Hoon Lee

To construct conceptual model for festival experiences this paper examines experiential festival attributes and relationships. First, author studies existing festival researches and experiential festival attributes and then, the relations of festival experiences are observed in the view of psychological theories related to internal motivations and rewards. In terms of sociological perspectives also, festival experience was discussed in economical, social, and cultural influence and structural co

This study evaluates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and interstate conflict, focusing on four prominent causal mechanisms: the declining benefits of territorial conquest, increasing preference similarity, increasing opportunity costs of violence, and improved information signaling. Empirical analyses show that new territorial issues are less likely to arise as global levels of FDI increase, although monadic and bilateral FDI flows have no effect on states’ decisions to

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine police use of force using individual, contextual, and police training factors, expanding prior research by including multiple police agencies in the sample, thus producing research findings that can be more easily generalized. Design/methodology/approach The data for the current study were derived from several primary sources: the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Census, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), Bureau of La

Police corruption is one of the most significant law enforcement issues to citizens, practitioners, and researchers. Prior research on the impact of police organizational structure on corruption has remained mostly descriptive or comparative. This paper examines the direct effect of supervisors’ tolerance of line officers’ misconduct and departmental deviant subculture on the extent of police corruption. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the current study reports that line officers’ attitudes

This paper examines the relationships between service quality and visitors’ satisfactions and behavioral intentions in theme parks. The items for measuring service quality are developed and expected to be practically useful for theme park management and to enhance the visitors’ satisfactions eventually. These items are grouped into seven meaningful dimensions: entrance area, rides, restaurants, shows, shops, park facilities, and park atmosphere. Results show that while park atmosphere has an imp

Based on an extensive literature review of the festival experience, this study proposes that the experiences of festivalgoers can be classified into five main attributes, namely Escape, Playfulness, Togetherness, Sacredness, and Placeness. A survey of 450 South Koreans who had participated in some type of domestic festival in the past year statistically validated these attributes and explored the impact of each on the perceived value, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions of festivalgoers. The

This research is to analyze the relation between participation of leisure activity and leisure constraints using structure equation model. PPA, which was modified from IPA classifies the concentrating leisure activities. For the dependent variable, the difference(Dif) between preference and participants of leisure activities was calculated. As a results, this study examines the influence of leisure constraint theory on the difference(Dif). Intra-personal constrain was only found as a significant

This study advances a communication mediation model of late-night comedy in an effort to understand the process wherein consuming satirical humor indirectly spurs political participation via the conduit of interpersonal talk about politics. The theoretical model was tested utilizing two different research designs. The findings from the experiment and the survey provide considerable support for the model, demonstrating that various structural features of interpersonal talk (e.g., discussion frequ

Based on leisure facilitator model(Raymore, 2002), this study examines whether leisure facilitators can influence on the leisure participation in the circumstance of five-day classweek system in Korea. According to the Raymore’s suggestion, facilitators to leisure are factors that are perceived or experienced by individuals to promote the formation of leisure preference and encourage participation. The result shows that intrapersonal facilitators and interpersonal facilitators promote leisure pa

This study was to develop the integrated model of place marketing and regional festival, and to apply the model to Ansan city. F-PMP model was developed by critiques previous festival research , tourism development research, and place marketing research. The major steps of the model included process of developing place assets, process of building up identity and sense of place, and the process of marketing. This research revealed that the Danwon Arts Festival of Ansan was in the process of ident