• Journal of International Area Studies (JIAS)
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.135-156
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• 2009

The two waves of EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007, have been milestones of European integration. While research has been conducted into the impact of these events on both the European and the global economies,1 there have been few attempts to assess the effects of EU enlargement and the introduction of the euro on countries such as Russia, which neighbour the EU but currently have no perspective of accession. This paper aims to provide an assessment of the effects that EU enlargement and the introduction of the euro have had on Russia, the largest country neighbouring the EU. In particular, it focuses on trade and investment links between the EU and Russia, as well as the use of the energy by Russian residents and authorities. Economic links between Russia and the EU are found to have strengthened considerably in the areas of trade, investment and other financial flows in recent years. Strong growth, particularly in Russia, as well as the high price of oil and gas, Russia's major export items, has facilitated this expansion of trade and finance. Moreover, available data do not suggest that EU enlargement has had a negative impact on Russia in terms of trade or investment diversion. Thus, the strategic partnership between Russia and the EU has been increasingly underpinned by an expansion of cross-border economic activities. Thus, the paper contributes to two broad strands of literature on this subject, namely the impact of regional trade and economic arrangements on non-member countries and the international role of currencies.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.698-712
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• 2004

As EU's enlargement toward Central and Eastern countries, it is expected to change of the economic activity space of EU. This paper aims to examine the changing of economic activity space of EU with a locational analysis of foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern countries. The foreign enterprises, particularly EU's firms are increasing the direct investment in the Central and Eastern countries from the middle 1990's for a raising of the efficiency of production and a prior occupation of the potential market. The foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe has a tendency to concentrate in Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia, which has relatively a large market, a cheap and plentiful labor, a stable political system and a positive inviting policy of foreign direct investment. And, the foreign direct investment shows a tendency to locate generally in a big city, which has a advantageous production factors by a well-developed infrastructure and a regional industrial organization, a skilled labors, a market, etc., and in a border area between East and West Europe because of a cheap and plentiful labor, a similar cultural environment and the low cost of transportation. In conclusion, as an integration of the Central and Eastern countries into EU, the capital territories of Hungary, Czech and Poland, and the border area between East and West Europe is becoming a new economic activity space of EU with a location of foreign direct investment. And. the Baltic zone is also expect to become a new economic activity space according to the augmentation of exchanges and direct investment inter near countries.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.182-196
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• 2007

EU has pursued of the economic growth and the promotion of jobs by a free movement of workers. The free labour mobility brings a sustainable economic development through the creating jobs and the acquisition of a new knowledge and technology, but it also produces the geographical unequality of the movement of workers. And the enlargement of the EU redistributes geographically the flow of labour mobility. The flow of labour movement within EU changes to the structure of mobility that moves from the North to the North instead of the movement from the South to the North as an economic development in the South and an economic transformation to the service and hightech industry in the North. The mobility of unskilled workers has diminished, but the mobility of expert workers has increased. The flow of labour movement within EU has a structure hierarchic that the experts labour move from the North to the North, and the unskilled labour move from the South to the North and from the northern Africa to the South of Europe.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.371-388
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• 2004

EU is enlarging geographically by the process of expansion and is intensifying the economic bloc by the formation of European Union and European Monetary Union. This situation increases the direct investment in the intra-EU members and changes the intra-EU flows. First, EU is formed by the economic geographical space of the North and the South with a differentiation of economic factors and the degree of economic development. The North played a leading role for an augmentation of the intra-EU direct investment after the formation of EU. Second, the manufacturing industry of the intra-EU direct investment by industry was increased remarkably. In the intra-EU direct investment flow by region and industry, the South made relatively an outflow of the service industry and an inflow of the manufacturing industry. But the North made an outflow of the manufacturing industry and an inflow of the service industry. Third, in the intra-EU direct investment flows by manufacturing industry, the North concentrated in the petro-chemistry, metal-machinery and agro-food industry, however, the South which have relatively weak competitiveness compared to the North tends to show balanced investment patterns in all industries.

• Life and Agrochemicals
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• s.277
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• pp.28-29
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• 2012

EU는 선진경제국에서 신흥경제국까지 다양한 시장과 투자의 기회로 투자, 인적교류 또한 크게 확대되어 EU의 거대시장을 선점함으로써 경쟁우위를 확보하는 계기가 될 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of International Area Studies (JIAS)
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.113-140
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• 2009

Slovenia is the most model among the Eastern European countries which is achieving economic and political development. Slovenia succeeded to participate in EU in May 2004, and then was firstly a member of Eurozone among the Eastern Europe in January 2007. Although Slovenia is a small state with the population of about 2 million, carried out his duty as chairman of EU very completely since 1. January 2008. And anticipate that personal GDP will be over 28,000 dollars in 2008. Also, as is seen the last process of participation in EU and EMU, Slovenia is now establishing very well stable economic development and political democracy among the Eastern Europe. In this paper, I introduce about present situation of Slovenia after the entrance in EU and Eurozone. Especially, I analysis the process of joining in EU and EMU of Slovenia. and based on this, I study the positive and negative effects of joining in EU and Eurozone.

• The tire
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• s.232
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• pp.10-21
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• 2007

한미자유무역협정(FTA)에 이어 한EU FTA 체결을 위한 협상이 본격적으로 진행되고 있다. 우리나라도 세계적인 개방화의 물결을 거스를 수 없고 다자간무역협상이 교착상태에 빠져 있기 때문이다. EU는 확대와 심화를 거듭하면서 세계 최대의 자유무역지대를 형성하고 있다. 과거 서유럽 선진국 중심의 무역과 투자 자유화가 신흥개도국들인 중동구 국가를 회원국으로 가입시키면서 전유럽으로 확산되고 있다. 따라서 유럽 이외 지역의 국가들은 EU와의 FTA 체결을 적극 추진하고 있다. 본고에서는 최근 추진되고 있는 한-EU FTA의 주요 내용에 대해 살펴보고, EU 자동차산업과 타이어산업의 현황에 대해 분석해 본 후 한-EU FTA가 국내 타이어산업에 미칠 영향에 대해 평가해 보기로 한다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.374-387
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• 2012

EU's future frontier remains indefinite but it is directly linked to the principle of entry into the EU. EU has been defining that the 'european nation' sharing with a EU's value and norms can enter into the EU. If so, what is the criteria of EU? The criterion of 'european nation' will be a theoretical basis of an estimation of the EU's future frontier. However, the future frontier based on the geography, the culture and the intension of nation is only the potential frontier. It will be changed by the political decision makers' negotiation and power. EU's enlargement policy is one of means to retention of the international power in the situation that a few nations gradually dominate the world. Therefore the EU's frontier will be continually changed and created by the EU's political adventure.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.243-260
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• 2006

The continuing enlargement, deepening integration of EU and penetration of extra-EU enterprise into EU market are forming a new geographical restructure of the production system. In this paper, I analyse the changing geography of the EU automotive production system. The globalization and regionalisation of production activity intensify a competition among the enterprise. The European automotive production system changes to a platform system and a modular system for a diminution of productive costs, a development of various products and a frequent innovation of products. The European automotive enterprise is restructuring geographically the production functions and products in order to promote efficiency on a new production system, enlarged production space and intensified economic integration. The European automotive industry tends to a spatial specialization and agglomeration according to the locational factors of production functions and products and the locational condition of regions. This intensifies the geographical hierarchic structure of production activity between the core and the periphery.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.24 no.6 s.256
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• pp.6-16
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• 2004