• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.15-37
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• 2014

Sustainability is a broad concept involving economic, social and environmental issues in operational and managerial processes. To assist ports to implant sustainability practices into their operations, this paper conceptualizes the structure of sustainability practice in port operations, based on interviews undertaken at Busan port in early 2013. Results revealed that, as a strategic practice to improve their internal business processes, sustainability practices necessitate the simultaneous pursuit of container traffic growth, low environmental impacts and corporate responsible image making, operational efficiency, efficiency of the use of the port area and sustainable growth. Through thematic analysis, the relevant practices were clustered into four sub-dimensions incorporating environmental technologies, continual monitoring and upgrading, internal process improvement, and cooperation and communication. Further, reporting the relevant issues such as barriers and challenges in carrying out sustainability practices, the findings provide useful insights for strategic agenda to assist ports to incorporate sustainability practices in their operations.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.61-74
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• 2015

Amid intense port competition in Northeast Asia, international ports require sustainable growth based on competitiveness that incorporates economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Despite the importance of sustainability issues in port competition, prior studies on port competitiveness have focused on ports' own handling capacities. Moreover, sustainability concerns have focused on environmental issues such as environmental impact minimization and environmental index development. The prior literature makes distinctions between studies of port competitiveness and works relating to port sustainability. Therefore, this paper aims to redefine sustainable port competitiveness based on the "triple bottom line," comprising sustainability, analysis of the relevant issues, and practices. The findings offer not only important steps in building knowledge about sustainable port competitiveness, but also provide practical implications for strategic agendas and guidance for future improvements in port operations.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.211-220
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• 2016

In accordance with the environmental changes that surrounds the port, there seems to be a trend of increasing interest in a sustainable development and operation of port. Considering that sustainability assessment utilizing Triple Bottome Line(TBL) has been conducted actively in various fields of research, it is essential to evaluate port sustainability including not only economic aspect but also social as well as environmental ones. In this regard, this study aims to measure the relative importance of port sustainability index using AHP. Moreover, sustainability of Korean four major ports has been tested by adopting the newly developed index in this study. From the results, it can be concluded that in addition to securing high value cargoes, increasing efficiency of port operation and infrastructure together with capital investment are essential. Growth harmonized with surrounding area of port and environment-friendly port operation should not be disregarded.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.401-412
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• 2016

The sustainable operation and development of ports is a key industry for Korea's national economy. It is increasingly more important to resolve conflicts with local communities due to port environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, noise and ecosystem destruction while securing port competitiveness through infrastructure expansion. In case of the Busan New Port development project in Korea, construction has been temporally suspended due to conflict with local fishermen over marine sand mining for construction. A primary reason for this is the absence and limitation of qualitative port environmental impact assessment methodologies in Korea. This includes the current investigation of fisheries damaged by ports. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to propose economic valuation methods for assessing environmental impacts that are essential for efficient port environmental management and for sustainable port operation and development in Korea. To do this, this study examines the overall port environmental problems and their effects (damages) through the analysis of environmental policies and case studies of domestic and overseas ports. Then economic valuation methods are suggested for total economic values (TEV) of damaged environmental goods and services. Among the proposed methods, Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA), as a more scientific data based method, was applied to estimate marine ecosystem service damages from the designation of Busan New Port Anchorages. Finally, based on the study results, more efficient port environmental management will be achieved through the institutional adoption of the proposed economic impact assessment methods for port environmental damages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.235-237
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• 2014

국제무역지수의 증가로 인한 해상운송 및 항만개발수요의 증가는 국제해사기구(IMO)를 중심으로 선박기인 대기오염, 특히 온실가스 배출규제의 강화를 초래하였다. 이러한 국제환경규제에 대응하고 선박 및 항만기인 환경오염 저감을 통한 자국민의 후생증진을 위하여 미국과 유럽을 중심으로 Green Port 정책의 시행이 점점 확대되고 있는 추세이다. 이에 따라 우리나라도 2010년 녹색성장기본법을 재정하고 국가 Green Port 구축 종합계획을 수립하여 각 항만별 그린포트 구축계획의 수립 및 이행을 촉구하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 동북아시아 오일허브 항만을 지향하는 울산항의 지속가능한 친환경 항만운영을 위한 울산항의 Green Port 정책방안의 수립에 있다. 이를 위해 울산항의 친환경 항만정책의 현황 및 문제점을 살펴보고, 해외 해양선진국의 그린포트구축 사례분석과 전문가 자문 및 설문조사를 통하여 울산항 그린포트 구축방안을 도출하였다. 그리고 도출된 방안에 대하여 전문가 AHP 설문조사 및 분석을 통해 울산항에 도입해야 할 그린포트 구축방안에 대한 우선순위를 도출하였다. 마지막으로 울산항의 특성에 맞는 지속적인 그린포트 정책의 시행을 위한 여려 정책대안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.223-228
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• 2010

In the midst of worldwide response to climate change, the advanced ports including LA/LB(Los Angeles/Long Beach) has started to reduce carbon emission from port area which has not been targets of interests in the worldwide cooperation. Recently, the Port of Busan has started to reduce carbon emission from the port area under the Green Port Strategy in Korea. However, the low-carbon port management increases the cost of port management and negatively impacts the port competitiveness in the short term. Therefore, the Busan Port Authority is carrying out the low-carbon projects directly and has not transfer the cost to the port users, such as shipowers, cargo owners and terminal operators. However, the Port Authority of LA/LB has transferred the cost at low-carbon port management to customers of port. In this study, comparative analysis on cost of low-carbon port management at Busan and LA/LB is carried out for sustainable port management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.318-319
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• 2018

항로표지는 해상교통의 안전을 도모하고 선박운항 능률 향상을 위하여 설치된 해양교통안전시설 중 하나이다. 그러나 선박 또는 기상악화 등의 이유로 발생하는 항로표지의 사고로 인하여 제 기능을 상실 하였을 경우, 선박운항자나 이용자가 느끼는 선박통항 위험도가 증가할 가능성이 높다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라 최대 항만인 부산항을 중심으로 부산항 이용자를 대상으로 항로표지 및 표지사고에 대한 인식조사를 실시하여, 효율적인 항로표지관리방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.413-420
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• 2016

Seaports are economically significant infrastructures in terms of dealing with more than 90% of the cargo volume in Korea's international trade. Furthermore, investment costs for constructing ports and the impacts of port industry on national competitiveness lead to the necessity for sustainable port operation. However, the earlier studies dealing with competitiveness and sustainability of the port sector focused on its logistical functions related to port size, operational efficiency, etc. Port competitiveness that considers local community and ecological values as well as the expectations and demands of port users is becoming an important issue in order for ports to cope with volatile external environments while maintaining competitiveness. Therefore, it is necessary to identify port performance indicators and measure their performance in terms of the environmental and social perspectives, as well as the economic perspectives, in order to sustain port development and operations. This paper presents findings from case analyses of SuPorts and PPRISM projects that assist European Union (EU) ports to secure sustainable competitiveness while respecting economic, environmental and social interests between ports and local communities. These projects create port performance indicators with balanced views including not only economic value but also environmental and social values. They measure port performance so port operators can implement these sustainable port practices. This study aims to find the critical factors for sustainable port practices by conducting case analyses of SuPorts and PPRISM projects.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.49-71
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• 2022

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of the corporate social responsibility by port operation organization on the brand asset, reputation and relationship performance perceived by interested parties. To achieve such a purpose, literature survey on various research papers and thesis, research report is carried out and also reliability analysis, validity test and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 are used. To verify a established research model for empirical analysis and hypotheses, questionnaires are distributed to the port operation organization, terminal operators, shipping companies and NGO. Total 414 copies of questionnaires were collected and used in this analysis. The main results of the study are summarized as below. First, it was confirmed that social responsibility of the port operation organization are classified into three categories; economic, legal, and charitable and ethical responsibility. Second, economic responsibility has a positive impact on the brand awareness and reputation. Third, legal responsibility has a positive impact on the trust and commitment. Fourth, charitable and ethical responsibility has a positive impact on brand image and awareness, reputation, trust and commitment. Further additional empirical research can be extended by distributing more questionnaires including several port operation organizations in Busan and Incheon.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.215-216
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• 2023

해사산업분야에서 양성평등 정책과 여성참여확대는 국제적으로 중요성을 인정받고 있다. 전세계 다양한 국가에서 선박운항, 해운 및 해양 보안등의 분야에서 여성역할을 강조하고 있으며 이를 위한 정책 및 프로그램은 확대되고 있다. UN의 지속가능한발전 목표(SDG) 5번은 양성평등으로써 UN 산하 국제기구인 (IMO)에서도 이를 구현하기 위한 활발한 여성참여 국제정책을 확대하고 장려하고 있다. 이 연구에서는 국제적으로 인정을 받고 있는 여성단체(WIMA, WISTA)의 활동과 IMO에서 운영하는 해사분야 여성 참여 정책에 대한 동향을 제시한다.