• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.154-169
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• 2008

Geography textbooks often have treated the world as a collection of independent nations. Also, many scholars have warned of ethnocentric bias in geography textbooks. Global education that emphasizes world interdependence and pursues global perspectives offers some possibilities to go beyond the status quo of current World Geography textbooks. The primary objective of this study is to analyze current US World Geography textbooks in terms of global education. A secondary objective is to explore a framework for rereading World Geography textbooks critically. This interpretive qualitative case study indicates that US World Geography textbooks maintain an imperialist and American-centered perspective. Especially, the case of Korea shows that other places and people are underrepresented through dichotomy, negative attitude and exclusion, misconception and stereotyping, and simplification in textbooks. Therefore, we need to detect conscious and unconscious fallacy and bias, to understand the world view and experiences of underrepresented people, and to deal with controversial global issues from diverse perspectives through global perspectives and post-colonial perspectives of global education.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.363-376
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• 2020

Various policies and institutional efforts are being made for mature democracy and more sustainable administration of our society. In this respect, the importance of civic participation, considered essential in environmental impact assessment, has been consistently emphasized in the relevant theories and practices. Although various methods and forms of public participation are taking place in Korea, criticism is widely understood that collecting citizens' opinions in the decision-making process has become ineffective and formal. Starting from these issues, this paper seeks to learn lessons from the foreign cases in the international context. Extensive literature review was conducted to examine the meaning and objectives of public participation in EIA and the tactical principles. Based on this, the participatory systems and procedures in the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Canada were critically reviewed, and the implications were derived through specific cases. The results are, first, the provision of specific public participation guidelines, second, the securing of transparency in the decision-making process, third, the expansion of procedural participation levels, and lastly, the guarantee of participation opportunities. This paper is meaningful as a basic study to enrich discussions on public participation in the domestic EIA hoping to help research through more diverse empirical cases in the future.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.3 no.1 s.5
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• pp.41-73
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• 2003

Personal genetic information is information about a person's genetic characteristics, which may reveal important information about private matters such as susceptibility to disease. Progress in genetics makes it much easier to obtain personal genetic information, and this leads to concerns about confidentiality and security of genetic information, and about possible genetic discrimination. This paper examines social issues related to human genetic information in terms of individual identification, diagnosis of diseases, and non-medical genetic test, and then tries to provide desirable citizens participation methods that can be used when making public policies related to genetic information protection.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.65-76
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• 2015

This paper examines the influence of neutralization techniques and voluntary actions on intention to comply information security policy. Data were collected through an online survey and hypothesis results were all hypotheses were supported. The results of this study improve understanding on the voluntary nature of employee behavior for participating in the organization's policies and the rationalization of the employees trying weakening the organization's policy intentions. The organization shoud implement specific education and training in order to suppress the rationalization of employees and develop a plan to have a kinship with the employees of the organization.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.141-177
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• 2019

This paper explains cross-national variation of CPI(corruption perception index) centering on legal culture. By critically reviewing previous researches on effects of British common law system on corruption, we define legal culture as citizens' perception of their legal system. Specifically, measuring legal culture with respect to courts fairness and courts accessibility, we test two hypotheses on effects of legal culture on corruption. A cross-national comparison of 78 countries with OLS regression analyses reveals that courts fairness tends to lower the level of corruption while courts accessibility does not have a significant effect on corruption. Based on this result, we suggest policy implications for judicial reform as well as anti-corruption measure, which puts more emphasis on reforming legal practice that hinders courts fairness than increasing legal service supply. In addition, as the essence of legal culture lies in citizens' shared perception of the legal system, we argue that a broad and solid citizens' consciousness of fair and equitable legal procedures is indispensable in preventing corruption.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.357-365
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• 2008

The Korean Government is enforcing policies to activate domestic adoption in order to guarantee and protect stable family lives of children requiring protection. We surveyed recognitions and attitudes toward adoption and adoption policies of Daejeon citizens. The result will be important information for activating domestic adoption. We could find that motives of adoption centered on adopted children rather than adoptive parents. Especially, the recognition level toward open adoption is high, which shows that the domestic adoption can be activated if multiple political supports are provided for adopted children and adoptive families.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.143-147
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• 2011

3월11일 오후 2시46분경 일본 동북지역을 중심으로 M. 9.0 규모의 동일본대지진이 발생해 수많은 희생자가 나왔다. 지진발생 후 쓰나미가 일어나 방사선이 대량으로 유출되는 등 일본사상 최대의 국가적인 복합재난이 일어났다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 일본인들이 침착함을 잃지 않은 시민의식에 대해 세계 시민들은 극찬을 아끼지 않았다. 우리나라도 국가적으로는 대형 재난발생 시를 대비하여 행정안전부, 방송통신위원회, 소방방재청, 기상청, KBS, 재난전문가 등으로 구성된 가칭 "긴급재난방송협의회" 같은 것을 구성하여 긴밀하게 재난정보를 교환하는 유기적인 협력체제구성이 필요하다. 또, 나아가서는 이들 관련 부서에서는 재난방송 전담관을 두어 재난방송에 적극적으로 대처하여야 할 것으로 본다. 정부도 KBS에 대해 대폭적인 지원을 아끼지 않아야 하겠지만, KBS 또한 지금까지의 대응 자세에서 벗어나 "재난방송의 선진화"를 위해 재난방송시스템을 새로 구축해야 할 것이다. 마지막으로 KBS는 NHK의 지상파방송과 같이 KBS 위상에 걸 맞는 재난방송시스템을 구축하는 한편, 디지털시대에 있어서의 뉴 미디어를 이용하여 DMB나 스마트 폰, SNS 등을 이용한 각종 재난경보체제를 선도해야 할 재난주관방송사로서의 의무가 있다. 그것이 곧 공영방송의 본연의 임무이자 국민의 생명과 재산을 지키는데 최선을 다하는 길이다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.365-373
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• 2012

Culture is the essential requisite to improve the resource of city competitiveness and the quality of life. The modern society hope to make the city, more regional and able to be expressed creativity, combining with culture industries for the purpose continuous economic growth and regeneration city. This development industry of cultural city constructed employment and the production of income due to the operations by infra-construction. And It inspired civic awareness about Cultural History. In addition, It presented the effective direction of national aspects caused by improving the identity and the value of ethnicity, culture.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.18-26
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• 1985

최근에 들어 환경보전에 대한 시민의식이 고조되고 깨끗한 자연 및 생활환경을 유지하려는 노력 이 각계에서 일고 있다. 이와 관련된 문제점의 하나가 대기오염이며 이 오염원 중의 하나가 자 동차 배기물로서 특히 탄화수소(hydrocarbon:HC), 일산화탄소(CO), 질소산화물(NO$_{x}$)에 의 한 대기오염의 심각히 대두되어 왔으며 현재 환경청 등에 의해 국가적 차원에서 자동차 배기물에 대한 규젤ㄹ 강화하려는 움직임을 보이고 있다. 미국의 경우 연도별 배기규제기준을 살펴 보면 표.1 과 같으며, 국내에서도 88년까지 미국, 일본수준으로 신규제작차의 배출혀용기준을 강화할 계획으로 있다. 표1의 규제치르 보면 60년대의 비규제기간중의 배출량에 비해 탄화수소의 경우 96%, CO는 96%, NO$_{x}$는 76%의 감소를 보여주고 있으며 이 규제치는 5만mile을 규정된 방법으로 주행한 후 복잡한 사이클과정의 연방정부 시험절차 (Federal Test Procedure, FTP 또는 Constant Volume Sampling-Cold and Hot, CVS-CH)를 거쳐 만족하여야 한다. 상기의 규제치들을 만족시키기 위한 실용적 방법으로서 촉매전환기(catalytic converter)가 채택되고 있 으며 따라 본 해설에서는 자동차용 촉매전화기에 대한 자료들을 정리하여 특성, 문제점 등을 살펴 보고자 한다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 1998

Arson is one of the serious crime. It shows high increasing rate compared with the past, and the causes of arson are getting diversified and specialized in this modern society. In this thesis, the actual state and tendency of arson during latest 5 years have been analyzed on the basis of 'crime analysis' which is material of the National Police Agency. Based on the above analyzed material, measures for arson in foreign countries are examined and necessary matters to counter arson in Korea are inferred.