• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.226-253
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• 2009

The study analyzes the trend of regional economic development disparity in China, sets up research period from 1952 to 2008, and uses the after-modified regional GDP data by the first national economic census in 2004. The results as follow. Firstly, the Coefficient of variation(CV) with after-modified GDP data lower than the pre-modified data. Secondly, generally speaking, after-reform and open period's disparity lower than pre-reform and open period. In particular, the regional development disparity increased slowly after 1990, not rapidly. Third, the new cycle of the inverse-U type is appeared from 2002. Fourth, compared with Herfindhal-Hirschman index(HHI) and Theil Entrophy index(TEI), the lower level regions more affect to reduce the disparity in 1980s, and it also affect to reduce the disparity after 2000. Fifth, the convergence hypothesis test finds that the regional economic development disparity has been converged in 1978-2008. Sixth, the inverse-U type hypothesis not has statistical significance, from 1952 to 2008, but it has statistical significance from 1991 to 2008. This result same as the CV and the convergence test.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1619-1625
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• 2007

Many various digital contents came out to our world owing to the advance of information and communication technologies. More rapidly the technologies of information and communication develop, more classes disadvantaged might appear so that it might incur society with distinction in getting information which is called digital divide. In this time, public library has to play important rules in dissolving the digital divide of our society. In this paper, we will not investigate only how much users of digital multimedia centers in the public library satisfy, but also what factors affect the satisfaction of the users significantly. Specially, we will analyze difference of the influence factors between urban and rural region so that we will propose strategy for operating the digital multimedia centers in the public library efficiently and effectively in order to dissolve the digital divide.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.16 no.1 s.67
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• pp.36-46
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• 2001

급격한 정보화 진행과 함께 계층, 소득, 지역간의 정보격차가 심화되고 있으며 정보소외계층에 대한 정보격차 문제가 점차 사회문제화 되고 있다. 따라서 정보화의 긍정적 효과를 극대화시키고 정보격차의 피해를 극소화시키는 정책이 요구된다. 이러한 정보격차를 최소화하기 위한 요건으로는, 모든 사람이 정보에 접근할 수 있도록 보편적 정보 서비스 확대, 인터넷 접속비용 및 재정지원을 통한 정보접근능력 강화, 교육 및 인식의 제고를 통한 정보이용능력 향상 등을 생각할 수 있다. 한편 정보격차를 해소하기 위해 필연적으로 소요되는 사회적 비용을 줄이면서 어떤 정책을 가장 효율적으로 결정하고 실행하는가 하는 것이 중요한 이슈일 것이다. 그러므로 이를 해결하기 위한 정책이슈로는 정보격차를 해소하기 위한 사회적 비용을 투자로 보는 인식의 전환, 정보격차를 해결하기 위한 민간의 적극적인 참여와 지원, 정보격차의 문제를 정확하게 인식하고 해결하기 위한 통계자료 확보 및 정책의 실효성을 높이기 위한 충분한 자금확보가 요구된다.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.701-716
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• 2000

This study examines patterms of wage inequality across ownership types and its regional structure in post-reform China in order to understand an emerging process of inequality. Using industrial wage data, I explored historical changes of cross-ownership wage inequality and its spatial differentiation during the reform period. This stuy found that pattems of wage inequality need to be understood in the context of changing redistributive economy which shapes state-enterprise relation in china's industrial sector. This relationship in turn determines labor market outcomes during the reform period including wage inequality. Regional structure of cross-ownership wage inequality also needs to be understood in terms of the differentiated process in which reqional wage levels are related to different wage factors. The findings have significant implications for understanding new patterns of soical and spatial inequalities in post-reform China.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.337-342
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• 2005

급속한 정보기술의 발전과 정보사회로의 전환은 한국이 지식정보강국으로 나아가는데 많은 기여를 하고 있다. 그러나 이처럼 정보사회가 본격적으로 도래함에 따라 사회제반 부문간의 정보격차 문제가 중요한 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 지식정보화시대 지역간, 계층간 정보격차를 완화하기 위해 사회적 안전망으로서의 도서관의 공공서비스 기능이 더욱 요구되고 있다. 다양한 컨텐츠를 최소의 비용으로 제공함으로써 이용자들의 정보접근에의 기회균등을 보장하는 것이 중요한 도서관의 역할의 일부가 된 것이다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.279-290
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• 2009

This study aims at analyzing the structure of the regional industries in Daejeon, including Choongchung area and the measurement of Regional Innovation Ability Index. The study also investigates the environment of the regional innovation activities in terms of Regional Location Quotient Index. The study mainly focuses on the estimation of four types of innovation ability indexes, i.e., human resource, knowledge creation, knowledge transfer and application, and innovation supporting finance output market. The findings indicate that Daejeon showed the highest index 2.977, and Seoul recorded 2.650 as the second rank. The indexes of Choongnam and Choongbuk were 2.034 and 2.082, respectively, which reached to 76%~78% of that of Seoul. The indexes of the other cities accounted for only 50%~60% of that of Deajeon city. This study concludes that there is a regional difference particularly in the knowledge creation area.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.1-42
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• 2019

In this study we find that relatively high minimum wages should make the employment ratios of youth, old, and woman lower very significantly in those regions concerned, futhermore, make the overall employment ratios of those regions lower also by using a proxy variable, the Regional Minimum Wages-Half Median Wages Ratio which represents well the very stable differential structure of wage distributions among regions in Korea. In large Cities those effects become much stronger. But we find also that those effects on the rates of regional unemployment are somewhat double-faced except the case of youth because of the probable generating of many discouraged unemployed among the old and women. So, we can conclude that because of the differential regional economic situations it is not sustainable to increase the overall minimum wages uniformly and excessively and strongly necessary to explore ways toward introducing the proper system of regional minimum wages.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.265-276
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Korean Local Government's recognition on the educational gap among regions in the filed of adult learning including vocational education and life long-learning. The study also tried to figure out the local government's recognition and infrastructure of e-Learning which is suggested as one of the solutions on the regional gap of educational opportunities and quality. This study took 12 HRD(Human Resources Development) centers funded and operated by the Korean Local Governments except Seoul and Kyong-Gi classified by the metropolitan areas in Korea. As a result, firstly it was found that the local governments had perception on the difference and gap of educational opportunities and quality among regions in the area of adult education. Especially, the perception was relatively more serious on quality than quantity. Secondly, the result showed the large gap among regions on the area of opening educational and training programs, the quality of teachers and tutors, the effectiveness and outcomes of educational programs. Thirdly, they perceived more serious educational gap on face-to-face classes rather than e-Learning in the context of educational methodology. It also revealed that the local governments had relatively better foundations on physical systems than other infrastructures and resources such as human-ware, culture-ware and soft-ware(contents, programs etc.). It was recommended to consider these findings in developing and implementing future educational policies to solve the problem of regional gap on education.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.377-401
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• 1994

This study examines the impact of national economic restructuring on regional development patterns. Korea's development over the last decade has been characterized by a rapid economic restructuring towards the information economy. This economic restructuring has had significant impacts on regional development patterns. The most remarkable feature is a clear coreperiphery disparity in terms of levels of informatization. Seoul showed an extraordinarily high level of informatization. The process of regional development in the information era is marked by an intensified spatial division of labor, which articulates with the pre-existing pattern of regional disparity. Information infrastructrue improvements for regional development do not necessarily result in reductions in regional unevenness. There is an urgent need to develop the integrated regional informatization strategy.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.359-374
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• 2023

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the transformation of Chinese regional development policy and trends in spatial inequality in mainland China. More specifically, it has attempted to identify the effects of Chinese regional development policies on regional economic inequality by investigating the coefficient of variation and Gini coefficient with GRDP in the province level. Regional inequality in China had increased from 1979 economic reform, but has eased since the 10th Five Year Plan(2001~2005) due to large-scale state investments in the western, central and northeastern regions. However, the analysis is likely to be resulted from the national level. Trends in regional inequality are differentiated in accordance with the eastern, central, northeastern and western regions. For example, regional inequality in the central region has increased, whereas other three regions has decreased since the 10th Five Year Plan. It has played a role in cutting down regional inequality in the national level. In particular, the central region has kept inequality since the 12th Five Year Guideline. It has led to the convergence of the regional economies in the national level. It has stemmed from some limits to greater regional policies in the Central region enforced in the 11th Five Year Guideline(2005~2010).