• Fourth Industrial Review
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 2024

Purpose: This study is based on the results of the National Information Society Agency's the Report on the Digital Divide in 2022. This study sought to develop digital literacy education programs for senior citizens, a digitally disadvantaged group, and to utilize smart devices to enhance their digital capabilities. Research design, data and methodology: Based on Gagné's nine events of instruction, a total of 7-session educational programs using smart devices were developed, and teaching-learning goals were set at a level that older learners can realistically perform. In preparation for the era of digital transformation, AI utilization methods are introduced and utilized in some sessions of the educational program. Results: Among a total of 7 sessions of the educational program, 5 sessions using KakaoTalk and Naver App, and 2 sessions using other apps were developed. There are a total of three sessions using AI. Conclusions: This study presented a digital literacy education program that combined AI, addressing the insufficiency of AI-based education programs targeting senior citizens. It is expected that this educational program will be able to improve the digital literacy skills and provide a basis for fulfilling their responsibilities as digital citizens by suggesting a direction for AI utilization education for senior citizens.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.983-997
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• 2010

This study is to explore the relationship between trust in local administrative organization and organizational performance. Local administrative organizations provide the citizens with administrative services. Heightening the organizational performance contributes the citizens' happiness and the stream of times through organizations' change. To provide high quality of administrative service to citizens, trust in organizations is more important than any other capital. The improvement of organizational performance needs through this social capital. Factors about trust variables and organizational performance variables are extracted through the theoretical discussions. To do the research, public servants in 7 local administrative organizations of Gangwondo were asked to do the survey about how trust in organizations affects organizationa performances. The results explain that trust variables are related to organizational performance, and the local administrative organization which is high in trust is high in organizational performance. Trust in local administrative organizations improves the organizational performance internally and the organization will obtain trust from the citizens externally.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.425-430
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• 2004

Citizens' activities in making village are to create urban future. It means that it is not civil organizations, but is cooperation in making village. Accordingly, the various arrangements for the cooperation among civil organizations, administration and enterprises which have been established and developed should be made. For these, strengthening of policies to foster the establishment of civil organizations is needed on the basis of way of thinking that ${\ulcorner}$Making village should be through citizens' cooperation${\lrcorner}$. In this case, connections among administration, private NPO center, enterprise and civil organizations are needed as shown in cases of Sendai, Japan.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.137-151
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the existing smart citizens party systems and develop a prospective model. As a result of conducting this research, it is recommended that the prospective system consists of an social computing, citizen participation module, and an interface module. This result suggests important starting point to develop a resonable and reliable implementation model for smart citizens party platform.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

In this study, using the synetics technique for strategies by making unfamiliarity into familiarity in the case of 911 terrorism. This study has meaningful messages for citizens and firefighters' illness caused by disaster sites in the field of disaster management in Korea. There are 7 stages to explain cause of a variety of cancers happening to citizens and firefighters in this study. The 7 stages are composed of real situation, direct analogies, personal analogies, symbolic analogies, new direct analogies, and review. This synetics will contribute to providing better ideas for citizens and firefighters' physical and mental health conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.38 no.5_2
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• pp.186-193
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to survey the citizens for their satisfaction with the outdoor landscape lighting in Gyeongju Historic Areas registered as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in November 2000 and thereupon, provide for some basic data useful to the design of the outdoor landscape lighting for the cultural properties. As a result of examining the conditions of the outdoor landscape lighting in Wolseong Zone of Anapji, Banwolseong, Dongbu Sajeokji, Cheomseongdae and Gyerim, there were found 391 lighting fixtures of 12 types in Anapji, 138 lightings of 4 types in Banwolseong, 38 lightings of 6 types in Cheomseongdae, 28 lightings of 3 types in Dongbu Sajeokji and 54 lightings of 5 types in Gyerim. As a result of analyzing citizens' satisfaction with the outdoor landscape lighting, it was found that citizens were satisfied more or less with the nightscape image changed by the outdoor landscape lighting; their satisfaction scored 3.836 on average for Anapji on a 5-point Likert type scale, 3.516 for Banwolseong, 3.446 for Dongbu Sajeokji, 3.650 for Cheomseongdae and 3.479 for Gyerim. However, citizens' satisfaction with the originality of the nightscape was generally low: 3.055 for Anapji, 2.914 for Cheomseongdae, 2.877 for Banwolseong, 2.847 for Gyerim and 2.665 for Dongbu Sajeokji. On the other hand, since most of the lighting fixtures were installed as inserted lights or floodlights, the color tones of light source were relatively highly distinctive, but the peripheral spaces around the cultural properties were rather dark, which means that citizens were feeling inconvenient more or less for using the amenities such as bench or waste box. All in all, their satisfaction with the outdoor landscape at the sample zone at night scored 2.981, lower than the normal level.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.187-196
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• 2018

This study seeks to analyze the effects of senior citizens' perception of sex on the life satisfaction in an empirical manner, and to present practical measures to improve senior citizens' perception of sex and life satisfaction based on the analysis results. To realize these research purposes, survey was administered targeting senior citizens who are at least 65 years old who reside at the Cities K and S in do-Jeollanam Province. As a result, 168 copies excluding unreliable answers were used for the final analysis. Collected data was subjected to SPSS 20.0 analysis, and the factor analysis, reliability analysis, frequency analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, t/F-test and regression analysis were carried out. Based on these analysis results, the following programs were suggested; development of the senior citizen sex education program to provide knowledge and information on sex, cultivation of the experts and establishment of counseling institutions that handle senior citizens' sex issue exclusively and execution of the social training and PR targeting the general public.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.801-815
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• 2012

Objectives : To obtain necessary fundamental data for the development of oral health improvement programs for senior citizens in the manner of investigating the Status of their oral health. Methods : Data were collected from 346 senior citizens aged 65 years or older who had lived in Seoul and Gyeonggido province, Republic of Korea. This study was conducted for 3 months from April 2011 to June 2011. Excluding those obtained from 34 respondents who gave inadequate responses to given questions, the data from 312 respondents were analyzed. Results : 1. The number of senior citizens who chose 'Sometimes' to as an answer to the question about the self-perception of their own oral conditions such as mastication, swallowing, gingiva hemorrhage, dry mouth, and/or oral malodor was the largest. As an answer to the question about the presence of interpersonal avoidance, 'No' accounted for the largest proportion. The number of respondents choosing gingiva treatment regarding the perception of the necessity for medical interventions was the largest. 2. In regard to the knowledge of oral health care, the percentage of correct answers was the highest for 'I brush my tooth before each meal' ($0.69{\pm}0.156$), while the lowest percentage of correct answers was seen for 'Gingival diseases can be improved by medications' ($0.33{\pm}0.472$). Conclusions : Based upon the above mentioned results, the author conclude that developing relevant national programs and support policies at a national level as well as implementing proactive and systematic home-visiting oral health programs at the levels of local autonomous entities or communities will lead to significant improvements in senior citizens' oral health and QoL (quality of life).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1483-1489
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes in citizens' perceiving urban landscape. To this end, the citizens' perceptions of urban landscape of Gimhae were surveyed two times in 2003 and 2011. To examine the statistical significance, the frequency analysis, the chi-square test were applied. There were small changes of opinion between two periods caused by the change of city form, an increase in interest in the living environment, environmental protection and so on. The interest of the citizens of the landscape were high. Citizens showed a negative feedback with respect to economic sacrifice. So, regulation causing citizens' economic loss should be avoided and It is effective to establish policies to support and induction. The results of this study are intended to be used as a reference to the planning urban landscape.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.16
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• pp.283-304
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• 2008

The development of IT technology help citizens demand information and public services through internet that they want, and the changes also help the government converge public opinions and become important measures for citizens to participate in deciding governmental policies. So, this thesis makes an overture of a possibility for utilizing PCRM, a way for citizens to participate in Police Administration, by utilizing IT technologies in which everybody can participate without difficulty. The utilization ways are, on a large scale, classified with a macroscopic aspect and microscopic aspect. One of the macroscopic aspects is, first, the consideration of access to services and convenience in utilization. Second, services should have a both-sidedproperty. Ultimately, citizens'participation should have a positive mutual participation level. One of the microscopic aspects is, first, that the police organizations have to establish a strategy to analyze and fractionate customers. Second, the police organizations have to make an effort to develop policy services and P.R strategies. Third, police organizations have to make an effort to manage customers. Fourth, police organizations have to execute customer management in general. So, all of the police organizations have to maintain unity, to some extent, about citizen participation plazas. In addition, at the same time, consciousness aspects have to be accompanied for the reasonable utilization of PCRM. Citizens have to cultivate citizen consciousness, ownership consciousness for society, and positive participation consciousness to solve social problems.