The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of food neophobia on restaurant image, customer satisfaction, and loyalty in ethnic restaurants. A self-administered survey for data collection 581 customers who visited an ethnic restaurant in August, 2015. Statistical analyses included descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA and regression analysis for SPSS 21.0. The finding of the study indicated that the differences of food neophobia score in demographic characteristics showed significant differences by age, occupation, dining-out frequency, and source of dining-out information, not by gender. The mean value of food neophilic group was significantly higher than food neophobic group in all items of restaurant image, overall satisfaction and customer loyalty. The regression analysis showed that tangible aspect, price aspect, and food aspect of restaurant image had positive effects on overall satisfaction and customer loyalty however employee service showed different result by groups. The finding of the study offer marketing strategies for ethnic restaurants to induce customer revisit.

This study was designed to provide the basic data of an effective nutrition education for desirable lifestyle and dietary habits to improve the nutritional status for the elderly by investigating health-related lifestyle, dietary habits, nutritional knowledge, and food intake of the elderly. The subjects included 58 elderly men and 146 elderly women. 35.8% had no more than an elementary school education. Most subjects (54.4%) were widows/widowers. Most subjects (71.0%) made over 150,000 won. 52.5% of subjects lived in houses. Smoking, drinking, exercise, the average sleeping time were significantly difference between the gender (p<0.05). In terms of dietary habits, our results showed that 80.9% of respondent eat regularly meals, including breakfast (83.5%). Both sexes prefer soft and salty food. Women enjoys more spicy and salty food compared with men and then shows meaningful difference (p<0.05). Their favorite meals are soup, stew, salad and boiled vegetables. Compared to women, men have a higher rate of correct answers about questions related to nutrition knowledge as showing significantly difference (p<0.05). In a study of dietary habits, they take in carbohydrates with the highest percentage and following by vegetables and fruits. The amount of meat, first and egg they eat is more than the previously. Eating meat is higher men as showing significant difference (p<0.05). In summary, nutritional status for the elderly shows healthy lifestyle and diet about half of those and most them try to live healthy life in future. It is hope that the elderly may need to learn proper nutrition knowledge for healthy lifestyle and nutrition education and counseling for building up healthy lifestyle and desirable dietary habits. Furthermore, it is necessary to start work to establish a baseline nutritious evaluation for the elderly and at a time to study the development of standard eating tool proven reliability and validity, consequently to provide a basic framework for the evaluation of nutritional status.

This study was conducted to investigate the eating habits and food preferences of elementary school children belong to multi-cultural families and ordinary families. The data were obtained by interview based on questionnaire from November to December in 2012. The subjects of multi-cultural families and ordinary families were 99 and 376 children, respectively. In comparison with eating habits, the ordinary children showed higher scoring in the items of eating proteins, green and yellow vegetables, and fruits or fruit juice than those of multi-cultural children. The ordinary children ate less midnight-meals than those of multi-cultural children (p<0.05). Furthermore, the ordinary children ate kimchi more frequently than the multi-cultural children. It was significantly different (p<0.05) on the items of ‘eating-out types’ dietary habits between two groups. Education of mothers correlated with the ordinary children’s eating habits more than multi-cultural families. In the investigation of the food preference to Korean foods, ‘beef and radish soup’, ‘pumpkin porridge’, and ‘wheat flakes noodles’ were more preferred by children of ordinary families than by those of multi-cultural families (p<0.05). To conclude, nutritional education for their parents should be done and maintained to keep a right eating habit of children of multi-cultural families even at home.

A Study of Instant rice selected attributes of instant rice, the decrease in rice consumption is in fact been hailed as a stock and based on dietary lifestyle through prior research, attempting to validate whether the behavior between the related implications. The instant rice revitalization plan of conducting were developed further, consumers want instant rice and at the same time. Confirmed based on the selected attributes of instant rice according to consumer dietary lifestyle through this research to know could have instant rice selection attributes affect the degree of the action. Compare the differences of regional instant rice selected attributes gradually increasing area for future research, instant rice consumers surveyed Seoul, Gyeonggi-do area only residing in the limitations of this study, which, because you are studying in different regions.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and preferences relating to Korean fast food among students of the College of Hotel management in Germany and utilize the analyzed data as baseline data for globalization of Korean food. A total of 74 students with food-related majors were asked to complete a survey after cooking and tasting seven different kinds of Korean dishes themselves. Exactly 97.3% of students reported that even though they never tried Korean food before, that Korean food is uncomplicated and interesting to cook, very healthy with abundant vegetables and rice, and suits their palate. Regarding the seven dishes of Korean food, the students stated that Gimbab (김밥) is most suitable for fast food and sorted Japchebab (잡채밥), Gunmandu (군만두), Bulgogidubbab (불고기덮밥), Makjeok (맥적), Bibibguksu (비 빔국수), and Musaengche (무생채), in descending order, regarding globalization of Korean food. Gimbab (김밥) and Gunmandu (군만두) both received the highest scores for being the most preferred Korean food. As students indicated Korean food as a dish they would like to cook again, recommend to friends and familyies, and buy if sold in Germany, this survey suggests that Korean food can be a competitive fast food in Germany.

This research investigated changes in Joseon food culture mainly focusing on acceptance of Western food in the enlightenment period. Joseon intended to learn the advanced technology of the West. Through an exchange with various Western countries, the royal family and upper class of Joseon rapidly accepted foreign food and food culture. As hotels were built in Incheon and Seoul, foreign food became more widely provided, which spread to the public, accordingly, and Western style restaurants were built and spread to the Busan area besides Seoul. As Western food rapidly spread, concerns arose. Particularly, after an attempt to assassinate Gojong by inserting poison into his coffee in 1898, appeals were made concerning Western food “that should not be consumed, because it is not proper for Korean people's intestines and stomach”.

1. 우리나라 쌀 소비량은 지속적으로 감소하고 있으나 쌀 가 공식품의 매출은 꾸준히 증가하는 추세에 있다. 2. 이에 본 연구는 농촌진흥청 농식품 소비자 패널조사 자 료(703가구)를 이용하여 최근 5년간 쌀 가공식품 구매패턴의 변화를 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 쌀 가공식품을 밥류, 죽류, 면류, 떡류, 방류, 과자류, 주류, 음료류, 조미류, 가루류 10종류로 분류하고, 쌀 가공식품의 종류별, 월별, 구매장소별 구매가구 수, 구매금액, 구매빈도 등 전반적인 구매패턴의 변 화를 살펴보았다. 3. 향후 소비 증가가 예상되는 쌀 가공식품의 종류와 향후 요구되는 관련 연구과제를 제안하였다.

1. 두 차례의 오일쇼크(1973년, 1979년)와 세계곡물위기 (2008년)는 상대적으로 천연자원이 풍부하지 못한 국가들에게 위협이 되었다. 우리나라의 경우, 식량의 약 70% 이상을 수입 에 의존하고 원유의 100%를 수입에 의존하기 때문에 식량 및 석유의 가격변동으로 인한 위험에 노출된 정도가 심하였다. 2. 하지만, 위험정도는 국가 간의 부존자원, 이를 대체할 수 있는 기술력 수준, 경제변동률 등에 따라 다르게 분석되었다. 3. 본 논문의 연구목적은 이러한 개별 국가가 처한 위험 정 도를 알아보기 위해, 2개 구간(1971-1990년, 1991-2011년)으로 나누어 국가 유형화를 시도함. 유형화를 위해 요인분석, 군집분 석을 실시하였으며 아래와 같은 몇 가지 시사점을 도출하였다. 4. 본 논문에서는 (1) 시간이 흐름에 따라 식량 자원보다 에 너지 자원의 활용이 많아져 경제변동률이 높은 유형에는 에너 지 자급률이 높은 국가들이 다수 포함되어 있음을 알 수 있고, (2) 국가별 식량 안보수준의 변화는 에너지 안보수준의 변화 에 비해 부정적인 방향으로 흘러가고 있다는 것을알 수 있으 며, (3) 생산력 수준이 낮은 국가들의 식량자급률은 하락하는 방향으로 이행되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과는 식량자급률 하락에 따른 식량 자원 분포의 비대칭성 문제와 아울러식량 자원 생산에 있어서의 불균등도 심화 문제를 야기 시킬수 있다는 측면에서 시사하는 바가 크다.