• The Southeast Asian review
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.1-45
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• 2018

This research is concerned with the current state and uniqueness of Vietnam's Fair Trade through the case study of Fair Trade Organizations (hereafter FTOs) in Vietnam. Vietnam has emerged a successful developing country with rapid economic growth under the socialist regime, while the income gap between the rich and the poor is still growing. Especially the poverty is becoming a serious issue for ethnic minorities and smallholder farmers in the mountainous areas. Fair Trade in the early stage has been initiated, and still is led by the charities and international development agencies of the Global North. But Vietnam's Fair Trade has been introduced by local Vietnamese who have been motivated to solve their own problems voluntarily. This is different from other Fair Trade producing countries in the Global South. It's noticeable that Vietnam's FTOs are playing a significant role of adopting and applying Fair Trade practices. Concerning Fair Trade producing countries the researchers are mostly focusing on Africa and Latin America and the themes are mainly to do with the impact of Fair Trade producers. There are very few research outcomes on the analysis of producing countries' FTOs and their motives and developing processes. The research findings can contribute to understand not only Vietnam's challenges and issues, but also Fair Trade producing countries in general.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1121-1133
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• 2011

Fair trade has received increasing attention from ethical consumers in the North Trans-Atlantic world. It is a movement establishing alternative trading organizations to ensure minimal returns, safe working conditions, and to provide continuity in the trading relationship for disadvantaged producers, especially women and indigenous people in the South. Despite of the growing fair trade movement in the U.S. and Europe, it is still in the introductory stage in Korea. Although fair trade has gained some attention because of the efforts of activists, most Korean consumers are still unaware of it. This paper is divided into four sections including an introduction and conclusions. In section two, I analysed sales of the fairly traded products and the websites of the fairly traded products sellers. In section three, I proposed two effective recommendations for the better marketing and promotion strategies of fairly traded products. One proposal is for providing consumer information, like fair trade certificates, consumer campaigns, and consumer information of the fair trade sellers' websites analyses. The other is for establishing the infrastructure to promote the consumption of fairly traded products such as consumer education, corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, fair trade town and school, and networking. This study is relavant to academics, non-profit fair trade organizations, manufacturers, retailers and governments.

• 한국생활과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.174-175
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• 2010

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.66-74
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• 1992

규격은 제정 주체에 따라 사내표준, 단체규격, 국가규격, 지역규격 및 국제규격으로 분류된다. 시장경제의 블록화, 관세이외의 무역장벽 및 공업제품에 대한 품질향상의 요구확대등에 기인하여 공업규격에 대한 인식이 날로 증가하고 있다. 최근에는 ISO 9000 시리즈가 국내 공업제품의 생산활동과 수출활동에 미치는 영향에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 이와 같은 상황에서 용접관련 규격의 현황을 파악하고 우리가 지향하는 목표를 설정하는 것은 중요한 일이다. 본 글에서 규 격의 종류를 개괄하고, 용접관련 규격이 각 공정에서 어떻게 적용되는가를 살폈으며, 끝으로 용 접학회가 규격활동에 정진하여야 함을 나타내고자 하였다.