Actual Status of Information Utilization of Youth and its Countermeasure ? Actual Status of Over-consumption of Digital System by the Youth and its Countermeasure

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Actual Status of Information Utilization of Youth
and its Countermeasure ? Actual Status of
Over-consumption of Digital System by the Youth
and its Countermeasure

• National Youth Policy Institute
• Seong Yoon-suk

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1. Purpose of the Research

• To investigate the youths actual consumption
  status of a variety of digital devices and their
  contents.
• To determine the youths future consumption
  desire, and thereby exploring how they can
  accommodate new information communication
  services how their daily lives and existing
  media consumption status change.
• To prepare a comprehensive strategy, through
  scientific analysis, regarding the behavior and
  issues of youth digital consumption.

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2. Major Contents

• Investigation of the actual status of the youths
  present consumption condition and information
  communication devices and services.
• Exploration of the youth digital consumption
  behavior and determining cultural taste through
  in-depth interview of the youth and open-type
  question survey of the teachers on digital
  consumption.
• Analysis of t he examples of youth digital
  consumption strategies locally and in foreign
  countries such as Japan, USA, Australia, Canada,
  UK, OECD, EU, etc. and deriving their
  implications.
• Strategy proposal on youth digital consumption
  and recommendations on its strategic road map.

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3. Major Results of the Research

• Actual Status of Over-consumption of Digital
  System by the Youth
• - The youth with higher family satisfaction
  tended to consume more amount of learning-related
  services while less in game-related services. On
  the contrary, the youth less satisfied with their
  parents tended to consume more amount of
  game-related services.
• - Considering that youth with better family
  relationships tended to do digital consumption in
  a positive way, enhancing parent-children
  relationship is necessary to reduce
  over-consumption and abuse of digital system.
• - Education in terms of permissive consumption
  tends to prevent youth from recognizing the
  problem of excessive digital consumption, and
  rather permits abuse.

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4. Political Suggestions

• Maintenance of digital consumption related laws
  and systems.
• - Handle the matters on information and
  communication services such as games, mobile
  phones, etc. by enacting new youth media-related
  laws.
• - Implement consumer education act and
  promotion act related with consumer education.
• Solve the problems when purchasing and settling
  with prepaid cards.
• - Reinforce the procedure of obtaining consent
  when recharging or reloading by cash basis.
• (Handle the event when the right of
  cancellation or withdrawal doesnt exist.)
• - Restrict the limit of purchasing amount (for
  the purpose of preventing over-consumption).

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4-1. Political Suggestions

• Build a cooperative system in consumer-education
  field.
• Reinforce advertising activity on digital
  consumption.
• Activate the youths education on consumption of
  digital media.
• Measure the consumer literacy.
• Prepare detailed criteria by types of internet
  addiction.