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Toward the Cultural Approach to the Discipline of Korean Design History: -A Plea for the Domestic Handcrafts of Yang, Gap-Jo- (한국디자인사 연구의 문화사적 접근을 향하여 -양갑조 할머니의 규방 공예품을 위한 변론-)

  • Ko, Young-Lan
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.375-384
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    • 2004
  • The general tendency of approach to Korean Design History has been focusing its primary interest on the grand story in relation to the problems of modernization in political, economical and social aspects of Korea. In the discourse of modernization, however, there are two sides immanent in the modernization: there is the formal, institutional and authoritative modernization developed inside the capitalistic mode of production and the informal, individual and cultural modernization manifested in the mode of everyday lives. Especially, despite the viewpoint of the latter being embossed as an alternative approach in various areas including the academic world of history since the collapse of socialism, the historical recognition of the phenomena of modern design by the Korean design historians is more like the 'history from the above' that exists at the level of the discourse outside the reality rather than the 'history from the below' that exists within the ordinary life. To grant a sense of balance in such frame of historical understanding, it requires the restructuring the design history of Korea through the cultural perspectives from having the representation of mundane lives realized by the voluntary design activity of the common people as research subjects. One of the methods to acquire an answer to such problem is decoding, in the manner of 'cultural history', the life-long domestic artifact made by Madame Yang, Gap Jo (currently 87 years of age) who is a model of typical Korean mother. Through the historical rumination on the traces of unpretentious lives of the people that has been buried under the grand narrative of the Korean Design History, a new era aimed for the historical prospect of Korean design as cultural history will be possible by excavating the petit yet multi-layered meaning of Korean designs.

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Appearance of Homo Economicus and Morals of Youth in Early Modern of Korea with reference to A Large River[Dae-Ha] (호모 이코노미쿠스의 출현과 주체적 각성의 사실성 - 김남천의 『대하(大河)』론)

  • Kim, Jongsoo
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.35
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    • pp.79-95
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    • 2014
  • This article aims at rethinking on people of Modern styles in early modern period with reference to A Large River[Dae-Ha] written by Kim Nam-cheon at 1939. Park Sung-guoen could be called to Homo Economicus, first, have maximized of self-interest in rapid changes of Korea society with loan sharking, rising to upper class in new early modern era instead of traditional nobleman. Park Hyung-geol could be said romantic guy, second, have chased romatic love consist of three elements(love-sex-marriage). But he troubled his love affairs to his family members frustrated his will because of a bastard son. It is the model of situations, Kim Nan-cheon intended to describe, that Homo Economicus became an object of envy among people in early modern society as well as the choice has been hard in conflicting between family and lover, concretizing anachronism through history of family.

How could make people work for everyone? : City governance to activate social services in 1950's Shanghai neighborhood

  • Sohn, Jang-Hun
    • Journal of East-Asian Urban History
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.65-85
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    • 2020
  • Examining how the CCP operated social services in Shanghai neighborhood[linong] in early 1950s, this article reveals the hidden relation between social service and rectification of neighborhood organizations in 1954. One of the main purpose of 1954 rectification was to guarantee provision of grassroots level of the city by recruiting local cadres, the implementers of social services. Though series of social service, such as night patrol, cleaning and public charity were indispensable for residents' life and welfare(fuli)[福利] of neighborhood, the social services was the something most of the Shanghai residents were reluctant to do. The result was the shortage of human resource for social service, triggering the "nominal position(gua ming)[掛名] " phenomenon. During political rectification of neighborhood organizations in 1954 Shanghai Municipal government tried to solve this 'decline of human resource in social services' problem by attracting the unemployed to the position of basic level cadre. To be specific, it demanded jobless person in neighborhood to be registered in time if they want a job placement. And it used that registration as the nominee of cadre in re-election process of the rectification campaign. The government measures were closely related to Shanghai people's inclination to rely on party-state when they try to get a job. Hence political rectification in neighborhood organizations become the strategic tool of city governance to mobilize residents in operating social services. So this article suggests that the CCP's urban governance was a complex and nuanced process to induce urban residents' interest and voluntarism beyond the suppression-oriented totalitarian perspective.

Tae-Baek Natural History Museum Project (태백 고생대 박물관 계획)

  • Lee, Moo-Sang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.75-76
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    • 2007
  • Recently with increasing interest in the natural science history education, a lot of natural science museums have been developed in various locations. This project is located in one of the biggest Paleozoic site, Taebak Kangwon-do. This kind museum has had important rolls in terms of education for student, destination for traveling and reservation of important holdover of the old ages. To do those kind of parts, this project has been designed with concepts and themes like; i. being organized with story telling structure with theme "secret of life and earth from Taebak" ii. combining experiences between outdoor experimental search for the real fossils and indoor educational interactions with real size model and moving films. iii. designing with strong identities of Paleozoic era. For the design identities the outer appearance was designed with motive of trilbites in an abstract way and inside was finished with exposed concrete and various size of moving films projected to walls and floor to emphasize real scale experience of the old ages.

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A Study about the Emergence and Changes of Confucian doctors in Choseon Dynasty (조선시대 유의(儒醫)의 형성과 변화)

  • Kim, Seong-Su
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.105-120
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    • 2015
  • Confucian doctors (儒醫) emerged who either voluntarily or involuntarily studied medical science and participated in clinical practices. This was made possible by a newly established position known as Euiseoseupdokgwan (醫書習讀官), made up of officials who had knowledgeable about medical books, during the reign of King Sejong. By the 16th century, Confucian doctors who acquired knowledge from medical books began to practice more broadly. Most of the Confucian doctors had either direct or indirect connections with the Sarim faction 士林派, and had interest in practicing medicine in provincial regions. In 1610, Donguibogam (東醫寶鑑) was published, providing the Confucian doctors with solid academic and clinical foundations. From the late 17th century onwards, the medical environment quickly became commercialized and the status of Confucian doctors gradually weakened.

Challenges in nuclear energy adoption: Why nuclear energy newcomer countries put nuclear power programs on hold?

  • Philseo Kim;Hanna Yasmine;Man-Sung Yim;Sunil S. Chirayath
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.1234-1243
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    • 2024
  • The pressing need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions has stimulated a renewed interest in nuclear energy worldwide. However, while numerous countries have shown interest in nuclear power over the course of history, many of them have not continued their pursuit and chosen to defer or abandon their peaceful nuclear power projects. Scrapping a national nuclear power program after making initial efforts implies significant challenges in such a course or a waste of national resources. Therefore, this study aims to identify the crucial factors that influence a country's decision to terminate or hold off its peaceful nuclear power programs. Our empirical analyses demonstrate that major nuclear accidents and leadership changes are significant factors that lead countries to terminate or defer their nuclear power programs. Additionally, we highlight that domestic politics (democracy), lack of military alliance with major nuclear suppliers, low electricity demand, and national energy security environments (energy import, crude oil price) can hamper a country's possibility of regaining interest in a nuclear power program after it has been scrapped, suspended, or deferred. The findings of this study have significant implications for policymakers and stakeholders in the energy sector as they strive to balance the competing demands of energy security, and environmental sustainability.

Document Research for the Restoration of Traditional Acupunctural Methods (전통침구기법(傳統鍼灸技法)의 복원을 위한 문헌조사)

  • Oh, Jun Ho;Ahn, sang woo
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.103-126
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    • 2005
  • 1) Objective This research is a process of examining the Traditional Acupunctural Methods left in our documents. The objectives of this paper are explaining the process of researching documents and reporting several points revealed in this process. 2) Process This study was done through the following steps: (1) We located the Acupunctural Methods in the original text database on the web. (2) We sorted them according to criterion. (3) We set up some standard clauses in order to organize the selected information. (4) We re-organized the information following the standards within the categories. (5) As for clauses that were not fully explained in the documents, we tried to restore them through other documents. 3) Results (1) 11 standard clauses were set up in order to organize the Traditional Acupunctural Methods. (2) Traditional Acupunctural Methods were extracted from 22 documents, (3) 24 Traditional Acupunctural Methods were extracted and organized by standards. (4) We learned of similar methods with resembling ways of drawing blood and methods with deep interest in the depth of needle insertion. Also, we were able to gain a clue to the exchange of Acupunctural Methods among the three Asian countries and the possibility of research using the Korean Medicine Database.

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Morden People and History : in terms of Historical Media and Reenactment Activity (현대 대중과 역사 : 역사를 소재로 한 영상매체와 '리인액트먼트(Reenactment Activity)'를 중심으로)

  • Park, Kwang Sun
    • Korean Educational Research Journal
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.19-32
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this article is to review the historical media and reenactment activity which is used in history education. Especially, teachers are very interested in how to develop the interest of the students in class. In this article, we review the characters of the reenactment activity as well as the drama and film. The definition of the reenactment activity is to act like a historical persons. 'Reenactment activity' is not familiar to us in Korea but it is very famous to the students and the teachers who want to re-act the historical life. Reenactment actvitiy is more efficient than movie because doing reenactment is much cheeper than making film.

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A Study on Article 78 CISG: Interest on Sums in Arrears (CISG 제78조(연체이자(延滯利子) 청구권(請求權))에 대한 고찰(考察))

  • Kim, Tae-Gyeong
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.31
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    • pp.3-25
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    • 2006
  • This study focus on interest for arrears and filling of the gaps left in Article 78 of CISG. In the case of CISG, Article 78 provides for interest any time a payment under a contract is untimely, but does not specify a particular rate of interest or a method to determine such a rate. This issue did not cause any uncertainty under ULIS, the CISG's antecedent, since Article 83 of ULIS provided for 1%p above the official discount rate in the creditor's country. Lacking any CISG general principle as well as any indication by the very same CISG, one can only conclude that the matter must be deferred to the domestic rule of private international law. Actually, resorting to private international law is not only admissible, but expressly required by Article 7(2). In the interpretation and filling of the gaps left in Article 78, there is a considerable difference of opinion especially amongst commentators on whether the gap is a lacuna praeter legem, i.e., one being governed by, but not expressly settled in the CISG, or whether it is an issue falling outside the scope of application of the CISG, i.e. a lacuna intra legem. The protagonists of the former view lay emphasis on the overall objective of the CISG, namely to create a uniform law, whereas the supporters of the latter view refer to the legislative history of Article 78 as the dominant principle in interpreting Article 78. Some authors believe that the issue of determining the rate of interest is not dealt with by CISG and it is, therefore, governed by the applicable domestic law, which is the subsidiary law applicable to the sales contract, since "no special connecting points seem to have developed for the entitlement to interest." In the light of the relevant case law, it seems correct to conclude that the interest rate is not determined by CISG and that courts normally determine it according to their own rules of private international law. While CISG Article 78 expressly does not deal with this issue, PICC Article 7.4.9 and PECL Article 9.508, on the other hand, set forth a precise method for computing interest. Although a method like the one set by PICC may be useful and may encourage uniformity, it still cannot be used under the CISG. The PICC or PECL formula may, however, be a very good starting point in a de jure condendum analysis when a new Article 78 will be drafted, if an interest rate method will ever be embodied in the text of an international convention.

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A LINK BETWEEN ORDERED TREES AND GREEN-RED TREES

  • CHEON, GI-SANG;KIM, HANA;SHAPIR, LOUIS W.
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.53 no.1
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    • pp.187-199
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    • 2016
  • The r-ary number sequences given by $$(b^{(r)}_n)_{n{\geq}0}=\Large{\frac{1}{(r-1)n+1}}(^{rn}_n)$$ are analogs of the sequence of the Catalan numbers ${\frac{1}{n+1}}(^{2n}_n)$. Their history goes back at least to Lambert [8] in 1758 and they are of considerable interest in sequential testing. Usually, the sequences are considered separately and the generalizations can go in several directions. Here we link the various r first by introducing a new combinatorial structure related to GR trees and then algebraically as well. This GR transition generalizes to give r-ary analogs of many sequences of combinatorial interest. It also lets us find infinite numbers of combinatorially defined sequences that lie between the Catalan numbers and the Ternary numbers, or more generally, between $b^{(r)}_n$ and $b^{(r+1)}_n$.