• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2016

Although the microfinance sector in Bangladesh is mainly driven by Non-Governmental-Organizations (NGOs), there are other types of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) that also provide financial services to the poor. Despite the criticism of microfinance programs, the current poverty situation in Bangladesh still requires such programs for consistently battling poverty. Hence, the aim of this paper is to profile the microfinance sector based on their legal status and investigate any possible differences (if any) between them in various aspects. After a thorough investigation of the sector, it was found that around 33 million of the clients are being served by the mainstream MFIs (NGO and Grameen Bank) while another 10-15 million clients are served by other types of MFIs (financial cooperatives, credit unions, various ministries etc.), accounting for the one-third of the total population in Bangladesh. While the mainstream MFIs basically works with poor, other categories of MFIs are concerned with relatively wealthy clients. Looking into the financial performance and social intermediation of the MFIs, the NGO-MFIs performed better than other types of MFIs in the sector.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.251-266
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• 2003

Diffusion of non-professional flower growing in Korea still lags behind. The objectives of the study are to establish a theoretical modes to explain the diffusion of social floriculture, to identify some characteristics and problems of growing flower crops to cultivate amenities and emotions, and to suggest remedial measures for fostering it. Theoretical model adopted in this study consists of such variables as education, social movement, policies, diffusion of social flower growing, amenities, and emotional cultivation. For identifying the diffusion characteristics of flower growing, projects implemented by a non-governmental organization, schools, local and central government organizations were analyzed. In order to stimulate the diffusion of social flower growing and to increase its effects, there needs to strengthen education of stakeholders, establishment of partnership among schools, non-governmental and governmental organizations, and institutional supports including manpower and finances. Linking flower growing projects to community festival and tourism development programs can foster institutionalization of community flower growing. Furthermore, the introduction of wild, symbolic and traditional flowers and trees will help to specialize and improve community landscapes.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2011

The government supports politic funds to Small Business having difficulties of insufficient capital and weak assets. Also the effect of governmental politic funds are evaluated better than the effect of substitute loans of the commercial bank. Especially governmental politic funds contribute to the external growth of the enterprise sales and the increment of total assets size. It is necessary however related supporting programs with funding provision to reduce the risk of insolvency politic funds of small business and reinforce the competitive power of company. This paper introduces the model of the corporate diagnosis system of the Small Business Corporation as part of these intention and analysis supported companies' management performance last four years and proposes direction of development.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2024

Purpose: It is necessary to look at the reasons why the Korean government has failed in boosting mom and pops, even though many aid programs for independent retailers have been introduced. Furthermore, this research will provide policy makers and practitioners with new insight to improve the performance of government policies. Research design: the researcher has had an interview with the 26 practitioners to gather the right information. Furthermore, interview results have been categorized into the government-related issues, support programs and shop owner-related issues, from a practitioner's perspectives. Results: The researcher found that the confusion of governmental support organization, the lack of retail marketing experts, frequent job rotation, the lack of cooperation between bureaucrats and associations, concerned about the governmental-related issues, are failure reasons. In terms of support program issues, the research found the following reasons: no blueprint, the lack of retail experts, relevance to budget scale, and the complexity of budget implementation. Associated with shop owner-related issues, the author found that the causes of failure are closely related to aging shopkeepers, the absence of a successor and increasing dependence on a government. Conclusions: The author proposes that a government has to rebuild existing support programs for small shop owners.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2007

The study is based on a two-year research study titled 'A study on the Development of the Programs for Housing Policy to support Multi-family Housing Remodeling in Korea'. The primary purpose of this two-year study was to recommend governmental program initiatives for supporting multi-family housing remodeling activities in Korea. As a part of this research study, this article was written based on the results from the two surveys regarding multi-family housing remodeling in the United States and Korea, and a focus group with housing researchers affiliated to the Joint Center for Housing Studies. Major research findings are presented as follows: First, there have been various types of supportive programs for single- and multi-family housing remodeling in the United States. Those have focused on lower income families than middle income families. Compared with the programs in the United States, the apartment remodeling in Korea has been focusing on small population of the multi-family housing owners. Apartment remodeling in Korea needs supportive programs for rental housing remodeling and the housing remodeling for low-incomes. Second, there have been various types of remodeling activities made in multi-family housing properties in the United States. Size of remodeling project also varied. Their remodeling activities were based on the long-term repairing plans initiated by professional apartment management groups. For making our multi-family housing properties more sustainable, we also need to have the long-term repairing plans. Third, the apartment property remodeling has been regarded as a substitute of reconstruction of apartment properties. However, remodeling should be regarded as one of the most efficient ways to extend the life-cycle of apartment buildings. Thus, benefits and executive plans of apartment remodeling should be studied by a professional research center under our governmental responsibilities as done in the United States.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.51-77
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• 2003

Although Korean government has made a great deal of investment on R&D projects, corresponding amount of efforts has not been effectively made for their commercialization. Effective technology transfer can help to spread the results of IT R&D programs. The main objective of this study is to provide some strategies for successful commercialization in lieu of technology transfer program at home and abroad. We summarize the present situation of IT R&D programs and analyze the obstacles to improve the process of materializing technology transfer.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한예방의학회 2001년도 제53차 추계 학술대회 연제집
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• pp.424-425
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• 2001

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.611-624
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• 2015

최근 들어 인문학에 관심이 집중되고 있으며, 정부에서도 인문학에 대한 다양한 정책 모색을 시도하고 있다. 이러한 사회적 변화와 함께 인문정신의 가치 확산을 위한 핵심거점으로 박물관의 역할이 대두하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 정부의 지원 하에 인문학 연계 박물관 교육이 실행되고 있는 박물관을 대상으로, 그 현황을 분석함으로써, 좀 더 발전된 방향을 모색하기 위한 기초 연구를 하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 우선 인문학과 박물관 교육의 연계성에 대한 이론적 고찰을 하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 하여 프로그램 분석틀과 설문을 개발하였다. 이후 이것을 2014년 전국의 75개 박물관에서 운영되었던 인문학 연계 박물관 교육 프로그램의 특성과 교육 담장자의 인식현황 중심으로 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 대부분의 박물관 교육에서 인문학적 연계의 필요성과 중요성에 대한 이해가 비교적 잘 이루어지고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 교육주제나 교육방법에서, 기존의 박물관 교육프로그램과 차별되는 방향으로서의 선택과 수용이 필요함을 알 수 있었으며, 특히 인문학적 역량과 사고가 다문화시대라는 특징과 어우러지도록 교육주제가 확장되며, 배움의 실천성을 넓히기 위한 성찰적, 체험적 활동의 도입이 더욱 필요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.68-98
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• 2010

본 연구는 2004년부터 5년 동안 우리 경제의 성장잠재력을 확충하기 위한 일환으로 범부처적으로 추진된 차세대 성장동력사업의 추진성과를 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구는 사업목적 및 설계, 전략적 기획, 사업운영관리, 사업성과, 범부처 협력 및 조정 등 5개 지표를 활용하여 성과분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 첫째, 사업목적 및 설계에서는 동 사업의 추진목적과 당위성은 인정되었지만, 사업추진체계와 재정자원이 부처별로 분산 추진됨에 따라 일관된 사업추진 리더십이 미흡하였다. 둘째, 전략적 기획에서는 사업목표 및 기술개발전략은 사업 초기에 수립되었지만, 기술적 목표에 치중되었고, 기술공급자 위주로 추진되었다. 셋째, 사업운영관리에서는 사업단장이 과제기획에서 제도개선에 이르기까지 총괄 관리하도록 결정되었으나, 이를 실행할 수 있는 부처 간의 협조체제가 미흡하였다. 넷째, 사업성과에서는 짧은 사업기간에도 불구하고 기술적 목표는 달성되었지만, 경제적 목표가 명확히 제시되지 않아 사업성과를 일관성 있게 파악하기에는 어려움이 있었다. 다섯째, 범부처 협력 및 조정에서는 동 사업을 추진하기 위한 조정기구는 과학기술기본법시행령에 법적근거를 두고 시행하였지만, 이를 실질적으로 운영할 수 있는 세부 규정이나 지침을 제정하지 못했다. 향후 차세대 성장동력사업과 유사한 범부처 연구개발사업을 기획하여 효율적으로 추진하기 위해서는 부처간 공동기획과 일원화된 사업설계, 사업목표와 예산배분체계의 명확화, 범부처적 사업운영과 평가 체계의 구축, 연구개발과 표준화 연계전략, 범부처 공동운영 규정의 제정 등이 필요하다.

• 경영과학
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2010

In Korea, deap-sea fishing industry plays an important role in a food industry. However, it is in a difficult situation because of the more competitive business environment. Therefore, there is a need to restructure the deap-sea fishing industry by scraping superannuated ships. This paper is designed to present scrap programs for deap-sea fishing industry of Korea. We performed ratio analysis to evaluate financial performance of fishing companies and then applied a mixed integer programming (MIP) model to identify optimal schedule for scraping. The results of the financial ratio analysis indicates that it is legible to provide governmental aid to Atlantic trawl, Northern Pacific trawl, and Indian ocean trawl with minimum required rate of return (MRR) of 3%, and the Atlantic strip fishing industry is qualified to receive the governmental aid with MRR value of 5%. Furthermore, by applying the MIP model to develop scrap planning, we demonstrate how our model can be used to restructure the deap-sea fishing industry of Korea.