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The Health Belief Model - Is it relevant to Korea?

  • Lee, Mi-Kyung;Colin William Binns;Kim, Kong-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2000
  • With rapid economic development, the emphasis of the public health movement in Korea has shifted towards addressing the burden of chronic disease. With this shift in direction comes a greater focus on health behaviour and the need for planning models to assist in lifestyle modification programs. The Health Belief Model (HBM), which originated in the US, has generated more research than any other theoretical approach to describe and predict the health behaviour of individuals. In recent years it has been applied in many different cultures and modifications have been suggested to accommodate different cultures. Given the centrality of language and culture, any attempts to use models of health behaviour developed in a different culture, must be studied and tested for local applicability. The paper reviews the applicability and suitability of the HBM in Korea, in the context of the Korean language and culture. The HBM has been used in Korea for almost three decades. The predictability of the HBM has varied in Korean studies as in other cultures. Overall, this literature review indicates that the HBM has been found applicable in predicting health and illness behaviours by Korean people. However if the HBM is used in a Korean context, the acquisition of health knowledge is an important consideration. Most new knowledge in the health sciences is originally published in English and less frequently in another foreign language. Most health knowledge in Korea is acquired through the media or from health professionals and its acquisition often involves translation from the original. The selection of articles for translation and the accuracy of translation into language acceptable in the Korean culture become important determinants of health knowledge. As such translation becomes an important part of the context of the HBM. In this paper modifications to the HBM are suggested to accommodate the issues of language and knowledge in Korea.

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Teacher's corrective feedback: Focus on initiations to self-repair (학습자의 오류에 대한 교사의 오류 수정: 학습자 자기 교정 유도를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Young-Eun
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.111-131
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    • 2007
  • This study explores teacher's corrective feedback types in an error treatment sequence in Korean EFL classroom setting. Corrective feedback moves are coded as explicit correction, recast, or initiations to self-repair. The frequency and distribution of each corrective feedback type are examined. But the special focus was given on feedback types eliciting learner's self-repair (clarification request, metalinguistic feedback, elicitation, and repetition of error) because initiations to self-repair are believed to facilitate language learning more than other strategies. The results of the study are as follows. First, there was an overwhelming tendency for teacher to use recasts whereas initiations to self-repair were not used as much as recast (52.4% vs. 29.5%). Second, the teacher tended to select feedback types in accordance with error types: namely, recasts after phonological, lexical, and translation errors and initiations to self-repair after grammatical errors though the differences were not significant. Finally, teacher's belief and students' expectation on corrective feedback were compared with actual corrective feedback representations respectively and some mismatches were found. Though both teacher and the students acknowledged the importance and necessity of self-repair, self-repair were not put into practice as such. Therefore, this study suggests more initiations to self-repair be used for effective language learning.

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Analysis of Tourist Attractions and Tour Agency for Overseas Tourists (해외 여행자를 위한 여행사와 관광지 추천 분석)

  • Yunji Jo;Sinrock Chae;Eun Ki Hong;Yoo Jin Moon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2023.01a
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    • pp.477-478
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 코로나-19 이후로 다시 활성화된 해외여행과 관련된 정보를 데이터베이스화해 정리하고, 폭발적으로 늘어난 여행객들을 위한 여행지 추천을 제시하였다. 또한 여행객들만이 아닌 여행사들을 위해 여행객들의 정보 역시 데이터베이스화하여 여행지 상품 수요조사 등에 사용할 수 있도록 하였다. 코로나-19로 인해 각국의 입국 정책은 다양해졌고, 해외여행이 단절된 기간 동안 소비자들은 여행에 대한 최신 정보를 계속해서 접하지 못했다. 그래서 이 데이터를 통해 소비자들의 수요에 맞는 여행지를 추천하고, 여행사들은 소비자들의 필요를 확인할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

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The Composition of Korean-English Transfer Dictionary for Proper Selection of Verb Translation (적절한 동사 대역어 선택을 위한 한영 변환 사전 구성)

  • Song, Jung-Keun
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2001.10d
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2001
  • 기계번역이 인간의 언어 능력을 기계로 구현한다는 점에서 전산학적 성격이 강하다면, 변환 사전은 인간의 어휘부(lexicon) 정보를 그대로 기계에 표상한다는 점에서 언어학적 성격이 강하다. 여기서는 다양한 어휘부 정보 중에서 한영 기계번역에서 필요한 언어학적 정보를 추출하고 이러한 정보를 바탕으로 적절한 동사 대역어 선택을 위한 변환 사전의 모형을 만들어 보고자 하였다. 한영 기계번역에서 적절한 동사 대역어 선택의 어려움은 한국어 동형어 처리 문제와 한국어에서는 포착되지 않지만 영어로 번역하는 과정에서 발생하는 영어 표현의 특수성 때문에 기인한 것으로 볼 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 논항과 문법 형태소, 선택제약, 개별 어휘 등의 기초적인 언어학적 개념을 이용한 변환사전을 통해 해결한다. 또한 동사 대역어 선택에 영향을 미치는 이러한 개별적인 요인들은 실제 변환사전의 기술에 있어서는 복합적으로 적용됨을 동사 '먹다'의 기술을 통해 확인할 수 있다.

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A Linguistic Approach to Communication Strategies of Biological Systems (생물체의 정보소통전략에 대한 언어학적 접근)

  • Kim, Soo-Yeon;Oh, Duk Jae
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2017
  • The completion of the Human Genome Project that identified all 3 billion base pairs in the human genome can be seen as a step towards understanding the relay of information and intention within an organism, or in other words, the language of life. The faculty of human language, key to differentiating humans from other animate species, works for conveying information to others by mapping meaning to sound based on syntactic structures. This resemblance between life and language has not gone unnoticed; the literature on RNA transcription and translation research regularly uses linguistic metaphors and the biolinguistic perspective of language has also been studied. By examining the biological characteristics of language and the linguistic characteristics of life, this study aims to identify key mechanisms shared between the two systems in order to promote a stronger connection between them. It furthers this goal by pointing out two general messages to which these mechanisms aim, productivity and accuracy, and discovers what lesson these messages give to a human society geared for sustainability.

Mutilingualism and Language Education Policy (다언어주의와 언어교육정책)

  • Kim, Yangsoon
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.321-326
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    • 2020
  • This paper is to analyze the language education policy in the context of multilingualism. As the majority of the population are multilingual, language policy should be centered on the multilingual speakers as the norm, and multilingual language policy is the best route which we can follow as a language policy in education. The motivation and legitimacy of the multilingual policies are suggested in terms of 6 different perspectives: identity, sustainability, equity, World Englishes, machine translation, and Universal Grammar (UG). As a model of language policy, the English-Plus (i.e., English+n) policy and similarly the Korean-Plus (i.e., Korean+n) policy are suggested to be the most appropriate language policies in the field of education in America and Korea respectively. These plus policies aim at bilingual fluency in both the native language and other foreign languages that are constitutive of the multilingualism of the country in which the bilingualism is treated as a variant of multilingualism. In a period of convergence and diversity in the 4th Industrial Revolution, language diversity and multilingual policy should be considered as a right to be protected or as a resource to be conserved rather than as a problem to be solved.

Disease-Related Vocubulary and its translingual practice in Late 19th to Early 20th century (19세기 말 20세기 초 질병 어휘와 언어횡단적 실천)

  • Lee, Eunryoung
    • Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.65-78
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    • 2019
  • Objectives This study aims to investigate how the Korean disease-related vocabulary is established or changed when it is translated into French or English. Through this, we examine changes in the meaning of diseases and the ecosystem of disease-related vocabulary in transition period of $19^{th}$ to $20^{th}$ century. Methods Korean disease-related vocabulary are extracted from a total of 148,000 Korean headwords included in our corpus of three bilingual dictionaries. Among them, the scope of analyisis is limited to group of vocabularies that include a high frequency words, disease(病) and symptom(症). Results The first type of change is the emergence of a neologism. In this case, coexistence of existing vocabulary and new words is observed. The second change is the appearance of loan words written in Hangul. The third is the case where the interpretation of meaning is changed while maintaining the word form. Finally, the fourth change is that the orthographic variants are displayed while maintaining the meaning of the existing vocabulary. Discussion Disease-related vocabulary increased greatly between 1897 and 1931. The increasing factor of vocabulary was the emergence of coined words, compound words and the influx of foreign words. The Korean language and the Western language made a new lexical form in order to introduce a new unknown concept to the Korean. We could also confirm that the way in which English word expanded its semantic field by modifying the way of representing the meaning of Korean Disease-related vocabulary.

A Study on the Distribution of Korean Ancient Books: Focused on Myongsimbogam

  • CHO, Sungchun;RYU, Junho
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the distribution of ancient Korean books around the world, and to study the process and impact of Myongsimbogam's distribution to East Asia and Europe. Research design, data and methodology: This study conducted literature research as its research method. The scope of research covers Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Spain, Germany and Russia. Results: Ancient Korean books were distributed through the Kwanpan and Banggakbon, and leaked overseas in historical circumstances. Myongsimbogam was distributed to Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Spain, France, Germany, and Russia. Myongsimbogam was the first ancient book to be translated into Western languages. Conclusions: The distribution of Myongsimbogam promoted the exchange of spiritual civilizations in the East and West, and became the basis for maintaining an individual philosophy, as well as social order. Therefore, the distribution of Myongsimbogam needs to be further expanded. For this, it is necessary to translate Myongsimbogam into English and popularize it through e-books, audio books and various lectures. While previous studies on Myongsimbogam have mainly focused on personality and moral education, this study is significant in that it examines the distribution and dissemination process of Myongsimbogam, its influence and significance.

Recognition of Classification of Traffic Sign Images Using CNN (CNN을 활용한 교통 표지판 이미지 분류 인식)

  • MunJeong Kim;Sinrock Chae;EunKi Hong;Min Hwangbo;Yoo-Jin Moon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2023.01a
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    • pp.317-318
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    • 2023
  • 본 논문에서는 CNN(Convolutional Neural Network)을 활용하여 자율주행 자동차가 각 국가별 교통 규칙 및 도로 표시를 이해하고 정확한 주행을 할 수 있도록, Deep Neural Network 시스템을 설계하고 구현하는 방법을 제안한다. 연구 방법으로는 한국도로교통공단(koroad)에서 제공하는 교통안전표지 일람표 이미지를 학습하여, 차량이 자율주행을 하기 위해 요구되는 표지판을 인식할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 논문에서 설계한 학습 시스템으로 도로교통표지판의 인식에 성공했으며, 이를 통해 자율주행차량이 표지판을 인식할 수 있으며, 시각장애인 및 고령운전자를 위한 지원 역시 가능하다고 사료된다.

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Development and Evaluation of Multilingual Education Materials to Promote Immigrant Women's Adaptation to Pregnancy (이주여성의 임신적응증진을 위한 다국어 교육자료 개발과 평가)

  • Kim, Kyung Won;Baik, Sung Hee;Jeong, Geum Hee
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.235-245
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: This study was done to develop and evaluate multilingual education materials to promote health and adaptation to pregnancy for immigrant women in Korea. Methods: This study had three procedures: First, contents of the education materials were developed according to pregnant women's needs, literature reviews, and group discussion. Details in contents were constructed based on Roy's adaptation model; Second, validity verification and translation of education materials were accomplished; Third, evaluation of the education materials was done through a survey of immigrant women. Results: The education materials were developed in six languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Cambodian). The title is "Healthy mother, happy family: eight-step guide to a healthy pregnancy". It was composed of an eight-step guide to healthy pregnancy, self-examination check list, websites for childbirth education and information, and guidelines on education materials in a brochure. In the evaluation, the average response score for the questionnaire items was high (3.23 on a four-point Likert scale). The average score for Cambodian immigrants was the highest of all immigrant women. Conclusion: Multilingual education materials developed in this research will help community health nurses to manage pregnancies for immigrant women and will be useful for health education for these women.