農産物 輸入開放과 消費者 意識 : 大邱ㆍ慶北地域 消費者들에 대한 事例調査를 中心으로 A peculiar case study about Consumers in TaeguㆍKyungpook Area = The Consumers' Consciousness toward the Import Liberalization of Agricultural Products

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study has tried to illuminate a shocking phenomenon, the import liberalization of agricultural products in the aspect of Consumer consciousness. It has been applied that Table Analysis by using computer programming for instance-MINITAB, and Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis, things like that. The results of this study are as follows;
1. Comparing domestic and imported stuffs, Comsumers came to awareness that
domestic products superior to foreign's in the cases of the degree of freshness, taste and polution damage, in the meanwhile, inferior to the cases of price and wrapping. Food self-supplyment is considered as one of the most important things of all, moreover, by most comsumers and health food and conventional food are favored by high class people.
2. Bying imported stuffs could clearly be fatal blow to our agriculture is fully recognized among consumers, what is more, there would only be doomed to our agriculture, too.
3. The most mass-purchasing imported stuffs by consumers illustrates in order; Beef, Banana, Coffee and Tabacco etc. The most significant elements why consumers buy foreign product is that the prices of them are relatively lower than those of ours. Besides, the next causes lies to non-producing stuffs and curiosity.
4. It must've been generally conceived by most consumers that Open-the-market-policy has been progressed for USA's repression and our monopolistic capital. Therefore, they demand that our market should be contained against unadviciable wave, moreover, keep paying attention to the policy how it will work to protect Korean agriculture.
5. Consumer attitude toward buying imported agricultural products is double-faced. Never-buy occupied only 24.4% among respondents, but overwhelming respondents say non-producing stuffs can be obtained selectively. In this case, however, never-buy-movement would be backed by consumers in proportion to their educational background.
6. Various consumer minds surrounding Open-the-market-situation, in the end, has been analized econometrics through eleven variables to approach accurate fulfillments.