• 의학교육논단
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.16-20
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• 2016

Although the state of medicine in North Korea is of great interest, there is little information, if any, about the present state of medicine in North Korea. Even North Korea's laws and regulations on medicine are not publicly available. It is plausible that the dictator's commands or the policy of the Communist Party may be superior to the nation's constitution and laws on medical education and much more. Information is only available from a limited number of publications and mainly from the statements of refugees, which differ greatly among themselves. No one refugee could provide authoritative data or information because they were never in the position to see the larger picture or have experience over the long term. However, what is known is that the major health professions in North Korea include physicians (medical doctors), stomatologists (oral doctors), 'Koryo' doctors (doctors of Korean traditional medicine), midwives, and nurses. The names and the founding year of each of the regular medical schools are listed along with the change and restoration of names of schools. It is known that there have been quasi-physicians and semi-physicians. However, the reasons for any changes that have taken place also remain unknown. The educational system, curriculum, and even the number of years of training needed to qualify to become a physician have varied from time to time.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.726-731
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• 2015

There are big differences in dental education system between South Korea and North Korea. In North Korea, there is no college of dentistry and official license system and thus, dentists can treat a patient right after graduation from medical school. There are also positions such as paradentists capable of providing dental treatments, whereas such positions do not exist in South Korea. In this regards, in order to get ready for the United Korea, we need to establish a system designed to complement the differences in dentistry education and license system between South and North Korea. Such system would help to minimize the social cost in relation to the unification in near future.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.313-316
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• 2011

Vivax malaria is a significant military and civilian health threat in the north of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The island of Baengnyeong-do is the westernmost point of the ROK and is located close to the southwestern coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Mosquitoes were collected using a black light trap on Baengnyeong-do, and Anopheles spp. were assayed by PCR, to identify the species, and screened for sporozoites of Plasmodium vivax. Of a subsample of 257 mosquitoes, Anopheles lesteri was the most frequently collected (49.8%), followed by Anopheles sinensis (22.6%), Anopheles pullus (18.7%), Anopheles kleini (7.8%), and Anopheles belenrae (1.2%). The overall sporozoite rate was 3.1%, with the highest rates observed in An. kleini (15.0%), An. sinensis (5.2%), and An. lesteri (1.6%). No sporozoite positive An. pullus or An. belenrae were observed. The results extend our knowledge of the distribution and potential role in malaria transmission of An. kleini, An. lesteri, and An. sinensis, for an area previously considered to be at a low risk for contracting vivax malaria.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.44-64
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• 2017

Russia's push in the Asia-Pacific region stems from its interests that have the national, regional and global dimensions. In their turn, the aims of this policy are civilizational, geopolitical, economic and prospective, with a long-term outlook. In the course of their achievement, cooperation with Northeast Asia's countries will play one of the key roles owing to the factors of geographic proximity, Northeast Asia's economic potential, risk hedging and a growing influence Northeast Asia exerts upon the global development. A new cooperation paradigm between Russia and the states of Northeast Asia should be based upon establishing and cementing self-reproducing ties. This is the central aim of Russian initiatives in relations, with Japan, the Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolia and China. However, numerous obstacles ranging from Russia's absence in the regional free trade agreements and supply-production chains of value-added production to the permanent international instability generated by Pyongyang's missile-nuclear developments hamper the practical implementation of this task. Realizing the necessity to give an additional impetus to this new cooperative paradigm, Russia has to develop directions with an apparent consolidating effect. The most promising may be the establishment of a permanent security forum based upon Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism chaired by the Russian Federation. The urgency of this measure and its expected support stem from the necessity to strengthen security in Northeast Asia, a task neither the US-led hub-and-spoke system nor ASE-AN-led multilateral dialogue venues have been able to resolve. The issues addressed at the security forum must include the unification of approaches to North Korean nuclear issue and producing a document specifying actions of the claimants on the disputed maritime territories in the "direct contact" situations. At the expert level, Russia has elaborated on the idea to establish such a forum outlining the spectrum of the key directions of cooperation. With the urgency in the establishment of this dialogue venue, its agenda has to be coordinated with the agendas of the existing security systems presented by the US alliances and the ASE-AN-led multilateral negotiations. The practical implementation of this initiative will strengthen security in Northeast Asia as its challenges will be resolved in the pre-emptive way based on coordinated approaches. Therefore, Russia as the Eurasian state will be one of the role players in the advent of the Asian century.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제14호
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• pp.125-158
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• 2012

After liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, there was the three-year period of United States Army Military Government in Korea. In 1948, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Republic of Korea were established in the north and south of the Korean Peninsula. The Republic of Korea is now a modern state set in the southern part of the Korean. We usually refer to Koreans as people who belong to the Republic of Korea. Can we say that is true exactly? Why make of this an obsolete question? The period from 1945 when Korea was emancipated from Japanese colonial rule to 1948 when the Republic of Korea was established has not been a focus of modern Korean history. This three years remains empty in Korean history and makes the concept of 'Korean' we usually consider ambiguous, and prompts careful attention to the silence of 'some Koreans' forced to live against their will in the blurred boundaries between nation and people. This dissertation regards 'Koreans' who came to live in the border of nations, especially 'Korean-Japanese third generation women artists'who are marginalized both Japan and Korea. It questions the category of 'Korean women's art' that has so far been considered, based on the concept of territory, and presents a new perspective for viewing 'Korean women's art'. Almost no study on Korean-Japanese women's art has been conducted, based on research on Korean diaspora, and no systematic historical records exist. Even data-collection is limited due to the political situation of South and North in confrontation. Representation of the Mother Country on the Artworks by First and Second-Generation Korean-Japanese(Zainich) Women Artists after Liberation since 1945 was published in 2011 is the only dissertation in which Korean-Japanese women artists, and early artistic activities. That research is based on press releases and interviews obtained through Japan. This thesis concentrates on the world of Korean-Japanese third generation women artists such as Kim Jung-sook, Kim Ae-soon, and Han Sung-nam, permanent residents in Japan who still have Korean nationality. The three Korean-Japanese third generation women artists whose art world is reviewed in this thesis would like to reveal their voices as minorities in Japan and Korea, resisting power and the universal concepts of nation, people and identity. Questioning the general notions of 'Korean women' and 'Korean women's art'considered within the Korean Peninsula, they explore their identity as Korean women outside the Korean territory from a post-territorial perspective and have a new understanding of the minority's diversity and difference through their eyes as marginal women living outside the mainstream of Korean and Japanese society. This is associated with recent post-colonial critical viewpoints reconsidering myths of universalism and transcendental aesthetic measures. In the 1980s and 1990s art museums and galleries in New York tried a critical shift in aesthetic discourse on contemporary art history, analyzed how power relationships among such elements as gender, sexuality, race, nationalism. Ghost of Ethnicity: Rethinking Art Discourses of the 1940s and 1980s by Lisa Bloom is an obvious presentation about the post-colonial discourse. Lisa Bloom rethinks the diversity of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender each artist and critic has, she began a new discussion on artists who were anti-establishment artists alienated by mainstream society. As migration rapidly increased through globalism lead by the United States the aspects of diaspora experience emerges as critical issues in interpreting contemporary culture. As a new concept of art with hybrid cultural backgrounds exists, each artist's cultural identity and specificity should be viewed and interpreted in a sociopolitical context. A criticism started considering the distinct characteristics of each individual's historical experience and cultural identity, and paying attention to experience of the third world artist, especially women artists, confronting the power of modernist discourses from a perspective of the white male subject. Considering recent international contemporary art, the Korean-Japanese third generation women artists who clarify their cultural identity as minority living in the border between Korea and Japan may present a new direction for contemporary Korean art. Their art world derives from their diaspora experience on colonial trauma historically. Their works made us to see that it is also associated with postcolonial critical perspective in the recent contemporary art stream. And it reminds us of rethinking the diversity of the minority living outside mainstream society. Thus, this should be considered as one of the features in the context of Korean women's art.

• 천문학논총
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2016

We summarize our preliminary study on the research cooperation method in the astronomy field between Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). To investigate the recent astronomical activities of North Korea, we have surveyed the published records of research papers and international collaborations associated with North Korean astronomers. We found only 4 astronomical papers among the identified 260 SCI papers related to North Korean researchers for the past 11 years. North Korean astronomers had very few interactions with the international astronomical society before rejoining IAU in 2012. Recently, North Korea made several astronomical research exchanges with China and Netherlands. They seemed to attend several international conferences and present their research results. We have studied possibilities to establish international networks to encourage the cooperation between South and North, and suggest to start collaboration in the historical astronomy. The collaboration can be expanded gradually to other fields in astronomy. There are many obvious political difficulties to have interactions with North Koreans. However, it will be necessary to make a long-term plan considering the reunification.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.558-564
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• 2004

한국과 북한의 초등학교와 중등학교 과학 교과서의 학습내용을 TIMSS의 분석틀에 따라 비교하고 그 연계성을 조사하였다. 분석 결과 한국과 북한의 과학 교과서 내용은 TIMSS 지구과학 영영 내용 분석틀의 학습요소들을 상당히 많이 공통적으로 다루고 있으나 그 내용의 수준과 범위는 한국의 교과서가 북한의 교과서보다 탐구적이고 정량적으로 기술되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 TIMSS의 지구과학 영역 내용 분석틀의 내용요소 총 70개 중에서 한국은 74.4%에 해당하는 52개의 내용요소가, 북한은 67.1%에 해당하는 47개의 내용요소가 초 ${\cdot}$ 중등학교에 각각 반영되어 있고, 학교급간 관련 정도는 한국의 경우 초등학교와 중등학교 간의 관련성이 높은 반면에 북한은 고등학교 내에서의 관련성이 더 높게 나타났다. 한국과 북한의 과학 교과서 내용요소의 연계성 유형은 한국의 경우 13.4%가 중복, 77.0%가 연계, 9.6 %가 격차를 보였다. 그리고 북한은 14.9%가 중복, 63.8%가 연계, 21.3%가 격차를 보였다. 이로써 한국의 과학 교과서의 내용이 북한에 비해 보다 탐구적이고 정량적으로 기술되어 있으며, TIMSS의 지구과학 내용요소가 보다 많이 반영되어 있고, 내용(개념)의 연계가 보다 잘 이루어져 있음이 밝혀졌다.

• 한국기록관리학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2018

최근 한반도를 둘러싼 국제 정세가 급변하고 있다. 평창올림픽 개최 전까지만 해도 경색 국면이었던 남북관계가 해빙무드로 전환되어 사회 전반에 걸쳐 통일에 대한 기대감이 고조되고 있으나 한편으로 북한의 전통적인 화전양면(和戰兩面) 전술을 경계해야 한다는 경계의 목소리도 공존하고 있다. 최근 조사에서 드러난 대학생과 청소년층의 낮은 안보의식은 국민들의 확고한 안보의식과 국가관 확립의 필요성을 보여준다. 이를 위해 국가안보의 핵심기관인 육군이 소장한 각종 기록(Army Records)을 온라인 콘텐츠로 재창출하여 제공하는 것이 하나의 방편이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 우방국이자 기록관리 선진국으로 평가받는 미 육군 아카이브즈의 온라인 콘텐츠 서비스 현황을 살펴봄으로써 우리 군 기록의 온라인 콘텐츠 서비스 발전방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify effects of parenting stress in North Korean refugee fathers on their parenting behavior. Methods: A descriptive study design was used. Data were collected during 2014 and 2015 in a settlement support center for North Korean refugees and 99 North Korean refugee fathers participated. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0. Results: Warmth encouragement parenting behavior received the highest score. The score for parenting stress was 81.98 out of 180, and 32.3% of participants were found to need professional help (${\geq}PSI\;90$). There were significant negative correlations between warmth encouragement parenting behavior and parenting stress. There were also significant positive correlations between rejection neglect parenting behavior and parenting stress. Predictors of warmth encouragement behavior were parent-child dysfunctional interaction which explained 10.1% of the variance. Predictors of rejection neglect behavior were parent-child dysfunctional interaction, number of children and wife's education level which explained 33.4% of the variance. Conclusion: Findings show that North Korean refugee fathers' parenting stress significantly influenced warmth encouragement and rejection neglect parenting behavior indicating a need to identify ways to decrease parenting stress. Parenting education can guide North Korean refugee fathers to strengthen parent-child positive interactions and therefore promote their children's growth and development.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.94-115
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• 2017

북한은 '조선민요 아리랑(2014년)'과 '김치담그기 풍습(2015년)'을 인류무형문화유산 대표목록으로 등재하였다. 아마도 남한이 먼저 등재한 '아리랑(2012년)'과 '김장문화(2013년)'의 영향을 받은 것으로 짐작된다. 이로 인해 남 북한 공유의 무형문화유산이 별개의 유네스코 인류무형문화유산 대표목록으로 등재되는 상황이 발생하고 말았다. '아리랑'과 '김장문화'의 사례는 유네스코 인류무형문화유산을 통한 남북 문화유산 교류협력의 필요성을 역설하고 있다. 이 글은 유네스코 인류무형문화유산 정책 검토를 기반으로 남 북한 인류무형문화유산의 교류협력 방안과 공동등재 방안을 고찰하여 남 북한 문화통합의 단초를 모색하는데 목적이 있다. 먼저 유네스코 무형문화유산 협약체제 적용을 위한 남 북한의 법규개정 내용을 살펴보고, 남 북한 간 문화유산 교류협력 사례를 분석하여 실질적 교류협력 활성화를 위한 대안이 무엇인지 검토해 보았다. 남 북한 무형문화유산 교류협력은 비록 비정치적인 분야이긴 하나 정세변화와 무관할 수는 없다. 따라서 상황에 따른 단계적 전개방법을 설계해 보고 정책을 실현하기 위한 방안을 검토하였다. 기반조성단계${\rightarrow}$교류협력 추진단계${\rightarrow}$사업다각화 모색단계${\rightarrow}$정책 및 대안 모색단계의 4단계로 구분하고 각 단계별 세부 추진방안을 제시하였다. 남 북한이 상호협력할 경우 일차적으로 실행이 가능하고 구체적으로 전략적 제안을 할 수 있는 대상이 필요하다. 이런 점에서 볼 때 유네스코 인류무형문화유산 공동등재는 적합한 협력대상이라 할 수 있다. 이미 공유 무형문화유산이 남 북한 별개의 유네스코 인류무형문화유산 대표목록으로 등재된 만큼 공동등재를 위한 노력은 필수적이다. 그래서 남 북한 모두 국가목록에 등재되어 있는 무형문화유산을 공동등재 대상으로는 선정하였다. 막걸리 장 가양주 구들 전통자수가 그것이다. 남 북한 공동등재를 위한 노력은 공유하고 있는 무형문화유산에 대한 정보 교류부터 시작한다. 공유된 정보를 중심으로 공동등재를 위한 시범사업(Pilot Projet)을 추진해 본 다음, 중기계획을 수립하여 공동등재할 수 있는 체제를 마련한다. 유네스코 인류무형문화유산으로 공동등재된 후에는 대상 무형문화유산의 상호 방문전시와 공연, 공동 모니터링 등 다양한 교류협력사업을 추진할 수 있다. 남 북한 인류무형문화유산의 공동등재 상호협력은 분단된 국가 중 유일무이한 사례로, 그 가치를 전세계적으로 인정받음은 물론 한민족문화의 힘을 발현할 상징으로 부각될 수 있다. 또한, 우리 고유 무형문화유산의 가치를 세계에 알리고 유네스코가 권장하는 공동등재의 모범사례가 되어 남 북한 문화통합을 위한 토대가 될 것이다.