• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2016

The increased number of foreigners in Korea (now more than 1.8 million) has necessitated understanding, analyzing and interpreting the immigration issues in order to solve the foreign workers' social problems. Foreign workers in Korea are suffering from a lot of difficulties such as bad working conditions, lower income, unpaid wages, cultural adaptation, etc. This paper aims to investigate how the social capital factors (social network and social support) and media use (Korean and Chinese media) influence cultural adaptation and job satisfaction. In addition, the paper aims to provide practical guidelines for social welfare organizations and enterprises which support and recruit them. The sample of our respondents was 273 Chinese workers (216 Korean-Chinese workers and 57 Han-Chinese workers) in Korea. We used SPSS 21.0 for statistical analysis. The results are as follows: Korean network, native network, family support, native support and Korean media use have a significant effect on cultural adaptation. Korean network, native network, family support, native support and Korean media use have a significant impact on job satisfaction. Furthermore, cultural adaptation was found to mediate the relationship between Korean/native network and job satisfaction as well as between family/native support and job satisfaction. Cultural adaptation was also found to mediate the relationship between Korean media use and job satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.62-78
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• 2015

This paper aims to consider regional linkages in the Province of Young-nam mainly through a social network analysis of sociocultural activities such as leisure, friendly relations and visiting relatives. Passenger O-D data as of 2012 provided by National Transportation DB Center are analyzed using the NetMiner 4.0. The analytical results show that the sociocultural relationship between Daegu-Kyoungbuk and Busan-Ulsan-Kyioungnam is not so close. In particular, some north regions of Kyoungbuk are relatively isolated in the Province of Young-nam. This implicates that regions in the Province of Young-nam are not closely united at least in terms of sociocultural linkages although they are in the homogeneous natural environment of the basin of the Nakdong-river and share a same historical background for a long time. Consequentially this work suggests the Province of Young-nam may not be an united single region on the contrary to a notion of it so far.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.247-256
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• 2013

Prior research has shown empirically that organizational culture and social capital are as a critical factor determining organizational effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of social welfare's organizational culture on the social capital. For the research, social capital was consisted of trust, norms and network, and organizational culture was measured by Kimberly & Quinn's competing value model. The results of this study were summarized as follows: Mean analyses showed that social workers perceived the level of organizational culture and social capital had a higher than medium. Especially, group culture had a strong positive effects on the social capital. This study finally discussed theoretical implications for future study and practical implications for social capital strategies on the results.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.403-426
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• 2015

This study attempts to analyze the structure of collaborative network among multicultural agencies in Busan area. The survey was conducted with such agencies as multicultural family support centers, regional government offices, public libraries, social welfare centers, and other NGO-supported agencies, in order to analyze the structural features of the network. The results of the study indicate that cooperative networks are hardly in action except for the one among agencies which share their function, roles, and characteristics in common, that regional government offices and multicultural family support centers have high density networks with other agencies and performed major roles. Public libraries, however, only collaborate with other libraries, or did not participated in the networks, which indicates that endeavors of public libraries to cooperate with other multicultural agencies is needed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.73-87
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the cultural difference between eastern and western culture in the online community in view of Hofstede dimensions of national culture through social network analysis. And this study tries to interpret the cultural dimensions by using social network indexes. The results show every cultural dimension offered conflicting results except uncertainty avoidance. The eastern culture shows individualism, and low power distance compared to western culture in the online community. Moreover the communication speed of eastern culture is faster than western culture. But eastern culture shows high uncertainty avoidance in the online community similar to an offline culture. This results of this study show that because of certain differences between the offline and online culture, the typical framework we use to analyze offline culture should not be applied to analyze online culture. Therefore we believe that the most important contribution of this study should be related with the finding that we need very different approach to be able to correctly understand the prevalent culture in the online community than the one that we use in the offline community.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.6-7
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• 2000

정보혁명의 원동력인 디지털 기술(디지타이징, 멀티미디어, 네트워크, 데이터베이스)은 기술적인 측면을 넘어 사회 문화적으로 다양한 파급효과를 불러일으키고 있다. 정보, 컴퓨터, 커뮤니케이션 혁명으로 불리는 디지털 기술은 탈중심화, 세계화, 분권화, 정보공유의 가속화, 문화적 반작용 등, 정치, 경제, 사회, 문화의 여러 분야에 커다란 변화를 가져왔다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Family Social Work
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• no.61
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• pp.35-57
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• 2018

This study explores how married migrant women in Korea create social capital in their everyday lives, and how their social capital influences cultural acculturation. This study performs a structural equation model, using two-year data of female migrant women. The results suggest that network elements, including official supports from public organizations and unofficial supports from personal ties, contribute to creation of perceptual elements, including social trust, community involvement and relations. Also, these two elements of social capital have positive impact on acculturation of married migrant women in Korea. The longitudinal analysis provides a basic understanding of the creation of social capital and the relationship between social capital and acculturation of married migrant women and also clearly suggests the importance of public supports rather than personal supports from family or friends.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.4801-4811
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing performance of internal, external environment and entrepreneurship in the social enterprise with network activity. This model tests various theoretical research hypotheses relating to performance of social enterprise, internal, external environment, entrepreneurship and network activity. The proposed model is analyzed to target social entrepreneurs. The results of hypothesis testing are as follows. First, organizational culture positively influence entrepreneurship. Second, environmental uncertainty positively influence entrepreneurship. Third, entrepreneurship positively influence managerial and social performance. Finally, organizational culture to entrepreneurship for high group of network activity is significantly larger than those for low group of network activity. In addition, environmental uncertainty to entrepreneurship for low group of network activity is significantly larger than those for high group of network activity.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.131-154
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• 2011

Rapid social changes due to digitization have created new psychological challenges of adapting and coping. Plays are in the center of these changes. Plays used to be collateral activities of labor in the traditional society and industrial society, but they have become key activities embracing economy, society, culture in a digital society that has been maximized productivity and efficiency. Still, the theoretical approach of plays is based on the industrial societies. Analyzing these points, the psychological impacts of players using multimedia, social networking, and digital games utilizing both of them was dealt in this article. I dealt with multimedia, social networking, and digital games as key characteristic of digital culture. The difference between traditional psychology and Digital Cultural Psychology was dealt in the perspective of self-concept, information processing, and sex role. Then the conclusion on the future directions of Digital Cultural Psychology and its limitations will be followed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.53-66
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• 2021

This study explored how the network structure in terms of social interactions among users via a mobile game has changed longitudinally. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, in-game events are likely to increase the social interactions of users. Second, some power users played key roles in the game users' network and tend to make a large sub-group for interacting among users. Third, it is suggested that the analysis of network structure among users can be a useful tool for monitoring which in-game events are effective and how they are mutually interconnected for collaboration.