• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.390-413
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• 2010

Facing reconfiguration of world economic order in the process of globalization and changes in domestic economic and social conditions, Japan has experienced a rapid inflow of foreign immigrants and hence a restructuring of labor market and ethic and cultural mixture. This paper explores contexts of inflow and social and spatial characteristics of immigrant workers in Japan. Uneven regional development on the global level and shifting to flexible accumulation regime, depletion of previously underutilized labor resource, better-educated youth and shrinking and aging of Japanese populace on the national level can be pointed out as important elements of immigration contexts. This paper also explains the hierarchizaton of labor market and differentiation of spatial distribution of immigrant workers in Japan in terms of visa condition and nationality. In particular, focusing on the case of Hiroshima prefecture, this paper analyzes residential differentiation of immigrants according to their nationality. Finally, it finds out some problems which immigrant workers have confronted in Hiroshima region.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.663-683
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• 2015

The change of the population pyramid due to low fertility and rapid aging threatens the financial sustainability of National Health Insurance. We construct statistical models for prevalence rates and medical expenses using National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) sample cohort data from 2002-2013. We then project yearly expenditures and income of national health insurance until 2060 that considers various assumptions in regards to future population structure and economic conditions. We adopt a VECM-LC model for prevalence rates and the double exponentially smoothing method for the per capita co-payment of healthcare expense (in which the two models are institution-disease-sex-age specific) to project of national health insurance expenditures. We accommodate various assumptions of economic situations provided by the national assembly and government to produce a financial projection for national health insurance. Two assumptions of dependents ratios are used for the projection of national health insurance income to conduct two future population structures by the two assumptions of aging progresses and various assumptions on economic circumstances as in the expenditure projection. The health care deficit is projected to be 20-30 trillion won by 2030 and 40-70 trillion won by 2060 in 2015 constant price.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.2528-2534
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• 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between the change of age structure of population and the efficiency of education investment, using cross-section of 106 countries. Based on the existing theoretical arguments, we establish a hypothesis concerning the relationship between age structure and education investment efficiency. The regression results suggest that a country's with a higher ratio of young age to total population results in a lower level of the efficiency of education investment. However, there exists a positive and significant relationship between the ratio of old age to total population and the efficiency of education investment. Therefore, it does suggest that countries experiencing reducing in fertility rate and increasing in expected longevity, such as Korea, not only should be maximized the education efficiency but also contrived for the institutional system for maximization the efficiency of education performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.107-107
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• 2011

인류가 수렵생활에서 농경문화로 정착됨에 따라, 물을 손쉽게 이용할 수 있는 하천이나 호소의 수변공간을 활용하여 고대문명이 형성되어 왔다. 이와 같은 고대문명이 근대 산업화에 의한 새로 운 문명으로 이어지면서, 종래의 하천이나 호소의 수변공간을 이용한 생활과 문화로부터 대외지향적인 해안공간을 중심으로, 그것이 확장되기에 이르렀다. 특히, 최근의 세계화에 수반되어 많은 국가들이 대외지향의 편리성 도모를 위하여, 일종의 제2의 도시국가형태의 문화가 이루어지면서, 새로운 형태의 문명이 태동하고 있는 듯하다. 이와 같은 배경에서, 우리나라는 저 출산 고령화 사회라고 하는 새로운 조류가 긴박하게 진전되고, 도시화율이 90%, GDP의 대외 의존도가 80%에 육박하고 있는 등으로, 고도의 수변공간을 활용하는 세계 유수의 도시국가의 형태로 이행되고 있는 듯하다. 그러므로 종래의 하천 호소 해안 등의 수변공간의 이용을 위하여 발전시켜온 하천공학이나 해안 항만공학만으로서는 이러한 변화에 대응하가가 미흡하고, 더욱이, 20세기후반으로부터 시작된 환경적요인의 도입에는 아직까지 혼란이 야기되고 있어, 새로이 형성시켜가야 할 수변문화의 효율성제고의 도구로서의 새로운 공학의 발전이 모색되어야한다. 이는 수변공간의 이용 안전 환경이라고 하는 큰 틀로서의 문화 문명을 만들어 갈수 있는 공학이어야 할 것이다. 기존의 수공학 위주의 공학개념에서 종합공학 또는 공학종합의 학문으로서 인문사회, 첨단과학기술까지의 대융합을 고려한, 장소나 공간이라고 하는 "것(물(物))"의 디자인뿐만 아니라 장면, 상황, 규칙 만들기라고 하는 "일(사(事))"의 디자인까지도 포함되는 공학의 새로운 모델을 제시한다. 주요내용으로서는, 새로운 수면문화조성을 촉진하여, 지속가능한 인류문명이 유지 될 수 있도록 지금까지의 터 무늬 또는 자취를 최대한 살리면서, 최근의 하천 해안을 중심으로 한 외부의존형 대도시권형의 국토이용에서, 지식산업단지 생산녹지 등을 최대한 아우를 수 있는 소위 글로발형의 국토이용을 촉진할 수 있는 수변문화공학의 모델을 제안한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2015

This study attempts to find how the government policies regarding population aging may affect the life patterns of the baby boomers and what factors play a significant role in providing life wellness. This study uses the data provided by Korea Welfare Panel Study published between the years 2006 and 2011. First, according to the analysis of the data from Korea Welfare Panel Study in the year 2006, the factors affecting the life wellness are family relations, health and social relations. However, between the years 2007 and 2009, the major factor is not the present income providing security or life satisfaction. Second, the next significant factor in improving the wellness of life is family relations after health or occupation. Therefore, the government should provide them with re-employment programs prior to their retirement through which baby boomers can find employment similar or different to their present occupations. For improving the wellness of life, the most significant factor is family relations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.827-830
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• 2013

Due to strong wind of smartphone, change in human life is facing 21 Century's new revolution. The end of 2012, The record rate of supply of smartphone is up to 58.8 percent. So the reputation of IT power are continuing. Korea is boasting IT infrastructure, and the reputation of IT power with rapidly evolving. But Korea is one of OECD country with the longest working hours and in labor productivity, yet is located in the lower rank. Now, common social issues such as low-carbon, green growth, low birthrate, graying, labor productivity growth, the reduce greenhouse gas is constantly increasing in worldwide. So Smart Work is getting attention as a way to resolve this. In this paper, we study the impact of small business on local economy and the status information of small business on statistical point of view. And we offer the smart work countermeasures of small business through detailed action elements and the model proposed fot driving factor for the promotion of smart work. Through this, we propose the IT system model for The SMEs-type smart work system.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.153-158
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• 2017

The robot imitates humans and recognizes the external environment and judges the situation. The robot is a machine that operates autonomously. Robots are divided into manufacturing robots and service robots. Service robots are classified as professional service robots and personal service robots. Because of the intensified competition of productivity in manufacturing industries, rising safety issues, low birth rate and aging, the robots industry is emerging. Recently, the robot industry is a complex of advanced technology fields, and it is attracting attention as a new industry where innovation potential and growth potential are promising. IT, BT, and NT related elements are fused and implemented, and the ripple effect is very large. Due to changes in social structure and life patterns, social interest in life extension and health is increasing. There is much interest in the medical field. Now the artificial intelligence (AI) industry is growing rapidly. It is necessary to secure global competitiveness through strengthening cooperation between large and small companies. We must combine R&D investment capability and marketing capability, which are advantages of large corporations, and robotic technology. We need to establish a cooperative model and secure global competitiveness through M&A.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.318-326
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• 2021

This study aims to the effectiveness of physical examination using VR contents to solve problems such as the increase in chronic diseases and shortage of professional manpower in the health care field according to the aging and low birth rate, and to provide efficient healthcare. Therefore, this study implemented a one-stop VR content physical examination system by wearing HTC VIVE Pro VR and a stick controller. The system is from step 1 to step 5, and the final body age is determined and a simple solution is provided through five steps sequentially: color blind test, memory test, audiogram test, reaction speed test, and instantaneous cognitive ability test. In addition, for the one-stop VR content physical examination system developed by this study, as a result of verifying the user satisfaction for normal people who visited the health examination center and VR/AR clinical trial center of certified tertiary hospital in Daejeon, the overall satisfaction and the intention to reuse Was high, and according to gender, there was a significant difference in the 5-step test, and according to the age, there were significant differences in the 4-step test and the 5-step test.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.478-487
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• 2017

In recent years, developed countries have begun to pay attention to female workers through work-family balance in order to solve the problem of low fertility and aging. Korea has been building and running a women leaders database (hereafter, women leaders DB) centered on the female professionals since 2011. In particular, the Incheon women leader DB, which was built by Incheon city in 2009, is a classic example. As of 2015, about 2,735 people are registered in Incheon Women Leaders DB and it is systematically creating the database such as age, education, career years, major, occupation, and certification. However, there are administrative problems such as unspecified definition on professionalism and data trust issues including data entry, and DB personnels are concentrated in specific fields. Also, in the case of certification proving expertise, the utilization problem has been revealed including inclusion of private certification not yet verified. In order to solve these problems, we first need to clarify the concept of women leaders and establish the standard. The second is the improvement of data consistency through DB reorganization, and third is to build a system through continuous and active public relations that is used by both job seekers and recruiters.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.337-355
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• 2021

Demographic changes such as an aging and low fertility, as well as changes in industrial structure and residential environment, revealed the limitations of urban development policies. Accordingly, the government is making efforts to ensure a prosperous life for the people by including the plan to expand the living SOC in the national urban regeneration policy. The main priority tasks of the Living SOC include the establishment of welfare infrastructure for children and the vulnerable. This means that interest in welfare is increasing recently. In this study, we analyzed the supply status of welfare facilities for the senior, child and the disabled in 17 cities and provinces nationwide using LQ (Location Quotient). After analyzing the causes of the imbalance in the supply of welfare facilities by region, the improvement plan was suggested. Each welfare facility was highly localized by region, especially the accessibility gap between cities and provinces is very large. Welfare finances were similar in most cities and provinces, with the exception of some cities and provinces. In the case of cities with very high living standards, sufficient facilities were not provided. Improvement methods are as follows; Combination of welfare facilities that can maximize space efficiency, Securing appropriate welfare finance in consideration of living standards by city and province, Differentiation of supply method considering demand and user types for welfare facilities.