• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.203-216
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• 2005

Many picture books are published every year. Book reviews can play an important role in building knowledge about newly published book. This study analyzed data the coverage and content of reviews in journals with a view to helping librarians and parents become more aware of content and coverage of reviews for picture books. Variations of bibliographic and ordering information appeared among all journals. Most reviews typically included a plot summary and a general statement about the illustrations. Overall, journals provided more comments on literary elements than artistic elements. However, reviews provided insufficient information about the background of reviewers. Physical description of the books appeared in 8.81 % of the sample.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.215-234
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to analyze the pattern of book review in the daily newspaper. Literature and social science are relatively main subject area reviewed at the daily Donga, Hankuk Mail. Each newspaper has different size of page that make much differences in quantity and quality of reviewed books, bookreviewers, and book reviews. Frequency of daily newspapers assure comparatively short timelag-intervals between publication date and review date.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.23
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• pp.471-503
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• 1995

Originally [descriptive review] is widely used by general reader. In contrast with this, [critical review] is generally used by librarian and researcher. Like this, book review is divided into descriptive review and critical review. Besides, the present writer su n.0, pposes to make additions to [interpretative review]. In this study, the present writer tries to realize full-scale review concerning [The Root Problem of Law Philosophy/Kim, Pyong-Kyu] by critical review and interpretative review. Together, the contents on which the critical review of law philosophy is based on were investigated as follows: (1) The law and metaphor (2) The Oriental law and natural law (3) The golden rule in the Orient (4) The ideology and justice of Confucianism (5) The justice in Confucian thought (6) The essay on justice of the West and the Orient (7) The significance of the Oriental morality (8) The relation of morality, ceremony and law (9) The essay on conscience (10) The essay on conscience of the Orient and the West

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.247-262
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• 1994

This study is concerned with analysis of all the reviews published by the reviewing periodicals, The Book Review Culture and The Korean Publishing Journal, from 1991 to 1993. The result of analysis for 736 reviews are followed： 1) The percentage of reviews in the field of philosophy & religion, literature ＆ language, science ＆ technology is lower than the percent-age of books published. But in the field of history and social science the reviewing is proportionately higher than the publishing. 2) Book reviews are prepared by professors, literary reviewers, researchers, and experts in the particular subject field except librarian. 3) Basic elements of reviewing are the career and view point of author, trends of suject field, content, value, omissions, limitations, and format of book, reader's level, etc. Ideal method of book criticism may be summarized as follows： 1) The criterion of book selection are the book's value, the social . demand, and the proportion of titles published. 2) For the unbiased criticism, it should be written by the experienced librarian rather than the experts of particular subject field. 3) Book criticism need to provide not only guide to new books but also interpretation and evaluation about each book for its reader.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.573-594
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• 2004

Four statistics books, one translated by statisticians and three by non-statisticians, are reviewed. They are reviewed in terms of indices and bibliographies, statistical theory and terms, and the history of statistics. In addition, book review articles appeared in daily newspapers are considered. Unfortunately, we can find many(some of them trivial, and some others serious) problems in the translations. Many problems could have been got around if the books had been translated by statisticians. So, conclusion suggested in this article is very simple: Translation of statistics books, especially books for the laymen, is a job that Korean statisticians should not shift to others. Titles of the books reviewed in this article are as follows. 1. Rao, C. Radhakrishna(1997). Statistics and Truth : Putting Chance to Work, Second edition, World Scientific. 2. Best, Joel (2001). Damnel lies and Statistics : Understanding Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists, University of California Press. 3. Bennett, Deborah J. (1998). Randomness, Harvard University Press; 4. Salsburg, David (2001). The Lady Tasting Tea : How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century, W. H. Freeman.