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Covert Information in Names of Korean Dishes (한국 음식명 중의 비명시적 정보)

  • Maeng, Joo-Oeck
    • Korean Linguistics
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    • v.62
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    • pp.223-261
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    • 2014
  • From the perspective of cross-cultural communication, it can be easily assumed that non-natives may have great difficulty understanding names of Korean dishes with covert information considering that even understanding those with overt information is a demanding task for them. Complex issues raised by cultural and linguistic differences hinder non-natives from having a clear understanding on names of Korean dishes. In order to resolve this problem, this paper focuses on providing clues to overcoming obstacles of cross-cultural communication in understanding names of Korean dishes by presenting issues including following cases:1. Analysis on types of Korean dish names with covert information in comparison to dish names with overt information. 2. Names of dishes made with a single contain covert information regarding a specific cooking and processing method. 3. A particular aspect regarding Korean food culture is that morphemes with a meaning of meat or flesh('gogi', 'sal', 'yook') contained in dish names indicate covert information that the dish is made of 'beef'.

A Study on the Value Criteria and Relative Importance for Conservation of Modern Cultural Heritage (근대 문화유산의 평가 기준과 상대적 중요도에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Min;Sung, Jong-Sang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.12-20
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    • 2013
  • This aim of this study is to support the value criteria that citizen evaluate themselves it when they found modern heritages in their town. To understand the changing of value criteria for the cultural heritage, we have to begin from early 20 century that were, however, diversified after 80's. As a result, early they evaluated with the architectural and aesthetic value mainly, after they evaluated with the social-cultural value and academical value, and nowadays they try to include the economical value and educational value. So this study rearranged and divided that value with the preservation and using value. The preservation value include the historical value, aesthetic value, social-cultural value and academical value, and the using value include the economical value and educational value. The criteria, however, don't have the equal importance, This study try to redefine relative importance score with paired comparison. As a result, Historical value is proved that most important criteria, but aesthetic value got the score lower than social-cultural value, and similar with academical values. And in using values, economical value and educational value got the low score. It means that if some researcher insist about the importance of economical value, it should evaluate lower than preservation values. This study insist that we have to include diversified values and that values have relatives score. Actually, now we mostly evaluate with the architecture and aesthetic values about modern heritage, so we are losing a lot of modern heritage. If we include the diversified values, social-cultural, academical and educational value, we can conserve our important modern heritage and revitalizing town with tourism of historical heritage.

A Cultural Comparison of Sex Role Identity and Attitude toward Grooming and Recreational Apparel Shopping Behavior among Male Consumers

  • Lee, Jaeil;Lee, Yoon-Jung
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.565-573
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    • 2013
  • This study focused on the cultural differences between South Korea and the U.S. in terms of male consumers' sex role attitude and its influence on grooming and apparel shopping behavior. Purposive samples of American and South Korean males aged between 20 and 40 years were surveyed. The sample sizes were 219 and 233 for American and South Korean consumers, respectively. The data were analyzed by structural equation modeling and ANOVA using SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 14.0. The results indicated that only grooming was influenced by the perceived femininity in the case of South Korean men; however, the model for American men indicated a significant positive influence of femininity on grooming and recreational apparel shopping behavior. In other words, American male consumers who perceive themselves feminine were more likely to be engaged in grooming and recreational apparel shopping behavior. On the other hand, for South Korean men, recreational apparel shopping behavior was not influenced by their sex role attitude, or whether they considered themselves feminine or masculine. This means that recreational apparel shopping behavior is a gender-specific behavior in the U.S., but not in South Korea. The findings of this study indicated that culture has influence on consumers' approach to shopping and appearance. South Korean male consumers were more likely to acknowledge themselves as being feminine, enjoy apparel shopping and grooming compared to American male consumers.

A Study on the Comparison of the UK Creative Industries with those from South Korea - Focusing on the Animation Industry (국내 현황과 비교를 통한 영국 창조산업(Creative Industry)의 동향에 관한 연구 - 애니메이션 산업을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yun-Kyung
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.12
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2007
  • This paper will be devoted to investigation of recent changes in cultural policy. This includes the increasing policy concern with 'social effects' of culture and the development of policies for 'cultural and creative industries'. British creative industries approaches the arts as a business that can both sustain individual artists and lead to wealth creation in the economy of whole countries. In this context, this study aims to investigate the comparison and contrast of the impact and stature of the UK creative industries with those from South Korea.

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Indoor Environment Due to Multi-cultural Complex Space Structure Impact on the Choice of Guests (복합 문화공간 구조에 따른 실내환경이 이용객의 선택에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Jin-Young;Won, Young-Suk;Cha, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Su-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.278-286
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    • 2011
  • Today, people are becoming more conscious regarding environmental-friendliness, and the society as a whole is becoming more aware of it. With such phenomenon, the purpose of this research is to examine how comfort and pleasantness of indoor environment influences when selecting a place for multi-cultural complex. To demonstrate the stated hypothesis, I have preceded the experiment by selecting the C multi-cultural complex of closed-type structure and T multi-cultural complex of open-type structure. The next step I took, in order to validate the public's awareness of environmental-friendliness, was conducting a survey. I then deducted a conclusion through comparison and analysis of experiment measures with survey result. As a result of the research, the experiment measures of each air, light, heat condition of the T multi-cultural complex of open-type structure had a higher measurement for the comfort and pleasantness than the C multi-cultural complex of closed-type structure. Moreover, after validating the consciousness of the public through the survey, they had a tendency preferring T multi-cultural complex of open-type structure over C multi-cultural complex of closed-type structure in terms of comfort and pleasantness. To summarize, it is proper to conclude that the criteria - comfort and pleasantness of indoor environment - has influenced significantly when it comes to selecting a multi-cultural complex through both the experiment and the survey result.

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A Study on Comparison of self-care Style among Client's in Nursing according to the cultural background (간호대상자의 문화배경별 자가간호(self-care) 유형의 비교연구 - 산후관리 중심으로)

  • Chun Jung Ja;Yoo Eun Kwang
    • The Korean Nurse
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    • v.26 no.1 s.139
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    • pp.77-95
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    • 1987
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the self-care style in postpartal period according to the cultural background in Korea. To put it concretely, the contents of the self care are food and behaviors to eschew and take in postpartal period: foods and

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Cross-National Comparison of Twitter Use between South Korea and Japan: An Exploratory Study

  • Cho, Seong Eun;Park, Han Woo
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 2012
  • This study compared cross-national Twitter use between Korea and Japan. The main exploratory variables were a) cultural traits and b) disclosure of geographic information. Twitter use was measured by the degree of reciprocity and the numbers of Tweets, followings, and followers. Data were collected using API-based software and analyzed with independent samples t-tests. Content analysis was conducted to validate the findings. The results indicate that Korean and Japanese users employ their own communication strategies reflecting their cultural orientation.