• 무역상무연구
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• 제39권
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• pp.105-142
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• 2008

For many companies, selling in an international market place is the ultimate challenge. One of the greatest problems facing exporters is the increasing insistence by importers that trade be conducted on open account terms. This often means that payment is received many weeks or even months after delivery. Unsurprisingly, many organisations find that giving buyers credit in this way can cause severe cash flow problems. Further problems can arise if the importer delays payment beyond originally agreed terms or makes no payment at all because of financial failure. In particular, many SMEs find it difficult to finance their production cycle, since after goods are delivered most buyers demand 30 to 90 days to pay. Therefore, International factoring for SME has been developing very rapidly in the world trade financing markets. Functions of international factoring as trade financing is a comprehensive financial service that includes credit protection, accounts receivable bookkeeping, collection services and financing. Factoring can be a powerful tool in providing financing to high-risk, informationally opaque sellers. International factoring is very helpful for international exporters to get competitiveness in the world markets. In Korea, a few banks are operating international factoring. But International factoring in Korea could not play a key roll as general trade supporting service. So, This study is to suggest importances of international factoring development for trade development and to investigate real operation situations and problems by way of interviews with operators in banks that are operating international factoring and suggest development strategies for international factoring in Korea.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.813-823
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• 2018

In existing mobile computing environments, users need to choose between their privacy and the services that they can receive from an application. However, existing mobile platforms do not allow users to perform such trade-offs in a fine-grained manner. In this study, we investigate whether users can effectively make utility-privacy trade-offs when they are provided with a multilevel privacy control method that allows them to recognize the different quality of service that they will receive from an application by limiting the disclosure of their private information in multiple levels. We designed a research model to observe users' utility-privacy trade-offs in accordance with the privacy control methods and other factors such as the trustworthiness of an application, quality level of private information, and users' privacy preferences. We conducted a user survey with 516 participants and found that, compared with the existing binary privacy controls, both the service utility and the privacy protection levels were significantly increased when the users used the multilevel privacy control method.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.419-448
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 CGE모형을 이용하여 한-아세안 FTA 서비스무역협정의 체결이 한국 경제에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 2007년 11월 21일 서명한 한-아세안 FTA의 서비스무역협정에 근거하여 한국과 아세안 회원국 (태국 제외)이 합의한 양허안에 근거하여 산출한 서비스의 관세상당치(tariff equivalents of services)를 제거하는 경우, 한국 경제에 미치게 될 파급효과를 정량적으로 분석하였다. 거시경제적 영향을 보면, 한국의 실질GDP는 0.04% 증가하고, 후생수준은 1억6백만 달러 높아질 것으로 전망되며, 1인당 후생수준은 0.03% 증가할 것으로 전망된다. 한국의 대(對)세계 수출은 1억7천9백만 달러 증가하고 수입은 약 1억9천1백만 달러 증가하여 1천2백만 달러의 무역수지 적자를 기록할 것으로 예상된다. 한편 한국의 대(對)아세안 수출은 1억8백만 달러 증가하고, 수입은 2억7천8백만 달러 증가하여 한국은 대(對)아세안 1억7천만 달러의 무역수지 적자를 기록하게 될 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 서비스산업의 다양한 규제 등의 교역장벽이 철폐되면서 서비스의 수입가격이 인하되고 수입 중간재를 사용하는 많은 기업의 생산비용이 인하되어 궁극적으로 생산증가, 소득증가의 선순환으로 이어져 궁극적으로 실질 경제성장을 가져올 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.95-95
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• 1987

The purpose of this research is to suggest a desirable framework to promote EDI system in the Korean trade and transportation industries. First, this thesis reviews the trend of introduction of EDI systems in foreign countries and investigates their characteristics by examining some cases. Then the problems, which the Korean industries would be confronted with during the course of introduction of EDI system, are identified and discussed. Finally, this thesis suggests that the logistics network should be developed as a main system of EDI to which sub-networks of trade and custom service are linked. This leading role of logistics metwork is necessary to the EDI system because logistics tasks for international movement of goods are expected to increase while tasks related to trade and custom services will decrease in view of recent changes in the world trade environments warning the unbounded competition in the global marketplace without border.

• 경영과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.95-109
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• 1995

The purpose of this research is to suggest a desirable framework to promote EDI system in the Korean trade and transportation industries. First, this thesis reviews the trend of introduction of EDI systems in foreign countries and investigates their characteristics by examining some cases. Then the problems, which the Korean industries would be confronted with during the course of introduction of EDI system, are identified and discussed. Finally, this thesis suggests that the logistics network should be developed as a main system of EDI to which sub-networks of trade and custom service are linked. This leading role of logistics metwork is necessary to the EDI system because logistics tasks for international movement of goods are expected to increase while tasks related to trade and custom services will decrease in view of recent changes in the world trade environments warning the unbounded competition in the global marketplace without border.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.465-484
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• 2009

Since the launch of the GATT system, one of the most controversial topics in trade liberalization has been the conflict between culture and trade. The sticking point has been the necessity of cultural exceptions in trade rules. Some countries do not wish to allow further exceptions to basic principles even in cultural industry, while many other countries make their efforts to obtain "cultural safety valve." The latter group asserts that it is indispensable for the protection of cultural identity, whereas the former seems to doubt the truth of the assertion. That is because cultural policy measure possibly constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries, or a disguised barriers to trade in cultural products. Unfortunately, cultural exceptions still remain unresolved in the WTO, the successor to the GATT. This paper is to review the history and rules of multilateral trading system on cultural industry, address the critical issues to deal with in the DDA negotiations, and lastly provide some perspectives on the appropriate shape of the cultural safety valve.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제13권
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• pp.805-833
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• 2000

Electronic commerce facilitates trade and lower transaction cost can help firms make use of the opportunities of globalization of production and markets. Electronic commerce has broad implications for future trade. These implications include the effect on trade policy making and enforcement. And it is important to ensure that the present and future trading system de jure and de facto allows electronic commerce to realize its potentials as an alternative or a complement to conventional trade. The comprehensive work program had been implemented to examine all trade-related issues relating to global electronic commerce before the Seattle 3rd Ministerial Conference which was suspended. In general, Member countries recognized the need to ensure that electronic commerce in all its forms is conducted in full conformity with WTO principles and rules. But, there are still major issues to be solved such as access to relevant electronic systems, competition policy in telecomnunications services, WTO provisions relating to the protection of IPRs, the clarification of a number of key concepts and definitions, etc.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.333-356
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• 2013

본 연구는 uTradeHub시스템의 정식운영이 개시된 후 일정한 기간이 경과한 시점에서 uTradeHub시스템 활용실태를 분석하고, 다수의 표본기업들을 선정하여 이들에 대한 설문조사를 통해 우리나라 중소기업들이 uTradeHub시스템을 활용하는데 영향을 미치는 요인이 무엇인지를 파악하고자 한다. 이러한 활용요인과 uTradeHub시스템의 활용수준 및 성과의 인과관계를 검증함으로써 중소기업의 특성에 맞는 글로벌 전자무역의 활용전략과 이를 발전시키기 위한 협력 방안을 제시하는 것이 본 연구의 궁극적인 목적이다. 이러한 연구 목적을 달성하기 위해서 uTradeHub시스템을 이용하고 있는 회원 중소기업들을 대상으로 설문조사를 통해 실증분석을 한 결과 uTradeHub시스템의 활용 요인 중 기업외부요인으로는 산업내 경쟁강도와 거래강도, 기업내부요인으로는 최고경영자의 지원, 정보화 요인으로는 기업의 IT인프라와 정보화 훈련정도 등이 uTradeHub의 활용에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 uTradeHub시스템의 활용도는 전자무역의 재무적 성과와 비재무적 성과에 유의한 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.287-305
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• 2019

The export of agricultural, fisheries, and food products acts as an engine of growth for developing countries in particular. However, exporting these items is easier said than done since issues of certification and inspection, so-called technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS), in developed markets have worked as major obstacles for exports. This paper examines the institutional aspects and recent trends of South Korea's TBT/SPS-related cases against exporting firms of the developing countries. We suggest a win-win partnership model that can promote cooperative synergies between Korea and developing employing trade-related technical cooperation or ODA (Official Development Aid). Technical cooperation such as the provision of on-spot field consulting services on TBT/SPS-related issues for exporting firms and Korean OEM firms of developing countries can lead to mutual gains. This cooperative partnership can create gains from "the trade-development nexus" for both sides while promoting sustainable trade and investment relationships between Korea and developing countries.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.96-112
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• 2019

Purpose - "Trade Facilitation" aims the easier flow of trade across borders, driven not only by effective customs administration, the efficiency of appropriate authorities, but also by telecommunications, the quality of infrastructures and competent logistics. Facilitating trade will help lower trade development costs as well as improve economic development and enhance economic benefits for emerging economies at a time when imports and exports are sent in and out across borders several times in the form of intermediate and final products. Not only that, globalization is being accelerated, which in turn increases competitiveness and this makes logistics one of the key factors when it comes to international trade. Highly efficient logistics services promote product movement, ensure product safety and delivery speed, and reduce trade costs between countries. The purpose of this study is, by using the LPI indices based on gravity model estimates, to analyze the impact of each LPI component on trade with the 20 biggest exporting countries of Northeast Asian countries-Korea, Japan, and China-which account for 19.05% of global exports. Design/methodology - Also, this study statistically analyzes the impact of trade on Northeast Asian countries' top 20 exporting countries, using the LPI indices relevant to Trade Facilitation based on the gravity model estimates. Findings - As a result, it was turned out that the distance, GDP, and the LPI components have relevant impact on the trade exports of all three countries but demonstrated little relation to the demographic perspective. Originality/value - The study also found we can increase the trade volume by improving three countries' trade partners' LPI indices since Korea, Japan, and China share most of their 20 biggest trade partners.