• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.107-126
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• 1995

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 자본거래자유화정도를 명목상의 규제완화여부에 의해 판별하는 종래의 접근방법(接近方法)에서 벗어나, 형식적(形式的) 규제여부(規制與否)에 관계없이 자본거래(資本去來)가 실질적으로 경제적(經濟的) 유인(誘引)에 따라 얼마나 활발하게 이루어지고 있는가를 측정함으로써 자본거래자유화정도(資本去來自由化程度)를 평가할 수 있는 방법을 모색하고 있다. 이와 관련해서 본 연구는 모두 5가지 접근방법을 시도하고 있다. 그 첫째는, 총대외무역량대비 자본거래량비중으로서 자본거래량이 상대적으로 증가하면 자본거래자유화정도가 높다고 본다. 둘째는, 환율절하기대를 감안한 국내외실질 금리차로서 대내외자본거래(對內外資本去來)가 자유로울수록 국내외금리차(國內外金利差)는 낮아질 것이기 때문에, 동 금리차가 낮을수록 자본자유화정도가 높다고 본다. 동 지수로서는 통화선물시장의 존재 여부에 따라 위험포함 및 불포함 대내외금리차를 사용할 수 있다. 셋째로는, 다소 복잡한 계량경제학적 방법을 통해 국내외실질금리간의 연계관계를 측정하는 방법으로서 두번째 방법의 개선에 해당된다. 그리고 넷째로는, 셋째번 방법에 의한 연계관계를 시간변동지수로 전환하여, 시간의 경과에 따른 자본자유화정도의 변화를 측정하고 있다. 마지막으로는, 자본거래를 위험자산의 국제교역관계(國際交易關係)로 파악하여, 무역에 있어서의 산업내교역지수측정방법을 자본거래에 적용하여 자본거래총유출입지수를 측정하였다. 동 지수는 저축투자갭의 보정적(補正的) 거래차원을 넘어 위험자산거래 자체를 위한 자본거래의 정도를 측정함으로써 순수하게 자본거래 자체의 메커니즘에 의해 자생적으로 일어나는 자본거래의 활성화정도에 대한 척도가 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 이상의 방법들을 주로 한국(韓國), 일본(日本), 대만(臺灣) 등에 적용해서 평가한 결과 한국의 자본거래자유화정도(資本去來自由化程度)는 일본에 비해서는 낮지만 대만에 비해서는 높으며, 특히 90년대 들어 크게 향상된 것으로 평가되었다.

• Monthly Duck's Village
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• s.65
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• pp.57-61
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• 2008

정부가 내주 중에 한미 자유무역협정(FTA) 비준동의안을 국회에 제출할 예정이다. 이혜민 외교통상부 FTA 교섭대표는 "비준동의안 국회제출에 필요한 절차는 모두 마친 상태, 당정간 협의를 거쳤으며 내주에 비준동의안을 국회에 낼 계획"이라고 말했다. 지난 주 사실상 타결된 한.인도 CEPA(포괄적 경제동반자 협정)에 대해 이 대표는 인도가 일본, 유럽연합(EU) 등 이들 선진국과의 협상에 시간이 걸릴 것으로 전망하였으며 이번 협상에서 인도 측은 상품에 따라 관세를 협정 발효와 함께 즉시 또는 5년 내 철폐 방안과 8년 내 관세 축소 방안, 8년 뒤 1-1.5% 관세인하 방안, 10년 내 기존 관세를 50% 감축하는 방안에 대해 우리 측과 합의했다.협상이 진행중인 한.EU FAT는 오는 7일과 19일 각각 수석대표 회담과 통상장관 회담을 갖고 자동차 기술표준과 원산지 등 핵심쟁점에 대한 절충을 벌일 예정이다

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.13 no.4 s.52
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• pp.70-85
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• 1998

WTO 체제의 출범에 따른 자유무역 강화 추이 및 시장개방에 따른 시장 경쟁강화와 더불어 오늘날 정보통신표준화는 그 동안 개발자 중심의 '기술 지향형 표준화'동으로부터 이용자의 서비스 욕구를 충족시킴으로써 시장 선점을 노리는 소위 '시장 지향형 표준화'동으로 그 방향이 전환되고 있다. 이러한 추세를 반영하여 최근 주요 선진국과 표준화기구에서는 '정보통신표준이 과연 정보통신 제품 및 서비스간의 상호운용성 Interoperability) 확보라는 본연의 목적을 제대로 달성시킬 수 있도록 충실히 작성 및 제정되었는가'는 차원에 보다 큰 관심을 가지게 되었다. 이에 본 고에서는 미국, 유럽, 일본 등의 주요 국가 및 표준화기구에서 추진되고 있는 정보통신표준의 상호운용성 관련 시험인증 정책을 분석하고, 이와 관련하여 향후에 중점적으로 다루어져야 할 주요 연구과제들을 살펴보았다.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.297-321
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• 2011

Under the UN Security Council Resolution 1540/1810 in 2004 to restrict the proliferation of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and their means of delivery, many countries have taken great efforts to, control the export of strategic items, thereby preventing the transfer of ABCM (atomic, biological, chemical weapons, missiles) and technologies and goods related to conventional weapons or dual-use items, Compliance Program (CP) in Korea or Internal Compliance Program(ICP) in Japan refers to a company's internal system or rules to comply with the export control laws and regulations, and is to prevent the unintentional illegal export of strategic items. This paper analyzes the Compliance Program (CP) of strategic export control system between Korea and Japan. Both countries have very similar legal frameworks under the guiding principles of multilateral export control regimes. However, there are some differences in actual procedures, classification service, supporting system, export license, sanctions for illegal exporters, etc. Korea should take more active and customer-oriented measures to promote the Compliance Program (CP) into Korean export companies for better awareness and positive attitude, practical information and education, smoothy government-firm communication, closer cooperation between Korea and Japan, etc.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.31-46
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• 2019

Materials and Parts acts as the bridge in the manufacturing industry. In 2018, the materials and parts industry became the leading industry in Korea as its export reached $316.2 billion, accounting for 52.3 percent of the country's total exports. As such, it is the main industry of Korea leading the trade surplus, but when it comes to Japan, it is not. The trade deficit with Japan shrinks to $24 billion last year but the materials and parts industry still accounts for 60 percent of total deficit, which is about $15.1 billion. Today Japan has the top competitiveness in the high-tech materials and parts industry and the factors can be found in cooperation and symbiosis among companies, monotsukuri spirit, and long-term government policy. In order for Korean economy to pursue the Japan's high-tech materials and parts industry, the following change of perception is necessary. First, the material and parts industry requires win-win cooperation. In general, materials and parts are intermediate products. Therefore, it is important to understand the characterist that the transactions are all made up between companies not the with consumers. Second, expansion of joint technology development is absolutely necessary. South Korea is a leading country in the field of general-purpose materials and parts. However, the research shows that South Korea has structure which small and medium-sized companies could have difficulties in developing high-tech products as finding demand and developing market are hard due to low participation of large corporations at R&D stage. It is necessary for large corporations to participate in joint R&D and share opinions of customers from the beginning stage of R&D. Third, a long-term approach is needed. Structural vulnerabilities in the Korea's materials and parts industry, including the lack of advanced technologies is the main reason of solidification of Korea's trade deficit with Japan but there are also cultural differences about technology in the background. Even if it takes time, a long-term approach is absolutely necessary to build up technology and know-how in order to secure competitiveness in the high-tech materials and parts industry. This approach applies to act of corporation and government policy.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.97-121
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• 2016

This study evaluates industrial competitiveness of 34 industries in the 41 countries in terms of several trade indices such as value-added RCA(VRCA) and value added intra-industry trade(VIIT). Conclusions are as follows: First, China is still showing week evidence to replace or overtake Korea in terms of VRCA. Second, it is not supportive of the assertion that the gap between Japan and South Korea had widened in the 1995-2011 period. Third, Korea's exports pattern in the manufacturing sector has shifted from the one featured by developing countries(re-exportation of final goods produced using imported intermediate inputs) to that of the developed (exportation of intermediate goods). According to dynamic panel analysis regressing the RCA gap on the IIT gap, intermediate-goods RCA and the market share gap, the estimated coefficient of the gap between value-added IIT and gross IIT is 0.253 and statistically significant at the 2% level. This implies that increases in IIT or intermediate-goods trade to sustain the global competitiveness are the main reasons for the gap between value-added RCA and gross RCA.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 2010

Since Korea establish diplomatic ties with China in 1992, korea and China have had rapid progress in most of field as politic, economy, society and culture through basing on cultural commonality and geographical adjacency. Especially, China is the biggest trading partner to korea, and also Korea is third-biggest trading country to China. They become strategic cooperating relation in 2008. Currently, in terms of international trade relation, WTO/DDA negotiation is proceeding in difficulty, but FTA has been growing and extending in the world, and the two country, china and korea, have been competitively trying wide and active FTA negotiation promotion. After Financial crisis in 1997, according to the requirement of local economic cooperation, China has shown the interest to several countries since the conclusion of FTA treaty with ASEAN in 2005. China also makes the active afford to conclude FTA with Korea. Last May 28th, this was mentioned in the meeting between president Lee and Premier Wen Jiabao, so it is anticipated that the negotiation for FTA will be started in the near future. There are many political suggestions and concerns in terms of way of negotiation korea would choose. Some economist said that "'Continuous FTA aimed at long-term protocol should be promoted between korea and China and negotiated includingly'" However, this research claims that commodity exchange, service, and investment areas should be included and it has to be comprehensive package settlement style in negotiation. This research has found out the characteristics of China's negotiation and implications through the China's existed FTA negotiation examples. Currently, China has taken Continuous or a phase-negotiation method to ASEAN, Pakistan, Chile and some other developing country and to advanced countries like New Zealand or Singapore, comprehensive package settlement method is used in FTA negotiation. In consider of the FTA negotiation between Korea and China, Korea has some problems in the commodity change area in agriculture maket's opening. While, for china, the issues would happen in service trade area, especially when encountering finance and communication industries are opened, China's economy could be exposed to some risk. In result, Korea should expand its negotiation range from commodity trade to service trade, in order to exchange both issues, then the negotiation will be concluded more easily. In other word, for FTA, korea should follow comprehensive package settlement way that is similar to New zealand and Singapore case. Through this kind of method, Korea can expect effect of creating trade, conversion of it and preoccupancy of service field in china's market against the advanced countries like Usa, Europe and Japan. Also, to have a successful FTA negotiation, korea should find out china's policy for FTA negotiation. With this information, korea will be able to suggest the way to make a profit. Systematic analysis and comparison about previous negotiation cases of china are needed before the negotiation begin.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.3-37
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• 2011

This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide $CO_2$ emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and Japan (a developed country). The sample countries span a whole range of development stages from industrialized to newly industrialized and emerging market economies. The environmental consequences according to openness and economic growth do not show uniform results across the countries. Depending on the national characteristics, the estimated EKC show different temporal patterns. China shows an N-shaped curve while Japan has a U-shaped curve. Such dissimilarities are also found in the relationship between $CO_2$ emissions and openness. In the case of Korea, and Japan it represents an inverted U-shaped curve while China shows a U-shaped curve. We also analyze the dynamic relationships between the variables by adopting a vector auto regression or vector error correction model. These models through the impulse response functions allow for analysis of the causal variable's influence on the dynamic response of emission variables, and it adopts a variance decomposition to explain the magnitude of the forecast error variance determined by the shocks to each of the causal variables over time. Results show evidence of large heterogeneity among the countries and variables impacts.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.137-170
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• 2008

This study is presenting the logistics strategy in the international logistics markets which makes competition and corporation among north-east Asian countries to establishing the multi-pass Eurasian railroads. The countries located in north-east area of Eurasia like China, Japan, Russia and Korea are paying higher costs and disutility to the transportations and communications due to repeated conflicts and confrontations causes from the politic problems. They are being used surface transportation for most of all logistics between Europe and Asia except special merchandises because of characteristic of cargo to be air, the Silk Road remains vestige only which was main logistic passage to this area since BC. So far the Trans-Siberian Railway is being used by Russia mostly as north of Eurasian transport because of difficulties of service. The Trans-China Railway built in 1992 is not accomplishing as a international logistic passages. It is expected to take a long lead time because of characteristic of resource development and poor logistic infrastructure to the countries like Uzbekistan, double landlocked country, Mongolia and Azerbaijan, the countries do not be adjacent to the sea, even they have great economic jump-up plans through the development of their own resources. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) start to sail officially in 2001 is constructed with China, Russia, Tadzhikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as regular members of 6 countries and Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran as observers 5 countries. It is started as a military alliance to protect terror, but now, it is expended to cooperate with the traffic, transportation, trade and share of energies. The Russia is doing their best to activate TSR as a government target to developnorth area equivalently, and economic develop of far-east Siberia. And also it is agreed provisionally to improve and repair of rail road between Nahjin and Hassan to connect TSR and TKR( Trans-Korea Railroad) by Russia, North Korea and South Korea with Russian's aggressive efforts. The development plan of this area is over lapped with GTI(Greater Tumen Initiative) promoted by UNDP, and is a cooperated project by 5 countries of South Korea, Mongolia, China, Russia and North Korea, subject to review the appropriation of energy, tour, environment, rail road connection between Mongolia and China and establishing a ferry route to north-east Asia. It is Japanese situation to pay attention to Russia and China even they have been supplying large-scope of infrastructure in Mongol area without any charges, target to get East Asia Main Rail Road to connect Mongolia and Zalubino of Russia. In case of the program for the Denuclearization of North Korea is not creeping, it will be accelerated to connect the TKR and TSR, TKR and TCR by somehow attending United States, including developing program promoted by UN ESCAP. As the result, Korean peninsular will continue the central role of competition and cooperation as in the past, now and future of north-east Asia, as of geographical-economics and geographical-politics whether it is requested or not wanted by neighbor countries.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.175-195
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• 2023

This study is for analyzing the relation between Korean Water transport and the other main countries Water transport. In the Free trade system, Maritime transport has a high impact on the global economy as well as the each countries. The division of labor through the global value chain(GVCs) has became the ordinary activity in business, and in Maritime shipping,, there are the International trade among countries. Therefore, This study analyze relation of Korean water transport and other 13 regions using World Input-Output Table(WIOT) by Asia Development Bank(ADB). The result of analysis, the proportion of intermediate goods in the input structure of Korean water transport is about 70%, and the ratio of using domestic products is higher than the major European countries. However, since 2000, intermediate inputs from foreign countries have steadily increased, and added value has decreased. Countries with a high relation with Korean Water transport industry are United States(USA) on the input structure, Singapore(SIN) and Japan(JPN) on the distribution structure. Analyzing the relation through the production inducement coefficient, Singapore(SIN) has the high relationship with Korean Water transport industry.