• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.129-168
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• 2016

The Asia-Pacific region is not typically seen as one geographic or socio-economic space. Yet, 58 regional economies occupying the space of 28 million square kilometers from Turkey in the West, Russian Federation in the North, French Polynesia in the East and New Zealand in the South belong to the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). This commission provides a forum for member states that "promotes regional cooperation and collective action, assisting countries in building and sustaining shared economic growth and social equity". In 2013, ESCAP's members adopted the Bangkok Declaration to enhance efforts towards deeper regional economic integration. Yet this document neither proposes a concrete modality or modalities of achieving deeper integration, nor provides a sense of distance of individual countries to a "perceived" integrated Asia-Pacific.This paper aims to comprehensively quantify recent integration efforts of economies in the Asia-Pacific region. We provide an "index of integration effort" based on twelve metrics that measure the relative distance of a given economy to the region as an economic entity. Generally, we find that while the region has trended towards becoming integrated in general, both the level of integration and integration effort are inconsistent among Asia-Pacific economies. We discuss potential applications and extensions of the index in developing our perspective of the region's economic and social dynamics.

• 수완나부미
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.27-56
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• 2015

How should we conceptualize regions? What is the context in which new approaches to regional study take place? What is the role of historical change in the reconceptualization of regions or areas? This article addresses this issue by using two case studies to shed light on the history of regional study by comparing some of the ways in which the Middle East and Southeast Asia have been conceptualized. Accordingly, the discussion traces the ways in which these areas were understood in the 19th century by highlighting the ideas of a number of influential Victorian thinkers. The Victorians are useful because not only did British thinkers play critical roles in the shaping of modern patterns of knowledge, but their empire was global in scope, encompassing parts of both Southeast Asia and the Middle East. However, the Victorians regarded these places quite differently: Southeast Asia was frequently described as "Further India" and the Middle East was the home of the Ottoman Empire. Both of these places were at least partly understood in relation to the needs of British policy-makers, who tended to focus most of their efforts according to the needs of India-which was their most important colonial possession. The article exhibits the connections between the "Eastern Question" and end of the Ottoman Empire (and the political developments which followed) led to the creation of the concept of "Middle East". With respect to Southeast Asia, attention will be devoted to the works of Alfred Russell Wallace, Hugh Clifford, and others to see how "further India" was understood in the 19th century. In addition, it is clear that the successful deployment of the term "Southeast Asia" reflected the political needs of policy makers in wake of decolonization and the Cold War. Finally, by showing the constructive nature of regions, the article suggests one possible new path for students of Southeast Asia. If the characterization of the region is marked by arbitrary factors, it may actually point to a useful avenue of enquiry, a hermeneutic of expedience. Emphasis on the adaptive and integrative features of lived realities in Southeast Asia may well be a step beyond both the agendas of "colonial knowledge" and anti-colonial nationalism.

• 기록학연구
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• 제32호
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• pp.219-236
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• 2012

21세기 동아시아의 '화해와 평화'는 역사적 과제이다. 기록공동체 또한 이러한 과제를 해결하는 데 기여해야 하며, 문제의식을 공유할 필요가 있다. 이 글은 '동아시아 담론'의 연장선상에서 기록학계의 과제를 동아시아 기록공동체 형성 문제로 설정하고, 그 필요성과 형성 방향, 프로세스 등을 살펴보았다. '민주적인 책임'과 거버넌스를 매개로 한 동아시아 기록공동체 형성과정은 그 자체가 각국 내부의 기록관리 민주화 과정이기도 하다. 비공개 기록의 공개, 상호 작용을 통한 '민주적' 아카이브로의 변화, 이를 바탕으로 한 왜곡된 과거사 청산 등은 동아시아 기록공동체 형성이 필요한 분명한 이유이다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.182-200
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• 2010

교수요목기 부터 제7차 교육과정까지 고등학교 세계지리 교과서에서 동아시아 관련 지명 표기가 어떻게 이루어져 왔으며, 그 위치와 범위는 어떻게 구분되어 왔는지 살펴보았다. 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 먼저, 우리나라 고등학교 세계지리 교과서에서는 한국, 중국, 일본의 3국을 중심으로 하는 지역을 동부 아시아로 표기하고 있으며, 지도상의 범위는 한국, 중국, 몽골, 일본, 대만을 포함하는 지역을 표시하는 실체적 지명이었다. 둘째, 동아시아라는 지명은 2차 교육과정에서 처음 표기되었으며, 이는 동부 아시아를 하나의 문화 지역으로 표기할 때 사용되는 지명이었다. 제언하면, 교과서에서 동아시아란 지명을 표기할 때는 동북아시아와 동남아시아를 모두 포괄하는 지명으로 사용해야한다. 그리고 한국, 중국, 몽골, 일본, 대만으로 위치와 범위를 한정할 때는 동북아시아라는 지명을 사용해야 한다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1089-1101
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• 2009

In this paper, changes in the intensity (e.g., central pressure and maximum sustained wind speed) of Tropical Cyclone (TC) in summer in the regions located at $30^{\circ}N$ in East Asia from 1988 to 1991 were found. The intensity of TC from 1991 to 2007 was much higher than that of TC from 1965 to 1988. The reason for this was that the frequency of TCs passing China from 1991 to 2007 was much lower than that of TCs from 1965-1988 because a northeasterly wind caused by high-pressure circulation in East Asia got severer along the East Asian coast. Instead, TCs moved from the eastern region of the Tropical West Pacific to Korea and Japan mainly after passing the East China Sea due to the low-pressure circulation strengthened in the subtropical waters of East Asia. In addition, low Vertical Wind Shear (VWS) was created along the mid-latitude regions of East Asia and the main path of TCs from 1991 to 2007. Most of the regions in the Northwestern Pacific showed higher Sea Surface Temperature (SST) from 1991 to 2007, and had a good environment where TCs were able to maintain a higher intensity on the mid-latitude. In particular, a low sensible heat flux occurred due to high snow depth in East Asia in the spring of 1991 to 2007. Accordingly, the lower layer of East Asia showed high-pressure circulation, and the sea surrounding East Asia showed low-pressure circulation. Thus, the typical west-high, east-low pattern of winter atmospheric pressure was shown. The possibility of snowfall in East Asia in spring to be used as a factor for predicting the summer intensity of TC in the mid-latitude regions of East Asia was insinuated. The characteristics of TC in a low-latitude region were the same in Korea. The latest intensity of TCs got higher, and the landing location of TCs gradually changed from the west coast to the south coast.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.249-274
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• 2006

This study extensively investigated Japan's FTA strategy and plan of FTA policy and analyzed the economic effect caused by it. In the analysis of economic effect using world economical model shows not only positive economic effect in home country but also to the foreign country. Recently, Japan's bilateral relation with Korea and China is getting worse, not in a friendly way. Consequently Japan's future FTA negotiation will be expected to be focused on the East-Asia region. In other words, Japan expressed assistance for the purpose of communication, stability and prosperity in the East-Asia and will seek individual economic cooperation with each East-Asia country trying to reinforce the stand of Japan. This means that Japan is trying to improve the relation with Korea and China in the other way because it cannot change the relation with Korea and China on its own. That is to say, It can be interpreted as Japan is trying to reinforce the economic cooperation with other East-Asia countries for the realization of East Asia community rather than directly negotiating with Korea or China.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2015

본 연구는 최근까지 이루어진 공항의 집중도 및 항공 유동성 자료를 바탕으로 한 선행연구를 고찰하고, 항공 및 공항의 환경변화에 따라 변화되고 있는 아시아 주요공항의 화물 물동량 구조를 파악하였다. 또한, 아시아 지역에서의 화물 전이 현상을 분석하여, 경쟁공항들의 경쟁수준을 파악하여 향후 전략적 시사점을 제시하는 것을 본 연구의 목적으로 하였다. 현재 동북아 권역의 과점화는 꾸준히 약화되고 있으나 이는 중국공항의 성장에 따른 결과이며 이 지역에서의 푸동공항은 지속적인 물동량 확대는 새로운 과점화 증대 현상도 일어날 수 있다는 것을 시사한다. 또한, 2000년부터 2012년까지 항공화물 변이 효과분석 결과에 의하면 인천공항의 항공화물은 약 42만 톤이, 나리타공항은 약 128만 톤이 동북아 권역의 다른 공항으로 전이된 것으로 분석되었다. 이는 일부가 직접경쟁이 가능한 푸동공항으로 전이된 것으로 판단할 수 있어 향후 전이가 지속적으로 창출되는 원인과 이유에 대한 추후 연구도 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.143-153
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• 2018

The paper comments on the contribution of Oscar Salemink on his personal intellectual journal from Vietnam to Europe and back again. This then leads to the contemplation of the construction of Southeast Asia as a "place" or "locality", early preoccupations within the region of the national dimension. And more recent developments in universities in Singapore, examining the continuing perceptions of Southeast Asia as a region and Singapore as its "gateway", and the increasing interest in "connectivities" and transnational relations between the region and other parts of Asia and the wider world.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.452-460
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• 2007

The interstate electric power system, as an alternative for energy cooperation under regional economic block, was fervently debated prior to the restructuring of electric power industries and rapidly expanded in many regions since the 1990s. Especially, electric power system interconnection in the Northeast Asia region may bring considerable economic benefits since this region has strong supplementation in resource holdings, load shape, fuel mix, and etc. In this paper, we implement the ORIRES model, proposed by ESI of Russia, in order to analyze the economic feasibility on the Northeast Asia Region Electrical System Ties (NEAREST) project.

• 천문학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.325-328
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• 2005

I report here about the future direction of cooperation of astronomy in East Asia region, which has been a long-years subject of the EAMA since 1990. During this EAMA-6 we had many positive discussions and remarkable progress toward the promotion of our cooperation. We also had an 'East Asian Observatory' WG meeting yesterday with many attendants, and actively discussed this important subject in some detail. The following report is to summarize the fruitful products we had in the EAMA-6 discussions and in past EAMA activities, and to propose a direction and some action items toward the bright future of astronomy in East Asia.