With the changes of social and economic paradigm, which have been carried out since the end of 20th Century, each city in the world has adapted the urban market as an urban management strategy to escape from the negative images of the existing cities....
With the changes of social and economic paradigm, which have been carried out since the end of 20th Century, each city in the world has adapted the urban market as an urban management strategy to escape from the negative images of the existing cities. The urban brand has been developed to maximize the attractiveness of cities and to pursue the development and growth of cities in the global market.
In Korea, the competition between local governments have been increased since the self-governing system was introduces in 1995, and CI (City Identity) project was conducted to construct the city's identity as the result. However as most cities had small area and similar natural environment, which made them difficult to differentiate their cities, so most CIs showed identical forms in similar manner. Each local self-governing groups the city from like this problematic conscious inside all, above the city with the city marketing strategy which competitive time is active commercializing grudge the new urban brand were made to develop.
However many large cities as well as small and medium cities are adapting English slogans as the urban brand, and they are not differentiating their cities from other cities. This has been said that such trend does not construct the identification of a city. Also with existing oneself symbol the urban brand which is developed newly case urban brand Forge where the brand management system and application method are dim the problem point will can fail sourly also is containing.
Thus this study had focused on verification of the effect of the urban brand of each local government. The existing visual symbols which represents the identity of a city, the new trend of the urban brand's visual representational factors and the customer attitude with the quality they understand with cities are to be reviewed.
For such purpose, this study has made use of the design assessment factors for logos and symbols conducted in the previous studies to produce the factors to be measured such as modeling, delicacy and functionality. After analyzing such quality of cities, factors to be measured such as living environment, natural environment and cultural environmental have been extracted. And when the customer attitude towards symbols of local government and visual factors of the urban brands were analyzed, the urban brands scored higher, which clearly proves that the development of the new urban brands are required to provide the growth and competitiveness of cities. This the urban brand of language element symbolic oneself symbol was the conclusion which is effective in attitude of the consumer and the urban brand development is necessary proved from the city marketing side which commercializes the city.
Second, when symbols of the local governments and the urban brands' visual factors were compared to find out which has more influence on the customer attitude, both scored high with their function compare to their modeling and delicacy. Such result shows that the representation of the urban characteristics is the most important factor in the process of extracting the future visual identity of the urban brands.
Third, when the assessment of the urban brand by ordinary people, students and professionals who will be participating in the development of the urban brand were analyzed, ordinary people ranked first and students and professionals followed. This clearly shows that the assessment of the urban brand by ordinary people are critical as well.
Fourth, when the customer attitude were analyzed after arranging the urban brand in Korean image, English image and combined image, the Korean image was found out to be more effective compare to English image, which often produce uncertainty with the visual communication. The urban brand with Korean image has been confirmed that it may attract more visitors to cities.
Fifth, the customer attitude towards the urban brand was higher when the understood quality of a city was higher, and this may show the necessity of a landmark and the formation of attractive urban image may produce friendly attitude towards the urban brand.
Sixth, the influence of the understood urban brand in each region on the customer attitude towards the urban brand. In result, Wando, which has an image of clean and healthy island, was influenced by the environment, and Ansan, which has an image of a city of well-being pursuing the beautiful environment, was influenced by the living environment and cultural environment. However Seongnam, which has an image of pursuing the high tech industry and information, was not influenced by the image they pursue. This is because the image of Seongnam which is pursued by the city does not comply with what ordinary people think about this city. Thus the urban brand may take place when it may be shared with local residents and ordinary customers.
This thesis has proved that the measuring device which may assess the visual identity of the urban brand and symbols of the local governments are important factors of the development of the urban brand along with the functional aspect which may represent a city in detail. It also has proved that the understood quality of a city plays an important role here. It would be a meaningful process if the adequate approach to the symbolic design of the local governments were suggested. Thus the selection of the core capacity of a city and the construction of a city's identity through a focus will be a fundamental of the settlement of an urban image and construction of an urban brand.