• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.119-132
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• 1999

This study focused on recycling behavior and related variables. Specifically it aims 1) to investigate the level of recycling attitudes and behaviors 2) to find out variables related to recycling behavior, Data were collected with questionaire from 248 wives in Kwangju city. The results can be summerized as follows: The sorting behavior of waste was higher than median but active recycling behavior was lower than median. The recycling behavior was facilitated by wives' high age lower education level apartment dwelling and part-time job. In addition to motivate the recycling behaviors various implications discussed.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.153-167
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• 2009

This research analyzes factors of family life adjustment in mixed-culture families through a focus group and individual interviews with nine mixed-culture couples eighteen people who live in city C. First, the reason that women of other cultures wants to marry Korean men is because they find it a good opportunity, as they expect that Korean husbands will take responsibility of their family. On the other hand, Korean men also expect that they would have some similarities to each other. Also, in southeastern Asian men have more freedom than women to choose an international marriage in Southeastern Asia. Second, mixed-culture couples in everyday life are affected by communication problems, cultural differences, natural environment, financial situation, male -dominant attitude, self-adjustment pressure, house-work role and financial support from their own country. Third, wives from other cultures ask for social support to adjust in Korea and make a healthy family. These women can be important, as they have their own role in the family even though they may be far from their mother in law's strong expectation in how well she can adopt Korean culture.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.81-105
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• 2007

This research aimed to understand the awareness of married couples who have children over the age of elementary school age. What do they perceive as a wholesome and healthy family? What are they doing to promote the wholesomeness of the family? What are their demands of society and the government? Twenty-five people, 13 husbands and 12 wives, comprised the total number of subjects. The data were analyzed after in-depth interviews. The results of the research were as follows. First, all the subjects had no clear idea about the basic laws of a wholesome and healthy family although they were in the class belonging to the educational sector. Their awareness of what constituted a wholesome and healthy family included such things as physical, mental, ethical, and even spiritual health. Second, the married couples mostly answered that they were trying their best to promote the health of their families. This was basically related to the promotion of physical and mental health.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.531-553
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• 2006

As energy conservation can be realized through changes in the composition of goods and services consumed, there is a need to assess indirect and total household energy requirements. The Korean household sector was responsible for about 55% of the country's primary energy requirement in the period from 1990 to 2000. And more than 60% of household energy requirement was indirect. Thus, indirect and total rather than direct household energy requirements should be the target of energy conservation policies. Increases in household consumption expenditure were responsible for a relatively high growth of energy consumption. Switching to consumption of less energy intensive products and decrease in energy intensities of products contributed substantially to reduce the increase in total household energy requirement.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.17-39
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to propose the basic models of the housewives' educational program for the healthy families support center. For this purpose the role & function of the healthy families support center and the cases about the housewives' educational program of related institutions were analysed. Based on of this materials this study proposed 2 types of program model : 1. the balance of individual-family-society parts oriented model, and 2. the healthy families CEO oriented model. And the strategies for the more effective management of each model were suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.211-224
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• 2002

Because information society as a lather environment has different characteristics with the industrial one, we need to get the new guideline for the development of family resource management. So, this study was purposed to explore the importance of the information as a resource that is to be managed in the information society. To find the answer, challenge of the family resource management to be with, characteristics of the information and the information society, their effects on He family resource management, academic research patterns and activities of the public institutions were examined. As results, first, we need to focus on the family as a producer rather than a consumer. Second, we have to give the model of cuber life to the nomads in the information society. Third, we need to develope a new curriculm for students to play their parts in the ICT industry. Lastly, our efforts to make networks between researchers and persons in the In industry are needed.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.55-71
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to explore a self-diagnostic indicator for measuring a healthy family by adopting the theme of "happiness", which has surfaced as the most interesting in many academic fields recently. Though the basic concept of a healthy family may be shared by everyone, the criterion of happiness varies from one family to another. Therefore, it is desirable that the tool be made in such a way that every member of the family can check their health from a holistic perspective, rather than diagnosing health and happiness from the perspective of professionals. So, this study was aimed at diagnosing a family by using a tool named GAMMA model, so each family member can recognize problems and find the best options to solve it. This study. has a significant meaning in that it has tried to diagnose families by introducing the GAMMA model into domestic science for the first time.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.37-53
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to develop an educational program of leadership for housewives as the CEO of household management. For this purpose, the related concepts of leadership as CEO were analyzed and cases on the educational program for housewives were reviewed. The program developed through this study consists of four subjects: 1. The housewives' identity 2. Household management and the CEO 3. The strategies for the development of leadership and 4. The connection between the individual household, the community, and society. It can be expected that the program will contribute to the activation of various programs in the Healthy Families Center and the strong positioning of research in "family resource management" as a practical science.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.65-83
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• 2009

The purposes of this study were to analyze the needs for the balance of work-family and to provide the related policies for dual worker family. We focused on the life area of educare and school. Data were collected from 197 working mothers who have 1 or more children under age 10. The findings were: 1) after-school programs, holidays on every alternate Saturday, arbitrary no school days were not appropriate to the working parents' everyday life patterns, so the paradigm and practical conditions should be adapted to the needs of working parents. 2) the most working parents depended on the kindergarden, but the parents' satisfaction with the quality of service, time duration, the human resource of educare teacher was not sufficient, so these issues should be discussed more profoundly.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.85-105
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to compare the laws and policies relating to work-family balance with foreign cases, and to analyse the problems in implementing those laws and policies. For these purpose, this study compares family leave policies, working hams policies, public care policies in other countries. And these laws in Korea are shown. This study also analyse the policies for work-family balance in labor policy, family policy, gender policy and saeromaji plan. The results are as follows; policies for work-family balance are limited to child care and family leave. Laws for family leave are various and proper. But implementing rate of policy goal is low and a few people can benefit by those laws and policies. So, wide-range policies for work-family balance which all the families can benefit are needed.