• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.263-278
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• 2014

The purpose of our research was to understand the effect of consumers' regulatory focus (i.e., promotion focused vs. prevention focused) on their evaluation of clothing store's VMD and store visiting intention. The results showed that the hedonic and utilitarian benefits of store VMD have significantly a positive impact on visiting intentions. In addition, the relationship between perceived hedonic benefits and store visiting intention was significantly different for PO and PE groups; hedonic benefits explained significantly more of the variance in store visiting intention for promotion-focused group than prevention-focused group. Conversely, utilitarian benefits explained significantly more of the variance in store visiting intention for PE than PO group. These results supported both hypotheses and showed that consumers with a promotion focus have stronger visiting intention toward the VMD with hedonic benefits compared with VMD with utilitarian benefits. Conversely, consumers with a prevention focus have stronger visiting intention toward the VMD with utilitarian benefits compared with VMD with hedonic benefits.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.457-465
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• 2012

The purpose of study was to exploring on the educational values in after school physical programs. The participants were students in grades 5 (3), after school parents who are interested in sports activities (3), after school sports activities led by experienced teachers in three of were selected as study participants. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, collected data were transcribed and coded for domain analysis, classification analysis. The analysis of the results were as follows. After school physical activities, educational significance of the various values of physical activity experiences, meeting with school physical education and sport, educational welfare: the elimination of educational disparities, physical culture, introductory appeared.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.52-66
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to identify the recognition and some solutions of academic achievement gap among academic high schools of four equalization cities' persons concerned in Gyeongsangnam-do. The persons concerned are designated to pupils, parents and teachers of secondary schooling. To accomplish the purpose of this study, the following two questions were asked: (i) How serious do they recognize academic achievement gap among academic high schools? (ii) What kind of solutions do they prefer in order to reduce or dissolve academic achievement gap among academic high schools? The survey subjects of this study were 4,192 persons. They consisted of 2,428 pupils, 1,173 parents and 591 teachers of secondary schools. The contents of the questionnaire were made of the details of the above two questions. Frequencies, percentage, $x^2$ and F test were mainly applied to the statistical analyses. The findings of this study may be summarized as follows. First, half of the subjects recognized the seriousness of academic achievement gap among academic high schools in general. Parents were higher than teachers and teachers were higher than pupils in recognizing the seriousness of this issue. Secondly, they recognized that radical change of current allocation ways, incentives to competent teachers, and financial support, administrative counseling for unpopular high schools etc. were some potent alternatives to this issue.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.195-201
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• 2013

The government has invested much budget for 5years to do the Smart-education and operate digital textbook services since 2011. The private enterprises also decided to focus on constructing Smart learning system by investing much budget. If these systems are constructed nationwide and therefore can access to cyber university by using smart devices, we can reduce the information gap and study online lectures to get a grade whenever, whoever and wherever we want to. However, these convenient systems can cause serious problems like falsifying grades by hacking if security systems are weak. In this paper, we formulated cyber university which is secured in terms of security. For this, we simulated the smart-learning system which strengthened the security, considering code algorithm and encryption technique.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

This study aims to analyse the process of digital switchover in the UK, which is regarded as one of the most successful cases in the world, and to examine efficient plans for the future digital switchover project in Korea through the UK's case. The digital switchover in the UK shows with no doubt the significance of integrated government policies, collaboration between relevant governmental organisations, and the public service broadcaster. Along with this, active and detailed Public Relations (PR) should take place, helping the citizens realise the efficiency of the phased switchover region by region and the measures to resolve the gaps between all social brackets. To sum up, the successful digital transfer is not only achieved by governmental policy and technological preparation from broadcasters, but also by voluntary citizen participation. Government officers and broadcast executives need to realise this and should focus on communicating with citizens.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.120-130
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• 2013

A study was conducted for the performance characteristics of methane taking recently the limelight in the world as a next-generation propellant, with the survey for state of the art in the development of methane/oxygen rocket engine being accompanied. Liquid methane as a rocket fuel has the favorable characteristics such as non-toxic, low cost, regenerative cooling capability, and potential for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). The combination of liquid methane and liquid oxygen also provides the excellent performance including high specific impulse and low system mass. For these reasons, many researches have been actively carried out on the methane/oxygen engine, nevertheless, its technology readiness level is not that high enough just yet. Therefore, it is judged that it is the time to mitigate the technical gap with the space technology of advanced countries through a swift onset of the development of methane rocket engine.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.3-12
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• 2013

와이파이(Wi-Fi) 기술은 무선 데이터 트래픽 폭증에 따라 사업자에게는 트래픽 우회, 이용자에게는 통신요금 부담 완화의 대안으로 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 이에 우리나라에서는 이동 통신사업자 중심으로 와이파이를 지속적으로 확충하여 세계에서 가장 많은 와이파이 존(zone)을 보유한 국가가 되었다. 그러나, 특정 장소에 와이파이를 중복적으로 구축함에 따라 투자 효율성과 서비스 품질이 저하되고, 서민 소외계층 이용시설에는 구축이 상대적으로 저조하다는 문제점도 상존하는 상황이다. 본 고에서는 우리나라의 와이파이를 효율적으로 확산하고자 3가지 개선방향을 제시하였다. 첫 번째는 경쟁구축 차별화에서 투자효율화 공동이용 전략으로의 전환이며, 두 번째는 수도권 도시 지역 중심에서 서민 소외계층 지역으로 확산시키는 것이다. 마지막으로 Legacy Wi-Fi에서 차세대 Wi-Fi로 전환하는 것을 주요 방향으로 제시하였고, 이러한 개선방향을 바탕으로 4가지 전략을 제시하였다. 첫 번째 전략은 PPP(Public Private Partnership) 방식의 공공와이파이(Public Wi-Fi) 구축으로, 전통시장, 복지시설 등 서민 소외계층이 주로 이용하며 와이파이 구축이 열악한 이용시설에 정부, 지자체, 통신사가 공동으로 투자하여 공공와이파이를 구축함으로써 정보격차를 해소시키는 것이다. 두 번째 전략은 통신사의 와이파이 개방을 통한 공용화로, 통신사가 공공장소에 기 구축한 와이파이의 개방을 유도함으로써 중복투자 및 서비스 품질 저하 방지 등 공용화를 통한 투자효율성을 제고하는 것이다. 세 번째 전략은 차세대 와이파이 선도도입을 통한 글로벌 경쟁력 강화로, LTE 등 이동통신 기술의 급속한 보급에 맞추어 무선랜 서비스의 경쟁력 확보를 위해 광대역화 광역화를 선도하고, 응용서비스 발굴 및 산업활성화를 유도하는 것이다. 마지막은 공공와이파이 인식제고로, 공공와이파이의 이용편의성과 홍보활동을 강화하는 것이다. 이러한 전략의 핵심은 공공와이파이 확산과 차세대 와이파이 선도 도입으로, 이를 통하여 통신복지를 실현하고, 산업활성화를 통한 국민행복을 실현시키는 것에 대하여 간략히 설명한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.79-106
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• 2005

This study, by adopting case study methodology, is focused on examining the present state and analyzing the cause of the digital divide, and suggesting policies for bridging the divide, specifically in view of SMEs. We have taken cases of manufacturing companies, visiting and interviewing 18 SMEs in 10 APEC member economies which show sharp difference in usage of ICT. In order to analyze the digital gap among SMEs, we used 5 variables that are composed of computer hardware, computer software, Internet, readiness of ICT, and performance of ICT adoption, while categorizing the cases into low and high tier based on the national ICT index. From a computer hardware perspective, the high tier (0.66) has almost double the number of PC’s per employee, compared with the low tiers (0.34). This gap can be explained by financial availability of low income and high tariff in the developing economies. In the computer software perspective, the SMEs in the low tier had some restrictive use of computer applications such as financial and accounting management and document management, while those in the high tier enjoyed more diversity in the use of applications such as inventory management, sales management, financial and accounting management, procurement management, CRM, and ERP. In view of the readiness of ICT, the difference in ICT infrastructure and financial status between the low and high tier was far wider than any other variables. As a result of ICT adoption, SMEs benefited in view of learning and growth, internal business processes, customer service, and financial affairs. To effectively bridge the digital divide between the low and high tier, actions such as setting up a secondary market of used computers among cooperating developed and developing countries, developing and diffusing good business applications, and building speedy, low-cost telecommunication infrastructures should be taken.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.413-421
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• 2017

This study intends to conduct a thorough research and analysis on the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in order to bridge the gap between the temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in country and city, and understand the current status of the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in rural and urban areas. As a result, the designated temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in urban areas are bigger and have higher capacity, implying the necessity to designate facilities in rural areas that can accommodate larger number of people. As to the analysis of the representative temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims in rural areas, different regions had different types of designated facilities and the number of facilities also showed big difference depending on regions. So it is believed that local governments should improve the process and system of designating temporary residential facilities for the disaster victims.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.335-354
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• 2009

In the knowledge and information society, there is an increasing importance of information, being unable to access this information becomes a huge disadvantage. Blind and visually impaired users who are using assistant equipment such as screen readers are the very class that is having trouble accessing the web content that public libraries provide. In this research 10% of each region's libraries were picked as a research sample. Most of the web content that the public libraries provided did not meet the Internet web content accessibility guidelines as a Korean standard. Also evaluation into web accessibility by the visually impaired was also low. This research suggests some solutions for libraries to reduce the disadvantages that are put upon visually impaired people from various views such as perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.