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How to Reflect Sustainable Development in Overseas Investment including Equator Principles (해외투자(海外投資)와 지속가능발전 원칙 - 적도원칙(赤道原則)(Equator Principles)을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Whon-Il
    • 한국무역상무학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.45-72
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    • 2006
  • The Equator Principles are a set of voluntary environmental and social guidelines for ethical project finance. These principles commit banks and other signatories to not finance projects that fail to meet these guidelines. The principles were conceived in 2002 on an initiative of the International Finance Corporation and launched in 2003. Since then, dozens of major banks have adopted the Principles, and with these banks among them accounting for more than three quarters of all project loan market volume the Principles have become the de facto standard for all banks and investors on how to deal with potential social and environmental effects of projects to be financed. While regarding the Principles an important initiative, NGOs have criticised the Principles for not producing real changes in financing activities and for allowing projects to go through that should have been screened out by the Principles, such as the Sakhalin-II oil and gas project in Russia. In early 2006, a process of revision of the principles was begun. The Equator Principles state that endorsing banks will only provide loans directly to projects under the following circumstances: - The risk of the project is categorized in accordance with internal guidelines based upon the environmental and social screening criteria of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). - For all medium or high risk projects (Category A and B projects), sponsors complete an Environmental Assessment, the preparation of which must meet certain requirements and satisfactorily address key environmental and social issues. - The Environmental Assessment report addresses baseline environmental and social conditions, requirements under host country laws and regulations, applicable international treaties and agreements, sustainable development and use of renewable natural resources, protection of human health, cultural properties, and biodiversity, including endangered species and sensitive ecosystems, use of dangerous substances, major hazards, occupational health and safety, fire prevention and life safety, socio-economic impacts, land acquisition and land use, involuntary resettlement, impacts on indigenous peoples and communities, cumulative impacts of existing projects, the proposed project, and anticipated future projects, participation of affected parties in the design, review and implementation of the project, consideration of feasible environmentally and socially preferable alternatives, efficient production, delivery and use of energy, pollution prevention and waste minimization, pollution controls (liquid effluents and air emissions) and solid and chemical waste management. - Based on the Environmental Assessment, Equator banks then make agreements with their clients on how they mitigate, monitor and manage those risks through an 'Environmental Management Plan'. Compliance with the plan is required in the covenant. If the borrower doesn't comply with the agreed terms, the bank will take corrective action, which if unsuccessful, could ultimately result in the bank canceling the loan and demanding immediate repayment. - For risky projects, the borrower consults with stakeholders (NGO's and project affected groups) and provides them with information on the risks of the project. - If necessary, an expert is consulted. The Principles only apply to projects over 50 million US dollars, which, according to the Equator Principles website, represent 97% of the total market. In early 2006, the financial institutions behind the Principles launched stakeholder consultations and negotiations aimed at revising the principles. The draft revised principles were met with criticism from NGO stakeholders, who in a joint position paper argued that the draft fails by ignoring the most serious critiques of the principles: a lack of consistent and rigorous implementation.

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Employees' Preferences on Various Types of Matching Grants (매칭그랜트 기부방식에 대한 기부자 선호도)

  • Lee, Yeong-Ran;Park, Sang-June
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.15-27
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    • 2013
  • Because consumers tend to have negative opinion about a company that neglects social issues like poverty or pollution while it focuses on its own profit, a lot of companies have invested their resources in Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR). CSR has merits of image improving and profit gaining, on the other hand, it has also many shortcomings. First, the cost of CSR may become a heavy financial burden. Specifically, CSR tends to be implemented by a company's unilateral backup, and then this may impose a heavy burden on the company. Second, one cannot expect effects of CSR in a short-term. Because of these shortcomings, the unilateral CSR has gone into alteration of the type of CSR since 1980's. Instead of unilaterality, Cause-Related Marketing(CRM) began to be used for mutual profits among company, consumers, and society. That is, CRM has become to be spotlighted as a new type of CSR. It focuses on partnership between a company and consumers based on cause and mutual profit pursuing through this partnership. So, many contemporary companies prefer CRM activities that derive their positive corporate image, that increase their sales, and that reduce their financial cost. The IBM Matching Grants Program, which is the largest of the IBM-Employee partnership programs, is a typical CRM. This program enables employees and retirees to increase the value of their donations to educational institutions, hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and cultural & environmental organizations with a matching gift from IBM. Hundreds of educational institutions and thousands of nonprofit organizations have benefited from the contributions by IBM. There might be various types of matching grants. For example, an employee might choose a lump-sum expense or partitioning a lump-sum into a series of small ongoing expenses for his (or her) donation, and a firm might match the employee's total contribution with a lump-sum expense or might match the employee's total contribution with a series of small ongoing expenses. However, it is not easy to find an academic research on which type of matching grant is preferred by employees. This paper shows that an employee prefers the type of matching grants that consists of a lump-sum expense for his (or her) contribution and a series of small ongoing expenses for a firm's contribution [or the type of matching grants that consists of a series of small ongoing expenses for an employee's contribution and a lump-sum expense for a firm's contribution] to the other types of matching grants.

Research on the Importance and Satisfaction of Selection Attribute for Hanok Village using Importance-Performance Analysis(IPA) (IPA기법을 활용한 한옥마을 선택속성의 중요도-만족도 연구)

  • Kim, Yeon-Sun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.585-593
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to research the Selection Attributes of tourists in Jeonju Hanok Village. The purpose of this study was to study the importance and satisfaction after visiting the Jeonju Hanok Village using IPA analysis, and to provide results and marketing implications. The survey was conducted from the October to the November in 2018. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed and 258 responded questionnaires were reliable to be used as a sample. The result of the survey was analyzed by using SPSS 15.0 version for window with Paired t-test and IPA method. Frequency Analysis was also conducted for the characteristic of samples. As a result of the study, first, the cleanliness of tourist attractions was the highest among the selection attributes, and the next ranking was in the order of parking lot facilities, natural scenery, food, and weather. Second, the natural property was the most satisfactory as a selection property item that tourists visiting Hanok Village were satisfied with, followed by climate(weather), regional characteristics, historical and cultural resources, and cleanliness of tourist attractions. Third, depending on the importance-satisfaction value of the selection attribute variable perceived by tourists visiting Hanok Village, it is necessary to develop various programs in Hanok Village and prepare measures to increase tourist satisfaction.

A Study on the Determinants of Employees' Turnover Intention of Emotion Workers -Focused the large accommodation services on the Gangwon Province- (감정노동자의 이직의도 결정요인에 관한 연구 -강원지역 대형숙박서비스업을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Deok-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.154-164
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzed the determinants of the turnover intention of emotion workers and recent social issues. In particular, this study examined whether the factors that determine the turnover intention affect the quality of service. The job characteristics of emotion workers were set up as an independent variable, and the job environment, organizational culture, such as emotional labor and how it affects the workers' behavior were investigated. How the independent variables influence the turnover of workers was investigated to mediate the emotional job satisfaction. The subjects were primarily targeted by the emotions of the workers engaged in large service accommodation, Kangwon. Among the environmental factors, the job characteristics and job duties are diverse factors and internal and external factors that can affect the compensation turnover intentions. Organizational culture as a factor was the human resources culture, open culture systems, and the hierarchical cultural factors affecting turnover intention. Among the emotional labor practices that also affects the surface of conduct, sincere acts influence the turnover intention. In addition, a one hypothesis testing job satisfaction was mediated by several factors with an impact, such as job diversity. Future empirical research should examined whether temporary full-time is an independent variable factor that can achieve a more fruitful conclusion.

An Exploration for Direction of the Curriculum Development through the Analysis of Media Information Literacy Competencies and Contents (미디어정보 리터러시 역량과 교육내용 분석을 통한 교육과정 개발 방향 탐구)

  • Park, Juhyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.119-144
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to obtain basic information and implications for developing media information literacy curriculum by comparing and analyzing UNESCO's media and information literacy competencies and AASL's key competencies with the 2015 Revised Curriculum and the Library and Information Life curriculum. As a result of the analysis, First, UNESCO's MIL and AASL's key competencies in media information literacy were related to the competencies of the 2015 Revised Curriculum. Second, UNESCO's MIL included more aspects of the composition and competencies of information literacy than media literacy. For this reason, it could be said that media information literacy more appropriately reflects the content pursued by media literacy education than media literacy. Third, UNESCO's MIL included more training content for media literacy than information literacy. Fourth, the contents of media literacy were found to be insufficient in the Library and Information Life curriculum compared to the education contents of library and information literacy. Fifth, the competency standards related to media information literacy and Libraries and Information Life did not present cultural sensitivity competency. Based on the results of the study, It is necessary to develop a media information literacy curriculum that fuses the contents of media literacy beyond the information literacy that use library resources.

The Study on the Promotion of Chinese Animation Industry -A Comparison of Korea.China and Japan (중국 애니메이션산업의 수출증대방안에 관한 연구 -한국.중국.일본을 중심으로)

  • Pei, Ying-Shun;Meng, Hai-Yang;Hou, Sha-Sha;Bae, Ki-Hyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.456-471
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    • 2018
  • A Comparative Study on the Korean animation industry and 3 of this paper is a matter of Korea, China, Chinese animation industry and the Current Status and Problem of Chinese animation business in overseas markets.Aimed to find ways to expand exports. In order to realize this purpose with theoretical backgrounds, such as animation concept and characteristics of the research literature, look at ways a paper from an animation industry, work, China.Chinese animation development plan based on the bibliographic data and case study based on books. First, by government in terms of development measures and supplement the system and a law on the animation industry. First of all animation industry and producers To help protect the government is to become an active policy must be supported with funds and animation to ease the relevant laws and regulations and joint venture with foreign countries.Pursuing an active policy is needed. Second, an animated feature can get the full benefit of the industrial chain to and create derivative works as a multilateral needs to be improved. Third, the animation expertise to build human resources need to be nurtured. Fourth, in order to cater to overseas markets in China will create various types of Chinese traditional culture based on the animation is important. Fifth, and a mobile home page to get in. Sixth, will be easily exported to overseas markets to the creation of joint international exchange and international.

Perceptual Differences of Success Factors for a Maritime Tourism Complex Using Fuzzy Theory (Focusing on Golden Harbor, Incheon) (퍼지이론을 활용한 인천 해양관광단지 성공요인의 인식차이 분석에 대한 연구(인천 골든하버를 중심으로))

  • Cha, Youg Doo;Gong, Jeong Min;Yeo, Gi Tae
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2017
  • The maritime industry is recognized as an important national industry in the world today, and its importance is increasing. One of the most important marine industries is the marine leisure industry. Korea attracts many foreign visitors, and a wide variety of cultural and tourist resources are worth accessing. Among the visitors are Chinese tourists, who are called Youke and who represent a constantly increasing trend since 2007, when 1.06 million people visited, to 2015, when 5.98 million people visited Accordingly, a budget of about one trillion won has been committed to creating a resort complex called Golden Harbor at Incheon, which will focus on the development of a marine tourism complex In this study, we conduct a survey on the potential of Chinese tourism and marine tourism professionals only success of the targets of the Incheon Port Authority was analyzed by comparing the difference. A fuzzy analysis of the questionnaire results on Chinese tourists showed the importance of giving the highest priority to services being friendly(0.823), followed by safety(0.823) and convenience(0.773), highlighting the importance of recognize a variety of tourism products(0.755). Targeted surveys were conducted on 20 of Incheon Port Authority s employees They showed that various tourism products are the main issue(0.852), following by accessibility(0.850) and immigration(0.810), showed that convenience is important to recognize the order of (0.793).

Environmental Consumer Behavior of Junior High School Students - Case Study of Anyang City - (중학생의 환경친화적 소비 행동 - 안양시 지역을 중심으로 -)

  • Ahn, Mi-Young;Park, Tae-Yoon;Nam, Young-Sook
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.18 no.2 s.27
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    • pp.76-89
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    • 2005
  • The objectives of this study are to identify the environmental consumer behavior, to examine the degree of environmental consumer behavior of the junior high school students, and to investigate the educational system of a school which influence the consumer behavior. The data used in this study are 368 male and female students in 9th grade in Anyang City, Kyunggi-do province. Statistics used for data analysis are means, standard deviation, t-test, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of the research are summarized as follows : First of all, as a tendency of the environmental consumer behavior of junior high students, the primary factor to the environmental problems was media, and among those, TV and radio was the medium to environmental problems. This implies the fact that the time juveniles interact with mass media is significantly growing, which means that transmitting environmental problems by programs targeted to adolescences through mass media would be effective. Next, the disposal process showed the highest environmental consumer behavior, followed by the consuming and purchasing process. Education on the purchasing process will be necessary to encourage environmental consumer behavior. The route of obtaining environmental knowledge was basically from school and the level of the average environmental knowledge fumed out to be low. This shows the need to produce and distribute media education materials because educating the conclusion of actual experiments will be more effective than that of theoretical studies. The conformity showed general indifference on environmental consumer behavior and the environmental resources were normally collected seperated. Conformity is a cultural bond teenagers think important, therefore education available for students about the same age should be developed. Next, the value intention of the surveyed showed that the ecological intention was highest, followed by economic and convenience intentions. This means the morale of the junior high students to environmental consumer behavior is set sound. Females tended to act more environmentally, while males showed more intention to economic causes. Also, the students of the boys-only or girls-only schools showed higher environmentally sound behavior in disposal processes. Finally, the environmental consumer behavior was influenced most by environmental consumer behavior of the conformity group, followed by ecological morale, frequency of encountering environmental problems, gender, environmental knowledge, whether the school was boys-only or girls-only or not, economical morale, respectively. The largest factor affecting the consumer activity of the purchase, consumption, and disposal process was environmental consumer behavior of the conformity group, along with the ecological morale, and the frequency of encountering environmental problems. This implies that conformity group is a large factor to the juveniles and a plan to entice the environmental consumer behavior of conformity groups are necessary.

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Isolation and Identification of Antagonistic Bacteria for Biological Control of Large Patch Disease of Zoysiagrass Caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG2-2 (IV) (들잔디 갈색퍼짐병의 생물학적 방제를 위한 길항 세균의 분리와 동정)

  • Song, Chi-Hyun;Islam, Md. Rezuanul;Chang, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Yong-Se
    • Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 2012
  • The objective of this study was to identify bacterial antagonists of R. solani AG2-2 (IV) on zoysiagrass and to evaluate their antifungal activity in vitro and in vivo to select an antagonistic isolate. Antagonistic isolates that inhibit large patch disease caused by R. solani AG2-2 (IV) in zoysiagrass were selected from several soils, and their antagonistic activities were investigated in vitro and in vivo. Of 216 bacterial isolates, 67 inhibited several plant pathogenic fungi. The isolates that inhibited stem-segment colonization by R. solani AG2-2 (IV) in zoysiagrass were tested in a growth chamber. Eleven isolates were active as plant growth promoting isolates. Among them, five plant growth promoting isolates and their concentration dependent efficiency on zoysiagrass following inoculation with R. solani AG2-2 (IV) was evaluated. Isolate H33 was one of the potential antagonistic isolates, and it was further tested against various plant pathogens. H33 not only suppressed the disease caused by R. solani AG2-2 (IV) on zoysiagrass but also promoted leaf weight and leaf height of zoysiagrass under growth chamber and greenhouse conditions. The H33 isolate, which belongs to Streptomyces arenae, was identified through physiological, biochemical, and 16S rDNA studies. Further studies will investigate the cultural characterization of S. arenae H33 and isolation and identification of antifungal substance produced by S. arenae H33.

Mitigating the Partner Uncertainty for Venture Firms in Cross-border Corporate Venture Capital Investment (국제 기업벤처캐피탈 투자에서 벤처기업의 파트너 불확실성 완화)

  • Kang, Shinhyung;Bae, Zong-Tae
    • The Journal of Small Business Innovation
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.37-58
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    • 2016
  • Despite the growing importance of corporate venture capital (CVC) in the venture capital market, little scholarly attention has been devoted to cross-border CVC investment. Venture firms perceive higher risks of technology leakage in cross-border CVC investment than they do in domestic CVC investment due to geographical and cultural disparity. Given that venture firms would not receive CVC investment in the presence of the partner uncertainty, we argue that the likelihood of cross-border CVC investment increases with the strength of intellectual property protection (IPP) regime, the investment timing (i.e. funding round number), and the industry unrelatedness with the corporate investor. Additionally, we investigate how the venture firm's complementary resource need interact with the partner uncertainty in decisions for cross-border CVC investment. By examining 2,873 CVC investment transactions in the period 1994-2009, we found supporting evidence for the strength of IPP regime and the industry unrelatedness in mitigating the partner uncertainty of foreign corporate investors. However, the effectiveness of these factors is moderated by the type of resources that the venture firms need from the foreign corporate investors.

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