Basing on the concept of National Image and Korea Wave, this study intend to find out (1)the perception of Chinese consumer about Korean Political Image, Economical Image and Cultural Image (2)the popular of Korea Wave in China (3)how these Images and...
Basing on the concept of National Image and Korea Wave, this study intend to find out (1)the perception of Chinese consumer about Korean Political Image, Economical Image and Cultural Image (2)the popular of Korea Wave in China (3)how these Images and Korea Wave affect Purchasing Intention of Korea cultural commodity, and (4)the effect of Korea Cultural Commodity Image on Purchasing Intention
in the course of purchasing activity.
In the theoretical background part, we will mention in detail the National PoliticalImage, Economical Image, Cultural Image, Korea Wave and Korea Cultural Commodity Image Purchasing Intention, basing on which we will make nine hypotheses. To prove these hypotheses, we performed questionnaire investigation
in Ningbo. Majority of the respondents have been chosen deliberately from thepeople who have the experience of buying Korea Cultural Commodity, and the
investigation lasted from 28 October 2012 to 10 October 2012. We distributed160 questionnaires and collected back143, from which we removed 12 problematic onesand eventually we performed our analysis basing on remaining 131 valid questionnaires. The analysis tool we used is SPSS 17. Mean analysis and frequency analysis have been taken on these collected data, and Cronbach's α method is used to makereliability analysis. To find out the influence of National Image of Korea and KoreaWave on Purchasing Intention and Korea Cultural Commodity Image, we made simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis respectively.
The result of the research is that (1) as to hypothesis 1: National Image and Korea Wave have Positive influence on the Korea Cultural Commodity Image. (2) as to hypothesis 2: National Image and Korea Wave have Positive influence on the Korean National Image have positive influence on the Purchasing Intention.(3)as to hypothesis: Korea Cultural Commodity Image has positive influence on the Purchasing Intention.
In conclusion, in the course of penetrating Chinese market, we suggest that Korean corporation attach more importance to establishing healthy and advanced Cultural Image of Korea and the corporation itself.