본 연구는 화장품산업에서 중요한 역할을 담당하는 감성 요소를 마케팅의 주요 수단인 광고에 서 찾고자 화장품 광고를 분석대상으로 삼았다. 광고의 핵심적인 구성 요소인 이미지와 카피 사이의 결속 과 강조 현상을 중심으로 유럽의 화장품 광고에 나타난 소구 전략들을 분석하였다. 분석을 통해 우선 화장 품광고에 나타나는 보완적 결속, 강조적 결속, 반복적 결속 등 이미지와 카피의 결속 유형을 파악할 수 있 었다. 다음으로 화장품 광고의 강조적 특징을 강조의 전략적 차원에서 다양하게 분류하였다. 이러한 분석 을 바탕으로 기능성 화장품 광고에서 강조되는 신뢰, 기대, 기쁨 등의 감성소구의 요소들을 발견하였으며, 이들이 갖는 궁극적인 감성 소구 전략도 파악할 수 있었다.

This study contemplates the effect of social media advertising attributes on consumers’ purchasing decisions in cosmetic products. It will serve as basic data for SNS’s advertising strategy and marketing that promotes cosmetics sales. This study conducted a survey and went through the analysis process of SPSS v.25.0 statistical program. Frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were conducted to analyze that informativity, reliability, entertainment, interactivity, and disturbance among SNS advertising attributes were used as effective advertising strategies, which had a positive effect on consumers' purchasing decisions. Therefore, in the cosmetics industry, it is necessary to seek strategies to actively utilize marketing in the social media space to promote consumers' purchase needs and to activate purchases.

Advertising both reflects and creates social norms and cultural practices, such as concepts of beauty and gender roles. Research suggests that masculinity, like femininity, is constructed, codified and contested in advertising imagery (Schroeder & Zwick, 2004). By drawing on cultural categories to depict gendered consumer selves, advertising messages often limit and structure possibilities of masculine and feminine consumption. As marketers promote the blurring of traditional gender lines around product categories to open their products to a wider market, men increasingly consume products that are traditionally reserved for female consumption (Thompson & Hirschman, 1995). Despite the growing global men’s grooming market, research suggests that men view the consumption of cosmetics as not acceptable ‘masculine’ consumption behavior (Hall, Gough, & Seymour-Smith, 2013). According to Kolbe and Albanese (1996), masculinity is represented in advertising by images of strong and muscular ‘male icons’. In order to protect their masculine identities men reject advertising images that do not reflect these masculine traits (Elliot & Elliot, 2005). However, with advertising literature focusing on a notion of masculinity that is prevalent in Western individualistic cultures, cross-cultural research in this area is extremely limited. Given the cultural relativity of masculinity and attractiveness, images of masculinity and forms of accepted ‘masculine’ consumption behavior are likely to vary across cultures (e.g., Englis, Solomon, & Ashmore, 1994). For instance, the use of cosmetics may be regarded as acceptable ‘masculine’ behavior in South Korea, where young men spend more per-capita on cosmetics than their counterparts anywhere else in the world (Euromonitor, 2015). The aim of this research is to explore representations of masculinity in South Korean cosmetics advertising. We carry out a content analysis of print ads examining i) What types of male images do advertisers use in South Korean cosmetics advertisements?; and ii) What kind of masculinity do male images in South Korean cosmetics ads represent?