Korean Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
The Korea Society for Life Cycle Assessment
Article

그린소비자의 라이프스타일 특성에 관한 연구

최경하1, 정순희*, 신민경**
Kyung Ha Choi1, Soon Hee Jung*, Min Kyung Shin**
1이화여자대학교 소비자학과 석사
*교수
**박사수료
1Dept. of Consumer Study, Ewha Womans Univ. Master
*Professor
**Ph.D Candidate

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Published Online: Oct 31, 2010

Abstract

Recent eco-friendly management systems and green marketing is switching their management paradigm from the creation of economic revenues in environmental pollution businesses to environmental management sharing environmental responsibilities, and an increasing number of companies are promoting eco friendly activities as a part of their green marketing and for this they have introduced environmental management and green marketing. In these changes and trends, an essential preceding work for successful green management is studying the characteristics of green consumers. However, most of previous studies on green consumers deal with a limited number of variables fragmentarily, so their results have a limitation in being generalized. Furthermore, many of them are about green marketing and there have been few studies on the general characteristics of green consumers. At this point, therefore, this study was conducted in order to measure Korean consumers' environmental consciousness and their consumption behavior associated with environmental consciousness and, through this, to examine the characteristics of green and non-green consumer groups and explain the characteristics in terms of eco-friendliness.

Keywords: green consumer; lifestyle; eco marketing; environmental consciousness