• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.37
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• pp.143-169
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• 1999

The problems of unemployment have been recognized as male problems even though the female unemployment problems are as significant as those of men since IMF. The women who have experienced insecure employment and lower wage than men in the labor market are having more serious economic difficulties after being unemployed. Especially economic problems of the unemployed female headed families are anticipated to be tremendous because the female heads do not have spouses who can act as a buffer seeking or beginning to work to reduce economic hardship. The purpose of this paper is to compare living conditions and utilization of the unemployment programs between male and female heads of the family who are unemployed and discouraged workers. It will examine the functionalism, human capital theory, and feminist perspectives on the cause of female unemployment in order to help understanding of their living situations after being unemployed. Then, it will compare the socio-demographic characteristics, their economic activities before being unemployed, their living conditions and changes in family life after being unemployed, their efforts to overcome unemployment and utilization of various government unemployment programs. It used the national data of National Unemployment Survey of Korean Institute of Health and Social Affairs conducted in 1998 and analyzed 283 female and 1,528 male family heads who are unemployed and discouraged workers. It reveals that the female family heads experienced lower economic status in the labor market before being unemployed, are having more serious economic hardship because of it, utilize more of the government programs such as public work and public assistance than the male family heads but less of the public loans for the unemployed. It recommends expansion of public work and public assistance, more vigorous advertisement of various unemployment programs, and active training of job creation technique for female family heads.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.377-401
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• 1994

This study examines the impact of national economic restructuring on regional development patterns. Korea's development over the last decade has been characterized by a rapid economic restructuring towards the information economy. This economic restructuring has had significant impacts on regional development patterns. The most remarkable feature is a clear coreperiphery disparity in terms of levels of informatization. Seoul showed an extraordinarily high level of informatization. The process of regional development in the information era is marked by an intensified spatial division of labor, which articulates with the pre-existing pattern of regional disparity. Information infrastructrue improvements for regional development do not necessarily result in reductions in regional unevenness. There is an urgent need to develop the integrated regional informatization strategy.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.95-116
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• 2006

Traditionally, foreign labor inflow into Korea has been rare and, hence, issues on foreign workers did not draw much attention. However, changing economic conditions of the Korean economy, such as "labor-shortage" problem in SMEs in manufacturing sector, has made the Korean government open its door to the foreign workers since the early 1990s through the Industrial Trainee System. The inflow of foreign workers, on the other hand, has generated various social and economic problems, such as substantial increase of illegal over-stayers, illegal utilization of foreign unskilled workers by domestic SMEs, to name a few. Against this background, the Employment Permit System was implemented from 2004. This new system aims at supplying foreign workers to SMEs as well as protecting them as legal 'employees'. In any case, it is very important to understand how and to what extent the inflow of foreign workers have affected the Korean economy in order to establish long-term policy stance. This paper aims to empirically assess the economic impact of foreign workers on domestic workers in the manufacturing sector during 1997~20001, focusing on the Industrial Trainee System. The empirical results of the paper can be summarized as follows. First, there is some evidence that male semi-skilled workers are the group that is likely to have been displaced by industrial trainees. Second, we were unable to find any strong evidence suggesting that the inflow of foreign industrial trainees decreased wages of less-skilled Korean workers.

• Analyses & Alternatives
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.45-81
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• 2023

This paper examines how Korean economy has been asymmetrically changed after economics crises. The three crises during the last three decades, covid19, global financial crisis, and currency crisis, have deteriorated the economic inequalities of Korea in various ways. First, manufacture industry has been affected larger by economic crises, but recovered fast. The shocks in service sector were small but persist longer or were permanent. Second, although the covid19 spreaded out more to the capital area, the negative economic shock was greater in the non-capital region. That is, the crisis in the capital region transferred or amplified to the other region. Third, the inequality between permanent and temporary workers became worse after crises. Fourth, the sluggish small business growth problem became more serious during the covid19. In order to overcome the industrial and labor inequality, it is desirable to government strategy for economic development from focusing on high value-added industry to a balanced growth for all industry and region. To this end, governemt support should be asymmetric. That is, it should focus on indirect support such as regulatory reforms in the high value-added and private-led industries, and, for small business related service sector and non-capital region which have had limited opportunity of renovation and growth, the more active effort of government and government-driven gowth strategy would be desirable.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.39
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• pp.324-354
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• 2007

Facts, which constitute news, are as free as air. When they are transformed into news via labor and capital investment of a news organization, the news is deemed to have property values, and the media can claim exclusive rights over the news. The copyright law protects the originality of a work, the uniqueness of reporter's analysis, the selection of words, the arrangement of materials, and the emphasis given on particular points. The name of the game of copyright infringement lies in the infringement of the similarity of the method of expression, not the infringement of the subject. Even though news articles convey information by specifying factual elements of an event or accident, they still have some originality. The judgement that news articles lack of originality is inconsistent with the purpose of the copyright law. Therefore, the law should be amended to articulate that the unauthorized use of news articles without a proper citation shall be the subject of legal action, and courts should decide related cases accordingly.

• Journal of Advanced Technology Convergence
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.49-55
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• 2022

Women's welfare needs to claim a women-centered and independent welfare implementation line rather than simply staying within the framework of overall social welfare. A significant number of existing women's welfare programs have shown a tendency to protect women under the patriarchal premise. However, women's welfare in the future should go in the direction of helping women to improve the quality of life as an individual out of the limited frame of family. Providing compensation for protecting dependent families is also an important aspect of women's welfare. In other words, it is necessary to study how the government provides economic direct and indirect compensation to women who have lost the opportunity to participate in labor because they have to take care of children, the disabled, or the elderly. In addition, it is expected that welfare can be improved by inducing men's participation in reproductive activities through social education and relieving women's obligations to their families.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.13-31
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• 2023

Korean Government-PKI (GPKI) is a public-key infrastructure which provides authentication and security functions for information system used by central government, local governments, and public institutions of the Republic of Korea to provide their own administrative and public services. The current cryptosystem of GPKI was established in the early 2000s, and more than ten years have passed since the last improvement in 2010. Over the past decade or so, the information security, including cryptography, has undergone many changes and will continue to face many changes. Therefore, for the sustainable security of GPKI, it is necessary to review the security of the cryptosystem at this point. In this paper, we analyze the current status and the security of technologies and standards used in the system. We identify cryptographic algorithms with degraded security, international standards which are obsoleted or updated, and cryptographic parameters that should be revised for the high security level. And based on this, we make several suggestions on the reorganization of cryptographic algorithms and related technologies for the security enhancement of GPKI.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.365-378
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• 2024

The operating system (OS) of mobiles or embedded devices is based on the Linux kernel. These OSs request random numbers from the Linux kernel for system operation, such as encryption keys and security features. To provide random numbers reliably, the Linux kernel has a dedicated random number generator (Linux Pseudo Random Number Generator, LPRNG). Recently, LPRNG has undergone a major structural changes. However, despite the major changes, no security analysis has been published on the structure of the new LPRNG. Therefore, we analyze these structural changes as a preliminary study to utilize the security analysis of the new LPRNG. Furthermore, the differences between before and after the changes are divided into cryptographic and performance perspectives to identify elements that require security analysis. This result will help us understand the new LPRNG and serve as a base for security analysis.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.11 no.spc
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• pp.97-115
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• 2005

This study investigated the factors that influence the attitude, trust, and acceptance toward the North Korean residents by South Koreans. Three hundred and ninety-two South Koreans, including 222 with no contact experience with North Korean residents and 170 with contact experience, answered a questionnaire. The experience group included police officers who provide protection and settlement service, labor counsellors, social workers, church people, college classmates and tutors, and teachers in alternative schools for North Korean youths. The results indicated that protecting police officers have highly negative attitudes in both cognitive and affective dimensions and also show low trust and acceptance. Teachers in alternative schools, on the other hand, were found to have both positive and negative cognitive evaluations of North Korean residents, but still maintained positive affect and high trust and acceptance. People with no contact experience had negative affect along with pity, and showed medium level trust and acceptance. The distinctive difference between the police officers and teachers were attributed to the individual characteristics such as authoritarian personality and uncertainty avoidance rather than to the frequency or depth of contact. The most important determinant of trust and acceptance were found to be the affective component. The implications of these findings on the selection and training of interface personnel and peace education were discussed.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.161-190
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• 1993

우리나라의 산재보험제도(産災保險制度)는 최초의 사회보장제도(社會保障制度)로서 1964년부터 실시되어 동로자(動勞者)들의 생활보호(生活保護)에 중요한 역할을 하여 왔다. 그러다 양적(量的)인 확대(擴大)에도 불구하고 현재와 우리나라 산재보험제도는 많은 문제점을 가지고 있는데, 예를 들어 동로자(動勞者)들은 급여수준(給與水準)에 대하여 큰 불만을 가지고 있는 반면 사용자(使用者)들은 보험제도를 통한 근로자들의 노동기피현상(勞動忌避現象)(shirking)을 정부측(政府測)에서 적절히 통제하지 못하고 있다고 주장한다. 본(本) 논문(論文)은 이러한 맥락에서 임금(賃金)과 산재휴업일수(産災休業日數)간의 관계를 고찰하고자 한다. 임금수준(賃金水準)은 휴업일수(休業日數)에 대하여 두가지 경로(經路)를 통하여 영향을 미친다. 첫째로, 임금(賃金)이 높을수록 휴업을 빨리 끝내고 재취업(再就業)하려는 유인(誘引)이 강해지는 반면, 둘째로 임금(賃金)이 높을수록 이의 일정비율(一定比率)로 정해지는 휴업급여(休業給與)도 높아져서 재취업(再就業)의 유인(誘引)이 감소한다. 본(本) 논문(論文)은 재해동로자(災害動勞者)들에 대한 횡단면(橫斷面) 분석(分析)을 통하여 이러한 두 영향의 상대적(相對的) 크기를 살펴보고, 이것이 임금계층(賃金階層)에 따라 어떻게 달라지는지를 실증분석(實證分析)하였다. 이를 위해서 여러가지 유형(類型)의 듀레이션(duration)유형(類型)을 추정하였는데, 분석 결과 임금(賃金)에 대한 휴업일수(休業日數)의 탄력성(彈力性)은 평균적으로 양(+)이며 또한 이 탄력성(彈力性)은 임금수준(賃金水準)이 높을수룩 높아지는 것을 발견하였다. 이러한 발견은 현재 모든 임금계층(賃金階層)에게 재해전(災害前) 평균임금(平均賃金)의 70%로 정해져 있는 휴업급여(休業給與) 산정방식(算定方式)을 조정하여 고임금동노자(高賃金動勞者)에게는 임금대체율(賃金代替率)을 하향조정(下向調整)할 필요가 있음을 의미한다.