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ICF 한글개정판 개발 (Development of Revised Korean Version of ICF)

  • 이해정;송주민
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • 제26권5호
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    • pp.344-350
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) into the Korean language. Methods: The process of translation and adaptation of the ICF used here followed the translation guidelines of WHO. Implementation of this procedure comprised of four steps; forward translation, expert panel back-translation, pre-testing and cognitive interviewing, and final adaptation. The translators included health professionals with knowledge of ICF and non-health professionals blinded to the ICF. Clinical academics with significant experience in the use of disability survey, medical doctors, special educators, related policy makers, clinicians, architecture professionals, and international experts in ICF were invited to integrate all versions of the ICF for testing; 151 clinicians volunteered from 19 medical institutes across the country. Four different core-sets and a questionnaire were used for testing its practical usability and adaptation. Results: All translations were reviewed and a consensus was reached on any discrepancy from the earlier versions. Over 90% of the newly translated version of K-ICF was found to be different from the 2004 K-ICF version in the ICF language. Understanding of K-ICF language was responded difficult and very difficult by 50% of participants, whereas its practical use was responded 'useful' by more than 50% of subjects. Conclusion: It can be suggested that the new version of K-ICF should be widely used for final adaptation in the field of areas. Future studies will be required for implementation of K-ICF.

The Japanese Government-General of Korea: A Hermeneutic Understanding of the Effects of Historic Preservation from a Western Perspective

  • Seo, Myengsoo
    • Architectural research
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2016
  • This paper investigates the characteristics of preservation of Korean modern architecture through Western historic preservation theories and philosophies. This research focuses on the Japanese Government-General of Korea (1926-1995) which was built in 1926 and used as the chief administrative building in Seoul (Keijo in Japanese) during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945). After Korea was liberated from Japanese rule in 1945, this building was used until 1995 for the South Korean National Assembly, the United States Army Military Government in Korea, and the National Museum of South Korea. Although it served a variety of roles, this building was the most controversial case of historic preservation in Korean modern architecture. To analyze the peculiarities and characteristics of Korean modern architecture and its preservation, this research applied Western historic preservation theories, not exclusively from classical historic preservation theories developed by Viollet-le-Duc and John Ruskin, but also from modern historic preservation theories by Theodore H. M. Prudon, Daniel Blunstone, and Frances A. Yates. This cross-cultural and comparative study of historic preservation helps identify Korean modern architecture's characteristics. It can also be a useful reference in finding the origins of Korean modern architectural identity.

여성 차별적 다중 전환기동안의 폐경 경험: 저소득 한인 이민 여성 (Neglecting and Ignoring Menopause Within A Gendered Multiple Transitional Context: Low Income Korean Immigrant Women)

  • 임은옥
    • 대한간호학회지
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    • 제29권6호
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    • pp.1336-1354
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    • 1999
  • Researchers have rarely explored menopausal experience in the context of the totality of women's lives, subsequently making the picture of menopause incomplete, discrete and fragmented. Respecting the totality of women's lives, this study addressed how a vulnerable group of women-low income Korean immigrant women-experience menopause within a context of multiple transitions. This is a cross-sectional study using methodological triangulation. A sample of 119 first-generation Korean immigrant women aged 40 to 60 years, who were in low-income jobs, was recruited using convenience sampling methods. From the total sample, 21 peri-or post-menopausal women were recruited for in-depth interviews following the collection of the survey data. Questionnaires, short interviews, and in- depth interviews were used to collect data. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Thematic analysis was used to interpret interview data. The findings indicate that menopause was given the lowest priority amidst women's multiple and demanding roles within a gendered multiple transitional (immigration, work and menopause) context. The lack of language clarity to describe women's experience, cultural background, inadequate knowledge, and lack of social supports made menopause hidden, invisible, and inaudible. Conclusions and implications for nursing practice are guided by the goal of understanding women's experiences and meanings of menopause and supporting women through reflecting these experiences into their health care.

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Body-Mind Unity as a Dominant Design Philosophy of Traditional Japanese Tea-House

  • Ko, Young-Lan
    • 디자인학연구
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.17-28
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    • 2007
  • Despite a current fascination with East Asian iconography such as Zen Style among contemporary designers, there is a lack of genuine cross-cultural discourse that could enable us to share essential design experiences. To bring the discussion a deeper level, traditional Japanese tea-house in its design philosophy of body-mind interplay is explored. Tea-house is a superb manifestation to reveal a holistic understanding of the world. Nondualistic realization is generally associated with the dominant tendency of traditional East Asian philosophy, namely the view that the self and environment, and that the mind and the body exist in unity. The essence of tea-house is not in its poetic style or meticulous details, but in its unmistakably monistic approach of creating inseparable form, function and meaning. Tea-house bestows dignity upon restraint, imperfection, discomfort, poverty, and even humility. This concept offers a tremendous insight since it implies that the rational and effective design solution to the greatest degree is not sufficient. Perhaps the most challenging question about tea-house is: How does our experience with human-made 'design' in the broadest sense help both our body and mind attain a full harmony of being? It is the heading which this research inquires.

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EFL Learners' Use of the Modals and Quasi-Modals of Obligation and Necessity

  • Min, Sujung;Lee, Jongbok
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.191-206
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    • 2012
  • This study examines the use of the modals and quasi-modals of obligation and necessity, which involves the layering of must, should, have (got) to, got to, and need to in a corpus of cross-cultural communication between EFL learners. The study compares the EFL learners' corpus with a sub-corpus of ICE-GB in terms of token counts and semantic/functional distributions because International Corpus of Standard varieties of English serves as common reference points for international comparison of varieties of English. The results showed that must, should, and have to were the main players in both the corpus of EFL learners and that of native speakers. However, some discrepancy exists between EFL learners' corpus and the native speakers' corpus in the use of the modals and quasi-modals of obligation and necessity. Compared to the corpus of native speakers, the corpus of EFL learners was distinctively different in the relative unpopularity of have to and in the comparative popularity of must particularly for root meaning. Suggestions were made for using computer corpora in understanding EFL learners' language use. And pedagogical implications were made for teaching English modality considering the current usage of the modals and quasi-modals in Standard varieties of English and helping the students develop pragmatic competence.

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한국음식에 대한 인식과 서비스품질의 차이 : 방한 외국인 관광객 비교문화연구 (Understanding the Perceptions and Service Quality of Korean Foods : A Comparative Cross-cultural Study of International Tourists Visiting Korea)

  • 이수진;이경희
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제11권10호
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    • pp.467-478
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구는 외국인 관광객들이 인식하는 한식에 대한 이미지와 서비스 품질의 차이를 조사하였다. 특히, IPA를 이용하여 외국인 관광객들이 인식하는 한식 서비스 품질 속성들에 관한 우선고려대상을 파악함은 물론, 이들이 국적별로 어떠한 차이가 있는지를 분석하였다. 본 연구를 위하여 중국, 일본, 미국 관광객들을 대상으로 한 설문조사가 진행되었고, 최종적으로 316개의 유효설문지가 분석에 이용되었다. 수집된 자료를 분석한 결과는 세 가지로 요약될 수 있다. 첫째, 한국 전통음식이 체질에 맞는 우수식품이라는 인식은 미국인이 동양문화권인 일본인과 중국인 보다 높은 것으로 확인되었고, 색과 모양의 아름다움에 대한 인식은 중국인과 미국인이 일본인 보다 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 한식 서비스품질 속성들에 대한 중요도와 실행도는 국적별로 뚜렷한 차이가 나타났다. 특히, 한식의 영양, 모양, 건강성, 음식관련이야기, 재료와 조리법에 관한 중요도 인식은 중국관광객들이 일본, 미국관광객들에 비해 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 한식 서비스 품질 실행도에 관한 인식차이는 국적별로 좀 더 명확하게 나타났다 셋째, 국적별 관광객들이 인식하는 한국음식 서비스품질에 대한 IPA 결과, 공통적으로 음식점 시설/분위기의 개선이 우선적으로 필요한 사항이나, 국적별로 약간의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

하이즈(海子) 시의 시적 상상력과 자아 이미지 (Poetic Imagination and Self-Image in Haizi's Poems)

  • 김수진
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제33권
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    • pp.33-52
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    • 2013
  • Haizi, who ended his life with suicide on the railroad at the age of 25, is a poet who implemented his unique poetic world alone without belonging to any of the existing Chinese poetry schools in the 1980s. The process that Haizi reveals self-inside through a poetic work is rather to hide self-inside paradoxically, too. Accordingly, even a work of figuring out the real intention, which is hidden in poetic dictions that he selected, will be meaningful. In this sense, this study tried to inquire into the poetic imagination and self-image that were revealed in poetry focusing on "Spring, Haizi of 10 People", which is a work of having his name as topic, with having been written at the time of suicide, among Haizi's many poetic works. In addition, it figured out Haizi's private conscious world through analyzing the poem titled "Facing the sea with spring blossoms", which was created ahead of death same as "Spring, Haizi of 10 People". Thus, the aim was to look back on significance of his death and to broaden the width of understanding about Haizi's poetry. As for Haizi, the death can be regarded as the completion of 'performance,' which is a kind of Haizi's own final art form. Hence, Haizi's suicide needs to be seen from the perspective dubbed the continuity of creation through this performance, not the discontinuance of creation caused by 'intended death' that the poet himself selected. In the wake of pursuing the poetic world of a gifted poet Haizi, who died early, that this study examined, there will be any poet of Korea who is recalled naturally. One poet will be first recalled Yi Sang, who is a poet and a novelist of having been broadly known. Another poet is overlapped Gi Hyeong-do, who had been active as a poet and a journalist of having been dead after living in the similar period to Haizi. A comparative analysis among works by these Korean and Chinese poets has similarity beyond the temporal space. A research on this is thought to have value of being considered a little more deeply and generally hereafter. Still, this study mentioned only possibility of a comparative research on this.

분리성 통사원자의 유형별 검토 (A Study on Some Types of Separable Syntactic Atoms in Korean)

  • 이호승
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제38권
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    • pp.433-459
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    • 2015
  • This paper aims at a better understanding of the concept of korean separable syntactic atom, of which inner parts is separable in syntax, and at examining whether or not this concept can apply to derivatives, functional complex constructions, idiomatic expressions in korean. I defined a syntactic atom as a minimum unit which is drawn directly from lexicon and then is applied to syntactic rules. And I insist that so-called 'lexical island constraint' has some problems and that the syntactic rules can be applied to inner parts of syntactic atom, if the syntactic rules is irrelevant to new syntactic atom formation. The greater part of derivatives is non-separable syntactic atoms. But the likes of '반짝거리다', '죄송스럽다', '칭얼대다' are the separable syntactic atoms. The degree of separability of them is different in the insertion of korean particles or negative adverbs and the omission of root of sytactic atom. The derivatives of 'X-적', of which roots is regular nominal roots, permit the syntactic link between roots and the syntactic combination of the root and its argument. These kinds of derivatives is separable syntactic atoms. Also the derivatives of 'bracket paradox' and 'X-답-' derivatives is separable syntactic atoms. All functional complex constructions are not separable syntactic atoms. According to the degree of grammaticalization, inner parts of some are separable, some is non-separable. Separable functional complex constructions only permit the switching of endings or Josas but not application of other syntactic rules. All idiomatic expressions which are composed of two or more syntactic atoms are separable syntactic atoms. Some of them have so strong separability to allow the insertion of syntactic atom, adverb or adnominal modification and the noun in idiomatic expression to become the head of the relative clause. And some idiomatic expressions which have weak separability only permit interrogative's substitution or form change in fraction of idiomatic expressions.

식민지 근대의 헤테로토피아와 괴담, 그리고 모던의 불안 (Heterotopia, Strange Stories, and Modern Anxiety in the Colonial Era)

  • 이주라
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제42권
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    • pp.23-46
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    • 2016
  • 이 글에서는 식민지 근대 조선의 영토 내에서 존재하였던 헤테로토피아적 공간에 주목하였다. 근대 질서에서 보기에는 이질적이나 당대 사회의 희망을 구현했던 헤테로토피아를 찾아서, 그 공간들이 가졌던 실제적 특징을 파악하였다. 또한 이런 헤테로토피아적 공간을 식민지 근대 지식인들이 담론화하는 방식을 살펴보며, 근대적 지배 체제에 대한 당대의 또 다른 시각을 알아보았다. 삼일독립운동이 시작되었던 탑동공원과 정신병동인 동팔호실은 근대적 관점에서 가장 이질적이면서도 그로테스크한 공간이었다. 그곳은 근대성이 실패한 공간들로 표상되었다. 하지만 이 공간 속에서는 독립에 대한 발화가 공공연하게 이루어졌으며, 이는 이 공간들이 당대 사회의 희망을 담아내는 유토피아로 기능하게 하였다. 그렇지만 당대의 지배 체제는 이 공간 속에서 이루어지는 발화를 괴담으로 간주하며 폄하했다. 원인을 알 수 없는 이야기인 괴담은 근대의 지식 체계 그리고 이를 바탕으로 한 당대의 지배 체제가 불완전함을 드러내었다. 체제의 불완전함은 일상에 대한 불안을 야기하였다. 이처럼 이 글에서는 헤테로토피아를 괴담으로 왜곡하여 전달하였던 담론화의 방식을 통해 식민지 근대의 질서가 가지고 있던 불안의 한 측면을 살펴보았다.

주제문을 통한 한국학생의 중국어 학습지도 연구 - 중·한 주제문의 비교를 중심으로 (A Comparative Study on Teaching Chinese and Korean Topic Sentences)

  • 주취란
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제19권
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    • pp.389-409
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    • 2010
  • Chinese is a topic-prominent language, so when we learn Chinese we should know the discourse function of the Chinese language. Most of the Korean student think Chinese sentences should appear in the order of S-V-O and they always make mistakes when they use Chinese. I think Korean is very similar with Chinese in the discourse function. Hence, in this paper, I try to find a method of teaching Chinese topic sentence. It does so by comparing Chinese with Korean in the light of discourse function. I think when Korean student know how to use Korean topic sentence to explain the discourse functions of the Chinese language, they will not make similar mistakes. With this understanding in mind, chapter 2 tries to show various topic sentences to prove that 'topic' is very important in Chinese sentences. This is why we say Chinese is a topic-prominent language. In chapter 3, I analysis the sentences that students made, and highlight the reasons why they made mistake. The result lies in the reason whereby they always think Chinese should appear in the order of S-V-O. They do not understand why some sentences appear in the order of O-(S)V or S-O-V. It show that they do not know what is topic sentence and do not know how to make topic sentences. Sometime I have them translate them into Korean, but they also make Korean sentences like in the order of Chinese S-V-O. Therefore, I think, under this circumstance, to let them to translate and to speak in Korean in topic sentence, get some feelings about Chinese topic sentences, and tell and make Chinese topic sentences are naturally critical in their training.