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Individual and collective responsibility to enhance regulatory compliance of the Three Rs

  • Choe, Byung In;Lee, Gwi Hyang
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.179-183
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    • 2014
  • Investigators planning to use animals in their research and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) members who review the research protocols must take personal responsibility for ensuring that they have the skills and knowledge to perform their duties, applying the Three Rs principles of Russell and Burch. The two Korean laws introduced in 2008 and 2009 regulating animal use for scientific purposes in line with the Three Rs principles have been revised a total of 11 times over the last 6 years. Both regulatory agencies, e.g., the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, provide regular training based on the legal requirements. Based on the amended Animal Welfare Act, the IACUC appointment framework has been upgraded: appointments are now for two-year terms and require a qualified training certificate issued by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency since 2012. The authors reviewed the current curricular programs and types of training conducted by the two governing agencies through Internet searches. Our Internet survey results suggest that: a) diversity should be provided in training curricula, based on the roles, backgrounds and needs of the individual trainees; b) proper and continued educational programs should be provided, based on trainees' experiences; and c) active encouragement by government authorities can improve the quality of training curricula.

The Influences of Ethical Leader and Ethics Management on Employees's Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Focused on the Mediating Role of Ethical Climate (윤리적 리더와 윤리경영시스템이 조직시민행동에 미치는 영향 : 윤리풍토의 매개효과중심)

  • Suh, In-Duk;Kang, Yang-Hoon
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.441-474
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    • 2011
  • This purpose of this study is to examine the relationships of ethical leader and ethics management system with employees's organizational citizenship behavior and the mechanism underlying these relationships. A questionnaire survey was conducted involving 1,035 full-time employees from large and medium industries in Daegu and Gyeong-buk provinces. Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that both of ethical leader and ethics management system were positively related with employees's organizational citizenship behavior. As expected, these relationships were mediated by organization-oriented ethical climate and social responsibility-oriented ethical climate respectively. The findings of this study are as followings: First, employees tend to show their pro-social behavior when they perceive their leaders act ethically and ethics management is well institutionalized. Second, building up the organization-oriented ethical climate and social responsibility-oriented ethical climate can be a powerful strategy to enhance employees's organizational citizenship behavior.

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The Effect of Users' Individual characteristics and Social Influence on Cyberethics and Usage in Web 2.0 - Comparing South Korea and U.S.A. - (웹 2.0 환경에서 사용자의 개인특성과 사회적 영향이 사이버윤리성과 사용성에 미치는 영향 - 한국과 미국의 비교연구 -)

  • Moon, Yun-Ji
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.101-118
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    • 2014
  • In the mid-2000s, Web 2.0 appears and is becoming a general cultural code with the keyword of participation, sharing, and openness. Web 2.0, in which consumption is being transformed by the participatory web culture, has evolved. However, associated with the evolution of Web 2.0, several significant concerns appears in a society. Among them, this study will focuses on the cyber-ethics issues. There are limitations to solve the cyber-ethics problems only in the technical and legal approaches. Therefore, the current article intends to consider comprehensively the antecedents of cyber-ethics such as individual characteristics, social influence, and cultural characteristics. Specifically, (1) Do individual characteristics(i.e., self-efficacy, locus of control) affect cyber-ethics in the Web 2.0 environment?, (2) Do social influence(i.e., subjective norm) have an effect on cyber-ethics?, (3) Do cyber -ethics have an impact on user participation in the Web 2.0 services(i.e., retrieval and creation)?, finally (4) Do international cultural difference have a moderation effect on the relationship between cyber-ethics and user participation? For testing empirically the hypothesized research model, this study collected questionnaires in South Korea as well as U.S.A. The results showed that individual characteristics and social influence affect cyber-ethics toward user's creative activities in Web 2.0 sites.

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Analysis and Ethical Review of the Compensation System for Clinical Trial Injury in India (인도 임상시험 피해보상제도 분석 및 윤리적 고찰)

  • Lee, Chan Joo;Choe, Byung In
    • The Journal of KAIRB
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • In 2004, India began investing in the clinical trial industry; the country now boasts a 20% market share with the help of a valuable resource - the world's second largest population. The Contract Research Organization has been able to generate profits efficiently conducting clinical trials via a large pool of participants, skilled researchers, and reduced developmental costs. As the demand and sheer number of global clinical trials increased, the International Council of Harmonization-Good Clinical Practice was introduced, and the need for the Institutional Review Board increased. While the clinical trial industry in India boomed, it came at the expense of the participants' civil rights. The increased media attention regarding the ethical issues forced the Indian Supreme Court to take action. Consequently, India is the only country, by law, that specifically compensates participants suffering from injury directly resulting from participation in clinical trials. This research paper will describe and compare the relevant laws of India and Korea including compensation criteria. In addition, the ethical issues and aspects of indemnity in clinical trials will be discussed. While the clear advantage of the compensation is one of the protected rights of a clinical subject, the current system is not perfect. Furthermore, laws created to redeem ethical issues can have unintended, negative consequences.

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East Asian Journal of Business Economics and Strategy

  • KIM, Byoung-Goo;YOUN, Myoung-Kil
    • Journal of Research and Publication Ethics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.11-15
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study is to review and analyze orientation and strategy of the East Asian Journal of Business Economics and all of the published articles of 2013 to 2020 and to investigate the previous publication system and process in order to enhance the general quality of EAJBE. Research design, data and methodology: This paper applied a case study method and analyzed the previous published articles and system including homepage of East Asian Journal of Business Economics. Results: This journal strives to be the most globalized than other domestic journals in the field of management/economy, and since its inception in 2013, all the papers is written in English, and more than 40% of the contributors are overseas contributors, so it is developed by global strategies in a different direction from other domestic journals. Conclusions: The EAJBE provides the full text of the contributors' research ethics regulations to the online system, and mandates researchers to submit a pledge from the stage of the contribution. The journal provides clear criteria such as self-plagiarism and duplicates publication, and specifies the copyright agreement and submission application twice, and guides the contributors and the reviewers to use the system in advance.

The Threat of AI and Our Response: The AI Charter of Ethics in South Korea

  • Hwang, Ha;Park, Min-Hye
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.56-78
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    • 2020
  • Changes in our lives due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are currently ongoing, and there is little refutation of the effectiveness of AI. However, there have been active discussions to minimize the side effects of AI and use it responsibly, and publishing the AI Charter of Ethics (AICE) is one result of it. This study examines how our society is responding to threats from AI that may emerge in the future by examining various AIECs in the Republic of Korea. First, we summarize seven AI threats and classify these into three categories: AI's value judgment, malicious use of AI, and human alienation. Second, from Korea's seven AICEs, we draw fourteen topics based on three categories: protection of social values, AI control, and fostering digital citizenship. Finally, we review them based on the seven AI threats to evaluate any gaps between the threats and our responses. The analysis indicates that Korea has not yet been able to properly respond to the threat of AI's usurpation of human occupations (jobs). In addition, although Korea's AICEs present appropriate responses to lethal AI weapons, these provisions will be difficult to realize because the competition for AI weapons among military powers is intensifying.

An Analysis on Medical Humanity and Social Science in Foreign Medical schools (국외 인문사회의학 교육과정 현황)

  • Kim, Sang Hyun
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.19-33
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This study is purposed to analyze the curriculum on medical humanity and social science in foreign medical schools. The Main topics are classified into three parts: the characteristics of American medical humanity and social science curriculum: understanding of medical humanity and social science in medical school in USA, UK, and Australia: standard recommendations on medical ethics and professionalism in curriculum design. Methods: The literature reviews and on-line searching were conducted to collect the information and data on medical humanity and social science in foreign medical schools, 9 medical schools were selected in terms of reputations in USA, UK, and Australia. Results: First, American medical humanity and social science curriculum have changed, especially from cores to electives, from informal to formal and from subjects to interdisciplinary. In addition. teaching methods have changed into small-group discussion and teaching materials into various sources, such as essays, poetry, films and so forth. Second, most medical schools had their own unique curriculum adjusted to their academic traditions. Especially, curriculum of UK and Australia were more integrated than those of USA. Finally, it is recommended that standards of medical ethics and professionalism have to be considered in curriculum design. Conclusion: It is suggested that medical humanity and social science curriculum be designed closely connecting with clinical medicine.

University Students' Attitudes toward Valuable Consumption to the Types of LOHAS Lifestyle (대학생들의 로하스적 생활유형에 따른 가치소비태도)

  • Kim, Jung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.869-878
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to review university students' attitudes towards value-based consumption and their influences on it to the types of LOHAS lifestyle. The statistical analysis was based on a questionnaire survey by 275 subjects. Several attitude variables included in the study such as 'attitudes toward LOHAS lifestyle', 'environment', 'charity', 'need of business ethics', 'investment into socially responsible business', and 'good consumption'. By the results of the study, first, students' attitudes and concerns about the environment were positive, however, not expanded to the absolutely positive attitudes for their future society. Second, there is no clear relationship between their participation in the community and their attitudes to the LOHAS lifestyle. Third, university students' consumption was not based on the values of LOHAS, but on the attitudes to their own well-being. Fourth, groups with lower income and with no religious tendency revealed more positive attitudes toward LOHAS lifestyle than other groups. Fifth, there are some relations between LOHAS lifestyle and the individual's economic role performances such as the attitudes to 'environment', 'charity', 'need of business ethics,' 'investment into socially responsible business', and 'good consumption'.

A Study on the Family Ethics of Cho-Seon Dynasty in "Sa So Jeol" ("사소절(士小節)"을 통한 조선시대 가족윤리 고찰)

  • 김순옥
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.11-24
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to review the contents of the family ethics of Cho-Seon Dynasty in $\boxdr$Sa So Jeol$\boxul$written by Deok Moo Lee in 1775. The major findings on the family ethics of Cho-Seon Dynasty can be summarized as follows: 1) The marital relationship must keep to be equal, although they have different characters in the personality and different roles in the family. And husband/wife has to respect each other, to try to do for the marital harmony, and to treat nicely to his/her spouse. 2) In the parents-children relationships, children shoed respect and support their parents sincerely while parents’lifetime and perform an ancestral sacrifice wholeheartedly after parents’death. And parents haute the right and duty to educate their children. They have to teach their son to attend to his studies with diligence and teach their daughter to make efforts for the family and kin relationships. If parents or children are in fault, children shoed request to rethink the parents’fault to their parents earnestly and parents must also admonish their children with love. 3) In the sibling relationships, they have to show the fraternity each other. And the younger has to respect especially to elder brother.

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