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Study on Maritime Cultural Archetypes of 'Jasan-Urbo' for Convergent Contents Development (융합콘텐츠개발을 위한 『자산어보』 해양문화원형 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Nam;Lee, Young-Suk
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.490-498
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    • 2020
  • This study researched the elements about seafood culture among the archetypes of 『Jasan Urbo』. We built a hypothesis on 100 species of fish presented in 『Jasan Urbo』 to extract archetypes from them. To prove this hypothesis, we analyzed the properties of archetypes according to recipes. Next, we grasped the food preferences of past ages by inspecting 'taste' words of the literature. Finally, we examined the relations between dominant features of cuisine and fish preferences. We have found four attributes of maritime cultural archetypes. Our research has limitations since we could not had accounted the whole fish species of 『Jasan Urbo』. However, we achieved the huge outcome by our research, in which we applied various extraction methods of archetypes and acquired the dominance of maritime cultural archetypes and preferences.

Determinants of Diversity in Cultural Consumption among People in their 20s (20대 문화 소비의 다양성 결정 요인에 대한 탐색적 연구: 문화 자본, 콘텐츠 장르 이용 특성, 인구사회 요인의 영향)

  • Kim, Seul Gi;Chon, Bum Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.762-771
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    • 2016
  • This study examined determinants of diversity in cultural consumption among people in their 20s. The main results are following; firstly, this study explored determinants of diversity in nine cultural consumption. The results showed that diversity of cultural consumption was determined by three factors such as current interests in cultural fields, content preferences based on broadcasting genres, and income. Although current interests in cultural fields and content preferences based on broadcasting genres were positively correlated to cultural consumption, income was negatively correlated. Next, this study examined diversity in cultural consumption in terms of two separate orientations such as highbrow and mass cultures. The results showed that diversity of highbrow culture was determined by current interests in cultural fields, content preferences based on broadcasting genres and income. Also, diversity of mass culture was determined by current interests in cultural fields, content preferences based on broadcasting genres and education period for classic music including opera and chorus.

Socio-Cultural Environment as a Context and Its Effect on Discourse in Translation

  • Khoutyz, Irina
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.24
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    • pp.84-98
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    • 2011
  • This paper aims to analyze the influences of the socio-cultural environment on discourse in translation. To illustrate a deep connection between discourses and societies in which they were produced, communicative patterns of high- and low-context cultures are examined. Though the original version of the translated text comes from a different culture, the translation reflects communicative preferences of the target culture. To uncover some of these preferences, a comparative study of two translations from Russian into English and from English into Russian is conducted. This study, together with further investigation of some more recent translations into Russian, revealed a number of choices affected by translators' cultural background (for example, making the translation more emotionally charged) and current ideological preferences in the society (excessive use of anglicisms).

The Images of Chinese Traditional Colors and Cultural Preferences -Focus on the Movie Costumes of -

  • Kim, Young-Sam;Jun, Yuh-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.34 no.12
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    • pp.2006-2021
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    • 2010
  • An authentic national spirit in media (particularly films), traditional images, and color preferences is expressed through movies that are melted in local traditions. This study suggests a direction regarding the characteristics for historical costumes by examining traditional color images and cultural preference in the Chinese film (1987), a representative film that deals with Chinese history and traditions. This movie can illustrate the correlation between the temporal backgrounds and the costumes in the movie with the criteria of Eastern color systems. The results of this research are summarized as follows. First, the image of Chinese traditional colors represented in many parts of and the cultural preferences that underlies their works through the expression of traditional colors. The scenes of traditional costumes and colors express the visual embodiments of the costumes that reflect a specific status, ceremony, or ritual. Second, the traditional colors used in the movie are based on the Yin-Yang theory. Particularly, Red, Yellow, Black is mostly used for ordinary clothing. Third, there are some differences in the use of color arrangements, that change regarding the use of traditional colors according to images and situations that follow the intention of the director. Planning the color arrangements is considered an engaging connectivity between traditions and images in the movie and it is extended or reduced based on cultural preferences. Fourth, the increase and decrease of color arrangements is distinctively represented as the story of the movie proceeds.

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF MANAGERS' PREFERENCES FOR CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PRACTICES IN PAKISTAN

  • Tauha H. Ali;Sherif Mohamed
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.486-490
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    • 2005
  • Classic construction safety management functions - such as recruitment, training, supervision, etc. - are determined by different conceptions of the role and nature of management effectiveness, and these conceptions are underpinned by related cultural values. This paper attempts to shed some light on in what way, and to what extent, does the national cultural value orientations influence individual preferences for safety management policies and practices. It presents the empirical results of a questionnaire survey administered in Pakistan targeting construction managers with safety management responsibilities. Based on the survey findings, the paper argues that there is a causal link between cultural values' orientations and preferences for, and perceptions of, safety management policies and practices.

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Facial Awareness, Influential Factors, and Attractiveness Preferences Among Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Men and Women Evaluating Korean Women by Facial Type (한국여성의 얼굴이미지 유형별 인식영향요소와 매력선호도에 대한 한중일 남녀 비교)

  • Baek, Kyoung-Jin;Kim, Young-In
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.65 no.3
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to identify cross-cultural features among Korea, China, and Japan by comparing differences in facial awareness, attractiveness preferences, and consideration of facial parts in a group of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese men and women as they evaluated the faces of Korean women in their 20s. A survey was conducted targeting male and female Korean, Chinese, and Japanese college students in their 20s. Frequency analysis, ANOVA, Duncan test, factorial analysis, and reliability analysis, MANOVA were carried out using SPSS 18.0. The results of this study are as follows: Faces of Korean women in their 20s were evaluated by Korean, Chinese, and Japanese men and women in their 20s and were classified into four categories as 'Youthfulness', 'Classiness', 'Friendliness' and 'Activeness'. Differences in facial image awareness were observed depending on nationality and gender. Korean participants were found to place importance on overall morphological factors; The Japanese focused on the eyes; and the Chinese on the skin color. Women of all nationalities showed, on average, a higher awareness of facial parts than men. No significant differences in facial attractiveness preferences were found based on nationality or gender, but there were differences in how the participants evaluated faces for attractiveness, showing that reasons for preferences may vary even if the preferences are the same.

Study of the Clothing Behavior and Fiber Preferences of Multicultural Families (다문화 가정의 의복 실태와 섬유 선호도에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, In-Ryu
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.863-875
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to survey the clothing behavior, care and the fiber preferences of multi-cultural families living in Korea. The data was collected using questionnaire surveys based on pre-tests, and a main survey conducted in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Chungcheong Province. The 258 participants came from 151 multi-cultural families and 107 Korean families. The results of this study were as follows: First, Filipinos owned more clothes than the Chinese and bought clothes more frequently. The Filipinos spent 10,000~30,000 Korean won on all types of clothing. Each time, the Chinese spent more money when purchasing jackets. Second, when health was the greatest concern for underclothes, they chose cotton fiber as their preferred fiber. When beauty was of greatest concern for blouses they chose cotton. When beauty was of greatest concern for skirts and jackets they chose natural fibers such as silk, wool or linen. Filipinos preferred synthetic fibers because they are easy to care for, and the Chinese preferred natural fibers due to their beauty, especially for pants. Third, multi-cultural families laundered at home using only a washing machine. All fibers were laundered together into the washer without any sorting. This study can contribute to providing basic data for an understanding of the clothing behavior and laundry styles of multi-cultural families which may be useful data in the apparel market in Korea given the relative and direct changes relevant to various clothing cultures.

An Empirical Research on Cultural Identity and Purchase Intention of Foreign Goods

  • Yu, Shasha;Liu, Xuefeng;Wu, Linjia
    • Journal of East Asia Management
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 2021
  • Multinational enterprises have adopted the form of business to successfully operate globally, and the overseas project has brought huge cultural exchange and penetration. The cultural liberalization also has improved the manufactured goods production and effect the consumers' purchase intentions. In this paper we focused on the influence factors that effected the cultural output, by investigating the actual consume market, using Structure Equation model(SEM model) to test the relationships among cultural preferences and purchase intentions of foreign products. Also, we evaluated the consumers' ethnocentrism's influences on cultural identity with other nations' cultural background. Lastly, we concluded that cultural identity has influences and complicate individual thoughts and purchase actions, it provides significance of impact of nation's soft power and whole economic development, and ethnocentrism has no significant influences on consuming foreign manufacture goods.

Addressing User Engagement in Social Media Platforms with Cultural Differences Based on Hofstede's Dimensions

  • Yoon Han;Hoang D. Nguyen;Tae Hun Kim
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.191-208
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    • 2024
  • This paper proposes the presence and importance of cultural differences to address user engagement in worldwide social media platforms. Based on Hofstede's cultural dimensions, this paper addresses their new meanings in the context of user engagement in social media. Our propositions address two research questions: (1) how do cultural dimensions, displayed on social media platforms, differ across national cultures?; (2) what different preferences the social media platforms have in terms of which cultural dimensions promote or suppress user engagement? User engagement in social media platforms is explained by the cultural differences in terms of the four cultural dimensions: individualism vs. collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and masculinity vs. femininity. Implications are also discussed for research and practice.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USABILITY AND SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY BETWEEN KOREA AND JAPAN

  • Lee, Kun-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.104-108
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    • 2000
  • The paper sets the goal as understanding relationship between usability and subjective preference with the cross- cultural comparison between korea and Japan. Total 42 Korean and japanese housewives participated in the experiment where subjects evaluated their subjective preferences on 16 different variations of computer-simulated microwave ovens. In additions, subjects also performed usability testing over 9 different microwave ovens with 6 different tasks given to users. Subjective preferences and usability were analyzed by Conjoint analysis to identify relative importance of features. The results showed that, in case of Korean subjects, subjective preference has positive relationship with usability (i.e. aesthetically good product also showed better performance in usability testing).However, Japanese subjects showed the tendency that subjectively preferred products are not necessarily evaluated good in usability testing (i.e. god aesthetic is one thing and high usability is another). this difference leads the speculation that culture plays a role in balancing the relationship between aesthetic and functionality.

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