The republic of korea local government system which organize a mayor of metropolitan government and district government, metropolitan municipal assembly and district municipal assembly implemented in 1995, June. It was started the 4th generation in 6 ...
The republic of korea local government system which organize a mayor of metropolitan government and district government, metropolitan municipal assembly and district municipal assembly implemented in 1995, June. It was started the 4th generation in 6 July, 2006. Local authorities continuously make an effort to increase their competitive power for establishing the self-reliant regional development through administrative service, local specialization, economical vitalization, globalization, and information-oriented society during 12 years since 1995.
Local government has promoted variously a local branding and city branding strategy for improving the local competitive power. City brand slogan plays an important role which sends a message from the local branding.
This study examined contents and expression strategy of city brand slogan of local governments by putting the development and public relation practice of city brand slogan of domestic local governments and expression strategy into comprehensive perspective and based on which, I am going to propose a theory and strategic direction for city brand slogan on the side of local governments' local marketing and local branding communication.
For the analysis, 104 city brand slogan samples which are establishment and proclamation from local governments placed by 246(metropolitan government 16, district government 230) local government up to Nov, 2007 were selected. 104 samples included the main slogan and sub slogan. On the based of these, this study identified the characteristic of expression strategy of local governments' city brand slogan by "contents analysis" method
104 samples of city brand slogans were analyzed by four parts of item such as the linguistic techniques, delivery meaning, material, brand distinction. Specially, the linguistic techniques of these items was examined by contents analysis which is separated by the brand inclusion, mark form, composition form, arrangement form, prosody, figures of speech, grammatical person.
To summarize the study result, 39 percent(95 local governments) of local governments(total 246) put to use the local governments' city brand slogan. According to an administrative district, 88 percent of metropolitan government and 55 percent of city, 24 percent of country, 19 percent of autonomous region put to use local government city brand slogan. And according to the linguistic techniques of city brand slogan, most of them included local government name and preferred english alphabet to korean alphabet, specially short words were mainstream. Almost of city brand slogan put to use a metaphor on the figures of speech. In addition to most of city brand slogans included message for the good image of local government and they prefer abstract material to detail material. These highly expressed korean sensibility 'Jung' more than passion and polishing on the side of brand characteristic. And some of slogans were same with the other slogans or similar to the slogans of other countries and companies as a result of researching the brand development present status. These kinds of status come to pass the confusing identity, and moreover these situation makes trademark right trouble. These result is problem that recently local governments' branding development rapidly spread and vitalization occurred. Even though each of the local governments makes an effort for the systematize of the city brand slogan by the place marketing, they just follow the developed slogan of the other local governments, companies and countries. For this reason, they couldn't seek way to differentiate and specialize of local government. Moreover local government didn't have the systematical development system, a definite management department and long-term management system.
The city brand slogan of place marketing and local brand is representative symbolic method of sending a difference and specialization of specific region about the tourism, industry, culture, education and so on. These are very important communication factors for development and increasing competitive power of the specific region. Therefore, local government adopt the political measures and the systematical development and manage of city brand slogan. And they can speak volumes if they are used of an long-term place marketing and local branding strategy. The budget of Copying and following development process and one-time city brand slogan which is no tangible and specific will waste and the city lost their vitality of sending a message to local member and a tourist or company which is visiting the local place.
The weight and role of city brand slogan are very important in the unlimited competition days each of nation, city and region over the world. It must make a sense of unity of the local members, have long-term administration policy, and have value and specific characteristic of the region. After that they maintain the vitality and identity. For the future, city brand slogan will take a main role of marketing strategy of local government, so I hope that this study can provide strategic frameworks and basic data for this.