• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2021

Brands have begun to act without giving in to the challenges facing our society. Just like the slogan in the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas proclaimed, "All for one, one for all!" in the age of transmedia the success of brand activism must reflect the same principle. Specifically, by embracing the big as well as the little stories of consumers scattered everywhere, each and every one should create a huge resonance. This means that brands should use the cultural lever of transmedia so that the various stories of consumers do not fade into oblivion and, furthermore, expand the brand's call to action. By analyzing brand activism cases in business, this study explores the effectiveness of brand activism for advertisers to develop a better understanding of brand communication strategy. Building on findings that show new young generation consumers to favor brands that respond to social, political, and environmental issues and conceptual implications of the snowball effect, this study emphasizes consumer participation in the brand story creation process and the need for brands to aim for high standards of professionalism and accountability, so that they can grow together with their consumers.

• 한류연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2022

Recently, as the status of South Korean popular culture has risen, the Korean Wave is gaining popularity not only in Asia but also in Europe, America, and South America, and is currently at the center of the global cultural phenomena. Among them, in particular, the cultural content industry has been developing rapidly thanks to the Korean Wave. Currently, the Korean Wave is spreading all over the world while bringing about positive effects to South Korea. In fact, until 2017, political and social issues such as 'North Korea/North Korean nuclear weapons' and 'Korean War' were considered as the images associated with South Korea, but from 2018, it has been shown that all images associated with South Korea are cultural content except for 'IT industry'. Given the economic effects that can be obtained not only from the positive associated images of South Korea per se but also from the complex action with various industries in South Korea, the craze for the Korean Wave can be viewed as affecting the overall national prestige of South Korea. For the steady vogue of the Korean Wave, thorough investigation of the Korean Wave and understanding of the expectations of consumers of the Korean Wave seem to be necessary

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.202-221
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• 2022

The media has depicted an abrupt socio-technological change in the Republic of Korea with the 4th Industrial Revolution. Because technologies cannot realize their potential without social acceptance, studying conflicts incurred by such a change is imperative. However, little literature has focused on conflicts caused by technologies. Therefore, the current study investigated media coverage regarding conflicts related to the 4th Industrial Revolution from 2016 to 2020 in the Republic of Korea, applying text-mining techniques. We found that the overall amount and coverage pattern conforms to the issue attention cycle. Also, the three major topics ("SMEs & Startups," "Mobility Conflict," and "Human & Technology") indicate quarrels between conflicting social entities. Moreover, the temporal change in media coverage implies the political use of the term rather than technological. However, we also found the media's deliberative discussion on the socio-technological impact. This study is significant because we expanded the discussion on media coverage of technologies to the realm of social conflicts. Furthermore, we explored the news articles of the recent five years with a text-mining approach that enhanced the objectivity of the research.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

International public opinion on King Sejong Institute (KSI) is one of the most important factors influencing its overseas development as a worldwide non-profit educational service organization. China is one of the overseas strategic regions for KSI to spread the Korean Language. This paper intends to assess KSI's current public opinion environment in China. With content analysis of 87 news reports related to KSI in WeChat Official Accounts from 2014 to 2022, this paper attempts to assess the public opinion environment of KSI in China. In this paper, we show that the Chinese media' s current attention to KSI is generally lacking. The current reports focus more on activity narrations, and the main report factors come from local media and universities' oncampus news, which have relatively weak dissemination power and limited influences. On one side, the reasons are related to the characteristics of Chinese media, while the KSI establishment method in China also accounts for a lot. Therefore, it is necessary for the KSI to timely adjust the cooperation mode and publicity strategies according to the Chinese political and cultural characteristics to promote the sustainable development of KSI in China by continuously improving the public opinion environment.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.110-134
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• 2023

North Korea's development and deployment of nuclear weapons increases Pyongyang's diplomatic bargaining leverage. It is a strategic response to counteract the great expansion in US leverage with the collapse of the USSR. Post-Cold War American influence and hegemony is justified partly by claiming victory in successfully containing an allegedly imperialist Soviet Union. The US created and led formal and informal international institutions as part of its decades-long containment grand strategy against the USSR. The US now exploits these institutions to expedite US unilateral global preeminence. Third World regimes perceived as remnants of the Cold War era that resist accommodating to American demands are stereotyped as rogue states. Rogue regimes are criminal offenders who should be brought to justice, i.e. regime change is required. The initiation of summit diplomacy between US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un occurred following the January 2018 Hawaiian ballistic missile false alarm. This event and its political consequences illustrate the efficacy of nuclear weapons as bargaining leverage for so-called rogue actors. North Korea is highly unlikely to surrender those weapons that were the instigation for the subsequent summit diplomacy that occurred. A broader, critical trend-focused strategic analysis is necessary to adopt a longer-term view of the on-going Korean nuclear crisis. The aim would be to conceptualize long-term policies that increase the probability that nuclear weapons capability becomes a largely irrelevant issue in interaction between Pyongyang, Seoul, Beijing and Washington.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.141-149
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• 2010

A number of factors are thought to influence people's food choices, and there has recently been an increasing emphasis on understanding the consumer's motives behind choice of food types. For one thing, an individual's personal food-related tastes are thought to certainly influence personal food choice. This study aimed to discover the new motives for food, and what motives determine the food choice of foreigners living in Korea. Subjects (N=210) completed a Food Choice Questionnaire (65 questions) measuring specific motives and sociodemographic conditions (9 questions). Factor analysis and ANOVA were used to ascertain the food choice motives. Fourteen factors emerged, which were labeled health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, natural content, price, weight control, familarity, political value, ecological protection. and religion. We also found that motives for new food choices include national image and information, ethnic food, and sanitation. Items were analysed to determine differences according to nationality, religion, occupation, and length of residence in Korea. All subjects thought sanitation is the most important motive in choice of food, and health, natural content, and ethnic food were also important.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.358-377
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• 2023

During the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions. For these policy interventions to be effective, authorities engaged in the political discourse of legitimising their activity to generate positive public attitudes. To understand effective COVID-19 policy, this study investigates public attitudes in South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States and how they reflect different legitimisation of policy intervention. We adopt a big data approach to analyse public attitudes, drawing from public comments posted on Twitter during selected periods. We collect the number of tweets related to COVID-19 policy intervention and conduct a sentiment analysis using a deep learning method. Public attitudes and sentiments in the three countries show different patterns according to how policy interventions were implemented. Overall concern about policy intervention is higher in South Korea than in the other two countries. However, public sentiments in all three countries tend to improve following implementation of policy intervention. The findings suggest that governments can achieve policy effectiveness when consistent and transparent communication take place during the initial period of the pandemic. This study contributes to the existing literature by applying big data analysis to explain which policies engender positive public attitudes.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.299-304
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• 2024

Human rights problem of refugee is the most important task to be solved in the international society. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established in 1950, with the need for cooperation in the face of the European refugee crisis. In 1951, 'The 1951 refugee convention' was signed for the protection of all refugees. Since the 1951 Refugee Convention, a legal framework has been established for responding to refugees. However, the discrimination and persecution of refugees are still lingering. The interest and the political will of many people in the world are needed to solve this problem. This article analyzes what efforts should be made with respect to human rights issues. This article concludes that, when comparing refugee acceptance and Korea, Korea needs to look at the common denominator of refugee law, human rights law, and international humanitarian law while looking at the treatment of refugees and displaced people from an inclusive approach, and reorganize law and policy. Since Korea is expected to gradually require inclusive policies, Korea should also supplement the legal system and take an inclusive approach. Although Korea as a member of the Refugee Convention, the Geneva Convention, and the Supplementary Protocol, has an obligation to enact domestic implementation laws, it does not reflect all of the obligations required by these conventions, so reorganization is needed.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권50호
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• pp.23-42
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• 2018

2차원문화(二次元文化)는 현재 중국 콘텐츠 시장의 핵심 키워드이다. 중국에서는 2차원문화에 대한 이용자가 날로 증가하며 대중들의 관심이 고조되고 있다. 또한 콘텐츠 시장에서의 인기로 인해 많은 자본을 투자하고 있는 실정이다. 2차원문화가 주류문화로 부상한 이유는 주류 소비자층의 전환뿐만 아니라, 첫째로는 2차원문화가 ACGN(Animation, Comic, Game, Light Novel) 외에도 영화, 공연, 테마파크 등 많은 영역 까지 아우른 거대한 산업사슬을 형성하고 있는 것, 둘째로는 사회적 환경과 충성도가 높은 특정 수용자들로 인해 더욱 더 많은 사람들이 2차원문화 행렬에 가담하고 있는 것, 셋째로는 문화의 전파성이 강한 등 세 가지 특징으로부터 2차원문화 콘텐츠에 있어서 수용자의 역할을 찾아보았고, PEST(거시환경 분석)를 통하여 정치, 경제, 사회, 기술 등 네 가지 측면으로 중국 2차원문화 환경을 분석하였다. 또한 2차원문화 수용자들의 생태환경과 소통방식이 변화되면서 수용자는 능동적 참여자이자 콘텐츠의 재생산자로 부각되었는데, 이러한 수용자 콘텐츠 이용방식을 '탄막(弹幕)'현상으로 살펴보았다. 따라서 본 연구는 중국 2차원문화 환경에서 수용자 중심의 콘텐츠산업에 대한 적절한 발전 경로를 논의하는 시사점이 있다.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제82권
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• pp.73-103
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• 2017

이 연구는 메이커 운동과 관련된 단행본, 정책 보고서, 기사 및 칼럼 등을 비판적 담론 분석의 관점에서 살펴보며 메이커 문화를 둘러싼 담론적 지형과 사회적 실천을 분석한다. 정부 주도의 메이커 운동은 제작 문화를 경제 위기를 극복할 수 있는 '창조 경제'의 원동력으로 의미화하고, 디지털 제조업의 창업을 정책적으로 진흥하고 있다. 서울시의 경우, 정부 주도의 경제주의적 메이커 운동을 비판하면서, 기술을 통해 사회 문제를 해결하고자 하는 '디지털 사회 혁신'으로 메이커 운동을 제도화한다. 문화 예술계에서는 메이커를 장인 노동이나 손노동과 같은 '창조적 장인'으로 간주한다. 또한 지배적인 기술 구조에 대한 대항으로서 '비판적 제작 활동'을 구축하고자 하는 저항의 움직임도 있다. 하지만 지배적 담론이 현실적인 차원에 미치는 권력 효과와, 대항적 담론 투쟁으로 인한 지배 구조의 균열을 섣불리 확신할 수 없다. 현재 진행 중인 메이커 운동은 지배적인 권력 구조와 접합되어 제작 문화를 사회적 경제적 가치로 이끌어 내고자 하는 담론 전략과, 이에 대한 문화적 기술 정치적 가능성을 중시하는 대안적인, 혹은 대항적인 의미화 실천이 경합하는 갈등과 투쟁의 장이다.