• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.73-99
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• 2015

A subsidy policy on early scrapping of old diesel vehicles has been activated to improve air pollution in Seoul metropolitan area. The benefit-cost analysis on this policy evidently shows cost effective as benefit is greater than cost. The policy currently provides 80% of old diesel vehicle's worth within the maximum amount capped which limited the effects on increasing the level of subsidy. Therefore, to induce more old diesel vehicles scrapped, it is needed to consider that the level of subsidy and the maximum amount are raised at the same time. Meanwhile, taking account of insufficient subsidy amount, granting older vehicles more subsidy would be a good way of extending the policy effect.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.479-487
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• 2015

In Korea, there are 1,474 thousand pumping wells nationwide which account for about 12% of total water use in 2012. As much as 39 hundred million tons of groundwater were used while 333 hundred million tons of total water were supplied in 2012. Because the water management authority projects that water demand will exceed supply by 2021, the authority is planning to extensively expand groundwater use in accordance with economic feasibility. Using the basic frameworks of cost-benefit analyses of the World Bank and the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), the objective of this study is to examine the costs and benefits of the expansion of Korea's groundwater extraction through pumping wells. We conclude that the BC ratio of the groundwater pumping wells is 2.98. This signifies that the benefits are 2.98 times higher than the costs. The benefits include use and non-use values of pumping wells while the costs include the installation and maintenance of new wells, in addition to the restoration and pollution costs of abandoned wells, as well as fees for water quality tests, etc.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1351-1359
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• 2003

Extreme programming is the most representative methodology among agile software development methodologies which is agile in business environment which change fast. As software industry is matured, usability of software quality characteristics is emphasized gradually, but effort to obtain usability in extreme programming is insufficient. To improve usability of extreme programming, in this thesis, a software life cycle is defined by six phase as exploration, planning, iterations to release, productionizing, maintenance, and death phase. In this thesis, an extreme programming process which can improve usability is proposed by definition of 11 activities including integration testing and acceptance testing for usability testing, The proposed process is validated with four aspects. The proposed process is enhanced to support acceptance testing activity. The proposed extreme programming process is able to support CMM level 4 and quality assurance practice of CMM.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-109
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• 2007

This study evaluates citizen's willingness-to-pay for the benefits from improved water quality of the Taehwa river in Ulsan, Korea, using a contingent valuation method with double-bounded dichotomous choice. The estimation results of the bivariate probit model shows the amounts of willingness-to-pay are monthly 3,458.5 Korean Won per household and yearly 14,760 million Korean Won for total households in Ulsan, Korea. These estimates are equivalent to the social values of improved water quality of the Taehwa river. This study also tests the inter-dependence between two answers, which may occur in the responses of the questions for the double-bounded dichotomous choice, and all the null hypotheses on the inter-dependence are rejected in this study.

• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.479-496
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• 2013

Today, a corporate and the government is making significant investments in informatization in order to enhance competitiveness however, question on the outcome of information-oriented investment has continuously been posed and in order to resolve such problems, the technique of Enterprise Architecture (EA) Despite such fact, in the case of the central administrative institute, even if the EA maturity standard has continuously improved through continuous investment when compared to the past without deviation between institutes, the establishment of EA and the work utilization of EA compared to the management competence still is analyzed to be relatively weak. This study completed the preliminary feasibility study in 2012 for Korea Customs Service which has been appointed as the representative institute that best utilizes EA in the field of information operation and evaluation field in the 2010 EA Maturity Evaluation and it can become a case study that can contribute to more continuous development and improvement of other public institute EA by introducing the performance of EA-based 4th Korean National Customs Information Network which has entered into total reconstruction in 2013 and by identifying the implications of EA performance arising from such.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.669-673
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• 2012

제방안전성 모니터링은 제방파괴로부터 국민의 생명과 재산을 보호하는데 필요한 정보를 얻을 수 있는 하나의 방법이 될 수 있다. 근래에 미국은 2005년 허리케인 카타리나에 의해 2,000여명의 인명손실을 경험하였고 2011년 3월 일본은 도후쿠지역의 초강력 지진에 의한 쓰나미로 인해 수만명의 인명과 후쿠시마 원자력 발전소의 침수로 지금까지 방사능 누출 차단작업을 벌이고 있다. 국내에서는 4대강 복원사업으로 주요 국가 하천 구간에서 홍수 및 체제 불안정에 의한 제방붕괴사고위험이 현격하게 줄어들었으나 제방의 안전성은 더욱 강조되고 있다. 즉 신설된 보 주변, 배수통문 신설구간 그리고 제방누수 예상지점 등에서는 아직 안전한 상태라고 확신할 수 없으며 지속적인 모니터링이 요구된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 광섬유를 이용하여 개발한 간극수압 및 온도 센서 등을 위험예상지점에 설치하고 정보시스템을 통하여 어떻게 관리 할 것인가에 대한 사전 검토를 계획하였다. 이를 위하여 제방에 센서를 설치하기 전에 주요 검토사항에 대하여 연구분석하였다. 주요 검토사항에는 설치하고자 하는 지점의 제방거동 메커니즘 예측, 왜 계측시스템을 설치하는지에 대한 목적에 대한 평가, 설치 지점의 제방의 토질공학적 문제점 파악, 모니터링 대상 매개변수 혹은 항목 선정, 조사대상 항목의 변화정도를 예측하여 거동 범위 확정, 적정 계측기기 설치 지점을 선청, 계측기기 선정, 자동화 혹은 실시간 정보시스템에 필요한 사항 결정, 관측에 영향을 미치는 인자들의 기록 계획, 정보의 타당성 확보를 위한 필요사항 정립, 비용의 결정, 장기 예측 계획, 정기 검 보정 및 관리 계획, 자료수집 및 관리계획, 자원의 공조 및 생애주기 비용 등을 포함하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.7-16
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• 2009

This paper proposes a plan which can raise the accuracy of economic benefit estimation in road construction projects. The point of existing economic appraisals may be that the speeds forecasted by models are different from the field speeds because only volumes are calibrated in the road network. The result of such a calibration has an influence on estimating wrong economic benefits in terms of vehicle operating cost savings, travel time savings, and air pollution savings. Then this study performs a calibration when volumes are at the same amount but the calibration between the field speeds and model speeds is different from each other with two different volume-delay functions; the differences of benefits are confirmed according to two different speed calibrations. Three improvement schemes, including the development of a new volume-delay function, are proposed in this study in order to solve the problem of current benefit calculations. The outcome of this study will help practitioners perform more accurate benefit calculations and reasonable economic appraisals.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.43-66
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the free economic zone policy from the viewpoint of Policy Science. because of insufficiency on policy science of the previous researches for the free economic zone. So Trying on free economic zone policy from the viewpoint of policy science, the paper is shown the new proposal for free economic zone policy. For this trying, this paper used to the viewpoint of policy science; (1) the system of policy(policy process, policy content(pattern)), (2) the policy implementation(local government-central intergovernmental management). In the end, beyond the previous research on the free economic zone policy, shown on not only new viewpoints on the free economic zone, but also, the solutions of practical implementation for free economic zone on the free economic zone.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.110 no.3
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• pp.453-461
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• 2021

The energy use of forest biomass is crucial to deal with climate change and achieve the carbon-neutral goal. This study aims to analyze the economic feasibility of forest biomass thermal energy facilities and calculate the optimal subsidy level of heat supply to ensure continued operation of the facilities. To achieve this aim, the net present value approach (NPV) and call option price model are adopted considering wood chip price volatilities. The Forest Energy Self-Sufficient Village Project financed by Korea Forest Service is considered as the research case study. In our analysis, when 50% of the initial investment is given to the subsidies and RECs are applied to only power generation, NPV and IRR are both negative and the investment value using the real option model is also zero. We concluded that some heat subsidies should be acknowledged to keep the facilities operating. Besides, the simulation results reveal reliable economic values when the heating subsidy is priced at KRW 0.0248 per kcal.

• The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.1-31
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• 2021

This study is to evaluate the prior economic feasibility of the off-shore fisheries stock enhancement project. The main findings of this study can be summarized as follows: first, offshore fisheries stock enhancement project shall be implemented by dividing them into 1st·2nd·3rd projects for efficient promotion. The 1st·2nd·3rd projects will be conducted in a total of 50 locations (the eastern sea, the western sea, the southern sea, and the jeju sea areas), and the project period per unit will be five years, which will cost 1 trillion won. Second, according to the results of the survey on public awareness, the most consumed marine species in Korea over the past year were analyzed in the order of mackerel, hairtail, squid, yellow corvina, blue crab, and cod. The dominant response to the reason for consuming marine products in Korea was healthy well-being food and safe food. In addition, 67.9% of them have hesitated to purchase offshore fish species over the past year due to high prices, indicating that they are burdened by high prices. On the other hand, 79% of the respondents said that the government's policy was insufficient, according to a survey on whether the government's coastal marine resource creation policy was sufficient. Third, as a result of preliminary economic analysis of offshore fisheries stock enhancement project, the benefit-cost ratio is 4.01, net present price is 1,283.7 billion won, and internal rate of return is 91.7% per year, which means that the economic analysis ensures the feasibility of the projects. The results of this study provide useful information on securing or organizing budgets for offshore fisheries stock enhancement project by securing economic feasibility as a national infrastructure project that increases fishery income and public benefits such as consumption of marine products.