• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.345-362
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• 2010

It is necessary to develop new competitive products under the world economic downturn. The medical tourism industry a good example and it has grown rapidly for last couple of years. This paper aims to investigate socio-demographic proxies of inbound medical tourists in Korea. In particular, the medical tourist behaviors are modeled by considering the factors such as acquisition process of medical tourism information, service level of medical tourism industry and the choice attributes. The results of this study are summarized that: 1) Moot inbound medical tourists are over 40-years old with professional occupation accompanied with families; 2) The information resources are mainly acquired from travel agents and WOM(Word of Mouth) such as friends and relatives; 3) Current problems are lack of various promotion channels and the competitiveness of medical coots; 4) The inbound medical tourists are not homogeneous but vary in different segments. The study suggests that various marketing strategies should be implemented for target market segments to promote Korea as a medical tourism hub.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.36-39
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• 2022

Medical tourism is recognized as a high value-added industry due to its longer stay and more useful costs than general tourism, and is growing rapidly around the world, especially in Asia. In addition, medical tourism is a new form of tourism that combines medical services with tourism activities such as recreation, leisure, and cultural activities, nowadays, medical tourism is emphasizing the combination of medical and tourism. Although Korea medical system and clinic have excellent medical equipment and infrastructure, it is not consistent with policy support and legislation. That have make it difficult for consumers to choose clinics for medical tourism. Therefore, it is necessary to provide customized information to the clinics that consumers want to match each other's services. In particular, it is aimed at consumers with simple procedures and cosmetic purposes, especially at small hospitals. In this paper, we propose a customized service platform that matches users seeking clinics and also medical tourism. Also we can easy to reservation clinic for medical tour.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.332-337
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• 2023

The purpose of the study was to analyze consumers' perceptions of gamification. Based on the analyzed data, we would like to provide data by systematically organizing the concept, game elements, and mechanisms of gamification. Recently, gamification can be easily found around medical care, corporate marketing, and education. This study collected keywords from social media portal sites Naver, Daum, and Google from 2018 to 2023 using TEXTOM, a social media analysis tool. In this study, data were analyzed using text mining, semantic network analysis, and CONCOR analysis methods. Based on the collected data, we looked at the relevance and clusters related to gamification. The clusters were divided into a total of four clusters: 'Awareness of Gamification', 'Gamification Program', 'Future Technology of Gamification', and 'Use of Gamification'. Through social media analysis, we want to investigate and identify consumers' perceptions of gamification use, and check market and consumer perceptions to make up for the shortcomings. Through this, we intend to develop a plan to utilize gamification.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.491-512
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• 2009

대기시간의 연구는 Maister(1985)의 연구이후에 심리적 관점으로 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 종합병원 이용 시 장시간 대기시간이 불가피하고, 기다림은 고객에게 심리적 불안 및 부정적 감정으로 다가 올 것이다. 이는 의료소비자들의 불만을 가중시키게 되고, 병원 재방문의 의도를 낮추는 요인으로 작용하기 때문에 병원의 마케팅 및 전반적 이미지 재고를 위해서 대기시간의 연구가 더욱 절실히 요구된다 하겠다. 따라서 본 연구는 위와 같은 의료서비스 시 발생하는 지각된 대기시간의 변수인 대기환경, 소비자태도가 병원의 이미지와 재방문에 어떠한 영향을 주는가를 알아보고자 하는데 그 연구의 목적이 있다. 본 연구의 시사점은 의료서비스를 이용하는 한국 소비자의 대기의 심리적 관점인 태도, 감정들이 의료기관의 환경과 대기시간에 따라 병원의 이미지 및 재방문을 결정할 수 있는 중요한 요소가 됨을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 향후 연구될 대기시간의 연구는 고객이 심리적으로 긍정적인 대기가 될 수 있는 대기환경 개선방안과 지각된 대기시간이 가지고 있는 본질적 문제인 기다림을 승화시킬 수 있는 효율적인 대안이 필요성이 요구된다. 따라서 대기시간의 고객의 심리적 감정연구가 더욱 절실히 요구된다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.212-219
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• 2020

We conducted this study to identify the accommodation applications users' lifestyle types and the composition factors for consumers' accommodation applications selection attributes and to identify the difference in the selection attributes perception of accommodation applications between groups classified by user's lifestyle types. According to the study, 6 factors were derived as the accommodation applications users' lifestyle types and were named social/leisure-oriented type, fashion-seeking type, culture-seeking type, self-examining type, self-centered type, family-oriented type. Also 6 factors were derived as the accommodation applications selection attributes and were named convenience, interactivity, economic efficiency, transaction reliability, product reliability and informativeness. Valid clusters were divided into four groups and were named culture/tourism group, self-examining group, passive and cautious group and Social and practicality-seeking group. Most of the selection attributes perception of accommodation applications between groups had statistically significant differences(p<.05), except for some items of transaction reliability. Based on the results of this study, we should strive to establish effective marketing strategies that reflect differences in the selection attributes perception of the accommodation application between groups classified by users' lifestyle types.