• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.81-88
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• 2014

Purpose - Entrepreneurship promotion is emerging as an important economic growth agenda. However, in Korea, entrepreneurship has weakened because of the collapse of the venture bubbles of the 2000s and the global economic recession in 2008, which have induced the business community to choose stability over risk. The Korean government has been implementing several support projects to inspire and promote youth entrepreneurship through various means including financial assistance; however, the perpetuation rate of young entrepreneurship is still low as compared to advanced economies such as the US and EU. This case study focuses on the Youth Start-Up Business Support Program of the Small & Medium Business Corporation, and explores practical alternatives. Further, it aims to suggest managerial factors and a conceptual model for change management factors affecting the business performance creation of a startup company, based on the Small and medium Business Corporation's young venture startup fund. Research design, data, and methodology - Many studies examine the current progress and issues of startup firms, for example, a lack of systematic cultivation of entrepreneurship and startup business training, lack of commercialization funding for youth startup businesses, lack of mentoring, and inadequate infrastructure. From prior research, we address four factors, namely, personal managerial capabilities, innovative business model, sufficient cash flow, and social network, affecting startup companies' business performance. This study involved a sample survey of 200 young entrepreneurs to investigate casual relations between the four factors and business performance. A regression analysis was used to verify the hypotheses. Results - First, in relation to differences in the founder's personal characteristics, age, sales amount, and number of employees significantly impact business performance. Second, regarding the causal relation between the four factors for creating business performance, an innovative business model and social networking have supported the hypotheses, revealing that the more that a start-up founder has an innovative business model and social networking, the more the start-up firms are likely to have better performance (e.g., sales volume, employment, ROE, ROI, etc.). Although the founder's competency and sufficient cash flow have no significant relationship with business performance, the mean value was higher performance for high founder's competency and sufficient cash flow. Conclusions - This study provides basic data on policy support strategies of the Small and Medium Business Corporation, to help young entrepreneurs achieve their start-up business goals. It shows that young entrepreneurship startup firms should strive to explore ideas to satisfy customers' needs, and that changes in customer value and the continuous innovation of business model differentiation are required to actively respond to change management. Moreover, at the infant startup stage, they should activate social network programs to share information, thereby offsetting resource scarcity and managing business risk. Further, the establishment of a long-term vision and the implementation of training programs in related specific fields should be supported to strengthen founders' personal capabilities.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.145-154
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• 2017

In the age of low fertility and aging society, youth suicide is not the problem of a certain class but it should be recognized as an urgent and important social problem to be solved by our society. We aim to support the training of youth gatekeeper who can acquire the right attitude and understanding of suicide for adolescents, detect premature suicide signs of peer friends and link them to specialized institutions. In this paper, we propose a scenario based learning program that is linked to the concrete situation that the young people can sympathize with and a serious educational game of visual novel type that encourages participation of youth. We expect that the proposed serious game will improve the accessibility of educational facilities and youths through smart devices.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.341-349
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems facing the youth soccer league(i-league) and present their development directions. The study method used focus group interviews. The results of the study are summarized into three: First, promotion and regional league operation were highlighted as problems of i-League and the solution was the unification system of the Korean Olympic Committee(KOC) and the Korea Football Association(KFA), and the operation of each region by itself. Second, issues resulting from the integration of youth club league and i-league were revealed as level differences by teams and leak of the motivation for winning. Operation of the elevating system was proposed as a solution, and such as fare play team award, voluntary activity team award will derive important virtues for youth. Third, KOC and KFA need additional support for various environments and administrative areas such as facility security, training for leaders and officials, and registration of players.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.37-53
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of latent profiles depending on the job satisfaction of youth entrepreneurs in South Korea and examine the influence of related variables. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted using data from the 12th year of the Youth Panel Study. Results of the study revealed that there were five latent profiles based on job satisfaction among young entrepreneurs: lowest job satisfaction, mid-low job satisfaction, middle job satisfaction, mid-high job satisfaction, and highest job satisfaction. By applying multinomial logistic analysis, the influencing factors for each latent profiles have been derived. Gender, marital status, subjective health, self-esteem, entrepreneurial motivation, difficulty in start-up, person-job fit, intrinsic or extrinsic job values, business scale, income, work hour, education or training, and labor insurance were significant predictors of youth entrepreneurs' job satisfaction. Based on these results, the article discusses practical implications that can enhance the job satisfaction of young entrepreneurs.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.419-429
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• 2016

This study focuses on the policy priorities for training agro-healing experts. Training agro-healing experts is an important task that should boost local community in rural areas. In order to make an efficient decision making, the study analyses priority of relevant policies using the AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) method. According to the results, R&D comes out first. Human Resource Development(HRD), financial support, and the construction of legal system comes after R&D. In R&D, qualifications and guidelines for participants comes out the most significant issue. In the aspect of HRD, it is very important to develop and utilize regional personnel such as unemployed youth and retirees from related fields. As for financial support, funding for educational facilities (i.e. classrooms and farmland for practice) is needed. In case of legal system, it is desirable to introduce the recruiting experts system and qualification system certified by government.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.141-151
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• 2013

Korean entrepreneurship education is strongly driven by government policies. Government ask to university to enhance entrepreneurship training in university. Our study focus on the effects of entrepreneurship training such as entrepreneurship education and students' business incubation club activity. What is important for the entrepreneurship education and club, this paper suggests an comparative importance of entrepreneurship education to incubation club activity. As the result, Entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneur generally. Incubation club activity has similar effects too but it is not clear based on regression results. Between training(education and club) experience and non-experience group, there are different to plan entrepreneurial intention and to receive entrepreneurial circumstances.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.93-117
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• 2005

This study aims to examine the transition of the youth to the labor market by types of education and training institutes focusing employment rate. To construct the dataset for the analysis, the list of the graduates from 4-year universities, junior colleges, polytechnic colleges and the graduates from vocational training institutes as of February 2001 has been merged with the database for the insured in the Unemployment Insurance Database. This data enables tracking down of these graduates in terms of their mobility in the labor market. For graduates from universities and junior colleges, their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have been matched. One of major findings is that the longer the schooling period is, the better the employment results are. Among those who finished 4-year universities, those who went to schools in the metropolitan area achieve a relatively better record in job finding than those who attended schools in the local areas. Meanwhile it is confirmed that the SAT score is highly co-related with the performance in the labor market among those who finished 4-year universities. The co-relation of one's major with his/her employment is not negligible also.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.179-183
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• 2020

Seligman argues that an optimistic athlete wins based on a study of US professional baseball and professional basketball players.(trans. Choi, 2008). So, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether optimism can predict the performance of badminton youth representatives. 60 high school students were divided into two groups according to their performance. We used the revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) developed by Scheier, Carver and Bridges(1994) and translated into Korean version by Shin Hyun-sook(2005). For this study, the data were analyzed by frequency analysis, reliability analysis, and independent t - test. As a result, there was a statistically significant higher level of optimism in the excellent group than in the non-excellent group. So, in order to improve sports performance, we need psychological skills training that can improve optimism as well as physical training and skills training.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.71-77
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• 2016

The main objective of this study was found to be empirically seeing whether on-site training for students in the field of education and various programs in the field of SMEs michyeotneun any impact on production duties. Results of sub-areas of education and training educational experience, training motivation, training, experience, demographic characteristics and performance of education and training, and because there is a close correlation as sub-areas of business productivity, industrial welfare, governance, education, the period of increased productivity by properly adjusting the sub-variables of education and training it can maximize the educational experience of the work. This study provides the policy implications and implications for the future so that the unemployed(including unemployed youth) re-employment training and on-site training is satisfactory to shine and develop more good quality programs.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.131-145
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• 2002

국제연합에서는 $15{\sim}24$세의 젊은이를 청소년이라고 정의하고 있는데 그 중에서도 특히 농촌청소년은 미래 농촌발전의 핵심주체라 할 것이다. 일반적으로 농촌청소년은 그들 부모세대보다 더 높은 교육수준과 도전의식 그리고 더 높은 창의성을 지니고 있기 때문이다. 더욱이 그들은 미래가 자신의 장래와 직접적으로 연결되어 있기 때문에 장기적인 전망, 미래의 비전에 관심이 크다. 청소년에 대한 교육은 민주사회의 미래에서 한 사회가 할 수 있는 가장 중요한 투자 중의 하나라고 인식되며 현재 진행되고 있는 고도의 경쟁적인 시장경제로의 진입에서 청소년의 사회경제적 비전을 향상시키기 위해서는 교육과 훈련의 질적 양적 향상이 최우선시 되어야 할 것이다. 세계무역기구 출범 이후 농산물 수출국가와 선진국에서의 소득균형은 일반적으로 향상되었으나 순식량 수입국가나 개발도상국가에서는 소득균형이 더 악화되고 농업영역의 쇠퇴를 초래하고 있는 부작용이 국제연합 식량농업기구 등의 분석이다. 더욱이 식량안전상황은 농산물의 급격한 수입으로 여전히 불안하고 농가 판매의 지속적인 악화, 농촌과 도시간의 소득격차가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 특히 인간의 건강과 환경에 유해한 유전자조작 농산물 (GMO)의 교역은 소비자의 식품안전과 잠재적 위해 때문에 합당한 조치가 요구되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 상황에서 농업교육, 연구 그리고 지도, 특히 아시아의 주요작물 영역에 대한 더 많은 투자가 필요하며 많은 아시아국가들에서 우선적으로 요구되는 농촌 청소년교육은 빈곤퇴치, 식량의 안정적 공급 및 식품의 안전 그리고 지속적이고 균형있는 농촌개발 등이다. 이를 위한 정부와 국민, 특히 농촌 청소년들의 연결망을 통해 함께 협력해야 빈곤퇴치와 식량의 안정적 공급 및 식품의 안전 등 농촌의 사회경제적 발전이 가능할 것이다. 이 연구에서는 아시아지역 농촌사회 및 식량농업의 발전을 위한 청소년 연결망을 예시적으로 검토하고 미래사회에서의 협력을 위한 접근을 탐색하였다.국제연합에서는 $15{\sim}24$세의 젊은이를 청소년이라고 정의하고 있는데 그 중에서도 특히 농촌청소년은 미래 농촌발전의 핵심주체라 할 것이다. 일반적으로 농촌청소년은 그들 부모세대보다 더 높은 교육수준과 도전의식 그리고 더 높은 창의성을 지니고 있기 때문이다. 더욱이 그들은 미래가 자신의 장래와 직접적으로 연결되어 있기 때문에 장기적인 전망, 미래의 비전에 관심이 크다. 청소년에 대한 교육은 민주사회의 미래에서 한 사회가 할 수 있는 가장 중요한 투자 중의 하나라고 인식되며 현재 진행되고 있는 고도의 경쟁적인 시장경제로의 진입에서 청소년의 사회경제적 비전을 향상시키기 위해서는 교육과 훈련의 질적 양적 향상이 최우선시 되어야 할 것이다. 세계무역기구 출범 이후 농산물 수출국가와 선진국에서의 소득균형은 일반적으로 향상되었으나 순식량 수입국가나 개발도상국가에서는 소득균형이 더 악화되고 농업영역의 쇠퇴를 초래하고 있는 부작용이 국제연합 식량농업기구 등의 분석이다. 더욱이 식량안전상황은 농산물의 급격한 수입으로 여전히 불안하고 농가 판매의 지속적인 악화, 농촌과 도시간의 소득격차가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 특히 인간의 건강과 환경에 유해한 유전자조작 농산물 (GMO)의 교역은 소비자의 식품안전과 잠재적 위해 때문에 합당한 조치가 요구되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 상황에서 농업교육, 연구 그리고 지도, 특히 아시아의 주요작물 영역에 대한 더 많은 투자가 필요하며 많은 아시아국가들에서 우선적으로 요구되는 농촌 청소년교육은 빈곤퇴치, 식량의 안정적 공급 및 식품의 안전 그리고 지속적이고 균형있는 농촌개발 등이다. 이를 위한 정부와 국민, 특히 농촌 청소년들의 연결망을 통해 함께 협력해야 빈곤퇴치와 식량의 안정적 공급 및 식품의 안전 등 농촌의 사회경제적 발전이 가능할 것이다. 이 연구에서는 아시아지역 농촌사회 및 식량농업의 발전을 위한 청소년 연결망을 예시적으로 검토하고 미래사회에서의 협력을 위한 접근을 탐색하였다.