• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.115-125
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• 2014

Objectives: The purpose of this analysis was to assess the maternal and child health program in Lao PDR, which was implemented to reduce maternal and child mortality in Laos. Target areas for the project included 2 provinces (Xiengkhuang, Houaphan) with all 18 districts within them. The beneficiaries of this project included 121,000 childbearing women and 62,000 children under 5 years old (LSIS, 2012). Methods: In this study, it was done for efficiency evaluation of the assistance projects of the health sector of maternal and child health promotion program in Laos that took place from 2010 to 2013. We conducted a cost-benefit analysis for the evaluation of the effectiveness of that program was being carried out effectively. Results: This evaluation adopted the Cost-Benefit analysis approach. Key findings of the Cost-Benefit analysis are the following: The Benefit-Cost Ratio of 1.012, Net Present Value of 84,250,000 Korean Won, an estimated Internal Rate of Return of 10.12%. These findings suggest that project activities were efficiently implemented. Conclusion: As a result, maternal and child health project in Laos has been analyzed that there was economic efficiency. Therefore, It is considered necessary and continued support expansion of program in the future. The direction of maternal and child health project in Laos, approach and community policy support must be included. Integrated approach between the program approach and overall health should be performed for healthy life habit.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.80-84
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• 2008

Maximum level of hazardous chemicals in foods can be settled after overall investigation of toxicological database, the representative exposure assessment, risk level on the present exposure level, the need of maximum level establishment, making of maximum level scenario proposed under consumer protection and verification of contamination reduction method and review of application efficiency on maximum level for risk management. The maximum level should be needed when the risk value of specific chemical caused by food ingestion was high and chronic human exposure was predicted continuously unless the maximum level exists. The key role of the risk assessment is to improve the efficiency of the risk management to reduce the present risk level and make the risk management policy scientifically by setting the representative result of the risk assessment.

• Quality Improvement in Health Care
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.72-111
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• 1996

Background: Group occupational health program by non-for-profit agency, started five years ago, for management of health problems in small and medium sized industries, is one of the measures to cope with limited human and financial resources in occupational health. The program has been rapidly expanding to include 54 participating institutions, private as well as public, all over the country. In spite of its potential impact on health of employees and practice of occupational health in small and medium sized industries, comprehensive evaluation in terms of quality has not been tried. Objectives : The aim of this study are to develop and apply criteria to assess quality of newly developed Korean group occupational health program. Methods : By defining occupational health services, in particular for small and medium sized industries, as one of the primary health care, we included followings as core elements of sound occupational health program; accessibility, continuity, intersectoral collaboration, comprehensiveness, community participation, technical quality, adequacy, focus on preventive services, acceptability, and workers' satisfaction. Again we divided each elements into five major components of national health system infrastructures developed by World Health Organization; development of health resources organized arrangement or resources, delivery of health care, economic support, and management. In turn, we categorized each component into input, process and outcome aspects. After discussions in expert panel, several criteria were selected for evaluation of program. The criteria were modified according to each group of interviewees. Results: We developed five sets of questionnaire that evaluate the quality of 'Group occupational health program'. Conclusion : The refining of the measurement tool and the continuing evaluation process for the 'Group occupational health institute' should be done further.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.205-210
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• 2018

We will investigate in depth the reasons why companies have a negative mindset and produce complaints about the internship system itself. On the other hand, we try to find out the success factors of domestic companies that have introduced and operate the exemplary internship system, and prepare policies to disseminate them. In order to do this, I would like to diagnose the problems related to the internship system in the current industry through questionnaires or interviews with existing internship students. It is hoped that this will help the participating students to have a positive mindset about the company and further contribute to the career search and adaptation to the firm from the university to the firm.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.65
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• pp.5-26
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• 2014

This research investigated to what extent social media use and motivation contributed to the bridging/bonding social capital and social, political participation by using the national survey on high school and university students. In particular, this research divided social media into two groups: open and closed one. The result of analysis showed that the use of open social media reinforced bridging social capital and that of closed social media did bonding social capital. Motives for social media use affected both bridging social capital and bonding social capital. Social media use and motive all had a positive influence on social, political participation. In conclusion, the effect of social media on social capital may be decided by the characteristics of social media and the purpose of social media use.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.253-258
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• 2014

To ensure excellence in logical software education for smart IT technologies in schools, the study was conducted to determine whether a course on mobile application (app) content creation using an app authoring tool can be introduced as a part of the regular curriculum. As an approach method, five sessions of related training for characterized high school teachers as well as three sessions for elementary, middle and general high school teachers nationwide and a satisfaction survey were conducted for a total of five surveys. The average of 91.4% for more than moderately satisfied' is judged to reflect the perception of a highly successful study. In conclusion, the introduction of an app development education program using an authoring tool in schools is considered essential, and furthermore, the need for establishing new national technical qualifications is still rising.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.415-423
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• 2017

This study explored research trends by investigating articles published in the Journal of Korean Society of Fashion Design from 2001 through 2015. English key words and abstracts were analyzed using text mining and topic modeling techniques. The findings are as followings. By the text mining technique, 183 core terms, appeared more than 30 times, were derived from 7137 words used in total 338 articles' key words and abstracts. 'Fashion' and 'design' showed the highest frequency rate. After that, the well-received topic modeling technique, LDA, was applied to the collected data sets. Several distinct sub-research domains strongly tied with the previous fashion design field, except for topics such as fashion brand marketing and digital technology, were extracted. It was observed that there are the growing and declining trends in the research topics. Based on findings, implication, limitation, and future research questions were presented.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.45-61
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• 2017

It is commonly accepted that fathers involve more in child rearing than ever given that dual earner families are increased in South Korea. Present study aims to emphasizes the significance of responsibility and examines the participation in childcare responsibility of fathers by performing survey. Responsibility is illustrated as paternal taking ultimate responsibility for child's welfare and care such as monitoring, planning, concerning, organizing, arranging and doing for childcare. Regarding the concept of responsibility, both twenty questions asking reasonability and twenty questions asking non-responsibility are included in the questionnaire. As a result of statistical analyses, present study shows that fathers are less likely to participate in those twenty items of childcare responsibility, compared to twenty items of childcare non-responsibility. Implications are also provided. Responsibility of paternal involvement particularly needs to be addressed in the sense that childcare has contributed to pertaining inequality for women in both the workplace and domestic life.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.195-205
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• 2020

As the use of the Internet has become more common worldwide, digital marketing has gained a great weight as an advertising medium. Low cost and effective digital marketing tools include websites, eyes, blogs, search advertisements, online banners, mailings, YouTube, etc., which most companies around the world use one or more of them for digital marketing. I have. In this environment, global companies with more than one overseas subsidiary have become very interested in how to establish and implement digital marketing strategies. However, many studies have been conducted on the necessity of digital marketing and its implementation strategy, but there are no studies on specific implementation methods that can be applied in practice. Therefore, in this study, we intend to define digital marketing suitable for global SMEs, establish a promotion strategy model, and present a specific implementation strategy establishment planl. Through this, we intend to contribute to establishing a general-purpose SME global digital marketing strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

Low-carbon green waterfront cities for overseas cases were reviewed to propose the direction for Korea. The implications suggested include energy saving by resource circulation, compact land use planning, transit oriented development, and utilization of renewable energy. These in turn suggest the following implementations; (1) Energy saving according to compact city, complex land use, and transit oriented development, (2) Renewable energy use in buildings and daily lives, (3) Expansion of green space for carbon mitigation and improved quality of life, and (4) Water and resource circulation system. We finally discussed that development of the green waterfront cities in Korea requires the fundamentals of low-carbon green waterfront cities achieved by overseas cases study and technical investigation.