• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.18 no.1 s.26
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• pp.70-81
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• 2005

The importance of classes aiming at enhancing students ability in problem solving and decision making has been being recognized as chances of individual citizen for taking part in social decision making processes. This study was intended to find whether teachers' opinion presentation have effects on students' decision making in a class introducing environmental issues. Total of 6 classes, 202 middle school students have participated in a series of experiments including 4 different environmental issues. Only two issues had been addresses in classes as experimental issues and other two issues not addressed as control issues. For each of the two experimental issues, the teacher researcher applied three different approaches to his students that included positive, negative, or no opinion. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; First, the results showed that students changed their decisions on environmental issues more frequently when dealing with those issues in a class than when not dealing with them. Second, as examining the relationship between patterns in which students make decisions and whether a teacher proposed his opinions or not, it is shown that the rates of students whose opinions is not changed nearly have no difference, while when teachers propose their opinions, it is shown that students who haven't yet chosen their positions easily make their decisions into pros or cons, compared with the opposite case. Third, the results of this study partly supported the third hypothesis that teachers opinion presentation would effect on decision-making of students. It was found that there has been a significant effect in the case of car free day system issue, but no statistically meaningful result in the case of no pets in the national park issue. However, in the issue of car free day system, it seems pretty clear that the students followed the direction of teachers' opinion no matter what it was pros or cons.

• Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.70-80
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• 2000

This study is conducted to evaluate the social concern of the related issues through trend analysis of reports on Oriental medical care in major domestic newspapers including Dong-a Ilbo, Hankook Ilbo, Chosunilbo, and JoongAng Ilbo. Materials of this study were collected from a total of 1,039 reports on Oriental medical care by internet search of each newspaper company's homepage from fan 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 1999. Two researchers analyzed the trend of report contents on Oriental medical care by publication year. The major results were as follows: The most frequent subject in these reports related to Oriental medical care was 'disease', appearing in 45.5% (473) of tile reports, followed by 'oriental health system (31.5%)' and "oriental medical facilities (16.5%)'. Also, topics on the collaborative efforts of Oriental and Western medical care were reported in 7.9% of the cases. According to a survey of the opinions held for the contents in these reports, 51.0% reports held neutral views while 48.2% and only 0.8% reports had favorable and negative views, respectively. In conclusion, the reports covering Oriental medical care in major domestic newspapers have increased in recent times and many held favorable views. Considering the widespread influence of mass-media, the government and health-related organizations must continuously monitor the opinions in daily newspapers, for the opinions are the influencing force of health-rotated behaviors and changes. In this light, these organizations should enforce the health policy on strategies for mutual development of Western and Oriental medicine in Korea.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.310-316
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• 2023

This study aims to predict uncertain future scenarios that may unfold in South Korea in the near future, utilizing the theory of extreme events(X-events). A group of 32 experts, consisting of government emergency planning officers, was selected as the focus group to achieve this objective. Using the Focus Group Interview (FGI) technique, opinions were gathered from this focus group regarding potential X-events that may occur within the advanced science and technology domains over the next 10 years. The analysis of these opinions revealed that government emergency planning officers regarded the "Obsolescence of current technology and systems," particularly in the context of cyber network paralysis as the most plausible X-event within science and technology. They also put forth challenging and intricate opinions, including the emergence of new weapon systems and ethical concerns associated with artificial intelligence (AI). Given that X-events are more likely to emerge in unanticipated areas rather than those that are widely predicted, the results obtained from this study carry significant importance. However, it's important to note that this study is grounded in a limited group of experts, highlighting the necessity for subsequent research involving a more extensive group of experts. This research seeks to stimulate studies on extreme events at a national level and contribute to the preparation for future X-event predictions and strategies for addressing them.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.620-629
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• 2019

An automated minutes summary system is required to objectively summarize and classify the contents of discussions or discussions for decision making. This paper designs and implements a minutes summary system using word2vec model to complement the existing minutes summary system. The proposed system is further implemented with word2vec model to remove index words during morpheme analysis and to extract representative sentences with common opinions from documents. The proposed system automatically classifies documents collected during the meeting process and extracts representative sentences representing the agenda among various opinions. The conference host can quickly identify and manage all the agendas discussed at the meeting through the proposal system. The proposed system analyzes various agendas of large-scale debates or discussions and summarizes sentences that can be representative opinions to support fast and accurate decision making.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.60-66
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• 2005

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the staffs' attitudes and opinions toward psychiatry in a hospital. The results of the investigation were taken as a basic data of the education programs of persons who worked in a hospital and community residents. Methods : The subjects of this study were persons who worked in a hospital. The tool used in this study was Attitudes and Opinions toward Psychiatry. Sixty-one persons were studied. Statistically one-way ANOVA or t-test were used. Results : Internal consistency was high, measuring 0.80 for the 26 items. Generally, hospital staffs have positive attitude toward psychiatry. Direct patient contact group scored more higher than indirect contact group, except 'overall merits of the field of psychiatry' and 'efficacy' factor. In factor 'overall merits of the field of psychiatry', and factor 'efficacy' female scored more higher than male averagely. In factor 'role definition and functioning of psychiatrists', 'possible abuses and social criticisms', and 'career and personal reward', direct patient contact group scored more higher than indirect contact group averagely. Conclusion This study results support the hypothesis that the direct patient contact group have more positive attitude toward psychiatry than the other group. It will be necessary to educate for a psychiatric hospital staffs and community residents on psychiatry.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1-16
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• 2019

Blockchain technology prevents tampering of central authorities that manage voting process, enhancing trust in the vote results. This technology enables citizens to participate more directly in the areas where delegation was inevitable due to the difficulties in polling fair and trustworthy public opinions. There are many projects around the world proposing to implement voting system for public decision making using blockchain technology. The blockchain voting system is expected to work as a transparent and fair channel for polling public opinions, which will transform the public decision-making process and governance. Korean National Pension Service (NPS) recently introduced stewardship code to better represent the interest of beneficiaries. However, because of the mistrust in governance of NPS, introduction of stewardship code is facing criticism for potential misuse of their voting rights against the interest of beneficiaries and for government's interference with corporate management. This study proposes a voting system applying blockchain technology for polling the opinions of National Pension Fund's beneficiaries to support public decision-making, and discusses social and institutional conditions for implementation of the proposed system.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.364-373
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• 2006

Each roles of school community members as principals, assistant principals, head teachers, teachers, parents of pupils, and persons of regional society by questionnaire method. The opinions of 805 subjects of school members in Pusan city by stratified random sampling are analyzed. The results of analysis are as follows : The major roles of principals in school community are considered as (1) converging various schools members' opinions and reflecting them to school management (2) setting manifest educational goals of school and projecting visions of school development in the future (3) managing efficient, rational school. The major roles of assistant principals in school community are defined as (1) mediating and co-ordinating relation between principal and teachers (2) combing and harmonizing school members (3) dividing and co-ordinating school members' roles. The major roles of head teachers are defined as (1) driving departmental services and acting teaches' professional competency (2) mediating relation between school managers and teachers (3) converging teachers' opinions, delivering and reflecting them to the school managers. The major roles of teachers are defined as (1) supporting pupils' growth (2) completing teaching-learning activities (3) devoting pupul discipline. The major roles of pupils in school community are (1) believing schooling and teachers (2) self-initiative, positive learning activities (3) comprehending, caring, co-operating others. major roles of parents of pupils in school community are (1) believing schooling and teachers (2) The participating schooling (3) supporting schooling. The major roles of persons of regional community in school community are defined as (1) concerning and believing schooling (2) supporting and co-operating schooling (3) comprehending and loving schooling.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2005

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes and opinions toward psychiatry of students and professionals for social welfare. Methods : 67 students and 34 social workers joined to this study completed the attitudes and opinions scale and the quality of life scale successfully. Results : On the attitude scale, in factor 'overall merits of field of psychiatry' and factor 'possible abuses and social criticisms', and factor 'career and personal rewards', the social workers have more positive attitude than other group, in factor 'role definition and functioning of psychiatrists', the female sex have more positive attitude than the other sex. It showed significant correlation between activity factor in quality of life scale and possible abuses and social criticisms in attitude scale. Conclusion : The contact with patients with psychiatric disorders will have a good impact on the personal attitude toward patients. It is important that the students for social welfare would receive appropriate psychiatric education program.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.66-73
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• 2003

• Quality Improvement in Health Care
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.89-100
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• 2008