• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.695-723
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• 2018

Recently, extreme weather due to climate change has become more frequent, and increase of fine dust has worsen air quality in Korea. Therefore, not only negative perception on coal-fired power generation is dominant, but also the social acceptance of nuclear power generation declines. This study aims at deriving consumer preferences on the mid and long term power mix with various energy sources. Willingness to pay for each generation source was estimated and the preference heterogeneity of consumers was examined by using mixed logit and latent class models. Mixed logit estimation results show that the preference heterogeneity of consumers is especially large for the nuclear power relative to renewable or coal energy. According to the estimation results from the latent class model, group 1 prefers renewable energy while group 2 prefers coal energy. Group 3 shows lexicographic preference which means restricted rationality. As for the policy implication, it is necessary to understand the preference heterogeneity of consumer groups in planning the mid to long term power mix.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.121-146
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• 2019

This study investigates the innovation resistance when blockchain technology is introduced for the shipping and port industry. For the development of a research model with suitable measures, we review and focus on innovation resistance factors with the blockchain technology derived from previous studies. In this research, we consider four factors (innovation characteristics, consumer characteristics, environmental characteristics, and cost characteristics) with innovation resistance as dependent variables. The innovation characteristics include relative benefits, complexity, and perceived risk. The consumer characteristics consider attitude toward existing products, innovation, and self-efficacy. Social impact variables are environmental characteristics and rationality of cost. In the statistical analysis, we set up eight hypotheses to test the significances between variables and find the following four empirical results. First, the relative advantage and the perceived risk have a significant effect on innovation characteristic, but the complexity of this characteristic has no significant effect on innovation resistance. Second, the rationality of cost has no significant effect on innovation resistance. Third, the attitude toward existing products has a positive effect and the innovation of the consumer characteristic has a negative effect on innovation resistance, while the self-efficacy has no significant effect. Finally, the social impact has a significant effect on innovation resistance to blockchain in the shipping and port industry.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.18-22
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• 1991

막구조는 그 특유의 조형성과 구조적 특성으로 인하여 여러가지 용도의 건축물로 그 사용의 범위가 날로 증가하고 있다. 또한, 이 구조방식은 재료의 투광성 때문에 내부공간이 발고, 경량성, 시공성 등에서 이점이 있으며, 전통적인 다른 구조방식과 비교하여 동질의 안전성과 내구성을 인정받고 있다. 그러나, 막구조는 다른 구조 방식과는 상이한 구조적 특성을 가지고 있으므로 구조계획 및 설계는 이러한 사항을 충분히 인지하여, 구조적인 합리성, 경제성, 시공성 등을 고려하여 수행하여야 한다. 따라서 본 고에서는 막구조를 구조적 특성에 따라서 분류하고, 각 구조방식에 대한 구조설계시 고려사항을 기술하여 막구조설계에 대한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다. 또한, 막구조의 특성상 반드시 수행되어야 하는 형상탐색(Shape Finding)과정을 설명하고 그 필요성을 논의하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.255-255
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• 2017

오래전부터 물은 누구나 사용할 수 있는 자유재로 인식되었지만, 산업혁명 이후 폭발적으로 증가하는 인구와 환경오염 문제로 인해 인류가 사용할 수 있는 수자원이 그 수요에 비해 공급이 줄어들었으며, 이로 인해 자유재로 인식되어 왔던 수자원은 점차 그 가치를 매기는 경제재로 인식이 바뀌고 있다. 하지만 다른 경제재와 다르게 자연자원인 수자원은 환경재, 공공재라는 인식이 강하고, 더불어 공급의 불확실성으로 인해 일반적인 시장경제가 적용되기 어렵고 경제적 가치를 산정하기가 쉽지 않다. 이에 최근 수자원 전문가들은 공급이 한정된 수자원을 효율적이고 합리적으로 배분하기 위해 수자원의 경제적 가치를 산정하는 연구를 진행하고 있다. 예를 들어, 미국 캘리포니아주의 경우 수자원의 용도별, 지역별 경제적 가치를 산정하여 이를 용수배분에 적용한 CALVIN모형(CALifornia Value Integrated Network)을 개발하여 실제 주정부의 수자원 활용계획에 적용한 사례가 있다. 우리나라의 경우 구체적으로 수자원의 용도별, 지역별 경제적 가치를 산정하고, 이를 실제 물 배분 계획에 적용한 사례는 드문 상황이다. 본 연구에서는 국내 실정에 맞는 수자원의 용도별 경제적 가치를 추정하고 편익함수를 산정하는 방안을 연구하였다. 수자원의 용도를 생활, 공업, 농업, 하천유지 용수 등 네 가지로 구분하여 각 용도별로 용수의 경제적 편익을 분석하고 이를 토대로 용수별 편익함수와 경제적 가치를 산정하는 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구를 통해 제시될 수자원의 용도별 편익함수는 향후 개발예정인 수자원-경제통합 물 배분 모형에 적용될 것이며, 나아가 수자원의 효율적인 배분 계획 및 정책 마련에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to survey on the engineer's sense of value. For this, we analyzed the ethic code of the engineer relation groups and executed the survey of consulting committee. The subjects of analysis were six associations related to engineer, and analysis of the ethics was done on the basis of 'four levels of engineer's ethics or sense of value'. The subjects of survey were 57 professions. The ethic code shows the most important engineer's sense of value is dignity maintenance, development of individual and social welfare as well as public service. The survey shows the most important sense of value when engineer make decisions at the present is practicality and economical efficiency. And it shows the most important sense of value when engineer make decisions in the future is practicality and economical efficiency.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.14-25
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• 2020

This research proposes a methodology to evaluate the rationality of passengers' route choice who make trips within Seoul metropolitan subway based on smart card data. The rationality of user route choice is divided into the degree of determinacy and similarity concepts as basic principle. Determinacy is the degree to which the route selected by the passenger is identical to the system optimal path. Similarity indicates the degree to which the route is similar to the system optimal path. The K-path search method is used for path enumeration, which allows for measurement of determinacy. To assess determinacy within similarity, transfer tag data of private operators is used. Consequently, the concept of similarity applied to the model is such that the passenger's path choice is identical to the path taken using the tag reader. Results show that the determinacy of appearance of the shortest path (K=1) is 90.4%, while the similarity of appearance as K=(2-10) is 7.9%, summing to 98.3%. This indicates that trips on the metropolitan subway network are being rationally explained. 1.7% of irrational trips are attributed to the unexplainable error term that occurs due to the diversity of passengers.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.37
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• pp.270-306
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• 2007

This study examines the economies of promotion gifts in the newspaper industry. Because of the oligopolistic structure, the newspaper industry shows highly concentrated market. Under the certain circumstance, the dominant firms are struggling to become the market leader by providing unlawful promotion gifts and unbearable price discount which yields the prisoner's dilemma. Ultimately, in spite of the criticism about their unlawful behaviors, the dominant firms choose the fierce competition with high costs. On the other hand, the remaining fringe firms do not have many strategic choices due to the limited financial capacity. They cannot provide free gifts or any other incentives to the subscribers. Even worse, because advertisers and subscribers also prefer promotional gifts as a rational choice, the distorted mechanism has been sustained in the newspaper industry. Thus, governmental interventions hardly achieve the goal of controlling unfair trade. This study examines the structure, strategic behaviors of the players, and the unintended consequences leading to the dilemma on promotional sales in the newspaper industry.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.113-138
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• 2014

Despite the growing numbers of regional problems (e.g. conflicts between the state and localities, inter-local conflicts, etc.) associated with the state-led developmental projects, the Korean social sciences have been unable to offer satisfying explanations and solutions to the regional problems. This is mainly because the existing works, which have been taken captured by the assumptions of "methodological nationalism", significantly lack the socio-spatial understandings of the state actions and the relations between the state and localities, thereby seeing the issues of regional development mainly in terms of either the economic efficiency defined at the national scale, or the plan rationality of the national bureaucrats. With this problem orientation in mind, this paper aims to explore the ways in which the state and localities are interacting, conflicting and negotiating with one another through the mediation of the state-led developmental projects. Focusing on the developmental processes of Masan Export Processing Zone from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, it examines the multi-scalar processes through which the state-led industrial complex developmental processes have been influenced by the complex and dynamic interactions among social forces and actors acting at diverse geographical scales (e.g. the global, national, local, urban, etc.). This analysis shows that the regional policies of the Korean developmental state were more heavily influenced by the interactions, contestations, and collaborations among social forces and actors, acting in and through the state, at various geographical scales, rather than by the economic and techno-bureaucratic rationality.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.87-97
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• 1990

There is the need to balance safety, economy and serviceability in all phases of society problems. This is especially true in structural code formulation. where a framework is established by which practicing structural engineers can be assured of designing structures that reasonably meet the above three objectives. The existing design codes, which are generally based on the structural theory and certain engineering experience, do not realistically consider the uncertainties of loads and resistances and the basic reliability concepts. The purpose of the present study is therefore to develop the realistic reliability-based design criteria to secure adequate safety arid reliability, and to derive the models for partial and combined resistance factor formats. To this end, the reliability levels of our existing design code for concrete structures are first evaluated and the target reliabilities are determined, the new code formats are evolved from these target reliabilities. The present study indicates that the proposed formats exhibit relatively-uniform reliability and reasonably take into account the different material characteristics of concrete and steel in concrete structures.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.937-945
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• 2017

Economy of Communion (EoC) is an emerging economic principle that recognizes the dilemma of traditional perspectives and turns to human centered values and ideas. Furthermore the EoC encompasses all the principles derives from free market economy, ethical norm and social solidarity. This study aims to understand Economy of Communion concepts and its ripple effects under current Korean economy condition which mainly follows Neo-liberalism. Korean economy needs new paradigm to deal with intensifying economical inequality in Korea these days. By understanding EoC's primary value and studying research cases and Sungsimdang, Seokwangsa one of EoC enterprise cases in Korea, this study suggests new economic paradigm. In response to the needs, two important practices should be manifested through fraternity: 1) mutural equity, and 2) dissemination of giving culture. These are construct the economy of communion, which is defined as unique humanism. This study is also expected to suggest new paradigm that establishes new economy system that can cover current economy system's problems.