"There would be a more huge market of entertainment born in Hollywood than China recently." It was said by Mr. Sooman Lee, the forerunner of Korea popular element (KPE) and representative of Korea SM Entertainment Company who also claimed that the nex...
"There would be a more huge market of entertainment born in Hollywood than China recently." It was said by Mr. Sooman Lee, the forerunner of Korea popular element (KPE) and representative of Korea SM Entertainment Company who also claimed that the next target of Korea entertainment filed will fight for is China after the series success in US and Europe. Therefore, Mr. Lee also presented a bright future of Korea consumption market in terms of China while the success of KPE in the Global Strategy was confirmed. The objective of this study is to investigate the behavior of consuming condition in terms of KPE taking the enormous China consumers as a concentrated target. In this study, the purchase intent (PI) for Korea products was divided to General Korea Products and Derived Korea Products, followed bya deep analysis performed in terms of relationship among the understanding of Korea culture, consume condition of Korea culture and PIof Korea products when the understanding for Korea consumers’ impressions was taken as a starting point.
Some consumers who had the experiences to consume the Korea products in 1920s to 1930s were selected as the target of investigation in this study, in which 371 copies of questionnaires were retrieved for analysis in terms of 400 consumers investigated in Beijing area. The results of questionnaire analysis showed that the understanding on Korea and their products imagesin terms of the China consumers of Korea products is positive, and increase with consumers’ ages. In the other hand, Most of China consumers’attitudes for KPE are positive and the consumers who have good impression on Korea image also understand KPE well. Meanwhile, our results also indicates that most of China consumers for KPE had more than 6 years consuming experiences and their most interested consuming point was concentrated on Korea popular stars. The consumers having positive impression on KPE relatively have tendency to purchase KPE products. At last, PI for Korea products were influenced mostly by three factors including relative understanding for Korea image and KPE, and current consuming situation for KPE. Compared with the significant effect of consuming KPE extent on KPE derived products, general Korea product was influenced more by KPE consumers’ impressions on Korea image.
According to analysis of this study, it was concluded that the KPE consumers’ impression on Korea national image plays an important role on PI of Korea products. Therefore, government should develop a more efficient cultural strategy to improve national image, and enterprose should do more effects to construct a better corporation and product image through a national and business point of view respectively. In addition, the cultural exchange between China and Korea should not only limited on the single way of cultural input, but also have to focus on the both side in order to maintain the positive effect of current Korea national image and KPE. Eventually, it should be noticed that most of information about KPE acquired by China consumers came from internet, so that it have to eliminate some mendacious and distorted information on internet which will lead negative effects on cultural exchange between two countries.