Korea and China which are the same Asian country but are different enormously in social culture. As the economic and IT business increased rapidly in China, the Chinese web site capital rapidly according to developments, and the user-centered interfac...
Korea and China which are the same Asian country but are different enormously in social culture. As the economic and IT business increased rapidly in China, the Chinese web site capital rapidly according to developments, and the user-centered interface design now approached. Too a lot of web sites abroad went to China, including the Korean sites. We can know cultural differences and the fact of relationship between culture and designs of interface at various papers, but preference, the differences between Korean and Chinese when using a same web interface were not in case of Koreans and Chinese Web interface researches. Therefore, this study understood Korea and Chinese social cultural difference, and grasped difference of the two countries’ main sites’ interface and confirmed through experiment. This thesis is going to give a notion for the Chinese web site operators of how to design interfaces in the future, or when Korean site goes to Chinese market.
Therefore, this in this thesis I gathered and compared the cultural differences through the preceding study of Korean and Chinese people’s character, customary, consumption and fashion pattern and languages. And analyzed the elements of color and layout so that accepted the result of both the common point and the difference between Korean and Chinese main sites’ interface. As well Korean community Cyworld is involved in the thesis as a Korean site’s Chinese version.
As a conclusion, interface between Korean sites are almost the same, and the interface between Chinese sites are the same too. On the other hand, according to the preceding research there are differences between Korean and Chinese sites’ interfaces.
These results were confirmed through the Yahoo-centered user test. Therefore, 6 proposals about the direction of Chinese site’s interface design were presented in this thesis and for these also can be a notion for foreign web site operator who wants to enter the Chinese market, this thesis is considered to be meaningful.