The purpose of this research is to facilitate financing for the business marketing of multi-cultural spaces. Due to the variety of cultural content and the increasing leisure time, the cultural consumers’ range of choices has been growing. A decade ...
The purpose of this research is to facilitate financing for the business marketing of multi-cultural spaces. Due to the variety of cultural content and the increasing leisure time, the cultural consumers’ range of choices has been growing. A decade ago watching a movie was the primary measure of cultural activity. In modern society, however, consumers enjoy a variety of cultural content and multi-cultural spaces such as drama, movies, concerts, exhibitions, water parks, galleries, and traveling. These cultural activities are acknowledged as an intimate part of cultural life in our daily routine. Due to these social and environmental changes, multi-cultural spaces and museums all need to compete. Whereas before multi-cultural spaces and museums were able to operate with only government support, due to decreases in this support and the influx of cultural content and multi-cultural spaces, business strategy for financing is needed.
Now in modern society museums need marketing strategy, whereas before such need only applied to profit-aligned businesses. Though museums as non-profit organizations face controversy if they become too commercialized, their survival in this environment depends upon marketing.
This research began with the realization that in the modern society, museums are not the only multi-cultural space. Today's museum, in order to compete with other cultural content and differentiate itself from competing museums, must break out of the existing framework, While museums must not lose their intrinsic core value, they still must develop their marketing strategy.
Thus, the purpose of this study is to cover the goals and objectives of museum marketing business strategy. A modern museum should be acknowledged as more than just a facility; rather, it should be recognized as an independent multi-cultural space and reflect the changing definition, concept, business and operative elements of such spaces.
In addition, this paper will cover the general marketing definition and theoretical review, while classifying the concept and status of multi-cultural spaces. The purpose of this study deviates from research on the existing general conceptualization of museums, which holds that a museum's primary goal was to display and educate. This study, on the other hand, focuses on the relations between museums and their amenities, as well as the needs of the cultural consumers themselves, and explores the possibilities of creating ties between museums and other cultural content. By utilizing administrative and commercial marketing, museums could break from the conventional image. In essence, this study’s primary goal is to introduce a new paradigm of the cultural consumer’s consumption pattern. Up until now, domestic studies of a museum's role and status have been weakly related to the cultural consumer's perspective. Moreover, most studies have been unable to break from standardized business marketing theory, which has led to a low understanding of museum marketing in general. In contrast, this research frees itself from such narrow point of view, and sets the focal point of the museum as a multi-cultural space. In order to supplement the above arguments, this research investigates “Yetter Musuem” and “Haegumgang theme museum” as modern multi-cultural spaces by conducting surveys of over 300 museum visitors and interviewing the operators of each museum.
The accomplishment of this research is in laying the basic foundation for establishing museum marketing strategy, and in pursuing the goals and objectives that will facilitate possible financing strategies for museums in the future.