• Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
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• v.2 no.3 s.3
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• pp.27-35
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• 2004

This research studies the job satisfaction and turnover intention of the staffs of beauty parlors located in the City of Busan. The subjects were 300 beauty parlor staffs. They were surveyed for one month from October 1, 2003, to October 31, 2003. Regarding the question of the work satisfaction at the beauty parlor, the degrees of satisfaction were $3.83{\pm}0.70$ in the field of 'I am proud of myself working in a beauty parlor,' $3.78{\pm}0.62$ in the field of 'I feel rewarded after performing an operation on a customer,' $3.73{\pm}0.61$ in the field of 'I have a friendly relationship with the customers'. As to a survey on the job satisfaction and their intention of turnover, 22.7% of the respondents answered that they had the experience to move to another beauty parlors more than five times. This indicates that the matter of turnover is quite serious. When they were asked what is most important in choosing their workplace, 50.7% said 'kind teaching of senior staffs', followed by 'payment' which was chosen by 34.3%. As to the disadvantage of the work in beauty parlors. compared to other occupations, 77.3% of the respondents picked up 'few holidays and long working hours' and 11% 'low social position.' From the results, it can be seen that it is important for the beauty industry to make better working conditions and improve benefits in order to reduce the turnover rate and dropouts.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.171-183
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to develop service quality dimension of beauty parolrs in seoul area. The subject consisted of 545 adults with ages ranged between 20 and 30 who had evaluated service qualify dimension on one of the three different types of beauty parlors in seoul. The beauty parlors were classify into three types. Type I is franchised one, type II is located in center of city and type III is close to consumer's residence area. The result was as follows : 1. Four dimensions of the service quality of the beauty parlor were physical aspects(tangibles·accessibility·cleanness), employee aspects(empathy·capability), policy aspects of beauty parlor (management·reputation·credit card), the skill of the hair stylist. 2. To predict comsumer satisfaction. service quality dimensions were as follows : In franchised beauty parlor, the employee aspects(empathy), the policy aspect (reputation), the skill of the hair stylist were should be considered. In beauty parlor in downtown area, Physical aspects(accessibility), the employee aspects(capability), the policy aspects(reputation), the skill of the hair stylist were should be considered. And the beauty parlor in residence area, the employee aspects(empathy), the policy aspects(reputation) were should be considered.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.75-89
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• 2007

The start point of a franchise system such as Lotteria was in 1979. Since 1990, the franchise systems in Korea have rapidly spread over all industry types. As 'Franchise Law' was enforced in 2002, the expansion of a franchise picked up its' speed. The barbers and beauty parlors business has the same expansion trend. However, there was no study about the franchise systems in the barbers and beauty parlors business. The purpose of this study was to find the goodness of fit of the structured equation model proposed and identify the significances of relationships in the variables of justice perceptions, trust, satisfactions, business performances, switching barriers, switching cost etc. This study tries to find a solution for a good development between franchisor and franchisee in the barbers and beauty parlors business in Korea. The theoretical considerations about justice of this study is limited in reciprocal relation justice and procedure justice. And it did make simplify for trust, satisfaction, business performance, switching barrier. And switching barrier did measure as dimension of switching coot. From October 26, 2005 to October 29, this study collected 250 survey questionnaires from the franchisees located in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Ulsan, and Keoyng-Nam. In analyses of using SPSS Windows 11.0 and LISREL 8.14, this study used 208 cases because 48 cases did not response appropriately. Tn conclusions. reciprocal justice perception and procedure justice jointly determined trust. Secondly, reciprocal justice perception significantly determined satisfaction. Procedure justice perception negatively determined satisfaction, but this relationship was not significant. Thirdly, reciprocal justice perception positively influenced business performance, and procedure justice negatively influenced business performance, but the last relationship was not significant Fourthly, trust positively significantly influenced satisfaction and business performance. Fifthly, satisfaction positively influenced business performance and true determined switching barrier positively. This study shows following: firstly, a composition concept did make structural relationship and secondly, a reciprocal relation justice of a franchisor did appear as an important variable and it gives positive influence to trust, satisfactions, business performance, switching barriers of the franchisees.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.20-30
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• 2006

Aprons are popularly used among women for domestic work. They also protect clothes from filth and at the same time become an ornamentation for fashion. Despite their important use at homes and restaurants, beauty parlors, and hotels, little study has been done on aprons. Commercialized aprons do not come in various forms, rather they use the same simple shape with different patterns. There has been no independent study done on aprons, however aprons have been studied as a part of uniform studies in the dining industry by Park and Na(2003) and uniform studies in the airline industry by Lee(2001) and Chung(2001). In this study, the author looked into aprons in accordance to the change of housing space and life style. Not only to be worn in the kitchen, but also to greet guests or for a walk in the neighborhood, the apron needs to have various functions and a trendy fashion. Designs to persue personality and high quality along with functionality and esthetical beauty were developed to present various functions of the apron.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.45-62
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• 2012

This study aims to examine the effect of talent types on the purchasing behaviour of beauty-service products in 367 adults(female and male). The present study is the first to consider both talent types and the purchasing behaviour of beauty-service products correlates to appearance management behaviour. Frequency analysis showed that the mean of 8 talent types of 367 participants was 3.324. The highest talent type of 367 participants was interpersonal talent, the lowest talent type was logical-mathematical talent among 8 talent types. There were statistically significant relationships between the talent types(specially, bodily-kinesthetic talent and interpersonal talent) and the purchasing criteria of beauty-service products on the correlation analysis. And the effects of 8 talent types on the purchasing frequency of 4 beauty-service products were significant on the regression analysis, specifically, the results showed that the most significant among 8 talent factors was the interpersonal talent, next, the bodily-kinesthetic was. Thus, the more purchasing frequency of beauty-services products, the higher interpersonal talent were, and the better affinity with others were. As a results, the interpersonal talent factor and bodily-kinesthetic talent factor among 8 talent factors were ultimately affecting the appearance management behaviour. The higher the score, it was concluded that the subject was more active in beauty-related behavior. Conclusively, the appearance is a form of personal asset for one's self-fulfillment, and strong and beautiful appearance is a medium to improve self-esteem and dominance. It is possessing a significant influence in personal satisfaction, self-identity, and social success.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
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• v.5 no.1 s.12
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• pp.34-50
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• 2007

This study was designed to measure customer awareness about their own scalp and hair treatment based on survey, through the theoretical background of scalp physiology field by considering scalp and hair treatment. This was to provide a principal data about scalp and hair treatment for the beauty industry. Also, the data about the awareness of customers will be used to search for a direction far basic beauty services in the scalp and hair treatment field. Four hundred customers in beauty parlors, dermatology clinics, skin care institutes, and scalp institutes, living in the North Cheolla Province were surveyed. They were 25 years old and over. The surveys were performed over a period of ten days from November 18th to 28th in 2005. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS. Frequency and percentage were used to draw typical feature of subjects. Chi-square test, frequencies, t-test and One-way ANOVA were performed to consider awareness of customers for hair treatment as well as hair character and scalp hair. This study was able to estimate the awareness of customers by putting together between the recognition of scalp based on the special quality of hair and the recognition of hair and scalp treatment. In conclusion, the scalp and hair did not act independently. In order to have healthy hair, one must posses a healthy, and physiologically sound scalp. In order for beauticians to properly serve their clientele who require hair and scalp treatment, one must be able to comprehend and understand the field of scalp and hair treatment.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.57-76
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• 1998

Yanji(延吉) city is the district seat of the Yanbian(延邊) Korean Autonomous District where is located in the Jilin(吉林) Province in China, and also the largest city with a population of three hundred sixty thousand, Since the mid-1980s, the inter-exchange and cooperation between Yanbian District and South Korea has been increased rapidly. That draw many scholars' attention to studying Yanbian District and Korean Chinese as a research theme for area studies. Unfortunately they neglect the study of the commerce and service industry in Yanbian city, which has indicated its rapid growth by the market economic policy of China, and an inter-exchange between Korean Chinese and Korean. The purpose of this study is to provide an information to many Korean potential investors for an investment strategy of the commerce and service industry in Yanji city. In order to do so, this study consists of three major steps. First of all. we analyzed the regional structure and locational characteristics of the commerce and service industry in Yanji City. Secondly, we investigated the characteristics of consumers behavior toward purchasing goods and service facilities. Finally, we supplied the proper businesses and location information for investment to Korean firms according to the results that identified above. In conclusion, we suggest that the proper businesses to invest are department store, retail clothing store, shoes store, cosmetics store, electronics and home appliances store, oversea branch offices of trading companies, Korean-style restaurant, hotel, nightclubs, Korean-style music room(Noraebang), travel agencies, beauty parlors, video rooms, electronic games, and so on. We also suggest that the proper locational areas to invest those businesses are the core area of the commerce and service industry in Yanji, where are Xinxing(新興) 3-zone and Jinxue(進學) 2-zone expressed in the Yanji city figure.