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The Evolution of Makeup Methods of Korean Women in Response to Changing Standards of Beauty in the Early 20th Century (20세기 초 미의식의 변화에 따른 국내여성들의 화장법)

  • Lee, Soon-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.34 no.8
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    • pp.1364-1377
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    • 2010
  • Although the human body is a biological subject with definite and distinctive physical features, its actualization and perception differs among societies. The aesthetics of the human body are based on diverse cultural perceptions that must be considered prior to design development. This study establishes the foundations of newly adopted concepts of beauty that are presumed to have been established in the first half of the twentieth century that continue to affect our mindset even now. The research includes human figures in the articles of women's magazines and cosmetic advertisements in the early $20^{th}$ century. The results are as follows: First, the change of perception in the human body: Instead of being a subject of preservation, the body has become a subject of sculpture with emphasis on health in the 1920's and on beauty in the 1930's. The recognition of the importance of the body has created intensive attention on physical training and an increased sense of hygiene. The body exposed to the public perceives itself through the eyes of others that alter one's own perception of oneself as well as become a target of evaluation. There is an additional emphasis on the exotic eroticism of a passive subordinate. Western culture became the standard for modernization along with the dissociation of traditional standards and values. Through the effect of education and western thinking, the awareness of women's rights and self-appreciation was developed. Second, ideal beauty can be summarized as follows: Unprocessed natural beauty was extolled as ideal in the 1920's, but the 1930's, it highlighted big eyes and an aquiline nose that are the characteristics of western women. Taking care of one's appearance was recognized as an important value for every social class. Cosmetics and skin care treatments promised soft and white skin. In contrast to western cosmetics, dark and shiny hair was highly favored. Exercising and traveling, differing seasonal and regional skin treatments were also widely accepted. In its initial stages, the research had originally assumed that the beginning of the twentieth century would be a time in which traditional concepts of beauty and new, westernized aesthetics coexisted. However, as the research progressed, it was clear that the idea of beauty had already adopted occidental ideals by that time. Thus, it seems necessary to continue the study on the shifting paradigms of beauty that must have occurred in the nineteenth and late twentieth century.

Village Museum Establishment Process, Characteristics and Tasks in Jeonju Urban Regeneration Projects (문화적 도시재생사업에서 마을박물관 설립운영과 과제 : 전주노송늬우스박물관 사례를 중심으로)

  • Cho, Sungsil;Lee, Jungwoo
    • 지역과문화
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 2021
  • Nosong-dong is used to be center of the administration, education and transportation in Jeonju. It has ironically been the location of the city's prostitution quarter 'called Seonmichon'. This place is recently selected as an area of urban regeneration by Jeonju. The project has involved numerous programs which gradually transfer this place for the women's rights and arts. This paper focuses on exploring the socio-cultural meanings of a community museum, an archive for gender equality, and an exhibition site for local artists. The Seonmichon quarter has long been stigmatized as an area of ill repute and regarded with contempt by the surrounding neighborhood. It is space where polarized interests are entangled. City authority has tried to reflect this by presenting a variety of perspectives on the Seonmichon district. An initiative of the community museum has been its hosting of several exhibitions around the themes of women's rights and community arts. The most remarkable aspect of the exhibitions that have taken place in the heart of the Seonmichon district has been the active participation of local community residents as a catalyst for progressive social change. The paper's overall purpose is to provide an introduction and analyze the process of development of the exhibition initiative, and further examine the social role and meaning of the community museum in Nosong-dong, as well as its future tasks and directions.

Conflict of Interersts in Scientific Study and Bioethics as Professionalism

  • Lee, Kyung-Hee
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.477-482
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    • 2013
  • Science in the 21st century does not consider participants' welfare, safety and human rights in clinical studies, but modern science puts economic profits in its priority. This leads to a growing concern about social responsibility and professionalism ethics of companies, sponsors and scientists. Specifically, there is no way to control conflicts of participants' welfare with economic profits, leading to simply relying on individual ethics, social responsibilities and audit. This paper helps relevant agencies and people involved understand conflict of interest. Also this study presents the guidelines as well as independence, autonomy, ethical imagination and phronesis required for scientists.

A Study on Care for the Elderly with Dementia Based on Human Rights Perspective (인권 관점에 근거한 치매노인 돌봄을 위한 방안 연구)

  • Son, Myeong-dong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.87-88
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    • 2017
  • 인권에 기반을 둔 사회복지 실천은 사회복지사의 존재 이유라고 해도 과언이 아닐 것이다. 사회복지사는 사회적 약자의 인권을 옹호하고, 사회의 문제를 해결하며, 사회정의를 실현하는 전문가이기에 인권과는 불가분의 관계에 있다. 최근 한국 사회에서 인권에 대해 많은 논의가 이루어지고 있다. 특히 고령화 사회 속에서 2008년 9월 치매와의 전쟁을 선포한 이후치매관리종합대책을 수립하여 정부가 주도적으로 추진해 오고 있는 시점에서 인권 관점에 근거한 치매노인 돌봄을 이해하기 위해, 인권 관점이 치매노인 돌봄을 위한 사회복지 실천 현장에 주는 장점과 과정은 무엇인지 검토해 볼 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 노인의 보호와 치매의 정의, 원인과 치매노인 돌봄을 위한 기술과 장점을 살펴보고, 인권 관점에 근거한 치매노인 돌봄을 위한 방안을 제언하고자 한다.

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A Corpus-Based Study on Language Features and Literary Themes in the Yellow Wall-Paper and Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Lu, Hui-Chuan;Liu, Kai-Ling;Yeh, Chien-Ting;Chen, Ya-Jie
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.21-34
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to apply corpus-based approach to analyze The Yellow Wall-Paper and Herland written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a women's rights activist in the late nineteenth-century America. Although both works have attracted feminists' attention to the woman question that concerned Gilman, discussion on her language features and their relation to the literary themes of these two works is still in need. In this corpus-based analysis, we argue that the main themes of different literary works can be revealed through linguistic patterns identified by number and gender features of nouns and pronouns in the contrast of two works and a balanced corpus. The linguistic features (number and gender) have been related with two themes, the 'group and individual' and the 'feminine and masculine', and are further interpreted in terms of mothering and feminine consciousness. By adopting linguistic approach, our study provides quantitative and qualitative evidence to verify the established themes and arguments of these literary texts.

Narratives and Emotions on Immigrant Women Analyzing Comments from the Agora Internet Community(Daum Portal Site) (이주여성에 관한 혐오 감정 연구 다음사이트 '아고라' 담론을 중심으로)

  • Han, Hee Jeong
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.75
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    • pp.43-79
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    • 2016
  • An increase in the number of immigrants to Korea since the late 1980s' has signified the proliferation of globalization and global capitalism. In Korea, most married immigrants are women, as the culture emphasizes patrilineage and the stability of the institution of marriage, particularly in rural areas. Immigrant women have experienced dual ordeals. The Aogra Internet community in Korea has been one of the most representative sites that has shown the power of communities in cyberspace since 2002, leading the discussion of social issues and deliberative democracy both online and offline. This paper analyzed Koreans' writings (such as long comments) on immigrant women in the Agora community. The analysis revealed the following results: first, immigrant women were referred to using terms related to prostitution, with excessive expression of disgust, which is called a "narrative of identity." Second, anti-multiculturalists called Korean men victims of married immigrant women and expressed hatred toward immigrant women, which is called a "narrative of sacrifice." Third, anti-multiculturalists justified their emotions as just resentment based on ideas of justice, equality, and patriotism, concealing the emotion of disgust, which is called the "narrative of justice, equality." Fourth, antimulticulturalists played roles to spread the emotion of disgust, by repeatedly referring to international marriage fraud and immigrant workers' crimes, which is called "narrative of crime." Fifth, some positive writings on immigrant women were based on empathy(a concept defined in this context by Martha Nussbaum), but they can be analyzed as narratives encouraging cultural integration through the perspective of orientalism. Therefore, comments on immigrant women in the Agora represent a "catch-22" dilemma. To deal with conflicts arising from disgust and violations of human rights, civic education focusing on humanism is needed in this multicultural era.

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Improvement Measures for 'Viewer-Participation Program' System of Public Service Broadcasting (공영방송의 '시청자 참여 프로그램' 제도 개선을 위한 연구)

  • Choi, Mideum
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.537-543
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    • 2021
  • Under the Chapter 1, Article 3(Protection of Rights and Interests of Viewers) of the Broadcasting Act, the viewers should be able to participate in decision-making with regard to planning, programming, or production of broadcast programs. For this, the public service broadcasting, KBS is operating two kinds of system such as 'viewer-evaluation program' and 'viewer-participation program' that televises the broadcasting programs directly produced by viewers. This study presented several improvement measures by analyzing the contents of viewer-participation programs televised through the of KBS, so KBS could work as an open public platform in which the people could freely express their own thinking, ideology, opinions, and ideas.

The Improvement and Problem about Housing Lease Protection Act Article 9 in the Information Society (정보사회에 있어서 주택임대차보호법 제9조의 문제점에 대한 개선방안)

  • Park, Jong-Ryeol
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2015
  • In order to ensure the housing stability of homeless people who living in the information society, the Korean Housing Lease Protection Act was enacted as a special law of Civil Code in March 5, 1981, Law No. 3379. And until January 6, 2015 there were 15 times revisions. In the meantime, many issues have been resolved by legal revisions through several times however, it is true that many problems are exposed after enforcement because processing without sufficient review of legislation. Among them, at the 1st revision in 1983 the purpose of Article 9 for lease succession was admitting succession to a spouse who has no inheritance rights. Then it can protect common-law relationship and on the other hand protect the residential life of a spouse. But many questions have been raised. Therefore, in this paper, analyze the problem of lease succession carefully, proposes an improvement to contribute to the residential stable livelihood.

Philosophical backgrounds of universal service in Korea and the US (보편적 서비스의 철학적 근거에 대한 한·미간 비교연구 : 보편적 서비스의 추진 배경과 동기를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sung-Wook;Kwak, No-Jin
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2019
  • By a comparative study of the philosophical backgrounds of universal service in Korea and the US, this research finds that Korea has paid little attention to the relations between universal service and basic human rights even though it has rapidly and successfully implemented universal service of telephone and the internet services in the past. Based on this key finding, it reaches a conclusion that Korea should adopt a new approach in implementing universal service in the future, considering the goals and contributions to the improvement of the basic human rights of universal service because economic goals have been main drivers of the implementation of universal service so far in Korea, which is not appropriate and suitable for the information society that new telecom services are rapidly emerging.

Identification of Latent Classes of Adolescent's Health Condition and Verification the effects of Social Capital : Comparison of Intact Families and Single Parent families (청소년 건강에 대한 잠재계층 분류 및 사회자본의 영향 검증 : 양부모가정과 한부모가정의 비교를 통하여)

  • Chun, JeeWon;Kim, Kyoung-A
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.385-397
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    • 2018
  • This study used latent class analysis to identify heterogeneous subgroups with respect to health condition among adolescents. We also examined associations between latent classes and verified to determine how the patterns of health condition relate to social capital. This study used data from Korean Survey on the Rights of Children and Youth in 2015, which consists of 6,912 from middle and high school students. The findings are as follows. Latent class analysis revealed a three-class solution. Results indicated that family social capital and school capital significantly verified to the above latent classes all family type. But, community social capital not significantly predicted to the above latent classes only single parent families. Policy implications for improving the health condition of adolescents are discussed.