This research was conducted to establish the usage of cooking shows based on television viewing motives and the future development plan of cooking program. To accomplish this goal I categorized television viewing motives and analyzed the usage of cook...
This research was conducted to establish the usage of cooking shows based on television viewing motives and the future development plan of cooking program. To accomplish this goal I categorized television viewing motives and analyzed the usage of cooking shows regarding the nature of motives. I analyzed which important factors draws viewers and after viewing practice. I also analyzed the development plan through segmentation of program genre, diversification of hosts and process methods. The following is the summary of analyses results.
It shows the general characteristics of respondents between sexes and marital status doesn’t vary much but majorities are nuclear family members and higher proportion of salaried workers. Majority of households have monthly average income between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 won. The result of analyzing television viewing motives shows they are varying types of viewers: Information gathering type, social interaction type, time spending type, and entertainment seeking type. According to general characteristics of television viewing motive types there are significant differences among age groups, marital status, and monthly average income of households. Entertainment seeking, information gathering, interaction, time spending and casual viewing types. Have higher tendency to obtain information through accidental viewing. The main viewing motives of cooking shows vary among each viewing motives and weekly average cooking shows viewing time. Majority of respondents of each viewing type spend less than 1 hour weekly to watch cooking shows. Looking into the actual usage of cooking shows by characteristics I found interaction and time spending types considered food travelogue the most useful, entertainment seeking type considered famous restaurant presenting programs the most useful, and information gathering and casual types considered cooking class the most useful program. As for the program which deliver the most information, interaction and time spending types picked the famous restaurant presenting and cooking class programs, entertainment seeking and casual types picked cocking class program, information gathering type picked food travelogue.
Interaction, time utilization, information gathering and casual types considered food travelogue the most interesting and entertainment seeking type considered the chef survival the most interesting program. After verifying consideration between importance and performance of cooking show viewing, I found appearance of ‘celebrity’ in cooking class programs have significantly high performance compared with importance and rest of the programs have significantly low performance compared with importance. Considering the segmentation strategy of cooking show genre, it was realized that understanding the preferred time slot was most important. As for the diversification strategy of cooking show host, people responded that professional hosts such as star chef was most important. In the case of diversification strategy of running method of cooking show, it was considered that the change to interactive conversational speech method was more important than one-sided speech method.
The result indicates that rather than appearance of celebrities, it’s imperative for professional in diverse fields to appear in cooking show, and also it needs to pay more attention to the accuracy of information in famous restaurant presenting programs. It is necessary to schedule programs in more detailed manner through recognizing preferred tie slots, age, interest of the viewers and it is also important to run the program in a more interactive conversational speech method through participation of the general public.