• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.47-72
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• 2016

The Government of Korea has always focused on developing and maintaining a surplus on the balance of payments as a successful trade policy. The focus should now be on spatial information hiding, revealing patterns in trade activities that enable viewing trade in a more sophisticated manner. This study utilizes trade statistical data such as the United States-South Korea imports and exports from 2003 to 2015 officially released by the two countries. It allows us to analyze and extract the spatial information pertaining to the origin, transit, and destination. First, in the case of export data to the United States, the origin of the trade goods has expanded and decentralized from the metropolitan area. With regard to transit, in 2003, most of the exported goods were shipped by ocean vessels and arrived at the ports on the western coast of the United States. However, trade patterns have changed over the 12-year period and now more of that trade has moved to the southern ports of the United States. In terms of destination, California and Texas were importing goods from South Korea. With the development of the automotive industry in Georgia and Alabama, these two states also imported huge volumes of automobile parts. Second, in case of import data, most imported goods from the United States originated from California and Texas. In this case, 40% of goods were shipped by air freight and arrived at the Incheon-Seoul International Airport; most ocean freight was handled at the Port of Busan. The purpose of this study is to decompose the spatial information from the trade statistics data between Korea and the United States and to depict visualized bilateral trade structure by origin, transit, and destination.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.123-139
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• 2015

This paper attempts to complement the methodological and conceptual lack of spatial thinking in Korean women's movement research and to facilitate further discussion on this field of research, by drawing on recent academic discussion on scale developed particularly among the Western critical and feminist geographers. The purposes of the paper are following. First, it addresses the need to utilize the concept of scale in women's movement research. Numerous spatial metaphors often proliferated with indiscretion in the feminist approach have rather tended to hinder fully understanding the spatiality of social movements. In order to examine the spatiality of social movements as both conceptual tool and praxis, not merely as metaphor, the paper incorporates main issues in recent scale discourses with particular attention to the debate between Marston and Brenner, and explores their implications for women's movement research in Korea. Second, it emphasizes the multi-scalar approach by highlighting the role of micro-scale, the less studied side in social movement literature. The public and the private divide, the long time battle ground in feminist research, is often intermingled with the hierarchical scalar understanding which considers the global as more powerful and important than the local. The reproductive realm, however, is indispensably related to production and political economic realm. The paper explores the very site where both the public/private divide and the hierarchical scalar understanding can be dismantled. It is the site where the private becomes public and the local becomes the global (and vice versa). Drawing on a brief example of an anti-FTA movement of women with strollers in Korea, it examines the way the multi-scalar approach advances the understanding of Korean women's movement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Organic Agriculture Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.288-288
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• 2009

WTO가 진행되고 한미 FTA 협상타결로 농업농촌이 어려움을 격고 있으며 EU, 중국, 인도 등과의 FTA 협상도 검토되고 있다. 또한 소득수준 향상으로 소비자들이 웰빙 건강식품에 대한 관심이 고조되면서 이제는 농산물의 안전성과 기능성, 맛 등이 우수한 고품질 안전농산물 생산이 농업의 핵심과제로 대두되고 있다. 이와 같이 급변하는 농업여건에 대응해 나가기 위해서는 농업정책의 최우선과제인 친환경농업에 적극 동참하여 안전하고 우수한 농산물을 생산해야 할 것이다. 잎들깨의 재배에 있어 주생산 요소의 한 가지는 영양생장을 잘 조절해야 하고 기비보다는 추비에 보다 많은 기술이 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 잎들깨 추비시용에 있어 화학비료를 대체 유기질 비료를 이용하여 추비수준별 생육 및 수량성을 구명 하는데 있다. 재배방법은 재식거리는 10 cm${\times}$7cm(137,500주/10a) 로 하였으며 기비는 유기질비료(N-P-K=3.2:4.2:1.1)를 N량 기준으로 5.2kg/10a 을 시용하였다. 추비시용 처리는 10a당 N 0kg, N1.2kg, N1.5kg, N 1.8kg 등 4처리를 두었으며, 추비는 유기질 비료 (N-P-K=4.0-2.0-1.5)를 N 기준으로 생육에 따라 매회 수확 후에 시용 하였으며, 시용 방법에 있어 관수는 1 회 급여시 유기질 비료를 10a당 물 5톤에 희석하여 총 5회를 주었으며 관수방법은 점적호스를 이용하여 저면 관수 하였다. 재배기간 중 10a당 T-N 시용량은 N 0kg 재배는 5.2kg, N 1.2kg 재배는 11.2kg, N 1.5kg재배는 12.7kg, N 1.8kg재배는 14.2kg을 시용하였다. 재배 후 처리별 N 흡수량은 N 1.8kg구 33.1kg, N 1.5kg구 30.0kg, N 1.2kg구 25.7kg, N 0kg구 18.1kg순으로 나타났다. 생육은 초장, 경경, 엽장, 엽폭, 엽중은 추비 시용량이 높을수록 향상되었고, 마디수 발생은 추비 수준 간 변동이 없었다. 병해충 발생정도는 병은 시들음병, 역병, 노균병 순으로 발생하였고, 충은 잎말이나방, 잿빛곰팡이, 진딧물 순으로 발생되었다. 수량성은 N 1.5kg 재배구가 N 1.2kg 대비 115%, N 0kg 대비 169%를 수확하여 타 처리에 비해 비교적 높게 나타났다.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2015

Before the advent of pasteurization and other microbiological controls in the dairy industry, milk product-borne diseases such as scarlet fever, typhoid fever, septic sore throat, and tuberculosis were globally widespread. Pasteurization was invented by Louis Pasteur, and it has been considered as one of the most effective ways to control milk product-borne diseases since the 20th century. Nevertheless, till date, various types of cheese in the EU, the USA, and other countries are made from unpasteurized milk as artisan cheese, following the specific food regulations of each nation. Furthermore, after the effectiveness of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Korea and many nations, the import of various types of cheese made in different conditions and influenced by acidity, preservatives, temperature, competing flora, water activity, and salt concentration increased yearly. Hence, the objective of this review was to describe (1) the 60-day aging rule of cheese, (2) characteristics of the outbreaks linked to cheese manufactured from unpasteurized milk since 1998 to 2011 in USA, and (3) serious health risks from unpasteurized milk, to ensure food protection and safety and to use this basic information for risk assessment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1319-1336
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• 2006

The successive round of talks oil Korea-USA Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has continued, and it also has the Intellectual property(IPR) unit. Until now, tile one of most disputing concerns in IPR unit through talks is the limitation of compulsory license of claimed invention. The US is urging to establish a safeguard for IPR, as similar measure of the US, to protecting the profit of the US enterprises through these on-going talks, it is more likely expected to take the offensive about infringement of the patent seriously. Based on the current circumstances, the provision strategy study is needed to obtain Korea inventors the first inventor defense under the US patent law system as well as understand the current Korea's patent law and its revision against that in the US. In patent Law, both nations with first to file system and first to invent system permit a prior user of an invention to continue to use the invention notwithstanding its subsequent patenting by another under being subject to certain qualifications and limitations, even though a patent by a later inventor is granted. Normally, the first inventor defense has been used to compensate the drawbacks of the first to file system. The US patent Law, however, adopting the first to invent system admits the first inventor defense. Therefore, pursuing counteract provision under consideration with Korean patent Law system and research environment along with investigating the reason why the US adopted its patent law system, the scope of right, and the new reform of Act. 2005 of the institute, which promotes the first Korean inventor to possess the defense right of the US, provides certain preparations for Korean companies against the expected offensive from the US ones under the US patent Law system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.339-348
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• 2014

This study searches an improvement scheme of auditing on international financial environment since enforcing IFRS in order to secure transparency and reliability in corporate accounting and credibility in external audit from 2011 K-IFRS. As improvement schemes for the issue of the audit on K-GAAP are: First, the guarantee of the auditor's qualities of duties and talents about the lack of accountability and awareness and independence of auditor are needed. Secondly, the free acceptance or certified public accountant is adopted. Third, the non-Executive Director shall be granted. Fourth, the external auditor CPA and Auditor's remuneration should be increased. Fifth, the auditor's shares shall be limited. Sixth, the external audit to supervise and the ratio of supervision should increase. Finally, the foreign corporation for the time being limited to increase our competitiveness.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6D
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• pp.831-837
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• 2008

Korean construction industry faces diverse social and economical changes. Labor shortage, Free Trade Agreements (FTA), high oil prices alert industry practitioners to the new challenges and opportunities. It is time to make novel approaches for significant improvement of industry performance. Korean government and companies have plans for interdisciplinary research and development efforts. To this end, technology evaluation and market needs analysis should be extensively carried out prior to research initiation. Research programs developed in this way are presented in term of budget estimate, research scope and timeline. A framework for construction technology valuation methodology is also suggested to evaluate the holistic technology value and return on investment of research, development and commercialization.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.36
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• pp.399-422
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• 2006

Whether to reduce the current 'screen quota' for domestic films in conjunction with the FTA discussions between Korea and the United States is one of the hotly debated issues in Korea. Using Toulmin's Argumentation Model, this study attempts to trace the use of data and warrants for each pro and con claims as portrayed in newspaper editorial columns and to find its rhetorical significance. A total of 67 editorial columns were collected from 9 nationwide news dailies in Korea for the purpose. The rhetorical analysis of those articles showed that the major warrants used in each pro and con opinion were absent of the potential issues of the opponents, which inherently fails to invite rebuttals from the opposite sides. This conceptual wall in each argumentation models implies an inactive conversation and subsequent absence of clash between the pro and con argumentation fields. It is thus suggested for opinion writers to find more adequate evidences to support the data and warrants to hold persuasive power of their respective claims, ultimately to enhance the public discourse among citizens.