This research aims to clarify the effect of traditional culture experience of theater on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend. Also, it was to verify the effect on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and i...
This research aims to clarify the effect of traditional culture experience of theater on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend. Also, it was to verify the effect on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend due to the general properties and population statistical properties, and to verify the interaction between the nationality and existence of experience about the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend in more detail.
To achieve this aim, a survey was carried out from the 17th of October, 2011 to 23rd of October on domestic and international audiences who visited Chong-dong Theater. Out of 260volumes, a total of 235 volumes were used as the final analysis data for there search, and SPSS 18.0 was used to process the data.
To determine the internal consistency between the variables, Cronbach's α was carried out, and to determine the population statistics and general properties of those surveyed, frequency analysis and descriptive analysis were carried out. For the aim of the research, independent groups t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method, correlation analysis, simple regression analysis, two-way analysis of variance were carried out, and the significance level of p<.05 was set for all of these statistics. By analyzing the data using the above method and procedures, the following results were obtained.
Firstly, there was a difference in the audience’s viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend depending on the existence of their traditional culture experiences, and the difference value was significant. That is, with the viewing satisfaction, the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend of the audiences with traditional culture experiences was higher than those of audiences without traditional culture experiences.
Secondly, by analyzing the effect of the viewing satisfaction of the audience on the intention to review and intention to recommend, it was found that it had a significant positive effect.
Thirdly, after verifying the differences between the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend due to the population statistics properties, it was found that there are partially significant differences. To begin with, the viewing satisfaction due to the population statistics properties showed significant differences between the groups from different countries, and after finding the differences on the viewing satisfactions depending on whether or not Chong-dong Theater was visited before, gender, nationality, occupation, age level, monthly income and marital status, it showed no significant difference statistically. Also, the intention to review due to the population statistics properties did not show significant differences in 8 properties of whether or not Chong-dong Theater was visited before, gender, nationality, country, age level, occupation, monthly income and marital status. Finally, the intention to recommend due to the population statistics properties showed significant differences between the groups depending on whether or not Chong-dong Theater was visited before and age level, and after finding the differences depending on gender, nationality, country, occupation, monthly income and marital status, it showed no significant differences statistically.
Lastly, after investigating the interaction effect of nationality and existence of experience on viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend, it was found that nationality and existence of experiences have an interaction effect on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend, and from the result of the analysis, it was found that traditional culture experience of the international people had greater effect on the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend than that of the domestic people. That is, the international people’s viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend was more affected by traditional culture experiences than the domestic people’s viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend, and the viewing satisfaction, intention to review and intention to recommend of both international and domestic people increased with traditional culture experiences.
In conclusion, through this research, it could be found that the importance of culture experience programs, which could raise the satisfaction of domestic and international audiences who visited the theater, should be recognized, and furthermore, more focus should be put on developing more diverse and higher level culture experience programs which can strengthen the competitiveness of the domestic tourism industry.
In this current situation when there is a rise of international tourists who visit Korea to view Korea’s performing arts with interests in Korea including Korean traditional culture, food and lifestyle in addition to Korea’s pop culture due to the Korean Wave, more research is required in various dimensions, in areas of culture and society, to develop various programs for them to experience the Korean culture, to let the world know our culture’s excellence, and to invoke interest in Korean culture itself and Korea as a nation.
*Keywords: theater, traditional culture experience, viewing satisfaction, intention to review, intention to recommend