The modern society is rapidly entering into the "aging society" by the extension of life expectancy and the reduction of birth rate. The aging of society has a big effect on all fields up to medical, educational, psychological, political and economica...
The modern society is rapidly entering into the "aging society" by the extension of life expectancy and the reduction of birth rate. The aging of society has a big effect on all fields up to medical, educational, psychological, political and economical sides, in particular, new major consumer group, the elderly bracket, that is, the silver bracket-oriented consumer market shows the distinguished growth in both quality and quantity for the economical side.
To provide against their change of this market, companies have to establish a marketing policy by the object. As improvement in economic strength causes the increase of buying ability and self-pursuit, the new silver generation unlike former silver bracket has a strong tendency to lead more sensitive consumer life, and seek qualitative life.
The color marketing is very important to the marketing part that appeals sensitivities, and buys and sells images. The color is an important factor that affects products and consumers' heart, and the color marketing is a key factor that intensively completes a marketing strategy of companies. It is necessary to analyze a consumer segmentation by lifestyle types expressed as one's activities, concern and opinion in applying the color marketing to silver bracket-oriented products or consumer goods, which requires a strategy applying silver consumers' trend and liking, not a fragmentary color application of related products through an analysis of silver generation's color preference.
This study aims at analyzing how seniors' color preference shows by lifestyle types, and inquiring into Korean and Japanese seniors' color preference and disposition to apply researchers' analytic data to various fields of color marketing based on the silver marketing in the silver industry market of the future. For this, firstly, same questionnaires were made to examine seniors' characteristic, silver generation and silver marketing as theoretical background, and Korean and Japanese seniors' lifestyle by type. Simultaneously, the characteristics of preference by behavior type were examined to understand the behavior type and the distribution of color preference.
A survey was made on total 200 male and female seniors of Korea and Japan from over 50 years to under 75 years through an one-to-one interview with a help of special institution to analyze seniors' color preference by lifestyle type. Researchers sampled color pieces required to the survey of color preference on the basis of 5 color tones phases that are clearly distinguished from Munsell's 10 color tones being a standard to survey seniors' various colors gamut in I.R.I Hue&Tone 120 of IRI Color Design, and 7 achromatic colors, to use total 57 color piece. The data of behavior type was surveyed on the basis of the "model of behavior type (DISC, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness)" of Dr. William Marston, a psychology professor of Columbia university in 1982.
The unicolor image scale and color image scale of IRI were used for general arrangement, and adjectives used in a questionnaire were sampled in the adjective image of IRI.
According to an analysis of color preference by Korean and Japanese lifestyle made by this study, there is a clear difference in the preferring color of senior bracket by nation. For the selection of preferring color by Korean and Japanese lifestyle, Japan prefers various colors, while Korea is simple in selecting colors compared to Japan, which is caused by the activation of silver market and the environmental difference of colors. For the strategic color plans of silver marketing in the future, if a color palette reorganizes "colors of limited color association" analyzed in color preference by senior consumers' lifestyle surveyed in this study into an adjective term and a concept to use in accordance with character of each industry, it may be more definitely and strategically applied to a color plan suited to silver marketing market beyond the use of a fragmentary color by this time. In the future, this study hopes to be a help to the color design of silver market, and be applied as basic data for successful silver color marketing.