Performing Arts need a marketing system that enables the interaction between performances and audience in the constant change of the consumers' trend which reflects audience's emotion, experience, and relationship.
Unfortunately, in Korea, there are ...
Performing Arts need a marketing system that enables the interaction between performances and audience in the constant change of the consumers' trend which reflects audience's emotion, experience, and relationship.
Unfortunately, in Korea, there are very few studies on foreign audience's motivation and characteristic towards performances on korean performance arts market. Especially, even on the "COOKIN - NANTA" which is the most popular Korean performance Arts has been seen by 486,770 japan tourists, and that rates 17% of whole audience from 1997 to 2005, there were not any research or studies.
Therefore, this study has its primary goal in presenting the points of consideration in building marketing strategy of the "COOKIN - NANTA" and in deriving an organized and continuous marketing strategies towards Japanese tourists.
For this, we have proceeded the research and analysis on a survey inquiring the recognition path of the performance before/after visiting Korea, the motivation factor causing the attendance, satisfaction level, and the opinion of re-attendance, and recommendation to friends etc.
The results of this research show the audience in their twenties have the highest motivation and satisfaction on the "COOKIN - NANTA", and the female audiences in their thirties have the most positive opinion on watching the "COOKIN - NANTA" again, and on recommending it to friends. The audiences also answered that after watching the performance, they started to get positive image on Korea.
According to the results, we could suggest several strategies in improving Japanese tourists' attraction.
First, we need to build the incentive system for tour guides, since they play an essential role in informing the "COOKIN - NANTA" to the Japanese tourists.
Second, we have to pay more effort in strengthening the marketing strategy to enhance the recognition on Korea to our potential audience by increasing the advertisement activity, dynamic festival and events such as performance show in little and open-air theater. This is due to the result showing that 76% of the tourist s who have participated in the survey answered that the direct influence in deciding to see the performance was their previous information and interest before their actual visit to Korea.
Third, we need to provide a base to develop a story telling methode including the charm and attractive stories on "COOKIN - NANTA" to the tour guides, for that tourists are motivated to watch the performance by the recommendation from their tour guides, friends, or family.
Forth, marketing activities and campaigns based on the elaborate analysis of performance attendance motivation according to the audiences' age groups is required for that the result shows how the high motivation brings high satisfaction on the audience of "COOKIN - NANTA".
Finally, the participants of survey not only showed high satisfaction on the performance over all, but also expressed their will to watch it again or to recommend it to friends and families. This encourage us in the importance in analyzing the factors of satisfaction by demographic characteristics and in developing a specified marketing and sales activities which stimulate the tourists' willingness to recommend to friends and to re-attend and as after performance.