Determinants of the intention to recommend overseas migration to a city: The perspective of foreign residents

Kang, Sanghoon; Kim, Jinwon; Hong, Sung-Ho; Ko, Dong-Wan

doi:10.1080/03623319.2020.1728511

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“…Long‐staying internationals have increased in number in Seoul and elsewhere in Korea, mainly because the reduced birth rate and extended life expectancy have rapidly made the country an aging society that lacks a domestic labor force and requires overseas alternatives, and partially because the improved social and economic status of the country has continued to attract internationals for marriage and education purposes (Kang et al., 2020). Accordingly, to systematically support the quality of life of long‐staying internationals, in 2007, Korea established the Framework Act on Treatment of Foreigners Residing in the Republic of Korea.…”

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All lives matter. An analysis of internationals' living conditions in Seoul, Korea, using an extended image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism

Gim

2023

Growth and Change

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We indirectly analyze the residential environment for long‐staying internationals in Seoul, Korea, by extending the image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism widely used in tourism, specifically by examining the internationals' satisfaction and loyalty. We consider residential difficulties, sociodemographics, and survey years along with image as exogenous variables and evaluate satisfaction not only in terms of its absolute but also its relative level, which is the difference between absolute satisfaction (AS) and previous expectation. Tourism studies have measured loyalty using individuals' intention to recommend to another and their own revisit intention, but we evaluate the revisit intention with place attachment/hometown perception, which is more suitable for long‐staying residents. The variables are measured with 2016–2018 data from an annual quality of life survey for Seoul residents (n = 5279 individuals) and analyzed with structural equation modeling. Our results show that the conventionally used AS is associated only with recommendation intention, but the relative satisfaction (RS) both with recommendation intention and hometown perception. Regarding the exogenous variables, AS is substantially affected by image and RS is somewhat strongly influenced by residential difficulties. However, image is the principal determinant of loyalty level, whether recommendation intention or hometown perception. These findings confirm the applicability of the image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism not only to short‐staying inbound tourists but also to long‐staying international residents.

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