• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.7-13
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• 2019

Purpose: In the past, the South Korean government made various efforts to attract Chinese tourists, resulting in gradually more inbound tourists. In 2016, the number of Chinese tourists to South Korea peaked at 8.06 million and became the top source market. Nevertheless, increasing numbers of consumers choose to adopt the mobile payment tool instead of cash and credit cards in modern times with developed IT services. Research design, data, and methodology: IBM SPSS AMOS 23.0 and IBM Statistics 23.0 were used to analyze the data, which was collected from hotel employees in China from March 25 to May 10. Results: First, Interactivity, security, convenience, local information supply and user interface had positive effects on satisfaction and reliability. Second, it was believed that the convenience of Alipay played a positive role in increasing reliability and satisfaction through verification. Third, the role of use rate was found to be important in the development of Alipay functions. Conclusions: Based on the result, an analysis on the development of the Alipay market and the use of Alipay in South Korea is warranted. Furthermore, this paper will serve as a basis for flexible strategic plans for the development of Alipay and SMEs in South Korea.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.247-284
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• 2017

Purpose The first purpose of this study is to investigate factors that are likely to influence user's intention to adopt third-party mobile payment platform. A comprehensive study about mobile payment services have used various variables to explain user's use intention based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) or the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Variables such as simplicity, security, costs, relative advantage, individual mobility, subjective norm, trust, satisfaction, attitude towards use, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and so on. Among these factors, we expect to find out the most influential factors effecting user's use intention of the third-party mobile payment services. Second, we also examine whether the most influential factors have the same influence to different third-party mobile payment services by conducting comparative study of Alipay and WeChat Pay. Design/methodology/approach Empirical data for this study were collected from Chinese who has the experience using or have used Alipay or WeChat Pay. Participants needed to be familiar with Alipay or WeChat Pay because such users may be more aware of both the advantages and disadvantages of Alipay and WeChat Pay. We conduct a pilot test using Smart PLS 2.0, which includes 50 Alipay users and 82 WeChat Pay users. The result indicates that all the measurement fit for the context. And then 980 questionnaires were mainly sent out to the college students and the e-mails users randomly. To encourage participation, we give the participants a small gift as a present. Finally, we received a total of 683 replied. Data from respondents who gave incomplete or invalid answers were excluded to assure the validity of the constructs. 79 questionnaires were rejected, finally the valid data are 604 (with 372 Alipay users and 232 WeChat Pay users). Findings The results suggest that users' intention is determined by their trust on third-party mobile payment service and perceived usefulness of use. Comparative study results also indicated that the factors have different influence on Alipay group and WeChat Pay group, which offers a new aspect for academic field, and provides useful information to mobile payment service providers in China.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.514-523
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• 2021

Recently, the proliferation of mobile simple payment services has been increasingly affecting people's lives. In addition, the increase in research from both China and Korea shows that the continuous development of simple mobile payment services will be very important in the future. The blog posts mentioning Kakao Pay and Alipay were collected, and keyword analysis was performed to investigate differences in consumers' responses to Kakao Pay and Alipay on social media. The frequency of keywords for each part of speech and the frequency of co-occurred words mentioned in one sentence were analyzed. Specifically, common words that appear in both Kakao Pay and Alipay blogs were extracted. The cooccurred words were analyzed to examine how different reactions were made on the same subject. As a result of the analysis, there were concerns among consumers about the trust of Kakao Pay and Alipay's benefits. For a mobile payment service to become competitive, it is necessary to add various additional services or solve security problems.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1-12
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• 2019

This study conducted an empirical study on factors affecting the continuous use of mobile payment for users. Based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Extended Expectation-Confirmation Model of lS Continuance (ECM-ISC), we set up the model and hypothesis by adding habit and utilization range as independent variables. We received 426 valid questionnaires from users who have used continuously mobile payments such as Alipay and Wechatpay in China. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS for validity, reliability, factor analysis, T-test and regression analysis. The result shows that perceived usefulness, perceived risk, habits and utilization range have positive effects on users who use AliPay. Users who use Wechatpay have been affected by perceived usefulness, perceived use of ease, habit and application scope. However, the social influence does not affect both.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.5-19
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• 2017

Purpose - According to the research findings, it proposes corresponding market promotion schemes, for Alipay, WeChat wallet and even other payment service providers and mobile internet companies to understand the factors which promote or hinder users' acceptance of mobile payment. Research design, data, and methodology - Statistic analysis of data and social science statistical software of IBM Statistics 23.0 and IBM SPSS AMOS 23.0 were adopted for all the data researched. Results - The technical features of the third party mobile payment and the task characteristics of users have positive influence on the matching degree between task and technology, and the matching degree between task and technology of the third party mobile payment has positive influence on the performance expectancy, effort expectancy and usage intention. The social influence, facilitating condition, price value and enjoyment motivation have significant and positive influence on users' intention of mobile payment adoption. The perceive security of the mobile fingerprint payment of users has positive influence on users' intention of usage. Conclusions - This research has the main contribution on the analysis on the key factors with influence on the third party mobile payment usage by utilizing the integrated model of UTAUT2 and TTF.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.3-10
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• 2017

핀테크는 금융과 ICT기술을 결합한 새로운 형태의 금융서비스를 칭하는 용어로 글로벌 ICT 기업 또는 금융기관이 확보중인 폭넓은 사용자층을 기반으로 송금, 결제, 대출, 자산관리 등 다양한 금융서비스를 결합하여 제공하는 새로운 형태의 금융서비스를 말한다. 국내 핀테크의 경우 모바일 디바이스를 중심으로 한 간편결제 서비스가 핀테크 서비스 산업 중 큰 부분을 차지하고 있으며, 다양한 영역으로 확장하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 관련 정책 또한 2015년 6월 공인인증서 의무 사용 폐지 등 핀테크 산업을 활성화하기 위한 다양한 정책들이 발효되고 있지만, 많은 규제 등으로 인해 어려움을 겪고 있는 실정이다. 핀테크에 대한 국외 동향으로는 페이팔(Paypal), 알리페이(Alipay), 트랜스퍼와이즈(TransferWise) 등을 통해 알 수 있듯이, 모바일 디바이스만을 중심으로 한 간편결제 외에도 다양한 형태의 금융 결제 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 다양한 형태의 핀테크 산업을 육성하기 위한 정책을 마련하고 있다. 본 고에서는 핀테크의 개념과 발전 배경 등에 대해 설명하고, 국내 외 핀테크 서비스 및 정책 동향에 대하여 분석하고, 마지막으로 국내 핀테크 서비스 발전 방향에 대하여 제안한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.317-322
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• 2021

This study focuses on user experience of Ant Insurance Platform(insurance product of Alibaba) and provides insights and improvement advises based on the survey conducted. Given that insurance claim is the most controversial part during the whole process, it is essential to conduct corresponding research from users' prospective. Some Chinese users between their 20's and 40's, who are major users of mobile insurance platforms, were selected as a sample group. Questionaire survey, which was made based on measurement items from Information systems success model, as well as in-depth interview was conducted within the group. According to the result, health, among all kinds, is the most difficult insurance to claim, which was mainly cause by security and information concerns. In order to enhance security, more options should be given to users. As for information, complains should be delt carefully and transparently. This study is expected to be used as referential material for mobile insurance platforms and user experience of insurance claims.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.99-105
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• 2022

In China, with the rise of third-party payments such as WeChat Pay and Alipay, the traditional business of banks has been greatly affected. Banks can encourage and expand QR code payments to merchants. Therefore, it is meaningful to analyze and study the QR code work of banks. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the execution of the zero-rate of the comprehensive payment QR code combined with the payment cycle and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) on commercial banks in China. Based on the manually collected customer data of Chinese commercial banks, this paper conducts a case analysis combined with the calculation method of financial indicators. As a result of the study, it was found that commercial banks need to continue to implement the policy as the advantages of introducing the integrated QR code fee rate 0 policy are greater than the disadvantages. This paper provides feasible suggestions on how to quickly occupy the offline payment market for commercial banks, which has guiding significance for commercial banks' marketing decisions. Presently, there are few studies on the zero-rate subsidy policy implemented by Chinese commercial banks.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.513-521
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• 2020

Launched in August, 2016, the online public benefit project ANT FOREST has planted more than one hundred million trees in desertification areas and is currently continuing on with its activities. It is a fruit of online communications network development, and the public benefit project based on this puts more emphasis on the spirits of public interest rather than the investments of public services, unlike traditional public benefit activities. Hence the purpose of this study is to figure out the interaction between the users supporting the online public benefit and the public benefit progress online. The study was divided into 4 stages in order to find out the interaction, key factors for users to continue to support online public interest. First, preceeding studies on online public benefit will be reviewed to understand the characteristics of online public benefit. Second, determine the public benefit nature of ANT FOREST and investigate the project progress. Third, review the usage rate of ANT FOREST and categorize the properties of users. Fourth, interview was conducted to direct the interaction between the online public benefit project and the user. In conclusion, the online public benefit project completes the public benefit process through the user, the operator, and the supporter, the important factor connecting the energy connecting the process in cyber space and the public benefit activity in reality is the sense of participation, and the user continues the public benefit project through this sense of participation.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.96-107
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• 2023

The objective of this study is to explore future issues that Chinese users, who have the highest mobile payment service usage rate in the world, will be most interested in. For this purpose, after collecting text data from a Chinese SNS site, it classifies major keywords into 4 types of future signals by using Keyword Emergence Map (KEM) and Keyword Issue Map (KIM). Furthermore, to understand the four types of signals in detail, it performs the qualitative analysis on text related to each signal keyword. As a result, it finds that the strong signal, which is rapidly growing in keyword appearance frequency during this research period, includes the keywords related to the daily life of Chinese people, such as buses, subways, and household account books. Additionally, it find that the signal that appears frequently now, but with a low increase rate, includes various services that can replace cash payment, such as hongbao (cash payment) and bank cards. The weak signal and latent signal, which appear less often than other two signals, includes the keywords related to promotion events or changes in service regulations. Its result shows that the mobile payment services greatly have changed user's daily life beyond providing convenience. Furthermore, it shows that, in the Chinese market, in which card payment is not common, the mobile payment services have the great potential to completely replace cash payment.