• 복식문화연구
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.479-495
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• 2019

This study defines Korean wave stars as Korean wave human brands and examines the influence of the characteristics, attachment, and self-congruity of the Korean wave human brand on brand equity. For this, this study surveyed Chinese female consumers in their 20s and 30s who consume many Korean wave products from May 2018 to June 2018. First, human brand characteristics, attachment, self-congruity, Korean wave aspiration level, and brand equity according to demographic characteristics were identified. Second, characteristics, attachment, self-congruity, and the aspiration level of the Korean wave human brand showed correlations with brand equity. However, brand awareness, a sub-factor of brand equity, does not show correlations with self-congruity. Third, characteristics, attachment, self-congruity, and Korean wave aspiration level had a positively influenced brand equity. Fourth, when looking into the mediated effect of attachment on brand equity, both human brand characteristics and self-congruity showed a partially mediated effect. Fifth, when analyzing the adjustment effect in the Korean wave aspiration level, a group with higher Korean wave aspiration level showed more correlations with attachment and brand equity. This study found that attachment and self congruity are important elements in forming human brand and brand equity. This study is significant in that it verified the influence of Korean wave brand power that has been on the rise recently on brand equity and provided a theoretical basis that has allowed researchers to determine that the characteristics, attachment, and self-congruity of Korean wave human brand significantly influence brand equity.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.559-575
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• 2021

The popularity of K-pop, the development of diverse media and communications, and rapid globalization are increasing consumers' attachment to celebrities. These celebrities, called "Human brand", have a growing impact on consumers. However, research on idol celebrities has been conducted mainly on teenagers. Furthermore, there are limits to the studies on consumers' attachment to idol celebrities who do not advertise specific products and intention to purchase products which are not advertised but related to the idol human brand. Therefore, this study has been conducted on 301 out of 400 adult women in their twenties to forties in Korea to examine the relationship between the characteristics of the idol human brand, attachment to the idol human brand, desire to imitate the idol human brand, desire to identify with the idol human brand and its fandom community, and the effect on purchase intention. For the statistical analysis, SPSS and AMOS were used. The study found that the characteristics of the idol human brand which are trust, professionality, social attractiveness, and physical attractiveness positively influenced attachment to the idol human brand. The attachment to the idol human brand positively affected the imitation desire toward the idol human brand, and the identification desire with the idol human brand, and to identify with its fandom community. Additionally, the desire to imitate and to identify with the idol human brand and its fandom community positively affected the intention. Furthermore, the relationships between all variables were found to have a significant mediating effect.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.537-550
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• 2023

본 연구는 한류의 세계적인 확산으로 한류 휴먼브랜드의 영향력이 높아지고 있는 반면, 이를 중심으로 한 학술적인 논의가 많지 않다는 점에서 한류 휴먼브랜드가 소비자 행동에 미치는 영향성을 자아일치성, 휴먼브랜드 애착과 브랜드 자산 요인으로 검증하였다. 한류 소비가 많은 중국 소비자를 대상으로 온라인 설문조사를 진행하였으며, 403명의 데이터를 분석에 사용하였다. 연구 결과, 한류 휴먼브랜드와의 이상적 자아일치성과 실제적 자아일치성은 한류 휴먼브랜드 애착에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나, 사회적 자아일치성은 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 한류 휴먼브랜드에 대한 애착은 브랜드 인지, 지각된 품질, 브랜드 이미지와 브랜드 충성도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.5-14
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• 2020

Purpose: Early morning delivery markets have grown exponentially in the last few years. This study aims to verify the effects of brand experience factors and brand personality factors of Market Kurly, a representative early morning delivery brand, on brand attachment and brand loyalty. Research design, data, and methodology: For this purpose, 204 ordinary people in their 20s and 40s who have experience in using Market Kurly were surveyed. 7 hypotheses were verified by using hierarchical regression analysis. Results: Affective experience, intellectual experience, and behavioral experience among brand experience factors had a positive effect on brand attachment. Also, brand personality-self-image congruence and brand personality-human brand congruence as brand personality factors had a positive effect on brand attachment. The brand attachment was identified as an important preceding factor to explain the brand loyalty of Market Kurly. Conclusions: When applying brand experience factors to the early morning delivery service context, each brand experience factor affected brand attachment and brand loyalty. The scope of research on brand personality-self-image congruence was expanded in that it considered both brand personality-human brand congruence and brand personality-self-image congruence. This study provides academic and practical implications by revealing that brand experience factors and brand personality factors can positively affect brand attachment and brand loyalty.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.291-308
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• 2022

본 연구는 광고 마케팅 영역에서 제품의 관여도에 따라 광고모델의 휴먼브랜드가 소비자의 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 소비자를 대상으로 148부의 설문 데이터를 수집하였고, SPSS 25.0을 사용하여 연구가설을 검증하였다. 분석 결과 첫째, 휴먼브랜드 매력성은 저관여 제품에서 휴먼브랜드 애착에 정(+)의 영향을 미쳤다. 둘째, 휴먼브랜드 독특성과 친밀성은 고관여 제품에서 휴먼브랜드 애착에 정(+)의 영향을 미쳤다. 본 연구를 통해 휴먼브랜드 특성 중 신뢰성, 전문성, 매력성, 독특성, 친밀성이 휴먼브랜드 애착, 휴먼브랜드 태도 및 제품 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 확인하고 소비자에게 노출된 제품광고의 고관여, 저관여 제품특성에 따른 휴먼브랜드 영향 차이를 확인할 수 있었다. 지금까지 연예인과 기업인을 중심으로 연구되고 있던 휴먼브랜드의 연구 영역을 스포츠 스타를 대상으로 확대하였고 실증분석을 통해 광고제품의 고관여, 저관여 특성에 따른 구매의도를 향상하기 위한 영향요인을 확인하여 제품관여도 특성별 스포츠 스타 휴먼브랜드의 광고모델 선정 관점에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.27-41
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• 2014

Purpose - This study examines various reservation service components that would increase customers' brand attachment and loyalty, while discussing how reservation service components would affect the customer behaviors. Research design, data, and methodology - This study theoretically analyzed the hotel package product reservation system, the customer expectations, the brand attachment, and the brand loyalty, while reviewing previous studies. Results - This study analyzed the distribution channels of the hotel package products from various angles and, as for more extensive research, the study explained the different results caused by each different reservation system type that may be preferred by each individual customer. Conclusions - It was confirmed that, of the hotel reservation service components, the convenience factors, the reliability factors, the information factors, and the other factors other than the human factors, have a significant influence on the customer expectations. Further, the study also revealed that the customer expectation has an important effect on the brand attachment. In addition, the study improved the prevailing understanding on the relation between the brand attachment and the brand loyalty.

• 복식
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• 제63권7호
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• pp.148-163
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the attributes and internal structure of fashion brand authenticity, which is a new concept of brand association. For quantitative research, a total of 591 samples of consumer survey were taken from 24th of August to 7th of September, 2009. The results of this study were as follows: 1) The scale for the fashion brand authenticity was developed, which consisted of 33 questions. These questions estimated a total of 8 dimensions, including heritage, authority, relationship to place, consistency, non-popularity, trend leading, originality, and ethics. 2) The internal structure of the fashion brand authenticity was confirmed. The internal structure was constituted into core attributes and promoted attributes. 3) The relationship between the fashion brand authenticity and consumer related variables were found. The core attributes of authenticity were putting positive influence directly on brand loyalty. However, paths through brand attachment or brand commitment were not found. The promoted attributes showed that it had a direct negative influence on brand loyalty, but it has also showed positive influence on paths, which underwent brand attachment and commitment.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.579-586
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• 2021

본 연구는 축구 스타의 휴먼 브랜드가 구단에 대한 태도 및 애착에 미치는 영향력을 규명하여 구단 소속 스타 선수들의 브랜드 관리의 중요성 및 시사점을 제공하고자 했다. 따라서 K리그 구단 소속 축구 선수를 선호하고 있는 사람을 표본으로 선정해 2021년 1월 14일부터 3월 5일까지 모바일 조사를 실시했으며, 총 348부의 자료를 최종 분석에 이용했다. 자료처리는 SPSS(ver. 21.0) 프로그램을 활용해 빈도분석, 내적일관성 및 탐색적 요인분석, 상관분석, 다중회귀 분석을 실시했다. 본 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 축구 스타의 휴먼 브랜드는 윤리성, 매력성, 차별성 순으로 구단에 대한 태도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 축구 스타의 휴먼 브랜드는 윤리성, 매력성, 차별성 순으로 구단에 대한 애착에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.101-116
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• 2014

In the year 2013, Warren Buffett was named one of the most influential people of the year by TIME magazine. When people are exposed to such news, they show strong interest in who the influential people are and how those people became so successful. Likewise, people show strong attachment to other prominent figures as well. This social phenomenon indicates that people perceive well-known persona like business leaders, TV stars or sports stars etc. as human brands of intangible assets. As the role of these human brands is becoming more important, people tend to develop stronger attachment toward them. Another notable modern social phenomenon is people's pursuit of life-satisfaction and social well-being. People desire to increase their quality of life by having quality time with family and friends, and also by building attachment towards celebrities, sports stars, and so on. The main objective of this study is to examine how attachment toward human brands affects quality of life. While existing studies on human brands examined antecedents of attachment, e.g., some needs fulfillment such as A-R-C needs (autonomy, relatedness and competence needs) fulfillment, this study focuses on the outcome variables of attachment, e.g., how attachment toward human brands affects stress relief and life satisfaction through self-efficacy. Based on previous research, we divided human brands into two types: heroes and celebrities. Heroes are defined as people who have considerable and lasting importance on both societal and individual levels, and celebrities are defined as people who are well-known but have little or no short-term impact on society and individual levels. This study focuses on how attachment toward each type of human brands, celebrities and heroes, affects the quality of life or well-being. This study focuses on three important outcome variables; stress relief, life satisfaction, and self-efficacy, (three variables) which have been recently gaining importance, especially in the domain of positive psychology. Major findings from the present study show that although celebrities draw attachment from people by providing fun and entertainment or providing stress relief, they have weak influences on the wellbeing or efficacy of individuals at a deeper level. In contrast, attachment toward heroes helps people live better by providing meaning and positively influencing life satisfaction through self-efficacy (Frankl 1997). These results are consistent with the main tenet of 'positive psychology' which seeks "to find and nurture genius and talent and to make normal life more fulfilling" (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000). Considering the fact that certain celebrities are perceived as heroes to some, we can conclude that celebrities can become heroes if they provide meaning and value to the lives of people. This study contributes to the research stream of human brands since the most current leading research (e.g., Thomson 2006) indicated the need to look at the resulting effect of attachment on life satisfaction through self-efficacy. Another important contribution is that we empirically documented the different effects of celebrities and heroes. As expected, this study shows that heroes more deeply influence the lives of individuals in the long term while celebrities do so rather shallowly in the short term. The issues of the influence of heroes on the individuals' lives need to be further investigated in relation with the perspective of positive psychology.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.57-71
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is 1) to develop and validate the BRQ construct perceived by brand loyal consumers, 2) to evaluate the predictive capacity of the individual BRQ dimension and brand relationship benefit on consumers' relationship intention, and 3) to identify the distinctive loyalty orientation based on the concept of BRQ. Questionnaire data from 379 brand loyal consumers on BRQ, brand relationship benefit, relationship intention, and their brand loyal behavior pattern were analyzed. The results showed that brand loyal consumers' BRQ composed of 3 dimensions including 'compensational bind', 'self attachment', and 'trust'. In addition, the mediating role of BRQ in predicting consumers' loyal relationship intention was validated using the structural equation model. Regarding the effect of each BRQ dimension on loyal relationship intention, consumers' intention to be loyal to an apparel brand was more explained by self attachment than the other dimensions. This study also intended to provide a useful direction to apparel brands in finding out which relationship quality type is more effective for differentiated marketing strategies by comparing the BRQ of single-brand loyal consumers and that of multi-brand loyal consumers.