• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.151-164
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• 2021

The paper identifies the enablers (drivers) and inhibitors (barriers) influencing e-customs implementation in Vietnam (known as a developing country with a lower technological environment) along with determining the impact of e-customs on firm performance. The survey was conducted with the representatives (managers) of firms in five cities and provinces dominating Vietnam's international trade. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings show two significant drivers (enablers) - relative advantages and national culture, while compatibility and ease of use are the barriers. Previous studies showed that cultural dimensions related to 'uncertainty acceptance' and 'individualism' encourage innovation; however, this paper demonstrates that 'uncertainty avoidance' and 'collectivism' promote e-customs deployment in Vietnam. Previously, Vietnamese culture was known for scoring high on cultural dimensions related to 'power distance' and 'short-term orientation'. However, today, as an emerging country, Vietnamese has switched to 'low distance' and 'long-term orientation', especially in terms of e-customs innovation. Additionally, the paper also emphasized that e-customs implementation had a positive influence on firm performance in Vietnam. Based on the results of the paper, policy-makers can devise essential solutions to enhance e-customs implementation as well as managers of firms can set-up strategies to adapt to the modernized environment.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.99-119
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• 2005

Recently, the export claims related to the compliance of the commercial invoice are increasing. This paper aims to review the basic requirements of the invoice, and two theories on the document compliance, i.e., the strict compliance and the substantial compliance, and to analyse the substantial compliance of the invoice through some recent cases under the UCP 500, ICC's opinions and the International Standard Banking Practice (ISBP). As regards the compliance of the invoice, a majority of the cases has held that it must comply strictly with the credit terms ("strict compliance rule"). However, a minority of courts and credit industry standards such as the UCP and ISBP published by ICC take a different approach, infusing the credit law notions such as equity, "substantial compliance rule", etc. The extent of the substantial compliance of the invoice is particularly explained in the above-mentioned invoice paragraphs of the ISBP and supported by a large number of ICC's official opinions. Especially, the parties and descriptions in the invoice must correspond with those in the credit, being not inconsistent with the other documents. Other issues related to invoices such as a tolerance of the quantity, the amount, and the number of originals or copies, etc. must comply with the credit terms substantially.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.13-32
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• 2018

암호화폐는 익명성, 분권성, 공유성, 다중 분산원장 기재원리와 블록체인 기술의 특성을 지니고 있어 간편 신속 저렴성으로 지급결제수단의 기능을 수행하여 왔다. 비트코인은 비중앙 기관이 채굴 공급주체이고, 공급량이 제한되어 있고, 일부 화폐적인 기능을 수행하여서, 금과 매우 유사한 특성을 가지고 있다. 본고는 물가와 자본시장에 대해서 헷지와 안전처 기능과 관련하여 비트코인과 금에 대해서 정량적으로, 2010. 7. 20.~2017. 12. 27., 1943 일별 자료에 대해 비대칭적 다변량 벡터 GARCH 모형으로 분석하였다. 금에서는 물가(CPI), 주식(SP500), 환율(UKUS, KOUS)에서 강한 헷지와 안전처 기능이 추정되었다. 비트코인에서는 약한 헷지와 안전처 기능이 존재하는 것으로 추정되었다. 변동성 식에서는 미국과 한국의 인플레이션은 비트코인과 금에 대해 유의하지 않은 것으로 추정되었다. 본고는 공평성 확보를 위해 익명성의 불투명성을 해소하고, 시대의 변화에 부응하고 생동하는 헌법관에 기초하여 법의 흠결 보완이 이루어져야 함을 밝히고 있다. 유관기관에게 등록 보고 설명 준법감시 의무와 권한의 명확화를 기하고, 세제와 금융 관련 법규를 보완 개정하는 것이 이용자 보호의 강화와 전자거래의 발전에 도움이 됨을 시사하고 있다. 이와 더불어 반드시 투자자의 세심한 리스크 관리가 지속적으로 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제52권
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• pp.417-446
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• 2018

노예제와 노예무역에 대한 프랑스의 기억문화는 노예제 폐지에 국한되어 있던 시선에서 점차 노예제로 인해 아프리카 흑인들이 겪었던 삶의 역사로 그 지평을 넓혀가고 있다. 1998년 노예제 폐지 150주년을 맞이하면서 고통의 역사를 내면에 간직하고 있었던 해외영토 대중들의 사회운동에 의해 이러한 물결은 널리 퍼져나가기 시작했다. 프랑스 정부도 해외영토에서 가장 근본적인 정신적 문제의 뿌리가 되는 노예제에 대해서 최근 20여 년 동안 여러 경로를 통해 비교적 지속적이고 적극적이며 빠르게 대처하고 있다. 특히 2001년 '토비라 법'이 상원에서 통과된 후로, '노예제 기억위원회Le $Comit{\acute{e}}$ pour la $m{\acute{e}}moire$ de l'esclavage'가 출범하였고 노예제와 노예무역에 대해 프랑스 본토 및 해외영토 국민들로 하여금 노예제도에 대해 명확하게 인식할 수 있는 길을 마련했다. 2015년 개관한 과들루프의 노예제 기념관 <메모리알 악트>가 건립되기까지는 노예제와 그것의 폐지에 대한 대중의식의 변화 및 법 사회적인 변화가 있었다. 본 논문은 이러한 사건들을 간략하게 되짚어 보고, <메모리알 악트>의 설립과정에서 어떤 논쟁들이 발생했는가를 살펴보며, 알라이다 아스만의 문화적 기억이 이 기념관의 건립을 통해 어떤 방식으로 생성되어 새로운 문화적 정체성을 형성해 나갈 수 있는가를 고찰한다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.91-113
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• 2017

UN Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG) and International Commercial Arbitration aim at the promotion and facilitation of international trade. Both of them share similar general principles; i.e., party autonomy and pacta sunt servanda. Also they are often applied concurrently in the case of the international commercial trade. The purpose of this article is to investigate whether the CISG could apply the formation of the arbitration clause that is included in the main contract governed by CISG. Sellers and buyers have freedom of designating choice of law that is applied to their contracts. An international arbitration agreement is presumed to be separable from the contract in which it is found. However, arbitration clauses commonly form part of a general contract. Thus, the CISG is intended to be applied to dispute resolution clauses, including arbitration clause even if it is not completely suitable. Notably, there is a fundamental distinction between the CISG and arbitration. The CISG abolished the formalities of contract. New York convention requires Contracting States' Courts to enforce written international agreements to arbitrate.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.131-149
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• 2010

Since the Arbitration Law of China took effect in 1995, arbitration has grown with the economy. At the end of 2009, there were 202 arbitration institutions in China. Among them, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission(CIETAC) has adopted online arbitration and has settled internet domain name disputes since 2001. CIETAC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center(DNDRC) has accumulated abundant experiences of online arbitration in the field of domain name disputes. Based on those experiences, on 1 May 2009, CIETAC implemented the CIETAC Online Arbitration Rules(Rules') to regulate the resolution of e-business disputes as well as other business disputes. With this background, this article aims to study the status quo, practices and issues of online arbitration conducted by CIETAC. For the purpose of the article, a general picture of online arbitration is outlined first, followed by introducing the steps of the online arbitration procedure. According to the 'Rules', the entire arbitration process is conducted using online communication methods which are cost-effective and efficient. To facilitate the development of online arbitration, legal barriers need to be removed. This article considers main legal issues of online arbitration in China and proposes amendment to Chinese Arbitration Law, in particular, the recognition of the validity of electronic arbitration agreements and awards.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2019

Under the Act No. 21 of 2008, Islamic banks in Indonesia as an intermediary institution are obligated to manage the resources simultaneously, the financial funds as well as the social funds, e.g. zakah, infaq, and sadaqah. This study aims to investigate the productivity change of social funds and financial funds of Islamic Banks in Indonesia. Non-parametric tests of Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) is applied to annual data from period 2012 to 2017, encompassing post-reform of banking authority from Bank Indonesia to The Financial Services Authority (OJK) at 2012. The samples are nine Islamic banks in Indonesia which were able to provide the data during observation period. The results indicate that social funds are more productive than financial funds and productivity change tends to trade off. The productivity of social funds is progressed by 8.2% while the financial funds is regressed by 5.4%. Overall, the productivity change of Islamic banks is influenced by technological aspect rather than the efficiency aspect. Besides, BRI Syariah is the best performer in managing financial funds while BCA Syariah as the best performer in social funds. It implies that the policymakers may strengthen the supervisory and coaching to increase the Islamic banks' productivity in both activities.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제32권
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• pp.3-27
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• 2006

The Pennzoil case and the SME case illustrate the difficulties which originate from inadequate drafting of letters of intent. In both cases the judges had to face the crucial question as to whether or not a given letter of intent had a binding nature; they had in other words to decide whether the wills expressed in such letters still belonged to the pre-contractual stage, or whether their incorporation into a pre-contractual document meant that negotiations were over and binding obligations had already arisen for the parties. In other words, some problems may occur when a party has documented a stage in the negotiations by letters of intent. The letters may well explicitly spell out if, and to what extent, the parties should be bound by what they have already agreed or to carry on negotiations in order to reach the final contract. But if the letters are silent, some problems would arise. Contracting parties are, therefore, well advised to spell out if, and to what extent, they should be bound by such preliminary agreements. Here again, it might be prudent to explicitly set forth that the parties should not be bound until there is a final written contract signed by authorized representatives of the parties but that they shall abstain from such measures which may defeat their stated objective to reach final agreement, e.g. by diminishing the value of performance under the contemplated contract.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권8C호
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• pp.703-710
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• 2012

2011년 12월 2일 일부개정된 저작권법에는 저작물 이용과정에서의 일시적 복제에 관한 조항이 신설되었다. 최근 In-network Caching 기술에 대한 연구가 Content-Centric Networking 등 활발히 이루어지고 있는 가운데 저작물의 일시적 저장, 즉 일시적 복제가 사용자의 단말에서 뿐 아니라 네트워크 장비인 라우터에서도 발생할 수 있으므로 이에 대한 법적, 제도적 검토가 이루어져야 할 필요성이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 최근 개정된 저작권법 및 한미FTA 협정문의 관련 조항을 중심으로 저작물의 일시적 복제에 대해 살펴보고, In-network Caching이 실현가능하려면 어떠한 제도가 뒷받침되어야 하는지 고찰하였다.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제56권
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• pp.29-54
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• 2012

As market is more and more mature, the survival environment of exporting companies is getting severer, which throws exporting companies into great pressures of the process of growth and development. For most businessmen, the hardest part of starting a foreign business is to find buyers or to get customers, which is more critical for small and medium-size foreign enterprises. The fast changes of internal and external trade and market circumstances, together with the advent of e-commerce, led to the diversified of the way to find foreign buyers for exporting companies. But the performance differs in using different ways of finding foreign buyers. Therefore, this study examines the status of the methods of finding foreign buyers and performance of exporting companies in China. Based on the investigation of the ways of finding foreign buyers, this study tries to find out the most efficient ways of finding foreign buyers for them. And this study tries to propose some practical suggestions for the exporting companies based on the analysis that will help them to improve companies' performances.