• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.1-12
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• 2024

This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) in attracting and retaining top talent for startups and venture companies in the context of their implementation in July 2024. The study investigates whether RSUs align with their original intent and identifies additional measures to enhance their effectiveness. Additionally, the paper explores strategies to actively adopt and revitalize RSUs in the business field from the perspectives of experts representing key market participants within the early-stage startup ecosystem in Korea. The study employs a three-pronged approach. First, a pre-study examines how RSUs overcome the limitations of existing stock compensation schemes, the benefits they offer, and the key conditions for ensuring market-friendly effectiveness. Second, experts involved in the RSU bill's early stages identify five issues that need to be addressed to ensure the bill's market-friendly effectiveness: RSU vesting conditions, RSU vesting targets, RSU vesting scope, RSU vesting timing, and RSU vesting-related tax benefits. Third, the study conducts an FGI with experts representing key market players in the early-stage startup ecosystem to examine the effectiveness and activation measures of the proposed RSU scheme, RSU adoption within the early-stage startup ecosystem minimizing conflict of interests with existing shareholders such as venture capital investor. Finally, experts emphasize the importance of clearly defining and communicating RSU benefits to businesses for effective RSU activation. This study's significance lies in its derivation of various insights from FGI research on the effective adoption and activation of RSUs within the early-stage startup ecosystem. Moreover, it is expected to provide a methodology for gauging opinion-gathering procedures for new bills introduced to foster startup and venture company growth.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.43-54
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• 2021

This work proposes a process to derive elements of emotional materials based on trend research in the application of materials in product development. It was intended to be applied to the development of a case model, a Korean sports wheelchair, and focused on the material portion of CMF-based research. Through research methodologies such as megatrends, competitor product and part-by-part analysis, and psychological color analysis, we studied optimization, verification, and DBization of materials, and drew the final application plan through FGI verification.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.100-110
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• 2012

This study aims to figure out IT needs internalized in our daily lives through expert FGI, examine the general characteristics of them by verifying and classifying them through a survey, and also analyze the chief fields of industry for future society by the types of IT needs. Through this analysis, the paper suggests the directivity of future IT technology, and it can be utilized as foundational data to develop IT convergence technology. First of all, according to the result of drawing the keywords through the concrete future IT needs by the detailed activities through the FGI, this study found intellectualization, integration, virtualization, automation, customization, and safety, etc. According to the result of classifying the IT needs through the survey based on that and examining the characteristics, this study classified them into emphasis on life automation, emphasis on intellectual authenticity, emphasis on information search and convenience, and emphasis on convergence. And each type showed different general characteristics from one another. And in future society, the area of energy was valued the most, and the importance of industry showed somewhat difference by the types of IT needs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.689-690
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• 2022

2012년 12월 사회적 경제 촉진 방안으로서 협동조합 기본법 제정 이래 3차에 걸린 개정을 해왔으며, 협동조합 중 소상공인협동조합의 경쟁력 강화와 자생력 제고를 위해 정부 및 지자체의 지속적인 경제적, 교육적 지원 노력에도 불구하고 현실은 소상공인협동조합의 영세성과 최근의 COVID-19사태 등 소상공인협동조합의 경제적 활로 개척 등이 쉽지는 않은 실정이다. 본 연구는 기존의 소상공인협동조합 관련 문헌 연구를 기반으로 하여 소상공인 관련 전문가 집단의 FGI를 통해서 소상공인협동조합의 현실적 어려움에 대한 대안적인 정책들을 수립하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.125-157
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• 2015

In Korean Studies, there have been made many studies for finding the identity as the intrinsic academic field, because the Korean studies have complex intertwined characteristics with other fields. However, previous related studies have been mostly focused on the qualitative content analysis method related to the major Korean Studies, the study applying the bibliometric method was not conducted. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to draw intellectual structures about the domestic and overseas Korean studies academic papers applying the bibliometric methods, and to analyze content of intellectual structures by focus group interview (FGI). As the result of this study, the intellectual structure in the domestic Korean Studies had the characteristics of the Humanities, and the intellectual structure in the foreign Korean Studies had the characteristics of the Social Sciences. Also, the domestic Korean Studies encompassed a wide range of period from ancient to modern times, while the foreign Korean Studies focused on a modern and contemporary times. This study has a significance in the way that it is the first study to draw the intellectual structures in the domestic and foreign Korean Studies applying the bibliometric method, and then to carry out the comprehensive analysis through FGI with specialists in Korean Studies. However, in order to do more meaningful one-to-one comparison studies about the field of the domestic and foreign Korean Studies, many follow-up co-studies reflecting diverse opinions of many researchers in Korean Studies will be necessary.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.173-185
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to present a reflective review of the earth and universe units from the revised elementary curriculum of 2007-2015 and suggest changes in the 2022 revised curriculum. For this purpose, we conducted an FGI with earth science educators and elementary school teachers regarding the content elements and system, the achievement standards and inquiry activity composition, and the vertical and horizontal curriculum connectivity. Free response and weighted hierarchical analysis items were incorporated into the FGI to ensure logical consistency of the inductively derived improvement. This analysis revealed that the composition of units by grade group had been unevenly distributed among each of the "earth systems" until the 2015 revised curriculum was finalized. Furthermore, the basic concept was still insufficient. We suggest that achievement standards centered on the learning content and skills must state specific scientific core competencies, and inquiry activities should include rigorous critical thinking, student written responses, and student inquiry and analysis. In the hierarchical analysis items, FGI emphasized the inclusion of essential content elements rather than reduction of content elements, understanding-oriented concept learning rather than interest-centered phenomenon learning, basic concept division learning before integration between subjects, and expanding vertical-horizontal connectivity rather than repeating and advancing learning. There is a limit to the generalizing the suggestions proposed in this study to the common opinion of elementary earth science experts. However, since the main vision of the 2022 revised curriculum is to gather opinions through educational entities' participation in a variety of educational subjects, it is suggested that our results should be incorporated as one of the opinions proposed for the 2022 curriculum revision.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.520-532
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data for the development of the anger provoking situation scale using the mixed research method. For this purpose, three research methods were used: content analysis of domestic and international anger-inducing situation scale, NAS-PI factor and reliability analysis of youth anger-provoking scale, and FGI with youth expert. In the results of NAS-PI, there were four categories of 'unrespectful treatment', 'unfairness', 'annoying traits of others', and 'irritation' except 'frustration' among five categories. The results of the FGI consisted of seven categories: 'rejection', 'physical and verbal violence', 'ignorance', 'frustration', 'control and restraint', 'rumination', and 'interpersonal relationship'. As a result of integrating these contents, it is finally possible to reconstruction in to seven categories such as 'unfairness', 'injustice', 'ignorance', 'control and restraint', 'ignorance', 'frustration' 'interpersonal relationship'. The meaning of this study is to provide the basic data for the development of the anger provoking situation scale for domestic adolescents by integrating the contents analysis and quantitative and qualitative researches of domestic and international anger provoking situation scale. The results of this study are as follows. First, it is necessary to study the anger provoking situations reflecting sociocultural context, and to develop the reliability and validity of the anger provoking situation scale.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.479-490
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of vocational rehabilitation practitioners in mental rehabilitation facilities related to their services, then it was intended to suggest the strategic plans for the services. To this purpose, data related to vocational rehabilitation services provided by mental rehabilitation facilities were collected, and a focus group interview(FGI) was conducted for the practitioners in charge of vocational rehabilitation services. And this data was analyzed to results. The research results are as follows. First, the related manuals and guidelines should be created to clarity the role and function of the facilities, that is the detailed standards are necessary for the workers participating in vocational rehabilitation services. Second, they expect that people with mental illness must be treated equally with other people with disabilities and the vocational rehabilitation services should be supported according to their disability characteristics. Based on the results of these studies, specific strategic plans for vocational rehabilitation services were suggested.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.99-114
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• 2023

This study was conducted to review the adequacy and applicability of the safety certification system for educational facilities which was implemented in 2021 and to derive possible improvements to the existing certification system. This study analyzed the existing certification system, examined similar systems from abroad, conducted interviews with certification experts, and presented the proposed improved system to experts for review and advice. The proposed model replaced the current certification process with three stages of follow-up management. This allows for problems that may occur in the evaluation process and the composition of evaluators to be prevented by applying a feedback system. In the review stage of the newly proposed certification system, certification experts recommended specifying the detailed standards of certification performance such as criteria for selecting examiners and arbitrators. They concluded that there were no fatal flaws in the overall structure of the evaluation system. According to the results of this review, the proposed evaluation system was proven to be an effective improvement to the existing system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.42-58
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to classify types of urban flower landscape. As a result of the study, first, through literature and case review, it was found that the four elements of place element, form element, natural element, artificial element, should be included in the sentence and key expression for defining the concept of flower landscape. In contemplating these four elements, a newly reconstructed concept of flower landscape was presented. This is expected to be the basis for the flower landscape integration theory. Second, flower landscape was defined as a genre and a unit of urban landscape. In addition, in order to build a system of flower landscape as a specialized area, after considering the concept, characteristics, and functions of a large category of urban landscape, its hierarchical categories with flower landscape were newly arranged. Thus, the flower landscape as an urban landscape was suggested. Third, in order to provide rational selection materials to consumers through type classification, related theories were investigated by expanding not only to the flower field, but also to the urban planning and urban ecology fields. 41 elements for the type classification were extracted, and 4 core elements were derived through the clustering process. Based on the 4 elements as the classification criteria, through the opinion verification from the FGI with experts, 9 types of middle-classification and 30 types of small-classification were derived. As a follow-up research suggestion, if a valid type is additionally established through a monitoring in the type application process, and more specified application types are developed and organized by expanding second-level classification hierarchy to the third-level hierarchy, this will lead to great studies improving the system of the types.