• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.206-220
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• 2020

In the glocal era, the competitiveness of local authorities leads to national competitiveness. Even though they have competitively adopted slogans to stay competitive, the process has not been systematic. The goal of this study is to provide basic data needed to develop and utilize urban brand slogans effectively. In terms of a research scope, 48 slogans currently in use by 24 local authorities of Gyeongsangbuk-do as of April 2020 were chosen. Concerning the lingual representation of such slogans, diverse languages such as Korean, English and Sino-Korean have been used. In terms of meaning of meaning and material type, there was a lack of coherence among the slogans. In addition, they were poor in representing identity, and abstract image upgrade types were commonly found. It is anticipated that the study results would make a contribution to the development of urban brand slogans and value generation.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.175-197
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• 2017

As a revision negotiation on the KORUS FTA has become a national pending issue, this study aims to analyze changes in the trade structure of Korean export industry before and after the KORUS FTA. For the analysis, this study used Market Comparative Advantage(MCA) and Intra-industry Trade(IIT) indexes. Results of the analysis are as follows: First, in analyzing the competitive and complementary relationships of export products using the MCA index, it was discovered that Korea has formed an export-oriented complementary relationship with the United States. Second, the results of analysing IIT showed that Korea has made a low-quality vertical IIT with the U.S. in some items while it has usually made a weak IIT with the U.S.. Based on the results above, this study proposes a few policy suggestions in the following areas: Improvement of competitiveness in trade-deficit service sector, achievement of the balance of profit and loss in goods and service sectors through the revision negotiation of the KORUS FTA, enhancement of competitiveness in competitive and comparative disadvantage items, reinforcement of ability to respond to consumption patterns in U.S. market, etc. in export-dominant items, and pursuit of horizontal-vertical division of labor in comparative advantage items and horizontal division of labor in comparative disadvantage items.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.147-172
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• 2023

This study aims to review the competitiveness of 'TVING', a Korean OTT player in Korean market. For this, this study extracts core business resources of TVING focusing on resource-based theory, and analyzes their competitiveness under VRIO framework. TVING has 4 tangible and intangible resources respectively and 1 human resource. Tangible resources of TVING are technology(recommendation, compression), content(original, exclusive, discriminative non-exclusive), production studio, and paid-subscribers. Intangible resources are content planing capability, distribution network(local, global), marketing promotion·PR, sales), brand preference. And human resource of TVING creates IP professionalism of the company. As a result of VRIO analysis, discriminative non-exclusive content, production studios, and domestic service channels are the most powerful resources of TVING to 'sustain competitive advantage'. Technology, original content, planning capability and IT professionalism bring 'temporary competitive advantage', while exclusive content, the number of paid-subscribers, global service network, and promotion capabilities are not core resources with staying in competitive rank stages. By the way, TVING has potential users for sales of KT and LGU+ thanks to partnership and M&A, but this is not effectively used at the organization level yet. The meaning of this study can be found in that this evaluated competitiveness by each resource of TVING and arranged its implications.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.341-366
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• 2013

The term, Mittelstand, has no exact english translation for the definition, but, today, Mittelstand refers to small and medium-sized enterprises(SME), mostly family-owned firms in Germany. The Mittelstand is called the backbone of the German economy because it drove the economic miracle after World War II. During the global recession and the euro zone's debt crisis in recent years, in which european businesses have faced the near-collapse of competitiveness particularly in manufacturing, the German exports are booming and exceeded exports of China in 2012. Most importantly, the Germany economic performance has been widely attributed to the strength of the Mittelstand. Many of countries, even some leading public companies are seeking to emulate the success of the Mittelstand. Investors evaluate that many of Germany's investable "hidden champions" are Mittelstand companies. The purpose of this study is to present some of answers to the following questions: Firstly, what makes the German Mittelstand so successful? Secondly, what does the success of the German Mittelstand mean for the Korean SMEs in global competitiveness? Thirdly, what Korean government has to do improve the global competitiveness of the Korean SMEs? Some discussions in this study mention the managerial implications for Korean exporting SMEs particularly in manufacturing. Several factors that account for the success of the German Mittelstand are technological excellence and the tradition of family-owned management, concentration on niche market and globalization, and institutional supports. There are some of important lessons to be learned from the German Mittelstand. If the purposes of Korean SMEs want to remain in the sustainable competitive advantage and withstand unforeseen economic turbulences in the future, they must be able to meet the followings: 1) Technology that meets the global standard or exceeding it 2) Competitiveness in price in the global market 3) Active involvement in the globalization process, utilizing various entry modes Innovative products at globally competitive price are a crucial point for Korean exporting SMEs to achieve their competitive edge over others in the target markets abroad. It is time for Korean SMEs to cultivate a core competence in manufacturing in order to position Korea as a global manufacturing hub with SMEs leading.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.385-419
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• 2018

This study suggests an integrated model composed of factors of industrial environments and technology capacity for corporate diversification decision based on industrial organization theory and resource based perspectives. We examine the proposed model using patents and financial data of 272 applicants for 6 years (2010~2015) in the smart factory ICT convergence technology (application and platform field) sectors. The result of analyzing the fixed effect panel model shows that technological competitiveness has a positive effect on corporate diversification. Also, the additional result of analyzing the two-stage least square fixed effect model indicates that the convergence patent ratio increases technological competitiveness. Based on the results, we provide implications for corporate diversification strategies and government R & D policies for commercialization of corporate convergence technology resources and competencies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.24-24
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• 1998

국내 소프트웨어산업은 산업특성상 우리 나라에 적합한 산업이며 국내시장 규모도 급증하고 있으나 선진국에 비해 낙후되어 있는 형편이다. 따라서 최근 각광 받고 있는 소프트웨어 창업기업들을 대상으로 실사 및 설문지 조사를 통해 소프트웨어산업에 있어서의 성공요인들을 알아보고 이를 바탕으로 국내 소프트웨어산업의 국제경쟁력 제고를 위한 방안을 모색하는 것이 무엇보다도 필요한 시점이다. 이러한 본 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 조사대상 기업체를 기존 연구들처럼 소프트웨어산업에 종사하고 있는 기업들을 임의적으로 추출하여 자료를 수집하는 대신 성장 가능성이 있다고 판단되어 선정된 유‘망 중소정보통신 소프트웨어 기업’들과 현재까지 선정되지 못한 기업의 두 그룹으로 나누어 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료를 바탕으로 두 그룹간의 창업배경 및 성장과정별로 비교분석을 통해 차이점을 밝히고자 하였으며 창업이후 성공적 운영에 필수적인 우위요인에 관해서도 살펴보았다. 이러한 비교분석결과에 근거하여 국내 소프트웨어산업의 성공요인 및 국제경쟁력 제고를 위한 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 선정기업과 비선정기업간의 비교를 통한 성공요인 분석결과를 요약하여 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 창업자의 일반적 특성과 창업배경 및 창업동기를 볼 때, 창업배경 또한 연구개발직 경험을 바탕으로 창업한 경우가 가장 많았으며, 주된 창업동기는 기술력에 바탕을 둔 사업화/동업화였다. 둘째, 창업자의 경영의지를 보면 창업 이전 준비 및 계획에 철저했으며, 각종 지원제도를 적극적으로 활용했을 뿐만 아니라 비혜택 제도도 적극적 활용(예; 공고생 현장실습제도 활용정도, 기술지도 및 연수사업 활용정도 등)하였으며, 특히 창업자가 미래에 대한 확신과 긍정적 사고, 및 성공에 대한 의지가 높았다. 셋째, 기술력을 보면 자체연구소 보유비율이 월등히 높으면, 보유기술도 국내에서 가장 먼저 개발하는 단계였거나 독자적인 기술보유가 많았고, 기술력 유지를 위한 신기술 연구개발투자의 강화, 신제품개발 및 품질향상을 지속화, 및 이를 뒷받침하기 위한 전문기술인력의 확보에 주력하였다. 끝으로 마케팅 능력면에서도 개발된 신제품에 대해 자체상표를 부착하는 비율(84.6% 대 64.5%)이 높고 다양한 판매경로를 통해 제품을 판매하였으며, 기업 및 제품이미지 제고를 위한 고객에 대한 서비스도 강화하고 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.712-721
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• 2016

This study analyzes important urban characteristics according to location of large-scaled professional sports facilities based on a binary logistic regression model and t-test. For the empirical analysis, this study uses 24 urban characteristics within social, economic, cultural, traffic, and spatial categories in 228 cities. The results show that economic condition can be the main decision factor for the differential feature of the location as well as social and traffic conditions. Concretely, more the number of young adults and middle-aged people who have considerable purchasing power, and available land are more the beneficial to the presence of the sports facilities. Recently local governments focus on location of the facilities due to their impacts on regional economics as well as residents' quality of life. In this point of vies, this study gives good understanding why it is a great option for location of the facilities.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.234-258
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• 2010

This research attempts to explore the competitive advantage of the Busan New Port based on the comparative analysis against the major ports. The competitive environment of the global shipping business poses a variety of challenges for the port authorities. Pursuing the hub position in the Northeast Asia, Busan new port needs an in-depth competitive analysis against the major ports in Singapore and China. This research proposes the strategies to exploit the locational advantage of the port while upgrading the operational efficiency. The recent development of the information technology suggests a viable solution for the Busan port.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.209-214
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• 2014

Despite the recession of the global market, the domestic electronic appliance companies dominated TV market in North America. They took both the premium and mid-priced product market and achieved both profitability and volume due to strong product competitiveness and brand power. Despite doing well in the North American market, the domestic TV manufacturers are worried about product development, marketing and sales strategies to remain the continuous competitiveness in the TV market. This study proposes the a sales prediction model of electronic appliances using sales data of S company from the North American market. We develop the sales prediction models based on multiple regression analysis and artificial neural network and compare two models. Especially, this study analyzes the relevance between the TV sales and TV main features in order to improve the price competitiveness or improve the value of TV products.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.101-124
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• 2011

This paper is framed for analyzing what the most significant factors are in Turkey, where the Korean investing enterprises should overcome and accomodate to the various barriers of management, especially in terms of network construction. The main purpose of this research is to test empirically some connections of between the managing strategy of network competitiveness by Korean enterprises and the management performances of Korean ones in Turkey while this is composed of two stages. First, the study model is planned by discussing relevant theories, previous studies and the current investment circumstances in local Turkey. Second, the survey of Korean enterprises participated in investment activities in there is practiced by gathering questionnaires. The strategic method of structural equation modeling is implemented to testing some hypotheses. Summing up partially, to maximize profits growth, Korean enterprises have been making application of the internal worker controlling as the means of network competitive advantages.