• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.26
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• pp.249-272
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• 2012

Diaspora studies has become one of the fastest growing field in the humanities over the past several decades, and the use of term diaspora has been widening to include almost any population on the move. Diaspora literature not only mirrors but actively incorporates this new notion of diaspora with characters "at the threshold" navigating new territories and identities. Querying how diaspora studies intersects with theatre and performance, this paper attempts to probe how recent Korean American drama parallels and promotes diaspora studies' radical departure from traditional notions of identities and territories. For this purpose, this essay 1) examines theoretical affinities between diaspora studies and performance studies 2) investigates how Sung Rno's plays, Cleveland Raining and wAve, explore and embody multiple and evolving meanings of Korean diaspora on the stage 3) examines how theatre can create the third space that transcends both Korean and American nationalism and 4) speculates possibilities of reframing Asian American Studies as Asian diaspora studies. Korean American characters in Rno's play redirect diasporic identities, as their concern gradually moves from "where I come from" to "where I go to." Instead of remaining in the dark as a mere spectator, both Rno and his characters choose to be 'on' the stage where they can imagine, perform, and realize (however temporarily) "unimaginable community" by confronting their own social, political, and cultural ambivalence. Stage, the threshold between reality and fiction, Korea and America, and past and future, becomes their true 'home' where they incubate and precipitate "nation in transformation" that Yan Haiping argues for as "another transnational."

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.96-97
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• 1995

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.210-213
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• 2005

This article describes an estimate method of the spark plug gap by measuring breakdown voltage. Breakdown voltage is the function of spark plug gap, pressure, temperature and humidify. However. It is dominated mainly by the spark plug gap. This technique is applied to in-line process test of the spark plug gap in automobile engine production. Breakdown voltage of normal spark plugs slightly scatters in ordinary conditions and if there is dust or burr in the gap, breakdown voltage gets lower. This technique saves repairing time for bad spark plug and attributes to improve the quality of automobile engine.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.100-120
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• 1993

Middle school students' conceptual changes on physics, chemistry, biology and earth science concepts which were intentionally selected by researchers had been investigated through traditional teaching and learning by paper and pencil tests and P.O.E. The weak points had been studied by individual interviews about the problems of traditional science classroom teaching after students' testing and learning about science concepts. As results, students' conceptual changes could be hardly found through traditional teaching and learning except several concepts in biology, The weak points of traditional science classroom teaching and learning were as follows: 1) Teachers teach science as finding answers. 2) The conventional science test is not performed to find students' concepts out but to recall simple knowledge or calculus. 3) Students hesitate to ask teacher Questions in science class because of their colleagues' or teachers' blame. These mean that science teachers need specially designed teaching methods on the students' concepts and reseachers had to study about science classroom socialogy, what happened in science classrooms.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.330-335
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• 1993

Sesame cultivars were treated with temperature and daylength to determine the environmental variance of Antioxidant content The experiment was performed in phytotron with 11, 13, 15hours of daylength and 20/15, 25 120, 30/25$^{\circ}C (day / night) of temperature treatment. Varietal differences of antioxidant content were significant by the temperature and daylength treatment. Antioxidant content was incrased at higher temperature(25/2$0^{\circ}C$, 30/25$^{\circ}C) and daylength(13hours) but decreased at lower temperature (20/15$^{\circ}C), short daylength (l1hours) and long day length (15hours) condition. Sesamin content were showed 0.06% difference as maxium by the temperature treatment, while 0.03% by the daylength treatment. Sesamolin content were showed 0.03% difference as maxium by the temperature treatment, while 0.01% by the daylength treatment. The antioxidant content was influenced by the increased temperature than daylength.