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The Characteristics and Symbolic Meaning of the Appearance of Cospla Subculture in Korea (우리나라 코스플레 하위문화의 외모 특성과 상징적 의미)

  • 남궁윤선;황선진
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.132-143
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to observe cospla subculture in 1990s new generation of Korean youth, focused on activity that was reproducing the appearance of individual characters in animation, comic books and computer games, and to understand the representing process and meaning of appearance. The ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews and observation were used to approach such cultural form more closely from the youth generations perspective and their language. The results were as follows: 1. Although the cospla is originated from Japan, the local experience of Koreans make it the special youth subculture of Korea. 2. There are homological features and hierachical structure among group members of cospla subculture. The core values of Korean cospla are that they are realizing their ideal and elevating their own self-esteem. 3. Their appearance has connotation as symbolic resistance. The cultural activity of cospla is non-realistic, non-productive, but cosplayers conform to the social norm, too.

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Invigoration of School Sexuality Education in Korea

  • Lee, Sea-Baick
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.79-95
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    • 2000
  • The objective of this study is to stress the importance of sexuality education at school, to define its goals and to discuss ways on how to reinvigorate sexuality education. The negative conditions for adolescent sexual issues are now being expanded into all areas of Korean society. In particular, they should be regarded as one of serious social issues because of their adverse influences on adolescent groups. Various reports on juvenile sexual delinquencies have expressed serious concern over reckless and impulsive juvenile sexual deviations because they are closely related to the confusion of the youth in their sexual values and their common sexual deviations. Thus, for the youth who have attracted serious public concern, it is most important to have sound sexual awareness and attitude for the development of their healthy personality. In general, sexuality education should be conducted under individual responsibility of various levels of schools, families and communities. However, the role of schools where sexuality education should be conducted with concrete goals, that is, to interpret physical and psychological developments of youth in terms of education and teach them on the systematic goals of sexuality education, this role of schools is the most important than anything else in conducting sexuality education for youth.

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A Critical Perspective on the Integration of Service Delivery Systems in Child-Youth Policy (아동청소년정책 전달체계의 통합방안에 대한 비판적 고찰)

  • Chung, Ick-joong
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.297-322
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    • 2009
  • Child policy has focused on needy children with special emphasis on residual services but youth policy has implemented to promote capabilities of general adolescents by various activities. The fragmented implementation of child-youth policy by several ministries resulted in possible redundancy of target groups and insufficient service delivery system. Thus, the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs has pushed forward to integrate service delivery systems in child-youth policy after the former Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Government Youth Commission were integrated as part of a government reorganization plan. The purpose of this study is to review limitations of Lee Myung-bak government's plan to integrate child-youth policy and to make important suggestions for effective integration. Lee Myung-bak government's plan seeks to help children and adolescents prepare for the future and move forward with dreams and hope. However, this plan has fatal problems of overemphasizing the efficiency of finance without expansion of budget for children and adolescents. To achieve well-being tailored to one's life cycle, the full-scale expansion of budget is indispensible through the induction of the special fund or the special tax for children and adolescents. Fortunately, Lee Myung-bak government recognized child-youth policy as the social investment that would heighten national competitiveness in the long term, but there was insufficient child-youth policy infrastructure for new implementation. Therefore, Lee Myung-bak government needs a new design for integrated and universal child-youth policy that should take into account national human resource development plan and its economic development policy. The public responsibility for children and adolescents should be strengthened and, in addition, the network function in service delivery system should be complemented.

A Study on The Success Factors of Youth Enterprises (청년창업 성공요인에 관한 연구: 창업전문가를 대상으로)

  • Shim, Hyeon Min;Seol, Byung Moon
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2022
  • This study derived the success factors of youth enterprises by applying the Delphi Method to start-up experts. Through this, it aims to improve understanding of youth enterprises in entrepreneurship education and start-up support projects and contribute to the development of education and support programs suitable for youth enterprises. Also The purpose of this study is to help youth entrepreneurs solve their curiosity about the success factors of youth enterprises, identify the factors that youth entrepreneurs should first secure or perform among the factors they need to consider during start-ups, and use limited resources efficiently and effectively to succeed. In this study, the Delphi Survey was conducted twice in total. The first Delphi Survey utilized the Modified Delphi Method using structured closed-ended questions, and a pilot test was conducted on youth entrepreneurs and start-up experts to compensate for the problem of the Modified Delphi Method. In the first Delphi Survey, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 and Microsoft Office Excel 2016 were used to calculate the mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, and content validity ratio. In the Delphi 2nd survey, the same statistical values in the 1st survey and additionally cronbach's alpha were calculated. As a result of the Delphi Survey, four factors, such as the entrepreneurial characteristics, entrepreneurial preparation, entrepreneurial strategy, and entrepreneurial environment, and 22 sub-factors were derived as success factors for youth enterprises.

Health-Related Habits, Exercise Habits, and the Korean Healthy Eating Index according to Obesity in Youth -Analysis of the 2020~2021 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey- (청년의 비만에 따른 건강 관련 습관, 신체활동 및 식생활평가지수 -2020~2021 국민건강영양조사 자료 분석-)

  • Kyung-Ae Park
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.250-266
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    • 2024
  • This study examined the sociodemographic and anthropometric data, health-related habits, physical activity, and scores of the Korean Healthy Eating Index according to the obesity of youths aged 19~39 years. Among the subjects of the 2020~2021 Korean National Health and Examination Survey, 2,954 were analyzed. Statistical analyses were used for complex samples using the SPSS software package. The marital status (P<0.001) and economic activity status (P<0.01) of male youth (MY) and the household income level (P<0.01), education level (P<0.01), and economic activity status (P<0.05) of female youth (FY) showed significant differences according to obesity. In MY and FY, age (P<0.001), perceived health status (P<0.001), self-recognized body image (P<0.001), weight change (P<0.001), and weight control (P<0.001) showed significant differences according to the obesity. The prevalence of hypertension (P<0.001), diabetes (P<0.001), hypertriglyceridemia (P<0.001), and hypercholesterolemia (MY P<0.05, FY P<0.001) in MY and FY showed significant differences according to obesity. In MY, the obese group performed higher leisure-related medium-intensity physical activity (P<0.05) than the control group. In FY, the obese group had more stress (P<0.01), lower scores of total fruit intake (P<0.01), fresh fruit intake (P<0.01), and milk and milk products intake (P<0.05) and higher scores of percentages of energy from saturated fatty acid (P<0.05) and total sugar (P<0.05) than the control group. Therefore, the factors associated with obesity in youth differ according to sex, and health promotion programs specified by sex are needed to prevent youth obesity effectively.

A Study on the Youth Job Creation Problem Solving with a Co-creation Approach: Focusing on the Busan City (청년층 일자리 창출문제에서 Co-creation적 해결방안에 관한 연구: 부산광역시를 중심으로)

  • Hong, Soon-Goo;Lee, Hyun-Mi;Han, Se-Eok;Kim, Jong-Weon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.91-102
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    • 2015
  • The growth of Korean economy has continuously declined since 2000, which resulted in the reduction of employment creation opportunity. Futhermore, these circumstances are aggravating the youth job creation. This study investigates the co-creation approach for solving the youth job creation problem. By using the grounded theory on recent newspapers for a year, the study proposes a paradigm model for the youth job creation. Based upon this result, the study creates the conceptual model for the youth job creation, which includes three factors such as process, environment, and institution. This study will contribute not only to the extension of qualitative study on the grounded theory in research, but also to the political implications for the youth job creation in practice.

Job Mobility of the University Graduates Youth In Korea (대졸 청년층의 노동이동 분석 - 인문사회계와 이공계 졸업자를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ahn-Kook
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.39-76
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    • 2005
  • This study examines the job changes of the youth university graduates in Korea. The pattern of job changes get observed in the Unemployment Insurance Database. This data enables us tracing all job changes in the labor market. The average number of job youth graduates have for four years from graduate is 1.68. The more jobs youth have, the longer total tenure youth have. Youth are much more likely to change careers to different occupation or industry. They move usually into upper occupations but small establishments. They enhance the level of wage through job changes. The science and engineering graduates are more likely to change jobs than the humanity and social science graduates. The higher the level of wage they get is, the lower the probability of their job change is. Those who have good scores in Scholastic Aptitude Test are less likely to change job.

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Developmental Trajectory of Mobile Phone Dependency among Youth and its Psychological/Emotional Predictors (아동·청소년기 휴대폰 의존의 발달궤적과심리·정서적 예측요인)

  • Ji Yeon Lee;Lck Joong Chung
    • Journal of School Social Work
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    • v.42
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    • pp.101-122
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to estimate the developmental trajectories of youth's mobile phone dependency, focusing on the psychological/emotional predictors using latent growth modeling(LGM). The data was collected from the 3th wave to the 6th wave(2012-2015) among panel survey for the 4th grade of elementary schools involving 2,219 students participated in Korean Children Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS) administered by National Youth Policy Institute. The major findings are as follows. First, youth's mobile phone dependency has increased as they got older. On the basis of significance in the variance of intercept and slope for mobile phone dependency, there would be sufficient inter-individual differences in mobile phone dependency among youth. Second, the statistically-significant protective factors are life satisfaction, self-control, academic attitude, sense of community, and achievement motivation. The statistically-significant risk factors are depression, aggression, and social withdrawal. Based on the results, the implications for youth welfare practices were discussed.

As for Services of the Public Libraries toward the Youth (공공도서관의 청소년들에 대한 봉사에 대하여 - 학교도서관과의 협조적 측면에서)

  • Han, Yoon-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.39-55
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    • 1978
  • The following results have been driven out from a survey of the actual conditions of the public libraries service in Korea, made through questionnaire in reference with the actual service for youth that are presently done by the foreign countries' libraries, in order to prepare a perfect and objective base in establishing a service activities of the public libraries in this country: (1) It was found that the public libraries' loarning hours during the week days which accords with the schooling hours of the schools are shown to 50 %. On Saturdays during Summer season seven libraries and during Winter season twelve libraries would close their loaning before 17 : 00 hours, and on Holidays and Sundays fifteen libraries are not doing their loarning. (2) The followings are the present status of the service activities for the youth by the public libraries: a. It was found that they do introduction activity (50 %) of newly published books as a service for inducing reading interestings of the youth, and except this it was found that others are on beginning. b. The service activities by the data for the visual and auditory sense are almost negelected. and the rate of doing such activity is shown to 9.74%. c. It has been found that little information service activity is for inducing the youth to the libraries. d. As a cooperative activity with the school's, a passive service activity to have pursuaded to visit the public libraries by each class, are mostly being done (27.27%). Some research meeting for solving all the matters between the school libraries are not held mostly.

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