• 패션비즈니스
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2020

The home furnishing and living market is growing because of the increasing interest of consumers in living spaces. In this trend, global fashion companies are seeking to increase sales by expanding their businesses by launching their own home lines or brands early, taking advantage of the various advantages of each brand. In response, this study was designed to examine the strategies necessary for domestic fashion brands to pursue their business in the future by conducting a case study and characteristics analysis of the living brands of foreign fashion companies in line with the trend of expanding their living-related businesses. The following is an analysis of the characteristics of the living brands of global fashion companies. First of all, utilizing the brand awareness of fashion companies; second, the strength of unique textile designs; and third, the expansion of synergy through the expansion of the business into various fields. Fourth, the lack of diversification in materials suitable for living products; fifth, the lack of information on quality; sixth, the lack of space and contents for living areas. Finally, a living brand strategy of a domestic fashion company was proposed as follows. First, it proposed collaboration with textile design companies and designers; second, it proposed exploring business models through the inclusion of brand licenses; and third, it proposed expanding the planning of living products of private brand by distribution companies.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.127-143
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• 2021

Purpose: Smart Safety Living Lab is a Living Lab facility, constructed and operated by KITECH in Korea, to support the user experience(UX) evaluation, planning and certification of smart safety products and services. The purpose of this study is to develop a UX evaluation methodology that accommodates the characteristics of the Living Lab and smart safety products and services for a systematic and efficient UX evaluation in the Smart Safety Living Lab. Methods: A generic model of UX evaluation was first derived based on a review of related literature. Then, the generic model is revised to accommodate the characteristics of the Smart Safety Living Lab and smart safety products and services, resulting in the UX Evaluation Methodology for Smart Safety Living Lab (SSLL-UXEM). Results: The developed SSLL-UXEM consists of a structured process for UX evaluation, a guideline for conducting each step of the process, and a set of forms for recording the major evaluation results in each step. Conclusion: SSLL-UXEM can help to enhance the efficiency of the UX evaluation process and the consistency of the UX evaluation results. SSLL-UXEM is also expected to serve as a basis for UX evaluation in various living lab environments in the future.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2004

Farm economy is getting worse because of the free trade trends in agriculture sector and unreasonable application of market economy principles to agricultural products. And The worldwide issues of environmental pollution as well as want of food, water and energy make human future be anxious. In addition, consumers raise questions in argument about safety of foods produced by traditional farming or imported. So I propose the urban-rural living community movement(URLCM) as an alternative plan for sustainable domestic agriculture. URLCM based on environmentally friendly agriculture and community consciousness will be able to solve many of present issues on agriculture and rural society through incessant interchanges between urban and rural community. This URLCM has to be basically founded on principles of symbiosis-coexistence and life circulation. So those that have to be driven forward arc organizing producers and consumer cooperatives, making environmentally friendly rural region and products, combining with consumer cooperatives, training the participants and so forth.

• 디자인융복합연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.237-250
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• 2016

급속도로 발달한 정보기술은 산업환경 전반에 걸쳐 정보와 기능의 통합화를 이루며 우리 생활에 많은 영향을 미치고 있다. 특히 사물인터넷(IoT), 클라우드 컴퓨팅, 빅 데이터 분석 등 새로운 통신 환경의 출현은 인터넷을 중심으로 한 모든 전자기기들의 연결을 가능하게 함에 따라 이제는 산업 환경을 넘어 주거환경까지 변화시키는 중요한 매체로 주목받고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구의 목적은 고도로 발전하는 기술과 함께 진화하는 주거환경의 스마트 가전의 유형과 그 특성을 파악하고자 하는 것이다. 그리고 이를 위해 한국, 중국, 일본의 대표적인 브랜드 상품((Samsung, Haier, Panasonic)을 선정하여 각 특성을 비교 분석 하였다. 선정된 브랜드는 GHA(General rules of intelligentization technology for intelligent household appliances)의 스마트 가전 적용 기준을 활용하여 각 유형을 분석하였다. 분류된 유형은 스마트 가전 사용자가 자율적(Self)으로 학습, 활용, 적용, 진단, 추론, 구성, 조절 등이 가능한 7가지의 유목으로 나누어졌으며, 이를 기준으로 나타난 각 국가별 브랜드 상품은 의(Clothing), 식(Food), 주(Housing)의 범주로 체계화 하였다. 브랜드별 나타난 주요 특성으로는 한국의 삼성은 원격제어 기능이, 중국의 하이얼은 전자기술의 적용이, 일본의 파나소닉은 에코나비(ECONAVI)인 에너지 절약 시스템으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.375-391
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• 2022

Improving public awareness of wood is crucial for expanding the use of wood and establishing a wood culture. In this study, the environment and trends of the public's wood utilization were analyzed using a questionnaire survey and online text mining at a time when eco-friendly practices are gaining popularity. As a result of reducing climatic and environmental concerns and its positive physical and psychological effects, the use of wood is predicted to rise in areas intimately connected to everyday living, such as wood furniture, wooden structures, and interior materials. Nonetheless, there was a negative awareness that wood was expensive, difficult to maintain, and associated with deforestation. The correlations between wood-related search terms on major Korean portal sites were analyzed and categorized into five groups: Wooden architecture, cultural education, woodworking, wood industry, and wood policy. As a building material, wood was seen as more traditional and friendly than reinforced concrete and stone. Eighty-six percent of respondents expected to utilize wood as a building material in the future, regardless of whether the wood is domestically produced or imported. Sixty-five percent responded favorably about the effects of wood on the health of wooden home inhabitants. It is believed that both active publicity and quantifiable value analysis of human and environmental friendliness are required to increase pro-environment awareness of wood utilization.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.311-323
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• 2010

This study includes definitions and major issues relating to product safety, and reviews about product safety laws of Korea and of other countries. In addition, this study suggests several ideas for a future governmental policy concerning product safety and the government policies to guide in securing consumers' safety of products. First, we need to set up consumer safety policies and laws dealing with complex consumer safety issues and to integrate existing laws for the safety of products. Second, opening a consumer safety agency and training workers who have relation to the safety policy, as a profession, are necessary. Third, it is required to redefine the product safety guidelines, strengthen the safety policy and to minimize safety regulations by the government directly. Fourth, each product of the safety management policies must be regularly evaluated and given feedback for improving its effectiveness. Fifth, information gathering, disclosing, and having a feedback system related to product safety should be rebuilt for the effective management of unsafe products. In addition, laws and the aims of product safety management being changed to focus on the consumers, control on imported products, collaboration with network and mutual-assistance systems of product safety-related agencies including international organizations and major countries and taking leading roles in the world are essential.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.448-467
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• 2017

Attention to living lifestyle shops covering with the wide product range including household items, interior decoration, and bedding have recently increased since consumers have been improving their standard of living and income levels and they are getting more interested in up-to-date trends of global living lifestyles. The purpose of this study is first, to analyze the market situation of living lifestyle shops using the case study method and second, to investigate consumer's store usage behavior, product purchase motives, and attitudes to the living lifestyle shops using the empirical study method. For an empirical study, the survey was conducted with 20s to 50s female respondents who have visited living lifestyle shops and a total of 227 responses were analyzed using SPSS 18.0. The results of this study were as follows. The most frequently visit store was MUJI and most of respondents tended to visit the store once a month and their interest and purchase items were household items. Only impulsive purchase motives among other motives of living lifestyle shops, such as others-oriented, situational, and reasonable motives, significantly had a positive effect on store attitudes toward living lifestyle shops. There were differences in purchasing items at living lifestyle shops depending on marriage status and occupation. Purchase motives of living lifestyle products were statistically influenced by demographic factors such as age, marriage status and income level, however store attitudes were not. The managerial implications for living lifestyle shops are discussed limitations and areas for future research as well.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.543-552
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• 1998

A sruvey was conducted to investigate the consumer perception of farm products and processed foods, and to figure out the future direction of food supply system to satisfy the consumer need. From the citizens in Taegu area, 532 housewives were selected as sample subjects by stratified random sam-pling procedure. The main criteria of consumers for purchasing farm products was quality and the main reason for purchasing imported products was cheap price(48.9%). Most of consumers(87%) thought that food safety of farm products was not belong to safe level. Consumers(79.7%) perceived that the labeling system for the place of origin and for the quality are necessary, but they did not have confidence in the current label. Nearly all the subjects(93.6%) were concerned about the hazardness of residual chemicals of imported products, desired the rigorous inspection system for imported products. Consumers in Taegu area had confidence in processed foods in the following order; farmerbrand-product(0.9%), government-authorized farm product(30.0%) and agricultural cooperative association product(26.4%). However, only 73.6% of the consumers had the experience to purchase farmers' processed foods. As a conclusion, it appeared that nutrition education for consumers on food-decision making is strongly required for the substantial segment of population who are still ignorant of safety of imported product and food distribution system.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.146-152
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 1인 가구의 증가가 하이테크 산업에 미치는 함의에 대하여 특히 인공지능기술 (AI) 탑재 상품(AI탑재 상품)에 초점을 두고 논의하였다. 논의를 위해 1인 가구의 소비 트랜드의 특성, AI 기술의 발전 및 그것이 다양한 산업에서 지니는 잠재력과 관련된 기존 연구들에 대한 비판적인 검토가 이루어졌다. 분석 결과에 의하면, 오늘날의 1인 가구는 남녀 커플가구보다도 친구, 이웃 등과 더 많은 시간을 보낸다. 젊은 계층일수록 자신의 목표를 성취하기 위해 자기 스스로의 의지에 의해 혼자 사는 것을 선택하는 숫자가 점점 증가하고 있다. 이제 '혼자 산다는 것' 또는 '홀로 가는 것(되는 것)'을 더 이상 부정적으로 생각하지 않으며 오히려 미래의 새로운 시장의 파워로 인식되고 있는 것이다. 1인 가구의 독립심 및 개인주의적 사고에 기반한 가치 지향적 소비 행동을 고려하면, 그들은 AI탑재상품과 같은 하이테크 상품이 싱글라이프에 유리한 점을 주기 때문에 다른 가구 유형보다도 더 그러한 상품을 필요로 할 것이다. 따라서, AI 기술의 급진적인 발전으로 인해 1인 가구의 욕구를 만족시켜 줄 것으로 예측되는바, 향후 1인 가구를 AI의 최종 소비자로서 시장 세분화를 준비할 것을 제안한다.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.287-298
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• 2011

In this study, I wanted to propose the design direction of the furniture and products in bathroom space so that the elderly's life is well supported to meet such aging societies that are getting older. Therefore, I have drawn the elders' needs by investigating their characteristics through literature research and used such needs as a frame of analysis to analyze the bathroom furniture and products made in Korea and foreign countries. The analysis results indicate:First, the elders need entertainment, health care, environment-friendly, convenience, good accessibility, chair-based bath and space separation; second, both Korean-made and foreign-made bathroom products are difficult to be controlled, invisible of font, hard to sustain the elders' bodies, inconvenient to be used and etc; and third, the design to solve such problems should be with intuitive user interface, easy control, better accessibility, the elders' moving patterns and living habits considered, health care, pro-environmental product. This study puts emphasis on the reflection of socio-cultural characteristics in designing bathroom furniture & items for aging society and requires more bathroom products with various designs in the foreseeable future.