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Comparison of KSL Curriculum and ESL Curriculum for Adaptation of International Students in the Internet of Things era to Domestic Universities (사물인터넷시대의 유학생의 국내대학 적응을 위한 KSL 교과과정과 ESL 교과과정 비교)

  • Kang, Hyun-Joo;Jeong, Se Ri;Choi, Jang Won
    • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2021
  • In this study, it is necessary to supplement the Korean language curriculum in order for international students to adapt and settle in Korea in an era where education is being transformed into future education due to the 4th industry. In the KFL (Korean as a Foreign Language) situation encountered by international students, they suffer from difficulties in university mathematics due to communication problems due to lack of language ability, which is one of the stress factors for cultural adaptation in the Korean language education program. To solve this problem, we analyzed ESL programs in English-speaking countries and KSL programs in Korea to set educational goals, curriculum, and educational methods to achieve goals for international students, and to establish curriculum and learning processes. Therefore, the Korean language education program (KSL program) for foreign students in the Korean language curriculum should also be supplemented by accepting the advantages of setting accurate goals for the ESL program and linking it with university graduation in the curriculum of English-speaking countries. In addition, for international students to learn Korean, an integrated Korean language education course and management system using IT suitable for the 4th industrial age is needed.

A Study on Perception Assessment and Analysis of Safety Signs Used in the Workplace

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Park, Soo-Jin;Kang, Young-Sig;Kim, Tae-Gu
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2012
  • Since most construction workers comprehend information on work through sight, the importance of safety signs are increasing by the day. In Korea, due to the sharp economic progress and the higher standard of the workforce, since the end of 1980, each year the number of foreign workers entering the country who working simple technical jobs have increased this condition. This study researched safety signs, which are the final accident prevention measures at the workplace. Based on the study, comprehension of the standard safety signs of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was lacking at a level of 2.5. Also, the perception level of the Industry Public Safety Law (38%) was very low. And, it was found that sex and experience or non-experience in safety training was not an issue in the level of understanding. However, when satisfying the standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and changing the safety signs, the level of understanding went up to 3.49 and the perception level was increased significantly to 70%. Thus, it is concluded that, since the foreign workers are mainly from non-English speaking countries and because the workers of Korea are not familiar with English, in order to provide proper safety information, there must first of all be simplistic and concise pictograms. This will provide needed information and must be coupled with simple English words that can give additional information to the worker and be effective in helping him understand and perceive the safety sign. Also, it has been determined that the existing forms of safety signs and their effectiveness in industry accident prevention must be reassessed.

An inquiry into Institutionalization of Eye-Examiner in Korean Ophthalmic Clinics - Focusing on a Survey of Orthoptist Systems in Japan and English-Speaking World - (한국 안과병원의 검안전담인력 제도화에 관한 고찰 - 일본의 시능훈련사 제도와 영어권 국가의 Orthoptist 제도에 대한 조사를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Hyun Min;Jung, Seok Hun;Kim, Dal-Young
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The aim of this study is to reveal necessity of orthoptist system in Korea, by comparative analysis between the orthoptist system of developed countries and the present condition in Korean ophthalmic clinics. Methods: Choosing 4 developed countries, we surveyed their education systems, license requirements and process, and service coverage. An inquiry into desirable Korean orthoptist system was added on the basis of the comparative survey. Results: The developed countries have systems in which professional orthoptists, who have got their licenses after official education, do the eye examination under the supervision of ophthalmologists. On the other hand in Korea, a problem is revealed that opticians play a role of eye-examiner in the ophthalmic clinics without any institutional support. Conclusions: The legalistic basis is quite needed in Korea that permit optometry graduates to be eye-examiners in the ophthalmic clinics, by introducing the orthoptist system.

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Factors Related to Cashmere Products Purchases by Foreign Tourists Visiting Mongolia (몽골 방문 외국인 관광객의 캐시미어 제품 구매와 관련 변인)

  • Svetlana, Svetlana;Yu, Haekyung;Ko, Sunyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.557-571
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    • 2014
  • This study examined the evaluation of Mongolian cashmere products by foreign tourists visiting Mongolia, purchase motivation, and purchase intention by nationality as well as analyzed factors that affected purchase intentions. Questionnaires were distributed in Ulaanbaatar from July $25^{th}$ to September $3^{rd}$, 2012. We collected 626 questionnaires and used 616 copies in the final analysis (149 from Koreans, 128 from Japanese, 119 from Russians and 220 from English-speaking countries). Awareness about Mongolian cashmere products and purchase intentions differed significantly by nationality. Purchase motivations were divided into 3 factors-usefulness, mood shift, gifts and souvenir. Evaluation of cashmere products consisted of 5 factors-product excellence, uniqueness, ostentation, economic value and fashionableness. Purchase motivation and evaluation differed significantly by nationality. Purchase intention was significantly related to awareness prior to visit, product excellence, usefulness, gift/souvenir motivation factors, and nationality.

A Conversion of Qualitative Probabilistic Expressions into Numerical Probabilities in Korean (한글에서의 정성적 확률 표현의 정량적 변환)

  • Park, Kyung-Soo;Shin, Soo-Hwan;Lee, Jane
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2006
  • In a decision making process, the ambiguity of qualitative probabilistic expressions may result in a wrong conclusion. For this reason there had been many studies of quantifying qualitative probabilistic expressions in English-speaking countries. In this research, quantification of Korean qualitative probabilistic expressions is conducted through 4-step questionnaires. The numerical data of 78 verbal phrases were collected in the first questionnaire and classified in two categories (i.e., uncertainty and frequency). In each category, qualitative probabilistic expressions were divided into eleven groups according to the similarity of the numerical values. In the second questionnaire, subjects selected a representative expression for each group, which totaled 11. In the third questionnaire each subject was asked to rank eleven expressions from 1 to 11 with 1 indicating the highest probability. At last, subjects conducted pairwise comparisons to obtain relative weights, which are used to convert into the numerical probability scale.

The Concepts of the Landscape : An Interpretation of related Chinese Characters (경'과 관련 술어의 개념에 관한 고찰 : 관련된 한자어의 해석을 중 심으로)

  • 황기원
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.23-36
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    • 1995
  • This study aims at scrutinizing the etymological meanings and literal usages of the term Gyung perse so as to clarify the traditional concepts formualted in the northeastern Asian countries. Related classical dictionaries and literatures in Korea and China were consulted intensively. Strictly speaking, the compound word gyung-gwan(景觀) composed of gyung(景:seen objects) and gwan(觀:seeing) in terms of word formation is not the synonym of the English term Landscpe. The Chinese character Gyung(景) composed of the character il(日:the Sun) and the character gyung(京:royal palace or capital city) originally indicated a brilliant and beautiful view of the capital city seen in a clear and bright daylight. Thereafter this ideographic letter had been used to indicate an unusual view which is aesthetically and can be used as a typical landscape schema or a model. Due to intrinsic nature of this kind of view, the meanings of gyung had been extended connotativelly as well as denotativelly: the meaning worthy of note in terms of landscape studies ar l) visible object which places some physical and psychological distance from the observer; 2)the scene or the backdrop of a theater, 3)a defined vista. With these in mind, meanings and usages of related terms as Kwung(光:light or bright), Pung(風:wind or fresh). Chi(致:fine), Mul(物:object or world), Gae (槪:general), Seung(勝:outstanding or surpassing), Saek(色:color or colorful), which had produced diversified and delicate connotations through compounding with the etymon Gyung, were reviewed.

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A Method for Tracing Internet Usage in Multi-use Web browser Environment and Non-English Speaking Countries (웹 브라우저 다중 사용 환경과 비영어권 국가에서의 인터넷 사용흔적 조사 방법)

  • Lee, Seung-Bong;Lee, Sang-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2010
  • Web browser is essential application for using internet. If suspect use a web browser for crime, evidence related crime is stored in log file. Therefore, we obtain the useful information related crime as investigating web browser log file. In this paper, we look at the related work and tools for web browser log file. And we introduce analysis methodology of web browser log file focus on the digital forensics. In addition, we apply to our tool at real case.

Science communication matters: An exploratory study of academic public engagement in Vietnam using Bayesian statistics

  • Quang Anh Phan;Manh-Toan Ho;Quan-Hoang Vuong;Hiep-Hung Pham;Minh Huyen Vu;Thi Thu Ha Nguyen;Thanh Thao Thi Phan
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.35-57
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    • 2024
  • The overarching purpose of this study is to examine the current status of academic public engagement in Vietnam. Data were obtained from a survey with 245 university lecturers, and descriptive statistics were used jointly with Bayesian statistics as tools for analysis. This study reveals that a significant proportion of university lecturers are not involved in public engagement, neither through the public press (66.5%) nor social media (49%). Those who have been active in public engagement use the public press and social networks to communicate science, with the latter being more used than the former. In addition, this study also pointed out that experienced scientists tend to engage with the public press, while early-career researchers often choose social networks. The findings of this study provide implications for higher education policymakers and administrators.

Internationalization of Domestic Journals for Enhancing the Global Influence: An Analysis on KoreaScience Journals (해외 영향력 확산을 위한 국내 학술지의 국제화에 관한 연구 - KoreaScience 학술지를 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Eun-Ja;Choi, Hee-yoon;Seo, Tae-Sul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.159-177
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    • 2015
  • Today, many learned societies are very interested in publishing international journal, especially for titles from non-English speaking countries. In Korea, there is not many studies on publishing international journals except for some cases trying to internationalize domestic journals. This study analyzed international factors of domestic 143 titles offering DOI by KoreaScience. The analysis showed that many of these journals have low impact factors and editorial board without a lot of foreign scholars. Some titles don't have online submission platform or English websites. It is recommended that domestic journals should reinforce international factors including global distribution with visibility to be considered as reputable international journals.

James Joyce and Ethno-sexual Boundary Crossings

  • Choi, Seokmoo
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.487-500
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    • 2010
  • In the history of colonization, how and to what extent the colonizer interacted with the local population differed according to race relations in specific periods. Generally speaking, social or sexual contact between two communities was tolerated when race relations were relatively relaxed. When the racial relationship became aggravated, however, such contact between the colonizer and the colonized was discouraged in order to forge and maintain ethnic solidarity. In Ireland, the colonizer's interaction with the colonized was not different from that of colonized countries in the Third World. Unlike those colonies, however, the settlers, that is, Protestants, simply could not be treated as the colonizer because they had lived in Ireland long enough to assert their Irishness. Joyce is keenly interested in intergender ethnic boundary crossings. In his works, two kinds of ethno-sexual interactions are presented from two totally different perspectives. As shown in the cases of the young lady in the street stall, Polly, Milkwoman, Sheila, and Cissy, Joyce describes the interaction of Irish women with Englishmen from a skeptical viewpoint. All of those cases demonstrate typical relationships epitomizing power relations in a colonial society. They reflect the turbulent time at the beginning of the century when Ireland had to fight with England to gain its independence. At such a transitional time, the ethnic relationship became aggravated and boundary crossings were discouraged. On the other hand, through the relationship between Stephen and Eileen, Girty and Reggy Wylie, Browne and Irish ladies, and Mr. & Mrs. Kernan, Joyce presents the interaction between Protestants and Catholics in terms of romantic or human relationships rather than power relations. From his description of those interactions, we can assume that Joyce, in the time of nation building, provided a blueprint for the future Irish nation, where Protestants and Catholics could build a nation and live harmoniously.