were as follows. 1. five factors of clothing shopping orientation (SO) derived by factor analysis : F.1. conspicious SO : F,2 search SO: F,3 recreational SO : F,4 addictive SO :F,5 independent SO . Two factors of terminal value derived by factor analysis : F,1 responsible : F.2 ambitious. 2. Satisfaction group had high levels of search SO, dissatisfaction group had high levels of addictive SO. Satisfaction group was satisfied with color style appropriateness for wearer in order dissatisfaction group was dissatisfied with care price size in order. 3. Conspicious SO were influenced bysocial stratification social recognition and happiness. Search SO were influenced by dwelling area and age. Recreational SO were influenced by social stratification social recognition and responsible value. Addictive SO influenced by responsible value social recognition and happiness. independent SO were influenced by marital status and ambitious value. 4. Clothing satisfaction was influenced by addictive conspicious SO happiness and recreational SO(R2=24.6)

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.117-121
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• 2008

The effects of water dropwort on the physical characteristics of tofu were investigated and consumer acceptance test was conducted. pH decreased significantly with increasing water dropwort concentration from 0 to 3%, whereas titratable acidity showed the reverse trend (p<0.05). The amount of water dropwort did not significantly influence the moisture content up to 2% substitution (p>0.05). Turbidity increased significantly with increasing water dropwort concentration (p<0.05). A significantly lower moisture content in 3% water dropwort tofu may be attributed to the denser structure and hardness of that was significantly higher than those of the other samples (p<0.05). Even though $a^*$-values of 3% water dropwort tofu was lower than that of control, $a^*$-values increased significantly with increasing water dropwort content (p<0.05). On the contrary, $b^*$-values decreased significantly with increasing water dropwort content (p<0.05). 2% water dropwort tofu was found to be the best with respect to its overall acceptability score.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.1381-1388
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to identify features of masstiege high-end products by comparing to original old high-end products. For this purpose, the differences in values between each consumer groups divided by preferred products types (high-end products, original old high-end products) were examined. This study was executed by consumer survey and 279 female data were used in analysis. The results are as follows. First, the value factors pursued on high-end products were constructed by factor analysis and the factors consisted of 4 elements; conspicuous, aesthetic, durable, conformity. Next, the differences in value elements between masstiege high-end products and original old high-end products were identified by t-test. The consumers preferring original old high-end products pursued conspicuous features significantly more and the consumers preferring masstiege high-end products considered aspects of aesthetic and conformity elements as more important. And according to kinds of preferring high-end product, demographic characteristics were different. The consumers who were of high age, high education and high income and married consumers preferred original old high-end products, whereas the consumers who were of low age, low education and low income and unmarried consumers preferred masstiege high-end products. Finally, marketing strategies for masstiege brand were suggested on the base of the results.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.99-123
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• 2008

Consumer satisfaction/dissatisfaction is key determinant of brand loyalty and store patronage behavior. But the results of many customer satisfaction surveys implemented by department stores show that consumer satisfactions do not predict the actual patronage behaviors well. The main reason of these surprising results would be that the consumer satisfaction indexes do not include some important determinants of consumer satisfaction. Many customer satisfaction surveys mainly focus on the evaluation of functional benefits including product assortments, merchandise prices and locational convenience. Recent studies indicate that emotional/hedonic benefits strongly influence the consumer satisfaction, intention to repurchase and intention to revisit. Our study suggests that both functional values and hedonic values should be included in developing the index of consumer satisfactions. The purpose of our study is to investigate the relationship between shopping value and consumer satisfaction, and actual patronage behavior. Shopping values is defined as the difference between total benefits and total shopping costs. Total benefits include the dimensions of product quality, service quality, and hedonic benefits. Total costs are classified as the monetary costs and non-monetary cost. The conceptual framework developed for this empirical study is as follows.