• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.428-435
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• 2008

This study was conducted to provide the information necessary for the development of native local foods associated with the "2008 World Insect Festival in Hampyeong" and to contribute to the efforts to market the festival as tourist attraction and increase the income of the local community. To assess the local foods and restaurants, we investigated the principal products, inclination for sightseeing and recognition of the "Butterfly festival" by distributing questionnaires to local restaurant operators, employees and general tourists. The result was as follows: 1. The general tourists chose scenery as the most important factor in a sightseeing tour, followed by food, lodging, and transportation. 2. The tourists enjoyed eating native local foods, and they indicated that the taste was important. 3. Regarding the cost of food, 53.6% of the respondents answer that 10 to 20 thousand won was a resonable price, and they also reported wanting to eat seafood in Hampyeong. Thus the Menu of seafood to be served at the Hampyeong festival needs to be developed first followed by that of the healthy food. This result showed that individuals prefer fish to meat and healthy food to high-calorie foods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.29-40
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• 2015

This study analyzed purchasing characteristics of local agricultural products and processed products as well as evaluated operation programs for Changnyeon festival participants. The purchasing rates of local agricultural products and processed products at this festival were 63.6% and 49.1%, respectively, and the main purchased crops were onion (42.6%) and garlic (20.7%). Drinks (43.6%) were highly purchased processed products. The recognition (95.3%) and preferences (98.4%) for Changyeong local agricultural products were high at this festival. Subjects (72.5%) responded that public relations were effective for sale at this festival, and evaluation of the operation program for the festival was $3.51{\pm}0.74$ (total score 5 points). Satisfaction with the experience event (37.7%) and exhibition event (33.6%) were high at this festival program, whereas participants gave low rates for art exhibition and sale events of local agricultural products (16.2%), cooking education (14.7%), direct education program (12.9%), and games (12.1%). This festival was an effective means of public relations, although purchase effects were not significant. This result suggests that the festival is necessary for planning a program to increase purchasing.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.135-142
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• 2017

The purpose of current study was to identify the influence of event quality on brand value, satisfaction, and recommend intention as perceived by a local food festival participants. Survey was distributed to the Changwon Miderdok festival participants, 350 questionnaire surveys were distributed and 330 participants were employed for statistical analysis with erasing invalid responses. Based on the process of hypothesis verification on the formulated model, it suggested that motivation factors have significantly impact on evolvement element. Specifically, humanic and physical elements were significant predictors of both brand value and satisfaction, and all factors of event quality except convenience were critical antecedents of visitors' satisfaction. In current study, in addition, brand value has positive influence on satisfaction and satisfied visitors tried to recommend the destination to others. This study will help to develop meaningful marketing strategy for local food festival industry. Furthermore, this study will contribute to improve an attractive business model to increase profit for both local society and academic study related to local food festival.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.210-223
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• 2014

This study aims at analyzing influential relations among satisfaction, revisit intention, and recommendation intention regarding local food restaurants, based on the motivation to visit the Gimje local festival, a representative festival in Korea. It also offers useful basic materials for related organizations. From October 2 to October 6, 2013, a survey was conducted and a statistic processing was performed with 283 copies of questionnaire for credibility analysis, factor analysis, and regression analysis. The results are as follows. First, three motives for visit were drawn as cultural experience factor, deviation factor, and friendliness factor. Second, for hypothesis 1, the motivation for visiting the festival had a positive (+) significant influence on satisfaction with the local food restaurants. Third, for hypothesis 2, satisfaction with the local food restaurants had a positive (+) significant influence on revisit intention to the local food restaurants. Fourth, for hypothesis 3, satisfaction with the local food restaurants had a positive (+) significant influence on recommendation intention to the local food restaurants. Consequently, for the purpose of activating festivals, it is necessary to offer a variety of food, to manage the programs satisfying visitors' needs, and to give services continuously.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.903-913
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to measure the factor of determination on satisfaction level of the Jeonju International Film Festival. A study is analysed through research that is consisted of satisfaction factor#s items of 32 local festival visitor to study factors of determination of local festival visitor#s satisfaction level. This research data extracted 6 factors, which are access and souvenir, food/lodging, information/service, event/pastime, and convenient facilities. In conclusion, the festival is likely to attract more tourists and make them satisfied if better content of the festival is provided. There, most of the tourists need to becoming cleared to be satisfied due to its values of culture recognition through various contents of the festival, fun factors, food/lodging factors, and various programs.

• The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.17-26
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• 2022

This study attempted to estimate the amount of expenditure per capita of visitors to the Mongsanpo fishing village tourism festival, and quantitatively measure how much the festival contributes to the local and national economy through input-output model. The analysis data used 302 questionnaires, excluding missing questionnaires, surveyed on festival visitors from April 21 to May 7, 2018, during the 9th Mongsanpo port webfoot octopus and seafood festival. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, analyzing the average expenditure per person of festival visitors, it shows that the average one-person festival visitor consumes KRW 129,519: entertainment costs KRW 5,672 (4.4%), accommodation costs KRW 16,860 (13.0%), food costs KRW 74,791 (57.7%), transportation costs KRW 21,646 (16.7%), shopping costs KRW 6,788 (5.2%), and other costs KRW 3,762 (2.9%). Among the expenditures of festival visitors, the proportion of food expenses was the highest, and transportation costs and accommodation costs were in order. Second, based on the actual expenses spent by visitors at the fishing village tourism festival, the direct economic effect of the Mongsanpo fishing village festival was estimated be approximately KRW 14.8 billion. Third, as a direct and indirect economic impact effect of the Mongsanpo fishing village tourism festival in 2018, the amount of production induced in the local and national economies was estimated at KRW 33.3 billion, and the amount of value-added inducement was estimated at 11.3 billion won, and employment inducement reached 272 people, which is considered to contribute greatly to the national economy. This study quantitatively analyzes and provides the extent to which the fishing village tourism festival using local specialized fisheries directly or indirectly contribute to the local and national economy. Thus, it is expected to serve as useful information by providing basic information on business feasibility required for budgeting for local fishing tourism festivals.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.247-254
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• 2018

Volunteering has important insight for tourism, especially in the context of special events and festivals. In particular, local festival relies heavily upon volunteers because a large number of individuals are often necessary for creating and delivering various services. Therefore, understand the link between motivation and satisfaction will help festival managers to make appropriate decision in the selection and recruitment of volunteers. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of motivations on individual's volunteer satisfaction. Data were gathered from 183 individuals that volunteered for the 2018 Gokseong Festival and finally 154 samples were used for the empirical analysis. According to the results, motivation factor analysis showed that intrinsic motivation is a main volunteer motivation to participate in the festival. This research concludes with the proposed conceptual framework that discusses the categories of motivational factors and also volunteers' satisfaction. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed in more detail.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.545-552
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• 2008

This study is attempt to develop for Korean traditional food data integration system with food database. We are collected all kinds of traditional Korean foods, and referred to document and classified according to food types and cooking methods. Also we are classified 6 types of traditional Korean foods as follows: traditional common, royal, local, festival, rites, and Buddhist temple foods, And we integrate all of that databases for using a specialist or not. We researched for Korean traditional food by cooking type and planed organization for the standardized code and construction for database of Korean traditional foods. It was combined all of them, constructed for Korean traditional food data integration system. Korean traditional foods are classified with 10 provinces local foods, 18 festival foods by seasonal divisions reflecting traditional Korean holidays; and 9 classes rites foods. Korean traditional food using a traditional Korean food classification system was investigated a total of 7,289 kinds foods according to food types. those were 2,585 kinds traditional common foods, 142 kinds of royal foods, 2,137 kinds of local foods, 515 kinds of festival foods, 403 kinds of rites foods, and 1,507 kinds of Buddhist temple foods. And Korean traditional foods included 980 kinds of main dishes, 4,456 kinds of side dishes, 873 kinds of tteok lyou, 515 kinds of hangwa lyou and 465 kinds of emchong lyou. It is therefore recommended that knowledge of traditional Korean foods be preserving and develop their excellence and to further studies.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.129-145
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• 2012

This paper investigated the awareness and activation of food tourism festivals in Gwangju, Jeonnam Province. A survey was conducted for the visitors of the Gwangju Kimchi Festival at nearby Gwangju Jeungoe park from October 15 to 19, 2011, and finally 207 respondents were analyzed. As a results of this study, the visitors who visited the Gwangju Kimchi Festival have a lot of interest in local food and food festivals. Also, most of the visitors have much more affection for the area and the food culture developed by geographical influence. The Gwangju Kimchi festival proved to be the most popular food tourism festival in Gwangju, Jeonnam among others. There are much more food festivals than other regions in Gwangju, Jeonnam because of popularity of food festivals, a variety of food, and various kinds of food ingredients. What is necessary to activate the food tourism festivals in Gwangju, Jeonnam includes a variety of programs related to food tourism experience, the development of competitive food tourism products, and PR for well-being food of these areas.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.589-595
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to analyze food behavior of tourists to develop consumer-oriented local cuisines for the Goseong dinosaur festival. A random sample of 518 tourists took part in one-on-one interviews which were conducted between May 7 and May 28, 2006. The highest percentage of people were in the 30-39 age group, and the over 60 years were the second highest. The participants resided mainly in urban areas of Gyeongnam province and other large Korean cities. Most of the tourists had breakfast at home before leaving for the festival, 27.8% skipped breakfast or bought and ate various food s as a breakfast on the way to the main venue. The proportion of the tourists who wanted to eat lunch at outlets in the main venue was 39.8%, while 34.6% of the tourists brought their lunch boxes. Only 14.5% had a desire to eat lunch at restaurants in Goseong. 33.8% of the tourists were willing to pay 5,000-6,000 Won per capita for the lunch, 15.6% wanted to pay 7,000-10,000 Won per capita. Noodles and Gimbab were chosen as favorite dishes for lunch by 15.4% of tourist while Bibimbab was selected by 12.0%. Various aspects of food behavior were different between the two predominant age groups. For example, the prices and the kinds of meals they wanted, and the places they preferred to eat meals. Therefore, it is suggested that more than 2 kinds of local cuisines have to be developed for the predominant age groups. The price of the local cuisine for the 30s age group should not exceed 5,000-6,000Won, whereas less than 10,000Won is an appropriate price for the over 60s. Menus for children also need to be developed, along with breakfast menus specifically for the 30s age group.