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A Case Study on the Acclimatization's Housing for Environmental Load Reduction (환경부하 저감을 위한 기후순응주거 사례연구)

  • Cho, Sung-Woo;Oh, Se-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2013
  • The concept of sustainable development to preserve natural environment through economy in resources and energy is gradually distinguished since environmental problems as a series of air pollution and global warming take place now. Building occupies more than 1/3 of energy consumption in the whole world. Energy consumption of buildings caused a quick increase in the amount of energy use by air conditioning, which has a lot of effects on exhaustion of fossil energy as well as an increase in environmental load. Therefore, this research intends to suggest characteristics and direction for the designing of acclimatization's housing through the case study on acclimatization's housing. Acclimatization's housing is designed to reduce building load from the designing stage unlike green home or low-energy apartment. Also, factors which are commonly applied to acclimatization's housing are applied complexly by design strategic factors of Heating, Cooling and Lighting. The applied design factors make effects mutually and complexly. In addition, design strategy showed different priority by designing direction.

A Study on the Growing Trend of Multi-habitation and its Demand Analysis (멀티헤비테이션의 발전 가능성 및 수요특성 분석)

  • Choi, Jung-Min
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.89-101
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept, the necessity, and the increase of popularity of multi-habitation, a new life style in which inhabitants in urban areas reside in primarily condominiums during weekdays and retreat to dwellings in rural areas on the weekends. This paper also focuses on finding implication messages from analyzing the demand of multi-habitation in a survey which was conducted for 735 people who live in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan areas in July 2009. Analysis of literature shows that based on five aspects (population structure, social economy, lifestyle, tourism, and housing market) this dynamic lifestyle, multi-habitation, is believed to be common in South Korea, and may increase in popularity in the near future. The results of the survey illustrate that the respondents show high interest in multi-habitation, and their most preferred locations are the green areas around the Seoul metropolitan area, which are one to two hours away by car. Moreover, regarding the participants' preferences in rural areas they were classified into three groups; those who want to reside in a nature environment, those who want to reside near family and in a close community, and those who want to reside in an environment that has essential facilities and easy accessibility.

A Study on the Ecotourism Policy Direction of Saemangeum.Gunsan Free Economic Zone (새만금.군산경제자유구역의 생태관광 방향)

  • Lim, Hyung-Baek;Choi, Hung-Kyu;Lee, Seong-Woo
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 2009
  • Saemangeum is the largest reclaimed land in Korea. Saemangeum is the large scale project responding to the economic demand of globalization, and a government initiated new development business with a vision of global Free Economic Zone(FEZ). Jeollabuk-province conducted a international competition to establish a global-scale, creative development plan and grow the Saemangeum as an international destination of economy, and a world-wide brand. SGFEZ has much to offer in terms of tourists attractions and breathtaking scenery. And tourism is one of the important industry in SGFEZ. Many tourist facilities will be construct in SGFEZ. Environment is the important issue in many field of study. Recent days, green growth come into the spotlight in Korea. But even as SGFEZ prepares for its future global tourists attraction, so much of the tourism policy directions remains unconsidered. The objective of this study was to suggest tourism policy direction, especially concentrated on ecology tourism policy direction of Saemangeum Gunsan Free Economic Zone(SGFEZ).

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Transient Characteristic Analysis on the Regenerative Braking System of Fuel-cell Electric Vehicle with Electro-Hydraulic Brake (전기유압식 브레이크를 장착한 연료전지차량의 회생제동 천이구간 특성해석)

  • Choi, Jeong-Hun;Cho, Bae-Kyoon;Park, Jin-Hyun;Hwang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2012
  • Nowadays, various researches about eco-friendly vehicles such as hybrid electric vehicle, fuel cell vehicle and electric vehicle have been actively carried out. Since most of these green cars have electric motors, the regenerative energy technology can be used to improve the fuel economy and the energy efficiency of vehicles. The regenerative brake is an energy recovery mechanism which slows a vehicle by converting its kinetic energy into electric energy, which can be either used immediately or stored until needed. This technology plays a significant role in achieving the high energy usage. However, there are some technical problems for controlling the regenerative braking and the electro-hydraulic brake during switching at transient region. In this paper, the performance simulator for fuel-cell vehicle is developed and transient response characteristics of the regenerative braking system are analyzed in the various driving situations. And the hardware-in-the-loop simulation of electro-hydraulic brake is performed to validate the transient characteristics of the regenerative braking system for fuel-cell electric vehicle.

Thermal Characteristics of Sulgigemi Pellets Using Biomass (바이오매스를 이용한 술지게미 펠릿의 열적 특성)

  • Kim, Dae-Nyeon;Kim, Duk-Hyun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.108.1-108.1
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes the method to develop the fuel of suljigemi pellets using agricultural by-products the occurred during the manufacturing of alcohol. This paper is the goal to make sulgigemi pellet fuel for develops pellet of high calorie. The methods of sulgigemi pellet manufacturing well mix as the dough with the water and the sulgigemi. And then we have dried in the after compression and molding using well mixed the sulgigemi. The moisture of pellets has dried it removed until about 85%. Suljigemi pellet has the effect of zero emission as the soil conditioner using ash after burning. The merits for the sulgigemi pellet are the convenience of storage and custody. Also sulgigemi pellet has the reduction effect of carriage fee, fuel economy and low-cost high-efficiency effects, environmentally clean fuel as CO2 emissions savings. In experiment, we confirmed to calories of the wood pellet and the sulgigemi pellet. The calorie of the suljigemi pellets has high 233 kilo calories than the wood pellets. So the technologies of the sulgigemi fuel pellets are developing low carbon, green growth renewable energy fuel through futuristic energy system will be.

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Green-house GAS Reduction Through the Environmental Policy Mixes Both Environmental Trading and Carbon Taxes (온실가스 감축을 위한 배출권거래제와 탄소세의 정책혼합 효과 분석)

  • Lim, Jae-Ku;Kim, Jeong-In
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.245-274
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    • 2003
  • This paper analyzes the economic and environmental impacts of domestic policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by focusing on carbon tax, domestic emissions trading and the mixture of these policies. By utilizing a dynamic CGE model, KORTEM, this study shows that the economic cost under carbon tax is projected to be higher than that under emission trading. It is because under carbon tax scheme each emitter in economy must meet its emission target regardless of the abatement cost. On the other hand, emission trading allows emitters to reduce the marginal cost of abatement through trading of emission permits. In designing policy portfolio to address the climate change problem in Korea, therefore, this paper proposes the introduction of domestic emission trading scheme as the main domestic policy Instrument.

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Estimation of Environmentally-Unfriendly Government Subsidies in the Water Sector for Green Tax Reform (환경친화적 조세개편을 위한 용수부문 정부보조금 규모 분석)

  • Min, Dong-Ki;Lho, Sang-Whan
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.235-257
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    • 2001
  • As in other Asian countries, the Korean government provides direct subsidies to endeavors that are potentially harmful to the environment. The water sector is one of the main recipients of these subsidies. The total amount of estimated direct fiscal subsidies equals 2.200 trillion won; however, the comprehensive cost of the subsidies is estimated to be much greater because environmental and social costs were not considered in the initial calculation. Most of the fiscal direct subsidies in the water sector are subsidized to urban water areas. The percentage of fiscal direct subsidies in the urban water sector to the total fiscal direct subsidies is 79.68%, while the percentage of fiscal direct subsidies in the industrial water sector is only 4.92%. Since the ratio of fiscal direct subsidies in the industrial water sector is quite small, the negative impact of removing fiscal direct subsidies for the industrial sector may be trivial. If the Korean government cuts dowm the VAT or income tax rate while reducing several types of subsidies, it will be able to achieve a double dividend effect both on the economy and the environment.

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A Study on the Decision of Appropriate Subsidy Levels Regarding Electric Vehicles for V2G as Load Management Resources (V2G 전기자동차의 부하관리 자원 활용을 위한 적정 지원금 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Hoon;Hwang, Sung-Wook
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.65 no.2
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    • pp.264-268
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    • 2016
  • Recently, various energy efficiency optimization activities are ongoing globally by integrating conventional grids with ICT (Information and Communication Technology). In this sense, various smart grid projects, which power suppliers and consumers exchange useful informations bilaterally in real time, have been being carried out. The electric vehicle diffusion program is one of the projects and it has been spotlighted because it could resolve green gas problem, fuel economy and tightening environmental regulations. In this paper, the economics of V2G system which consists of electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure is evaluated comparing electric vehicles for V2G with common electric vehicles. Additional benefits of V2G are analyzed in the viewpoint of load leveling, frequency regulation and operation reserve. To find this benefit, electricity sales is modeled mathematically considering depth of discharge, maximum capacity reduction, etc. Benefit and cost analysis methods with the modeling are proposed to decide whether the introduction of V2G systems. Additionally, the methods will contribute to derive the future production and the unit cost of electric vehicle and battery and to get the technical and economic analysis.

Luxury, sustainability and the future - The case study of Burberry -

  • Bae, Su Yun
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2019
  • Climate change and global warming are the biggest challenges of the current generation. Every industry has contributed to the climate change and global warming. Even the apparel industry cannot avoid the criticism regarding fast fashion and its contribution to the pollution. The transition to the decarbonized economy is in progress. All aspects of business functions are influenced by climate change. Sustainable development and climate change are closely linked, and business plays the key role in addressing and finding solutions to the challenges of climate change. Luxury brands are the trendsetters and tastemakers. They are the leaders in the fashion industry and therefore responsible for improving on sustainability as well. Even luxury business cannot avoid environmental issues. The relation between luxury and sustainability is explored with the Burberry case based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework. There are various ways for luxury brands to excel in sustainability and affect other companies' practices. The companies can incorporate the concept of sustainability in their brand stories as part of the branding process. They can also improve demand planning accuracy and produce upcycled goods. Centering on Burberry's case, this paper aims to explore the current sustainable practices of luxury business along with its future direction toward sustainable development. Its contribution and directions for both researchers and business practitioners are discussed.

Challenges to the Export-Led Growth Strategy in the Digital and Global Era: An Empirical Investigation of South Korea's Experience

  • LEE, Jung Wan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.253-265
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    • 2022
  • This paper examines South Korea's past developmental experience and its current strategy and policy initiatives to overcome global and domestic challenges and sustain economic growth in the twenty-first century, the digital and global era, to explain how the country became a high-income economy. The findings of this research highlight the following three factors: First, the most significant factor in rapid industrialization was the adoption of an outward-looking strategy, with the help of a highly skilled workforce and the development of high-tech manufacturing and services sectors, which was supported by the government plans. Second, the high R&D intensity helped South Korea become a global leader in information and communication technologies, which has emerged from a top-down innovation system that promotes close collaboration between government, industry, and the academic community. Third, according to the recently released Global Entrepreneurship Index, South Korea tops the region in entrepreneurship environment. Among the list of criteria, South Korea dominates in the ease of starting a business and enforcing contracts. They all play a significant role in encouraging investment, production, communication, and, eventually, economic growth. Finally, this paper suggests forward-looking developments promoting transformation and diversification into high-tech manufacturing and digital and green technologies.