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Modern Sphinx: X-ray Inspection Technology for Customs (현대판 스핑크스: 국경의 관문을 지키는 X-ray 판독 기술)

  • Lee, J.W.;Moon, T.J.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2020
  • Today, the volume of international trade by airplanes and ships is rapidly increasing, and the volume of trade over land is expected to increase as inter-Korean relations change. In customs processes, humans inspect using the naked eye; therefore, computer vision technology can be used to assist customs inspectors responsible for X-ray security screening. In particular, because of recent advances in deep learning technology, algorithms for image understanding and object detection performance are improving, and studies on their application to X-ray screening have been published. This manuscript describes trends in artificial intelligence X-ray image-reading technology to detect prohibited items. X-ray inspection AI technology is similar to the Sphinx, which was the guardian of the pyramids in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Animal Symbolism of the Trademarks and Trade Characters - Cultural influences of the animal symbols

  • Kim Hyun-Jee
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.3 s.65
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    • pp.71-92
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    • 2006
  • People have their own cultural backgrounds and experiences in terms of visual perceptional thinking so that they could misunderstand the cultural symbols, trademarks, Brand Identities, and trade characters, especially, animal trademarks. Sometimes Easterners and Westerners seem to not comprehend the different meanings of the cultural symbols. The signs of twelve Chinese zodiac animals are the typical symbol of the Asian mythology. What I wanted to focus on emphasizing the different views and perspective of an animal trademark is according to the Chinese Zodiac between Eastern and Western cultures. Generally, multiple symbolisms are difficult to comprehend, because they are created by individual ideas and incorporate several mythologies and histories. How do Westerners interpret the implied meaning of Eastern animals in general? How are they going to understand the Eastern animal logos or marks accurately? How can we solve the problem to make people understand their different meanings? There were some confusing pictorial images in the area of the design field when a designer creates an animal mark for globalization and localization. Creating of hybrid symbol is the best way to break the communication barriers with people all around the world.

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A Study on the Meaning of Water and Water Space in Korean Traditional Architecture (한국전통건축에서 물과 수공간의 의미에 관한 연구)

  • 이영호;김계동
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to discover the meaning of water and traditional water space by the literature review and field study of the water space in Korea. The water and water space were symbolized by mythology, elm-yang-oh-hang, feng-shui, taoism and confucian ideas, buddhism, shin-sun ideas, shijo and landscape panting. That is, the symbolic meanings of water and water space are melt in arts and thoughts. According to literature review and field study, the water and water space represent symbolic meanings, integration with nature, reflection of nature, territoriality, role of boundary, purgation, centralization and practical application.

A Historical Study on the Utilization of Wild Vegetables as Foods in Korea (한국산채류 이용의 역사적 고찰)

  • LeeKim, Mie-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.167-170
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    • 1986
  • The first historical record on the use of wild edible plants as foods in Korea involves sswuk and manul concerned with the mythology of Tangun. Numerous names of wild vegetables had been recorded in various ancient books. Wild edible plants are of great value as food resources and for domestication, since they have variable edible portions and quite a long picking season. Several kinds of wild edible plants have been already grown as vegetable crops. Doragi (Platycodon grandiflorum) is probably the one with the longest history of cultivation. During World War II, an attempt had been made to substitute vegetable crops for wild edible plants. As picking wild greens requires a great deal of labor and plants of wild growth are limited in the amount, domestication of wild vegetables as crops appears to be an urgent need for securing food resources in Korea.

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Light and Shade in the Image of Africa (아프리카 이미지의 명(明)과 암(暗))

  • KIM, Kyung-Rang
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.27
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    • pp.145-166
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    • 2012
  • In this Study, the search and analysis for the contents of the mass media, especially, such as newspaper articles, broadcast campaigns, broadcating advertisings, the Internet, etc, are accomplished under the assumption that the cause of the negative and fragmentary images about Africa holds a place in Korea's heart resulting from Korean mass media. Africa was seen as not only the continent of famine and diseases, but also a safari and the Nature's repository. However, these images are only the fragments of information about the African continent. So, we have to understand and recognize the origin of Africa in aspect of its learning and the mythology as well as the truth of the African as modern human origins. Moreover, we have to do our endeavor to have a good perspective about Africa as our future partner somewhat less than the wretched continent that we applaud their effort to the pursuit of stability and the development in terms of their modern cities, economy and politics and we have to aid and send relief cargoes simply.

A Study on Motives of Chinese Female Audiences for Watching Korean Fantasy TV Dramas

  • Wu, Yue;Shen, Xuezheng;Lee, Jong Yoon
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.32-40
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    • 2021
  • With love as the theme and mythology, ghosts and magic as elements, Korean fantasy TV dramas have set romantic and beautiful plots and attracted a large number of Chinese female audiences. Based on Melodramatic Imagination and Stuart Hall's theory of "encoding/decoding", this paper investigated Chinese female audiences' motives of watching Korean fantasy TV dramas Hotel Druena through the form of focus group interviews to interpret reasons for the popularity of Korean fantasy TV dramas and Chinese women's overall cognition of Korean TV dramas from the perspective of female audiences. Thinking that South Korea's fantasy dramas are good at women's pursuit and desire for emotional elements, women who watch this type of south Korean TV dramas are temporarily relieving pressure of real life, thus satisfying the needs of female gaze and consumption.

A Study on the Use of Storytelling in Norse Mythology in Games (게임에서 북유럽 신화의 스토리텔링에 활용에 관한 연구)

  • Hyun, Joon-Sub;Lee, Jong-won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2021.07a
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    • pp.577-580
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    • 2021
  • 최근 게임에서 '신화'적인 요소가 들어가는 경우는 이름, 고유 명칭만 들어가거나 신화의 이야기를 게임 세계관에 참조만 하는 정도로 그치고 있다. 비교적 최근 북유럽 신화 자체를 다룬 '갓 오브 워'가 나오기는 했지만, 아직도 신화 그 자체를 다룬 게임은 적은 편이다. 그리스 신화, 켈트 신화, 조로아스터교 신화 등 여러 신화가 있지만 그 중에서도 북유럽 신화의 다양한 이야기들을 조사하여 게임으로써 어떤 장르에, 어떤 방향으로 스토리를 적용시켜야 할지 스토리텔링의 방향을 제시하고자 한다.

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A Study of Visualizing Relational Information - In Mitologia Project - (관계형 정보의 시각화에 관한 연구 - 미톨로지아 프로젝트를 중심으로 -)

  • Jang, Seok-Hyun;Hwang, Hyo-Won;Lee, Kyung-Won
    • Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2006
  • Mitologia is about visualizing relations of information in user-oriented method. Most information given in life has invisible relations with each other. By analyzing the common characters and relations of information, we can not only measure the importance of the information but also grasp the overall properties of the information. Especially human relations are the major concerns of social network having several visualization methodologies shown by analyzing relations of each individual in society. We applied social network theory to grasp relationships between characters in Greek mythology representing a limited society. But the current tools of social network analysis have limits that they show the information one-sided way because of the ignorance of user-oriented design. Mitologia attempts to suggest the visual structure model more effective and easy to understand in analyzing data. We extracted connections among myth characters by evaluating classes, frequencies of appearance and emotional links they have. And we raised the understanding of users with furnishing the proper interaction to the information. The initial interface offers 4 kinds of indexes helping to access character nodes easily, while zoom-in function can be used for the detailed relations. The Zoom-in is quite different from usual filtering methods. It makes the irrelative information invisible so that users can find out the characters' relation more easily and quickly. This project suggests the layout to show overall information relationships and the appropriate interactions to present detailed information at the same time.

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The aspect and meaning of the digital world view in the anime based on myth (신화를 소재로 한 애니메이션 <고스트 메신저>에 나타난 디지털 세계관의 양상과 의미)

  • Kim, Jin-Chul
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.49
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    • pp.299-323
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    • 2017
  • Interests to cultural prototype as a material of cultural contents are getting more increasing nowadays. One of them is myth. The important thing when you are dealing with the myth as the material that how to convert prototype narratives. Today, digital culture is becoming one of the essential elements of mankind, that is a new sociocultural phenomenon and distinguishing differentiation from the past analogue era. In this regard, the combination of mythology and digital culture is effective strategies for transforming storytelling that can resonate with people who are not familiar with myths. puts the view both of this world and underworld, mythical characters, and various elements of the Grim Reaper into the story. And combines them with digital elements. sets the world that the transcendental soul exists as physically transferred data form. and reinterprets the traditional mythology world into the digitally operated world. Soul-Phone from this anime reflects the digital culture such as storage and transmission, and helps enjoying audiences accept the unfamiliar world of myth. And also It symbolically shows dystopian viewpoints through side effects can caused by digital technology development, such as the instrumentalization of human being, the risk of communication through digital media, and ego-loss caused by duplication, etc. In conclusion, forms a consensus with the audience through the transformation strategy of storytelling that converts the world of myth into the digital world. And it reflects the dystopian view and shows a differentiated world view from the narrative of myth.

Media Reporting of Natural Disaster: the Case of Typhoon Rusa (자연재난 보도의 특성 분석: 태풍 루사의 사례 연구)

  • Kim, Man-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.5 no.3 s.18
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2005
  • The primary source of disaster information for victims as well as ordinary people is mass media. In spite of their importance, the media often inaccurately portrays reality, which has stimulated academic debates. In Korea, however, media reporting patters of disaster have been hardly addressed. Therefore, the paper analyzes how newspaper and television news have reported typhoon Rusa between August 29 and October 1 in 2002 by using KINDS(Korean Integrated News Database System). The results show that television news tend to present more soft news stories emphasizing human interest stories than newspaper articles, relying on victims as primary interviewees. It is also pointed out that the Korean media do not play a significant role in providing disaster information to public regarding how to lessen the effects of impact through preparation. Disaster mythology representing wrong beliefs about human behavior in disaster is found in Korean media reporting, too. Unlike their western counterparts, however, Korean media seem to use the dependency image of helpless victims in order to stimulate donations. Analyses of disaster reporting patterns suggest that, in make disaster warning messages associated with behavioral responses, credible and official sources should provide clear and precise warning messages to the media, and the media also need to stress individual responsibilities in protecting his or her own properties not to make victims heavily dependent on public supports, while inducing donations.