가정 내 음식물쓰레기 감축 요인에 대한 통합적 분석: 식품행태조사와 뉴스 텍스트마이닝을 중심으로 = Addressing the Household Food Waste Challenge: A Mixed-Methods Approach Using Survey Data and Text Mining

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Food waste, one of the most prevalent forms of household waste today, presents significant social issue due to its increasing volume and the complexity of its disposal. This study aims to identify the factors influencing food waste reduction at the household level, thereby providing foundational insights for the development of food waste reduction policies at the consumption stage and offering implications for structural changes within the food industry. For the analysis, data from the 2024 Food Behavior Survey conducted by the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) were utilized, complemented by text mining of news articles related to food waste to enhance the robustness of the findings. The key results are as follows. First, the results of text mining analysis revealed that terms related to short-term government policies—such as participation encouragement, post-management, and regulation—appeared more frequently than those related to long-term efforts such as behavioral modification or lifestyle correction for reducing household food waste. Second, the quantitative analysis showed that higher levels of planning in online purchases, information utilization ability, food-related competence, consumer citizenship, health capital, and food expenditure were associated with greater efforts to reduce food waste. In contrast, higher frequency and expenditure on delivery and take-out services, as well as larger household size, were associated with reduced efforts to minimize food waste. Third, the probability of engaging in food waste reduction behavior increased with higher online purchase frequency, income, and food expenditure, and with lower impulsiveness in online purchasing. However, higher levels of health capital, frequent use of delivery and take-out services, and greater food





* Professor, Department of Consumer Science, Incheon National University([e-mail])**Master’s student, Department of Consumer Science, Incheon National University([e-mail]), Corresponding Authorexpenditure were associated with a lower likelihood of engaging in food waste reduction behaviors. Based on these findings, this study can contribute to proposing concrete and practical strategies that reflect factors influencing food waste reduction—such as purchase planning, consumer competence, and the consumer environment—enabling consumers to reduce food waste in their daily lives. Furthermore, the results may be utilized to develop tailored education programs, provide targeted information, and establish institutional support measures according to consumer characteristics.