This study investigated the effects of Korean food perception factors on attitudes and utilization intentions among 101 Indians residing in Korea from March 1 to April 20, 2025. Data were analyzed using SPSS for reliability, factor analysis, multiple regression, and independent samples t-tests. Findings revealed that among perception factors—healthfulness, palatability, economic value, safety, traditional image, and religious acceptability—only palatability significantly influenced attitude formation (p<0.001). Regarding utilization intention, palatability and traditional image had significant positive effects (p<0.001), whereas healthfulness and religious acceptability served as fundamental prerequisites rather than direct motivators. Recommendation intention was primarily driven by palatability, economic value, and safety. Group analysis showed that females held more positive perceptions of traditional images and higher utilization intentions than males (p<0.01). Additionally, the non-vegetarian group reported significantly higher levels of palatability, recommendation intention, and attitude compared to vegetarians (p<0.01). These results suggest that effective promotion of Korean food to Indians requires segmented marketing strategies that integrate palatability and traditional images on a foundation of religious acceptability.

This study investigated the use of weakly supervised learning (WSL) and partial annotation-based semantic segmentation for recognizing ingredients in the traditional Korean dish bulgogi. A dataset was created to encompass various cooking stages and imaging conditions, with pixel-level labels generated for major ingredients: beef, onion, green onion, carrot, chili pepper, mushroom, button mushroom, and king oyster mushroom, using partial annotations. To enhance model robustness, data augmentation techniques such as rotation, scaling, horizontal flipping, and color jittering were employed. The DeepLabV3+ architecture was utilized, with ResNet50 and ResNet101 serving as backbone networks. The results demonstrated that ResNet50 provided stable performance with lower computational costs, while ResNet101 achieved higher segmentation accuracy for smaller or visually complex ingredients. Models trained with data augmentation showed improved recall and F1-scores, especially for smaller ingredient classes. Overall, both backbone models exhibited consistent performance across key segmentation metrics, including mean Intersection over Union (mIoU), precision, recall, and F1-score. These findings indicate that WSL, in conjunction with partial annotation, can effectively facilitate ingredient-level segmentation in mixed dishes like bulgogi.

This study compared food security and dietary quality, as assessed by the Korean Healthy Eating Index (KHEI), between single-person and multi-person households among Korean adults using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using the KNHANES data. The participants were categorized into single-person and multi-person households based on the household composition. Food security was assessed using a validated questionnaire that categorized households into food-secure, mildly food-insecure, and moderateto- severe food-insecure groups. The dietary quality was evaluated using the KHEI, Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR), and Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR). The final analysis included 13,647 adults aged 19–64 years. Among them, 1,176 (8.6%) were single-person households, while 12,471 (91.4%) were multi-person households. Single-person households showed a significantly higher prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity than multi-person households (5.7% vs. 1.8%). The KHEI scores were significantly lower in single-person households (57.5±0.6) than in multi-person households (62.5±0.2, P<0.0001). Single-person households showed higher food insecurity and poorer dietary quality than multi-person households. These findings suggest the need for targeted nutritional interventions and policies to address the dietary disparities across different household types in Korea.

This study evaluated the perception of images and emotions of Korean food in nine countries. Intercultural patterns were identified through PCA and AHC of principal components. Korea showed a traditional-emotional orientation in which images such as “rich in fermented foods”, “nutritionally balanced”, and “various side dishes” were linked to emotions such as “like a mother’s home-cooked meal”, and “sharing affection”. On the other hand, the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore emphasized sensory-practical aspects, such as “tastes well”, “comfortable”, and “colorful”, and linked them to emotions such as “comfort” and “healthy”. Cluster analysis placed these eight countries in separate clusters, along with Korea. These results highlight the cultural differences in imageemotional interactions and support customized globalization and marketing strategies.

본 연구는 국내 반려동물 산업 중 펫푸드, 펫테크, 동물장묘업을 중심으로 시장 현황과 학문적 연구 동향을 통합적으로 분석하였다. 최근 반려동물을 가족처럼 여기는 사회적 인 식이 확산되면서 산업 전반에 걸쳐 기술 융합, 정서적 서비스, 맞춤형 소비 등 융복합적 변화가 나타나고 있다. 그러나 실제 산업에서의 융복합 흐름과는 달리, 기존 학술연구는 여전히 산업군별로 분절된 분석에 머물러 있으며, 소비자 경험에 기반한 실증적 고찰은 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 문헌 분석을 통해 각 산업의 구조적 특성과 발전 방향을 파악하고, 동 시에 국내 연구의 주제, 방법, 범위를 분석함으로써 학문적 공백을 진단하였다. 특히 해외 사례를 통해 기술·정서·복지가 융합된 플랫폼 기반 서비스 구조와 공공–민간 협력의 전략 적 중요성을 확인하였다. 연구 결과, 반려동물 산업의 지속 가능한 발전을 위해서는 소비자 중심의 융합적 연구 프레임 도입과 정책–산업–학계 간 연계 강화가 요구됨을 제안하였다. 본 연구는 반려동물 산업에 대한 통합적 이해를 바탕으로, 향후 실증 연구 및 정책 수립의 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

본 연구는 넷플릭스 시리즈 <흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁>의 한국어- 인도네시아어 자막에서 나타난 음식명 번역 전략을 분석하고, 이에 영향 을 미치는 요인을 탐구하였다. 연구는 페데르센(Pedersen)과 레피할메 (Leppihalme)의 번역 전략 분류를 바탕으로 분석 되었으며, 유지, 직역, 중립화, 확대/축약, 문화 내 적응, 대체, 생략 전략이 분석 대상이 되었 다. 연구 결과, 유지 전략과 직역 전략이 가장 빈번하게 사용되어, 출발 어의 형식적 요소와 의미를 최대한 보존하려는 경향이 확인되었다. 그러 나 이러한 번역 전략은 음식명에 내포된 문화적 맥락을 충분히 전달하지 못하는 한계를 드러냈다. 본 연구는 자막 번역의 제약 속에서 음식명 번 역이 도착어 독자와의 문화적 간극을 좁히고 출발어의 문화적 함의를 효 과적으로 전달하기 위한 새로운 전략적 접근의 필요성을 강조한다.

This study examined consumer perceptions and market trends of Korean food products sold on Amazon, focusing on keyword and review analysis. As Korean cuisine gains global attention, particularly in the U.S., it is essential to understand how international consumers perceive these products. Data were collected from Amazon, encompassing product details and customer reviews of Korean food categories. Frequently mentioned keywords in the reviews were identified, and customer sentiments were explored using Python-based data analysis. The results suggest that taste, especially spiciness and sweetness, is a key determinant of consumer satisfaction. Although Korean food was generally well-received, packaging and delivery issues were common complaints. These findings provide strategic insights for Korean food manufacturers aiming to expand globally, emphasizing the need for tailored product development and enhanced logistics.

This study analyzed the status of agrifood consumer competencies and the factors influencing them to provide useful information to improve the quality of life by strengthening the agrifood consumer competencies. The raw data of the 2022 Consumer Behavior Survey for Food collected by the Korea Rural Economic Research Institute were used. The data from 3,321 responses were used for the final analysis. Among the competencies, the average score of the cognitive and practical competencies were 3.543 and 3.459 points, respectively. In addition, the average scores of the specific areas within cognitive competency were 3.587 points for dietary competency, 3.557 points for civic competency, and 3.489 points for purchasing competency. Within practical competency, the average scores of the specific areas were 3.569 points for dietary competency, 3.422 points for civic competency, and 3.392 points for purchasing competency. Gender, age, monthly household income, marital status, administrative district, interest in health, and interest in food safety issues were the significant factors affecting the specific areas within cognitive competency. On the other hand, gender, age, educational level, monthly household income, marital status, administrative district, interest in food safety issues, and each of the areas within cognitive competency had a significant impact on the specific areas of practical competency.

Food webs have received global attention as next-generation biomonitoring tools; however, it remains challenging because revealing trophic links between species is costly and laborious. Although a link-extrapolation method utilizing published trophic link data can address this difficulty, it has limitations when applied to construct food webs in domestic streams due to the lack of information on endemic species in global literature. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a link extrapolation-based food web model adapted to Korean stream ecosystems. We considered taxonomic similarity of predation and dominance of generalists in aquatic ecosystems, designing taxonomically higher-level matching methods: family matching for all fish (Family), endemic fish (Family-E), endemic fish playing the role of consumers (Family-EC), and resources (Family-ER). By adding the commonly used genus matching method (Genus) to these four matching methods, a total of five matching methods were used to construct 103 domestic food webs. Predictive power of both individual links and food web indices were evaluated by comparing constructed food webs with corresponding empirical food webs. Results showed that, in both evaluations, proposed methods tended to perform better than Genus in a data-poor environment. In particular, Family-E and Family-EC were the most effective matching methods. Our model addressed domestic data scarcity problems when using a link-extrapolation method. It offers opportunities to understand stream ecosystem food webs and may provide novel insights into biomonitoring.

기존 질병비용연구(COI)에서 환자의 여가시간 손실에 따른 경제적 영향은 상대적으로 적은 관심을 받아왔다. 또 한, 기존연구들은 주로 만성질환 또는 중질환에 초점을 맞 췄으며, 이로 인해 입원환자나 외래환자가 아닌 상대적으 로 증상이 약한 자가치료환자들에 대해서는 충분히 다루 지 못했다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 자 가치료 환자들을 포함하고, 더 나아가 고용 상태와 실제 여가활동 중단 기간 등을 고려하여 식중독으로 인한 여가 손실의 연간 비용을 계산하였다. 이 과정에서 건강과 노 동에 관한 통계 자료를 활용하고, 식중독으로 인한 여가 손실을 정확히 평가하는 방법을 제시하였다. 연구 결과, 국내에서 식중독으로 인한 여가 손실에 따른 연간 경제적 비용은 약 7,845억 원(7억 2,800만 USD)으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 자가 치료 환자들을 포함하지 않거나 치 료 시간과 고용 상태를 고려하지 않은 경우, 여가손실비 용이 낮게 추정될 가능성을 제시하고 있다. 즉, 식중독과 같은 질병의 사회적 영향을 평가할 때 자가 치료, 고용 상태, 그리고 영향받는 전체 기간을 포함한 다양한 요소 를 고려하는 것이 중요하다는 것을 의미한다. 이 연구 결 과는 정책 결정자와 의료 전문가들에게 질병의 경제적 영 향을 보다 넓은 관점에서 이해하고, 보건의료 자원을 더 효과적으로 배분하는 데 도움이 될 수 있는 중요한 통찰 을 제공한다.

본 논문에서는 1973년 프랑스 파리에 최초로 한식당을 창업하여 30여 년간 운영한 한인 이민사업가를 대상으로 유럽에서의 요식업 종사 경험 을 구술생애사적 관점에서 고찰한다. 프랑스 한인사회의 역사적 변천 과 정의 맥락에서 구술자의 한식당 창업 동기와 사업에 도움이 되었던 요 인, 한식당 경영의 의미에 대해서 조사한다. 연구 결과에 따르면 구술자 는 유럽에서의 연속적 이주 과정을 통해서 축적한 다양한 사회적 네트워 크를 주요한 민족자원의 하나로 활용하였다. 또한 창업 당시 프랑스 한 인은 200명 남짓의 소규모였고 현지인들 사이에 한국, 한국 음식에 대한 인지도가 매우 낮았기 때문에, 입지 선정에 있어서 주프랑스 한국대사관 과의 근접성이 중요하게 고려되었다. 한식당 경영을 통해서 프랑스 한인 과 한국으로부터의 방문객들이 모국의 음식을 향유하고 한국적 정서를 접할 수 있게 하였고, 또한 프랑스 현지인들에게는 한국 음식문화와 한 인 예술을 알리는데 기여하였다. 본 연구를 통해 프랑스 한인 이주사, 한 인 디아스포라의 자영업 창업, 해외 한식문화의 전파와 의의에 대한 이 해 제고에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

A checklist of dietary behavior items for the elderly was developed based on Korean dietary guidelines. First, a literature review was conducted, and 63 preliminary items, including 30 items on food intake, 12 on eating habits, and 21 on dietary culture, were obtained to evaluate the dietary guidelines. The preliminary items were evaluated by experts using Lawshe’s method to verify the content validity. They were then revised, resulting in 52 items: 25, 11, and 16 in the food intake, eating habits, and dietary culture domains, respectively. A face-to-face survey was conducted on 331 people over 65 years of age in the metropolitan area, and their one-day food intake was surveyed using a 24-hour recall method in August 2022. The 48 items, including 24, 11, and 13 items on food intake, eating habits, and dietary culture, respectively, correlated significantly with the evaluation indicators of nutrient intake, such as mean adequacy ratio, dietary diversity score, and nutrient intake density. These items were considered suitable for evaluating the elderly's compliance with dietary guidelines.

Food is essential for sustenance and reflects a country’s identity, making it crucial to identify the cultural needs for effectively localizing Korean food. This study surveyed 825 adults from four continents (eight countries) to examine their preferences, familiarity, and attitudes toward Korean food. Significant correlations(p< .001) were found between the familiarity and preference for Korean food, with variations observed across continents. Among the representative Korean food items, the average preference score was 4.67, and the purchase/recommendation intention score was 4.88. Seven items received above-average ratings (e.g., gogi-deopbap and kimchi-bokkeumbap), while some items showed high liking but low purchase/recommendation intention (e.g. dak-jjim and galbi-jjim). In addition, items such as gimbap and tteokbokki had high purchase/recommendation intention but low liking, and kimchi and vegetable foods etc. received low liking and purchase/recommendation intentions. In terms of the preferred meat according to the cooking method and seasoning, beef respondents preferred grilled · stir-fried and soup·stew·hot pot cooking methods, while pork or chicken respondents preferred grilled · stir-fried and frying methods. Soy sauce was the most preferred seasoning for all meat responses, followed by red pepper paste. These research findings provide fundamental data for developing Korean food products, segmented by continent.

We conducted a local survey targeting 300 Filipino consumers and analyzed them through multi-regression to help with the sales strategy of Korean agricultural products in the Philippine market. First, the Korean Wave image and K-food image were statistically significantly related to the intention to purchase Korean agricultural products. A significant positive (+) effect was found, and when Korean Wave stars were used as variables, the intention to purchase Korean agricultural products was strengthened. Therefore, the results of this study are believed to provide practical implications.

이 연구는 식품제조업과 음료제조업에 속한 1,045개의 기업에 대한 재무제표 패널자료를 이용하여 한계기업으로의 전락에 영향을 주는 요인을 분석하였다. 한계기업의 식별 기준으로 이자보상배율이 3년 연속 1보다 작을 경우를 선택하였다. 패널 프로빗 모형의 추정 결과에 따르면, 개별 기업의 성장성 하락은 한계기업으로 전락할 확률을 높이는 반면, 수익성이나 활동성 지표의 상승은 한계기업으로 전락할 확률을 유의미하게 낮추는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 타인자본 비중이 늘어나거나 또는 차입금의존도가 높은 기업일수록, 한계기업으로 전락할 확률이 높았다. 기업의 유동성 또한 한계기업으로의 전락 확률에 유의미한 영향을 주었다. 기업 규모도 한계기업 여부와 연관되었는데, 소기업이 대기업에 비해 한계기업으로 전락할 확률이 상대적으로 높았다.

This study was to identify the effects of education on Korean foods preferred by elementary students and their sustainability. A survey was conducted on 5th-grade elementary school students. Korean food preferences were classified by exploratory factor analysis as creative, healthy, or considerate, and the effects of education on Korean dietary life were classified as cognitive or emotional. Dietary life sustainability was evaluated separately. Results showed that creative and considerate preferences had significant impacts on cognitive and emotional education effects and that a healthy preference type significantly impacted the emotional effect of education. Analysis showed that creative and considerate food preference types significantly influenced dietary life sustainability and that cognitive and emotional education effects mediated these relationships. Sex was not found to have a significant moderating effect. The study shows that Korean dietary life sustainability is influenced by education on topics that promote the value and excellence of Korean food and suggests that experiential education combining practice and theory should be used to increase interest in Korean food among elementary students. Additional studies are required to determine Korean food preferences to facilitate the development of a dietary life education program that enables students to understand and maintain healthy dietary practices.