• The International Journal of Costume Culture
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.58-69
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• 2004

This study generated a framework to help academicians understand consumers' cultural values and global-mindedness Especially, this study affirmed the importance of fashion involvement in evoking global-mindedness when consumers have strong traditional values. A conceptual model with non-traditional and traditional values as exogenous variables, global-mindedness as endogenous variable and fashion involvement as mediating variable were created for the study. Data from 224 female college students were analyzed for empirical study. Results indicated that college students showed higher level of non-traditional values than traditional values. Non-traditional values had significant direct influence on global-mindedness whereas traditional values did not have significant influence. Traditional values as well as non-traditional had significant influence on fashion involvement. Fashion involvement significantly affected global-mindedness. Both non-traditional values and traditional values had significant positive indirect effects on global-mindedness mediated by fashion involvement.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.753-762
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• 2006

The purpose of this research is to analyze the importance and satisfaction level with the service of Korean restaurants for Japanese and Chinese students in Korea. Self adminstered guestionnaires were collected from 204 Japanese and Chinese students in Korea. The data was statistically analysed using t-tests, one-way ANOVA, reliability test, factor analysis and regression test. The average values of importance-factor and satisfaction-factor were significantly different. Based on analyses of the 20 service level factors, satisfaction level was significantly lower than importance level. Satisfaction-factors such as quality of food, hygiene of restaurant and employees, service level, and atmospheres, significantly influenced the overall satisfaction level of Korean food and restaurants.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.95-108
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• 2010

21st century has begun as an age of green growth. Development paradigms disregarding environmental sustainability are being changed and henceforth, stronger efforts should be made to discover and utilize green values. With the importance of green values, rural amenity which is in the spotlight as a new channel to change the way people think about depressed agriculture and rural community could be the key to discover green values of rural area. This study is to emphasize rural amenity and to rectify prejudiced and distorted contents of agriculture and rural community in agricultural highschool textbooks. By doing this, students of agricultural highschool who will lead agriculture in the future will come to recognize the importance of agriculture and rural area and discovering it's values. This study was done through analysis and development of contents in 39 kinds of textbooks of Agricultural highschool. A content analysis was employed to examine to what extent the contents on agriculture and rural community were reflected in the textbooks of agriculture highschool. And 262 new education contents formulating positive and exact rural amenity concept were developed and 62 of them were included in textbooks.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.727-733
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• 2022

The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one of the most commonly used and effective methods to evaluate non-use value of resources. Reasonable application of CVM to value the cultural heritage is the key process of evaluation. CVM was used to evaluate the non-use value of cultural heritage of Taishan Mountain combined with questionnaire survey and field research in this study. The results indicated that the importance of the degree of the three components of non-use value was heritage value ranked highest (40.22%) > followed by existence value (38.58%) >then option value (21.20%). In addition, the rate of willingness to pay was 54.52%, the average and median values of per person were 40.17 CNY·a^-1 and 20.00 CNY·a^-1 and the non-use values of Taishan Mountain cultural heritage was 33 million CNY·a^-1. The median value of WTP was consistent with Asian countries but was lower than European and American countries. Factors influencing WTP showed that monthly income and satisfaction with Taishan Mountain were correlated to WTP, and family location and willingness to revist were correlated remarkably with WTP. In addition, monthly income was correlated remarkably with WTP value, however other factors were not. The results showed the importance and necessity of protective development of Taishan Mountain cultural heritage, which would be used as an important reference for decision makers.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 2013

This paper derives maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) and some approximate MLEs (AMLEs) of unknown parameters of the generalized exponential distribution when data are lower record values. We derive approximate Bayes estimators through importance sampling and obtain corresponding Bayes predictive intervals for unknown parameters for lower record values from the generalized exponential distribution. For illustrative purposes, we examine the validity of the proposed estimation method by using real and simulated data.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.85-103
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• 2021

Entrepreneurship is recognized as an essential education in start-up education. However, domestic studies on entrepreneurship in developing countries are extremely rare. The purpose of this study is to compare the importance of entrepreneurship and the perception of implementation of Korean and Nepalese farmers, and to seek a start-up education strategy based on the results. As a result of the study, first, there was no difference in the importance of entrepreneurship in the 6th industry between two countries, but the degree of entrepreneurial spirit performance was high in Nepalese farmers. Second, in terms of the difference between the importance and execution of the 6th industry entrepreneurship, Korea had lower performance than importance in all factors, and Nepal had higher importance than implementation in innovation, initiative, cooperation, and networking capability. Third, in the difference between the importance and the degree of implementation in each country, the level of implementation was uniformly lower than that of importance in Korea, but the height of the Nepalese farmers was not uniform. The results of this study, which studied entrepreneurship in Korea and Nepal, contribute greatly in terms of promoting the national economy by creating new added values.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.1066-1077
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• 2002

The Purposes of this study were 1) to identify the effects of clothing involvement on deal Proneness, store images related to promotions and perceived shopping value, and 2) to reveal the effects of antecedent variables on the consumer satisfaction. The data were collected from 624 female consumers living in Seoul, Korea via self-administered questionnaires and were analyzed by frequency, factor analysis, multiple regression analysis and path analysis. The results of the study were as follows : (1) Among the factors related to clothing involvement deal proneness, store images of promotions and perceived shopping values, Clothing importance, Shopping interest Fashion interest and all three factors of deal proneness had the effect on perceived hedonic shopping values. Clothing importance, Prudent purchase, Shopping interest store images related to promotions had the effects on perceived hedonic shopping values. And Prudent purchase had the positive effects and store images related to Display had the negative effects on perceived negative shopping values. (2) From the resulted of analyzing the effects of antecedent variables on consumer satisfaction, Sweepstakes/gifts proneness, store images related to Price discount/events and Display, perceived hedonic and utilitarian shopping values positive]y influenced the consumer satisfaction. Store images related to Price discount/events had the most significant effects on consumer satisfaction. From the results of path analysis, clothing involvement had the effects on consumer satisfaction indirectly through deal proneness, store images related to promotions and perceived shopping values.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2007

Forest vegetation types and growth characteristics of Seongin-bong at Ulleung Island in Korea were studied by using importance values, distributions of diameter classes, and annual growth analysis. Vegetation types were classified into 7 groups. The number of existing woody plant and herbaceous plant species varied from 17 to 21 species per $100m^2$. In case of life-forms importance values, woody and herbs showed average values of 47% and 53% across 5 groups. But in Tsuga sieboldii-Pinus parviflora and Fague engleriana- Taxus cuspidata var. latifolia groups, woody importance values were 68% and 54%, respectively. Diameter classes in most stand types were regularly distributed and showed continuous growth in annual diameter growth. from these results, this site is expected to maintain a stable vegetation structure continuously. F. engleriana, which forms major species in this site, showed 0.46-0.62 cm in annual average diameter growth. The annual average diameter growth of broad-leaved tree species was 0.2-0.6 cm, while the growth rate of T. sieboldii and P. parviflora was 0.38 cm and that of T. cuspidata var, latifolia was below 0.1 cm.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.25-31
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• 2017

With tremendous advancement of information and communication technologies, mobile learning systems have been widely adopted in language learning contexts, and several frameworks have been developed for identifying and categorizing different factors of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). However, pre-existing frameworks have limitations when evaluating the importance level of criteria. The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive hierarchical framework for identifying and categorizing success factors of MALL and prioritizing them according to the importance level. To do that, AHP method is used to quantitatively estimate weight values of MALL criteria. Results reveal that the priority of MALL criteria is ordered as follows: content, system, learner, language learning. Local weights of each criterion are also analyzed; for example, usefulness, accuracy, and authenticity are critical factors for improving MALL contents. Ease of use and mobility of MALL systems are also considered more critical than other systematic factors. In addition, availability of immediate feedback and self-directness has the highest weight values of importance. The findings of the study are discussed regarding hierarchical orders of MALL criteria and conclude that successful MALL implementation may be achieved if related elements are diversely measured and evaluated. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are also presented.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.125-142
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between maternal traditional-modern values, childrearing practices and children's social behaviors. The subjects were 500 fifth grade elementary school children and their mothers, and teachers, and peers in the same classroom. The data were collected through questionnaires on maternal traditional values, perceived maternal childrearing practices, and children's social behaviors. Traditional maternal values focused on familial collectivism and politeness. The major results were as follows: (1) Maternal traditional values were positively related to childrearing practices in both maternal affection rational guidance and authoritarian control. (2) Maternal traditional values did not directly influence children's social behavior but showed an indirect moderating effect through maternal childrearing practices. Implications were discussed in terms of the importance of traditional values on childrearing behavior as well as the development of children.