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A Study on the Outbuying Behavior of Clothing Products of the Consumers in Local Retail Areas. (중 .소도시 소비자의 비거주지 의류구매행동에 관한 연구)

  • 장윤화;정명선
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.120-134
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influence the outbuying behavior of the consumers reside in middle sized cities adjacent to Kwangju. a metropolitan city of Korea. Data were collected by using questionnaire from 570 female consumers in Suncheon and Yeosu city from 8 September to 16. 1999. Data from 513 respondents were analyzed. Factor analysis. t-text. $x^2$test and cross analysis were used. Respondents were divided by two groups, outbuying group/resident purchasing group, based on the frequency of purchasing and intention of purchasing in local stores. and the differences between two groups were analyzed. The results were as follows : 1. There were significant differences in the residence. levels of education and Income. age. job. automobile possession, numbers of children, clothing expenditure Per month between outbuying group and resident purchasing group(p<.001, respectively) . 2. Outbuying group had significant higher tendency toward pursuing fashionability and pleasure, and symbolism in clothing than resident purchasing group(p<.001. respectively) 3. Outbuying group considered store services. assortments. shopping convenience significantly more important than resident purchasing group(p<.001. respectively) 4. Outbuying group obtained information from media sources and non-media sources significantly more often than resident purchasing group(p<.001, respectively) .

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Investigation on the Education Effect and Recognition of Apparel Pattern CAD System on the Apparel Majority Student (의류학 전공학생의 어패럴 패턴 CAD에 대한 인지도 및 교육효과에 관한 조사연구)

  • 최미성;조훈정;안혜자
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to observe the teaching method and cognition process in using the PAD, Lectra and Investronica pattern CAD system. It is necessary to gather information about apparel pattern CAD to enable clothing and textile educators to efficiently incorporate CAD into their curricula and to provide more substantial information. Interviews and questionnaires were used in the research and twenty four questionnaires were used for data analysis. The results of this study are as follows: 1) Students thought that new technology such as apparel pattern CAD is important in the apparel industry, and they have a positive vision toward such innovation. 2) Student who study harder during in CAD class worked easily of all PAD, Investronica and Lectra system. 3) The most preferred teaching method is to small group instruction by the instructor and then having feedback from the instructor. 4) Students realized that they needed to take prerequisites subjects like clothing construction. 5) The most interesting step is the pattern grading system and the least interesting but easiest step is digitize for patterns in the Investronica system.

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The Effects on the Fashion Leadership caused by Self-Image, Social Participation, Clothing Behaviors. (자아상, 사회참여도, 의복행동이 유행선도력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Eun-Young;Lee, Jeong-Soon
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.85-95
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of this research was to find out the most explainable variables influencing fashion leadership. This research was carried out by both the theoretical and empirical study. For the theoretical study, the research of fashion leadership was based on the fashion opinion leadership and innovativeness. The study included the analysis of variables influencing fashion leadership, such as clothing importance, clothing conformity, clothing anticonformity, perceived risk of clothing, use of fashion information source and demographic variables. For the empirical study, fashion leadership was measured by fashion opinion leadership and innovativeness. The variables influencing on the fashion leadership were measured by self-image, social participation, clothing behaviors(clothing importance, normative conformity, identificational conformity, clothing anticonformity, clothing independance), demographic variables(major fields of students, year of education, family income). Data were obtained from 335 female college and university students in Chung-Buk area by self-administered questionaire. The data collected through the questionaire were analyzed by the stastical thechique-stepwise regression. The results of the study were as follow: 44.6 percent of the total variance of fashion leadership was explained by the five variables: Clothing importance, use of marketer-dominated fashion information source, identificational conformity, traditional-modern self image and clothing anticonformity. Family income and the major fields of students are significantly related to the fashion leadership.

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Consumer consciousness toward well-being and well-being oriented consumer behaviors according to the dietary life -Focused on purchasing, using, and disposal behavior of married women- (웰빙식생활에 대한 소비자인식과 웰빙지향 소비자행동 -기혼여성 소비자의 구매, 사용, 처분행동을 중심으로)

  • Jeon, Hyang-Ran;Jae, Mie-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.957-967
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    • 2007
  • The purposes of this study were to find the sub-factors of consumer consciousness toward well-being and to identify the variables influencing their well-being oriented consumer behaviors in the area of dietary life of married women. 579 married women were surveyed by internet portal site azoomma.com. The collected data were treated with the SPSS Windows 12.0 program and analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, oneway ANOVA, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The findings were summarized as follow: 1. Consumer consciousness toward well-being has four sub-factors; pro-environmental attitude, personal and family health, means of business, and consciousness regarding others. 2. In the multiple regression analysis, concerns of information, price level, consciousness of personal and family health, health status, educational level explained the purchasing behavior about 25.7%. On the other hand, health status, pro-environmental attitude, consciousness of personal and family health, consciousness regarding others, and concerns of information explanined the using behaviors about 17.0%. Pro-environmental attitude, health status, consciousness of personal and family health, consciousness regarding others, and status of employment were effective variables, and explained the disposal behavior about 19.5%.

A Study on Brand Trust of Color Cosmetics According to Lifestyle of 20~40s Woman Consumer (여성 소비자의 라이프스타일에 따른 색조화장품의 브랜드 신뢰에 관한 연구 -20~40대 소비자를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Mi-Hyun;Lee, Hye-Joo
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.1015-1026
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    • 2008
  • This study explores the attributes of the color cosmetic products and prices, and their effects on the brand trust. In doing so, our sample population has been segmented according to their lifestyle on color cosmetic to understand the group differences. Based on the previous researches, we have chosen four important characteristics of the customer's lifestyle. The number of iteration on factor analysis revealed that our sample population can be formed into three different groups. The significant group differences resulted on the following study variables; the product functionality, the product fragrance/color, the product vessel design, the price value, the price information, the price rationality. Also, from the product aspect, the product functionality, the product fragrance/color, the product vessel design, explained the significant portion of the Y variance. While, on the aspect of price, the value, the rationality, and information in order, significantly contributed on the brand trust.

Factors Influencing the Repurchase Intention of Gas Boiler Users (가스보일러 사용자들의 재구매의도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Yoek-Suk;Jeon, Hyang-Ran;Jae, Mie-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.1153-1165
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    • 2011
  • Decision making for gas boiler consumers depends on the characteristics of products such as the price and quality as well as the brand image. Although a gas boiler is a high involvement product in terms of price, in fact, it is a low involvement product which is greatly affected by installers. This study examined variables which affect the level of satisfaction and repurchase intention by surveying about 1,000 housewives through an on-line questionnaire. The results were as follows: first, gas boiler users' general knowledge of gas boilers showed a correct-answer rate of 54.5%. The average satisfaction score of product quality (mean=5.61 out of 7) was higher than that of the satisfactionscore of the company's service (mean=5.46). Second, the level of repurchase intention was above the mid-point (mean=4.72). Multivariate regression found that product satisfaction, service satisfaction, household size, and information sources explained repurchase intentions for gas boilers to be about 50.7%. Gas boiler marketers should pay attention to the survey result in that the level of repurchase intention depends mainly on both consumer satisfaction and information sources.

Promotion strategies for consumption of the fairly traded products (공정무역 상품의 소비를 활성화하기 위한 방안 연구)

  • Seo, Jeong-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.1121-1133
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    • 2011
  • Fair trade has received increasing attention from ethical consumers in the North Trans-Atlantic world. It is a movement establishing alternative trading organizations to ensure minimal returns, safe working conditions, and to provide continuity in the trading relationship for disadvantaged producers, especially women and indigenous people in the South. Despite of the growing fair trade movement in the U.S. and Europe, it is still in the introductory stage in Korea. Although fair trade has gained some attention because of the efforts of activists, most Korean consumers are still unaware of it. This paper is divided into four sections including an introduction and conclusions. In section two, I analysed sales of the fairly traded products and the websites of the fairly traded products sellers. In section three, I proposed two effective recommendations for the better marketing and promotion strategies of fairly traded products. One proposal is for providing consumer information, like fair trade certificates, consumer campaigns, and consumer information of the fair trade sellers' websites analyses. The other is for establishing the infrastructure to promote the consumption of fairly traded products such as consumer education, corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, fair trade town and school, and networking. This study is relavant to academics, non-profit fair trade organizations, manufacturers, retailers and governments.

Visitors' Attitudes to National Park Use and Managerial Attributes in Woraksan National Park (월악산국립공원의 이용 및 관리속성에 대한 탐방객 태도)

  • Yoo Ki-Joon;Kim Dong-Pil
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.144-149
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to provide basic visitor information for developing effective park management strategies. To accomplish the purpose of this study, a questionnaire survey was carried out in major entry points in Woulaksan National Park. As for the results, socioeconomic characteristics of the visitors parks were similar to the findings of previous studies of national park visitors. Visitors' overall attitudes to national park use were preservation-oriented and significance levels of 18 management- related attributes were perceived as from normal to not serious. Visitors' recreation satisfaction levels with the area was relatively high.

Text Mining of Wood Science Research Published in Korean and Japanese Journals

  • Eun-Suk JANG
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.458-469
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    • 2023
  • Text mining techniques provide valuable insights into research information across various fields. In this study, text mining was used to identify research trends in wood science from 2012 to 2022, with a focus on representative journals published in Korea and Japan. Abstracts from Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology (JKWST, 785 articles) and Journal of Wood Science (JWS, 812 articles) obtained from the SCOPUS database were analyzed in terms of the word frequency (specifically, term frequency-inverse document frequency) and co-occurrence network analysis. Both journals showed a significant occurrence of words related to the physical and mechanical properties of wood. Furthermore, words related to wood species native to each country and their respective timber industries frequently appeared in both journals. CLT was a common keyword in engineering wood materials in Korea and Japan. In addition, the keywords "MDF," "MUF," and "GFRP" were ranked in the top 50 in Korea. Research on wood anatomy was inferred to be more active in Japan than in Korea. Co-occurrence network analysis showed that words related to the physical and structural characteristics of wood were organically related to wood materials.

Status of Food Literacy and Association with the Nutrition Quotient among Korean Adults (한국 성인의 푸드 리터러시 실태 및 영양지수와의 관계)

  • Geum-Bi Ryu;Young-Ran Heo
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.62 no.3
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    • pp.399-408
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    • 2024
  • Food literacy (FL) refers to the ability to understand and utilize food information. This concept consists of functional (FFL), interactive (IFL), and critical food literacy (CFL). In today's massive information-driven society, FL needs must be paid attention to as a determinant of health along with health literacy. This study sought to identify the FL of Korean adults, and to analyze the association between FL and nutritional status. Data was collected through an online self-reported survey among 1,355 Korean adults aged 19 to 64 years, stratified by gender and age. An χ2 -test, student's t-test, ANOVA, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and multinomial logistic regression were performed using IBM SPSS 25.0. There were significant differences in the subjects' FFL, IFL, and CFL according to their gender, age, residence area, work type, and monthly income. Furthermore, it was confirmed that subjects with a higher nutrition quotient (NQ) grade also had higher FLs. Additionally, FFL and CFL contributed to improving the NQ grade. This study is meaningful in that it investigated the FL of Korean adults and provided data to identify populations that are particularly vulnerable to a lack of FL. In addition, it was confirmed that FL can have a positive effect on the nutritional status of adults. In conclusion, this study suggests the possibility of using FL as an intervention strategy to improve nutrition.