• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.223-230
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• 2010

Recently Korean enterprises that branch out into China have been continuously increased to achieve diverse objectives such as personnel expenses reduction, market share extension on China and globalization strategy implementation. We have studied about competitiveness reinforcement of enterprises that branch out into China in terms of TPM(Total Production Management). In this paper, we extended the concept of traditional TPM(Total Productive Maintenance) to TPM(Total Production Management) that covers extensively the concept of total management innovation activities. We explored detailed activities of TPM and voluntarily participative field research circle. Also, We suggested some prerequisite conditions for TPM settlement that might be recommended for the foreign companies in China and checked Key Performance Indicator(KPI) that could be useful to confirm how TPM contributed to enterprise competitiveness reinforcement.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.3-22
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the relationships between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of employees at the Chinese employees in Korean company. This study also focuses on revealing homogeneous demographic characteristics these employees exhibit that affect their satisfaction level. This paper analyzes the job satisfaction and turnover intention of the Chinese employees in Korean Businesses based on a great deal of questionnaire research. The research found that individual's characteristics, such as gender, age, education and marital status, as well as duty variables like salary, position, length of service, number of turnover times, probability and number of promotion, made influence on the employees about their job satisfaction and turnover tendency. The result of this research is helpful in studying how to improve the Chinese employees' job satisfaction and impair their turnover intention in Korean businesses.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.71-80
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• 2016

This study is based on the previous research which proved that "seeking convenience", "seeking low-cost" and "pleasures of shopping" are the major shopping motivation of online shopping. Research is conducted by using the trust as mediator, purchase intention as dependent variable. Also, differences between Chinese and Vietnamese consumers are applied in analysis of the model. The results were as follows: First, "seeking low-cost" and "pleasures of shopping" have positive effects on trust. Second, all shopping motivation have positive effect on purchase intention. Third, the trust has positive effect on purchase intention. Fourth, consumers' shopping motivation have significant difference in trust and purchase intention according to Chinese and Vietnamese consumers. The results of this study presented the strategic implications for operators at online shopping area.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.221-239
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of internet shopping motivations on information searching intention, customer satisfaction and purchase intention. To achieve this goal, literature review and empirical studies were conducted in parallel. The results of this study are as follows: First, the motives of internet shopping of Chinese consumers were found to be in four dimensions, "seeking convenience," "seeking low-cost," "seeking variety" and "seeking pleasures", in order of large proportions, respectively. Second, Among these four internet shopping motivations "seeking convenience,""seeking variety" and "seeking pleasures" were found to have direct, significant and positive effects on information searching intention. But "seeking low-cost" has no positive effects on information searching intention. Third, information searching intention was found to have direct impact on customer satisfaction and purchase intention. Fourth, Customer satisfaction has an direct and positive effects on purchase intention.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.253-264
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• 2012

A growing number of Korean companies are trying to expand their business area into global market due to saturation in the Korean domestic market. Home shopping industry arriving on mature stage is faced with less growth recently. CJ O Shopping which is a top ranked home shopping company in Korea, has been showing meaningful performances by earlier moving to global market with thorough preparations. CJ O Shopping's global marketing strategy focused on asian countries including China, India, Vietnam, and Japan is going successfully, which enables top ranked on-line retailing company in asia as well as in Korea. CJ O Shopping effectively penetrated into overseas market with both core competence based on Korean home shopping model and rigorous preliminary study on target market. Especially shoppertainment (Shopping+Entertainment) that is unique feature of globally competitive Korean home shopping created huge differentiations in target market. Also choosing the influential local partner, sharing the business goals, and building the joint venture could make stable operations, thereby easily earning of well-established awareness from target consumers. A step ahead entry of competitors and intensive localization of CJ O Shopping's core competence for arriving safe in target market were additional key factors for global marketing success. We can extract above key factors for success as implications of case study on CJ O Shopping's global marketing, and expect those factors to be spread into lots of Korean companies and utilized as successful strategies for global marketing.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.215-235
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• 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology is recognized as a key technology that will determine future national competitiveness, competition for AI technology and industry promotion policies in major countries is intensifying. This study aims to present implications for domestic policy making by analyzing the policies of major countries on the start-up of AI companies, which are the basis of the AI industry ecosystem. The top four countries and the EU for the number of new investment attraction companies in the 2023 AI Index announced by the HAI Research Institute at Stanford University in the United States were selected, The United States enacted the National AI Initiative Act (NAIIA) in 2021. Through this law, The US Government is promoting continued leadership in the United States in AI R&D, developing reliable AI systems in the public and private sectors, building an AI system ecosystem across society, and strengthening DB management and access to AI policies conducted by all federal agencies. In the 14th Five-Year (2021-2025) Plan and 2035 Long-term Goals held in 2021, China has specified AI as the first of the seven strategic high-tech technologies, and is developing policies aimed at becoming the No. 1 AI global powerhouse by 2030. The UK is investing in innovative R&D companies through the 'Future Fund Breakthrough' in 2021, and is expanding related investments by preparing national strategies to leap forward as AI leaders, such as the implementation plan of the national AI strategy in 2022. Israel is supporting technology investment in start-up companies centered on the Innovation Agency, and the Innovation Agency is leading mid- to long-term investments of 2 to 15 years and regulatory reforms for new technologies. The EU is strengthening its digital innovation hub network and creating the InvestEU (European Strategic Investment Fund) and AI investment fund to support the use of AI by SMEs. This study aims to contribute to analyzing the policies of major foreign countries in making AI company start-up policies and providing a basis for Korea's strategy search. The limitations of the study are the limitations of the countries to be analyzed and the failure to attempt comparative analysis of the policy environments of the countries under the same conditions.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.311-368
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• 2009

In order to survive the on-going natural resource war, Korea needs various efforts such as enhancing self-exploitation ratio, increasing the supply of new-reuse energy, strengthening cooperation with resource rich countries. Central Asian countries are geometrically far away from Korea. However, Korea should try to develop political, economic and ethnic relationship with those countries into much higher dimension to secure various natural resources. Major countries including U.S., EU. Japan and China are approaching Central Asian countries with long term perspective. Improving country-image through enlargement of ODA is the first concern of those countries. Korea should try to follow their practices. Government should try to improve Korea's image in the first place and lead economic cooperation with very detailed supportive measures to induce Korean firms' investment into the Central Asian countries. In the due process, a lot of information about those countries' political climate, social situation, ethnical composition, major religions, educational system, current state and structure of economies and industries, etc should be made available to Korean firms.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.438-457
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• 2019

The main purpose of this paper is to identify the entry types and locational determinants of North Korean workers in cross-border regions between North Korea and China. More specifically, the paper has attempted to divide the entry type of them in the regions into two; 1) entry via transactions between Chinese traders with North Korea and North Korea trade companies, and 2) entry via transactions between Korean-Chinese middlemen and North Korean trade companies. Also, it has analyzed main factors of their locational determinants in the spatial contexts of the regions. There have been changes in two perspectives in terms of the entry paths and types of them in accordance with the transformation of characteristics of United Nations sanction against North Korea from 'call-upon' to 'decide' after UN Security Council Resolution 2094 in 2013. Firstly, main agents who have dealing with North Korean trade companies which have right to dispatch North Korean workers have been changed from Chinese traders into Korean-Chinese brokers who are specialized in the introduction of North Korean workers with one-stop service from visa administrative to labor managements. Secondly, there has been a transfer of North Korean workers in the regions from formal to informal workers who has been admitted into China with a short stay or a tourist visa, and then remained illegally to be employed in China. Therefore, as demands on service which is able to guarantee the security of North Korean informal workers and their managements have increased, Korean-Chinese brokers have been stimulated in the regions after the operation of real international sanctions against overseas North Korean workers. In addition, the main factors of their locational determinants in cross-border regions between North Korea and China are could be analyzed in three perspectives; 1) an increase in real wages in accordance with the reform of the Chinese social insurance system after 2011, 2) the structural vulnerability of labor markets in the regions, 3) the utilization of stable and manageable workers.

• The Inventors News
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• no.51
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

함께 즐기는 '여성 발명인 축제'열린다/이 가을을 여성 발명의 계절로/빠진 영구치, 임플란트 기술로 대신한다/국내 의약품 특허출원 외국 기업이 주도/웰빙 붐 타고 기능성 베개 출원 늘어나/토양오염 복원기술, 관심 높아져/기업 CI교체 따른 상표출원 급증/여성경제단체, 오세훈 서울 시장 초청 간담회 가져/'2006대한민국 발명특허대전' 개최/특허청, 중소기업 특허경영 지원단 발족/한국특허문헌, WIPO로 전세계 서비스 실시/APEC 여성지도자네트워크 회의 개최/'2006 특허기술 사업화 성공사례발표회'/세계최초 신개념 CTF기술 상용화/특허청, 제4회 발명 장학생 선발/김치, 러시아 모스크바에 진출한다/고속 주행 틸팅열차 특허로 인정/현직 공무원, 다양한 발명품으로 특허와 되다/자신만의 'TV채널' 선택 가능하다/전지산업, 이온성 액체 관련 특허로 안전하게/명확한 의견 제출로 효율적인 심판 진행/치매예방물질 2배인 김치 개발됐다/한국과학기술연구원 논문 특허심의제도 도입/'한국 오시면 KISS로 맞이합니다'/삼성전자, 중국 특허 마쓰시타 아성 깨다/싱가포르 수출 인큐베이터로 중소기업 해외시장 공략/특허청, 영남대와 지식재산역량 강화 위한 약정 체결/깎는 횟수 줄인 잔디, 세계최초 개발/순창군, 웰빙 고추장 특허출원/역사 속의 발명품/하루 10분 발명교실/특허Q&A/케이제이알텍(주)문승자 대표/한.일 변리사회 업무협정체결 25주년 기념식 개최/중소기업청, 하반기 18조원 신용보증 공급 계획/'2006 대만 국제발명품 전시회'서 한국 참가자 수상/'불났을 때' 긴급 대피 요령은?/아이디어 착상 및 발명 기법/창의성과 도전정신이 성공한 사업가 만든다/사탕을 탄생시킨 사람들/'휴대폰 특허료 1.3억불 내라' 중재 결정/'신발깔창 휴대폰 충전기'/휴대폰으로 광고 받고 무료 문자 이용 가능/아파트 저작권.특허 열풍 거세게 불어/'골다공증 예방 요구르트' 나왔다/갈증 느끼지 않아도 '물' 자주 마셔라/10월 '지재권 및 여성발명 창의교실' 개최안내/한국여성발명협회 회원사 발명품 가이드/함씨네토종콩종합식품, 특선 수상/

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.225-234
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• 2013

The indices to choose the object countries for developing overseas industrial park were developed and applied in this paper. The results are showing as follows. First, the Korean enterprises are branched out into total 128 countries as of the first quarter of 2010, and the 13 asian countries including China, Vietnam, Japan, and Hongkong shows the majority of precedence 20 countries among the reported during 1980-2010. Second, the 3 steps of selecting the principal region to branch out, establishing assessment indices and criteria, and choosing strategical target counties were developed to choose the countries for developing overseas industrial park. The 38 of 128 countries were selected where the GDP per capita is lower than Korea, and the local reports of incorporation during 2007-2010 are more than 10 times. Then, the 10 countries were excluded where the minimum wages during 2008-2009 are similar to Korean ($815/month). Consequently, the 28 countries including China, Vietnam, and Cambodia etc. were selected as the major target regions. Third, the indices to choose countries for developing overseas industrial park are classified into 5 categories-investment condition, labor market flexibility, potential market demand, population, changing rate of the reported number of manufacturing industry, and detailed indices for each category were selected, then the weight were given with the consideration of importance. Finally, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan were selected as the strategical target counties where acquire the high score in labor market flexibility and investment condition, relatively undeveloped, and friendly to Korea.