Currently, several fields are utilizing characters. In the past, people purchase the products with high quality and technology, but today, design becomes the main variable for the purchasing. Characters are the means of increasing the value-added of t...
Currently, several fields are utilizing characters. In the past, people purchase the products with high quality and technology, but today, design becomes the main variable for the purchasing. Characters are the means of increasing the value-added of the products and utilized as a discriminative strategy of the design. Character becomes the main element of deciding purchase and the medium of new promising industry that makes the value of the product.
The reason why Korea has undergone the rapid growth of the character industry is the change of the purchasing pattern as the standard of living has improved and the tastes of people has become higher and various. Character is one of the method of communication about the products with the consumers who prefer the pictures which are easy to recognizing visually that the difficult letters. Many people prefer and approach this character product due to the curiosity for the new one. Thus, the character becomes a star which can provide the substitute satisfaction for the people who feel a picture as more than a picture.
Anyone can make characters but no one can inspire the life and value to the character to make a product. A character without any life and becomes nothing can't be a real character. In Korea, these live characters are well developing, but there's few public relations. Lacking of the understanding of marketing strategy, characters don't function fully enough in the market. Whereas foreign famous characters are creating a lot of profits representing their countries as a cultural resource for a long time. Characters stimulate lots of people's emotions and become the power of economic. Consumers recognize the character as a brand, and the developers and creators are trying to make these characters as the life-brands.
Domestic character development only pushes the characters into the market. Since the oversea's successful characters are cultural resources which represent their own countries, we should understand the features of our own cultures and the characteristics and size of the market before developing a character. To find out the proper character for the key consumers of the Korean character market, whether it's from domestic or from overseas, providers need to understand the current situation of the domestic market and find out the way to recycle the existing character. It is not important to develop many or a few characters. The most important thing is to find out the valuable character. Also, understanding of domestic manufacturing and distributing chain and developing and improving of relation industries should be accomplished together for the future of the character industry.
This thesis progresses the study focused on the development and life-cycle management strategy of the character with the size and the features of domestic market based on the Korean cultural characteristics.
With the general concepts of characters, here finds out the features and elements of characters and how to utilize them. By analyzing the marketing strategies of the foreign characters from Japan, USA and Europe which have longer history than Korea, here will find out the effective character development strategy to deliver them to the consumers.
To develop the character which becomes the cultural resource of a country, here examines the Korean cultural attribute and the character market systematically, analyzes the domestic market to see the character contents and consumer's lifestyle, and finds out the effective developing and advancing strategy of the characters by studying each attributes and elements.
This thesis has its meaning of finding out the problems of the domestic character market, and then presenting the strategy for developing the domestic character in the future.
From the point of domestic character development view, I hope this thesis becomes the basis for the people who study about and are related with the same study, and contributes to the development of the character that represents Korea.