• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.170-178
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• 2016

This study analyzed difference in national pension receipt on life satisfaction and successful aging in people aged 60 or over, and then analyzed influence factors on them. As a result, The difference of receipt affected life satisfaction and successful aging. This means a large receipt is related to high life satisfaction and successful aging. The regression analysis result also showed the difference of receipt was significant in life satisfaction, but wasn't significant in successful aging. National pension receipt can increase life satisfaction by providing financial security, but for successful aging, social supports like good use of spare time are needed. Also, currently satisfaction with national pension receipt was low and receipt wasn't enough to stabilize their lives. Therefore, a political plan for improving receipt satisfaction and living a stable life through good use of spare time will be required in future.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.61-85
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the national pension affects the life satisfaction of old age, using the first and third-wave data from the Korean Retirement and Income Study. The study analyzes the relationship between the national pension and life satisfaction, using several operational definitions of these two variables. This study utilizes the Difference-in-Difference(2D) models and panel data analysis. The main results are : First, the result of simple 2D shows that there is not significantly difference between the pensioner and that of non-pensioner. Second, the result of 2D regression also shows that pension is not significantly associated with life satisfaction of the old age. Lastly, the result of fixed-effect model confirms that the national pension does not have a statistically meaningful effect on the life satisfaction, controling for the unobserved characteristics of the old age. This study also conducts sensitivity analysis and discusses policy implications.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.721-739
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• 2015

The importance of the old age income security will increase for an aging society due to the deepening income polarization. The National Pension(NP) is a representative Social Security scheme in charge of old age income security as well as income redistribution for the insured. Studies by Kim (2002), Kim et al. (2003), and Hong (2013) have reported the possibility of unsatisfactory income redistribution of the NP. Recently Choi (2015) attributed those results to an unnoticed defect in the benefit formula. This study is a test for the unsatisfactory income redistribution of the current National Pension using early participants who have now become pensioners. The method aggregates cohorts and combines individual history data before the year 2013 and the results of the actuarial projection model of the 2013 after the year 2014. The results are divided by measures taken. The redistribution is obviously progressive by the income replacement rate; however, it is significantly regressive when measured by the net benefit theoretically as more plausible. Considering the effect of differing lifetime contribution year among income classes, the regressive redistribution will prevail more in the future pensioners.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.195-202
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• 2016

The government has run and managed various forms of direct payment systems, such as the paddy and field direct payment, to ease the instability of farm incomes with respect to market opening, and preserve farm income. Direct payments to the agricultural sector is a center in the key policy instrument that plays an important role in income stabilization. Despite the large amount of spending in the farm unit, the status of direct payment, and policy effects the analysis of direct payments, such as stability of income contribution, are insufficient. This paper, using the farm unit DB in 2014 and 2015, performed farm level analysis of direct payment, and derived the implications of the performance evaluation system. As a result, the distribution of direct payment showed considerable bias to the left side compared to the normal distribution curve. Approximately half of the farms (49.3%) in 2014 DB should receive below 100,000 won per year by a direct payment. A larger-scale farm showed a significantly increased income effect and income stabilizing effect because direct payments make higher contributions to farm income in proportional to the area. In the more elderly farmers, a high contribution by direct payment to farm income was found to be an advantage; however, in small-scale farms of less than 0.5ha, direct payment contribution on farm household income was only 3%. In large-scale farms, 10ha or more, the contribution to farm income were found to be 29.4%. The income of large farms was 10 times larger than small farmers, and the direct payment entitlements that were received were 110 times larger. Through this policy, direct payments are required for future improvements and modifications.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.8 no.1 s.35
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• pp.150-158
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• 2007

The delay of construction is one of the most frequent and complicated elements of the claim. And the liquidated damages cause many disputes during the judgement. The liquidated damages should be a compensation for owner's substantial loss, but actually be applied as a damage for breach of contract. These damages are different from owner's loss and give constructors a excessive burden. So we need a more reasonable system than a lump application system. In this study, we make a Improvement System, that based on owner's substantial loss, and suggest the new liquidated damages calculation method.

• Journal of Teachers' Pension
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• v.2
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• pp.243-274
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• 2017

최근 우리나라는 유례를 찾아볼 수 없을 정도로 고령화 진행속도가 빠른 나라로 공적 연금재정과 연금제도의 지속가능성에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있는 상황이다. 따라서 사회보장제도 개혁에 성공한 국가로 잘 알려진 스웨덴 사례를 통해 사학연금제도의 유지 및 장기적 재정안정화에 시사하는 바를 찾고자 한다. 스웨덴 정부는 인구고령화에 따른 위험에 상대적으로 안전한 '명목확정기여(Notional Defined Contribution)'방식을 도입하여, 개인의 연금계좌에 연금보험료를 적립하여 수급시점에 본인이 부담한 보험료 상당액을 연금으로 돌려받을 수 있도록 운영하고 있다. 또한 경제상황이 예상 수준보다 침체되고 연금 재정수지가 악화될 경우 이와 연계하여 자동으로 연금가입자의 부담금을 높이고, 지출되는 급여액을 감소시키는 '자동재정균형장치(Automatic Balancing System)'를 도입하였다. 상기와 같이 기여와 급여를 명확하게 연계시키는 스웨덴의 명목확정기여 방식의 연금제도는 장기적 재정안정은 물론이고 안정적인 연금 급여를 제공한다고 평가되고 있다. 스웨덴은 연금개혁 후 확정기여(DC)제도로 전환하여 장기적인 제도 안정성을 추구하지만 사학연금은 확정급여(DB)제도를 유지하면서 급여수준의 하향조정과 보험료율을 점진적으로 상향시켜 재정안정성을 확보하는 것이 가장 큰 차이점이다. 스웨덴의 연금제도와 같이 공적연금의 틀을 유지하면서 사적연금의 장점을 최대로 수용한 명목확정기여 방식의 연금제도를 도입한다면 급격한 재정부담 없이 장기적으로 지속가능한 연금재정 안정화에 기여할 수 있을 것이다. 일견 스웨덴의 정치, 경제상황 및 문화적 특성 차이로 인해 스웨덴의 연금제도 방식을 획일적으로 사학연금제도에 적용하는 것은 불가능하다. 경제상황을 고려한 기여와 급여의 연계 강화를 개혁의 기본방향으로 설정한 스웨덴의 사례를 벤치마킹하여 사학연금 또한 거시경제상황과 조화를 이루는 제도개선 및 자동안정장치를 마련해 보는 것도 고려해 봄직 하다. 지속적으로 스웨덴 및 연금제도 선진 국가들의 연금개혁안을 재검토하여 사학연금제도에 현실적으로 적용할 수 있는 방안과 시사점들을 찾는 노력이 필요할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.406-414
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• 2020

The Farm-Closure Assistance (FCA) program is operated to compensate for lost farm income, to stabilize the management of low-competitive farms, and to enhance competitiveness of target items. The FCA, however, has several problems, such as the balloon effect and fraudulent receipts. Therefore, it is important to examine the operational problems of the FCA, establish improvement plans, and settle the measures. The objectives of this study are to analyze problems and suggest solutions for FCA, reflecting the viewpoints of local government officials who are in charge of actual tasks on the FCA front lines. The study analyzes whether characteristics of government officials lead to differences in setting the maximum amounts and extensions to FCA. Factors influencing the necessity of setting ceilings on FCA were work experience, recognition of agriculture's importance, and the FTA's impact on domestic agriculture, gender, and regions. Factors affecting the extension of FCA were the agency unit, work experience on the FTA, recognition of the effects of FTA direct payments and FCA, and recognition of the subsidy's direction. The results can be employed as a fundamental background that can set the direction for institutional improvement when the government tries to improve FCA.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.435-450
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• 2020

How do Korean people recognize major welfare policies of the Moon Jae-in government? Using a survey of 1,000 adults conducted in December 2018, this study examines what the public thinks about major issues related to welfare policies and what factors are related to variations in their opinions regarding the welfare policies. Results show that the public recognized the roles of government in providing welfare in a positive way. The positive opinion on expanding the coverage of National Health Insurance was the highest. Regarding the resolutions of fiscal problems of the National Pension Plan, there were substantial oppositions to reforms such as insurance premium increase, benefits cut, and increase in the age of receipt of pension benefits. Both efficiency and equality were perceived as important when government makes decision for allocating budgets. Only one-third of respondents agreed Korean government contributed to promoting the happiness of Korean people. Based on these findings, implications for developing welfare policies were discussed.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.221-229
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• 2009

This study develops the optimized operation program which enables effective and economic operation between individual and connected branch offices by analyzing the current status and influential indicators of district heating companies' capital branch offices. Accordingly, the study examines the efficiency of optimized operation program. In doing so, this study has diagnosed and analyzed various factors, such as boilers, pumps, and relevant tags (temperature, pressure, fuel amount) through investigation of individual branch offices, and finally succeeded in developing wide-ranging data base by factor covering one-year time period. Additionally, after running the optimized operation program, different branch offices, optimum preference has turned out "incinerator receiving heat from KEPCO>CHP >PLBs>PLBw." Meantime, except the connected offices, there has been no big difference between actual and optimum operation program in branch offices. Meanwhile, the integrated optimum operation program has made it possible the most optimal result only via the connecting supply and demand heat without changing received Heat from KEPCO which is the same as total productive heat. The result has showed that the reduction percentage per day is 2.45~6.80%, and the reduction cost per day is 22,727~60,077 thousand won given the randomly selected sample days. In particular, winter time shows the highest demand with the largest reduction cost whereas summer time illustrates the lowest demand with the smallest reduction cost. Given this result, reduction cost per year compared to actual heat production cost for one year theoretically would be 84 hundred million won. Also, the economic effect showed that the reduction cost percentage per year is more than 2.74% on heat production cost per year for all capital branch offices.