• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.141-158
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes of lives and problems of 'Kirogi'(or Wild Goose) fathers, who were called fathers in the 'Kirogi' families, South Korean families separated by an ocean. They almost sent too much money that were $50-100\%$ of their family income to the families abroad, and got economic pressures so severely. More or less, they sold their own real estates, moved to much smaller sized house. and often expended the saving money. Also, they had difficulties of taking care of their children and felt lonely very much. By the hand, they might experience the adaptation process through 3 stages-troubles, acception(or wandering or enjoy), adjust (or violation). They had three types of problems, that is, family relationship problem(the isolation), psychological problem(loneliness and self-control), economic problem (financial pressure and drop of economic status). They found the strategies to overcome these problems for themselves. Firstly, they took lots of methods like email, internet chatting, phone, etc. to communicate with their family everyday and made many events to strengthen the ties among families. Secondly, they got rid of stresses mainly by joining with their colleagues at work. Finally, they decided to lower the standard of living of their family in foreign country or tried to find their wives' jobs to prevent the financial hardship.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to scientifically examine Kuhl's (2011), originally Johnson and Newport's (1989) critical period graph, from a perspective of auditory perception and linguistic discrimination. This study utilizes two types of experiments (auditory perception and linguistic phoneme discrimination) with five different age groups (5 years, 6-8 years, 9-13 years, 15-17 years, and 20-26 years) of Korean English learners. Auditory perception is examined via ultrasonic sounds that are commonly used in the medical field. In addition, each group is measured in terms of their ability to discriminate minimal pairs in Chinese. Since almost all Korean students already have some amount of English exposure, the researchers selected phonemes in Chinese, an unexposed foreign language for all of the subject groups. The results are almost completely in accordance with Kuhl's critical period graph for auditory perception and linguistic discrimination; a sensitive age is found at 8. The results show that the auditory capability of kindergarten children is significantly better than that of other students, measured by their ability to perceive ultrasonic sounds and to distinguish ten minimal pairs in Chinese. This finding strongly implies that human auditory ability is a key factor for the sensitive period of language acquisition.

• 대한한방소아과학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.70-78
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• 2012

Objectives Recently, vitamin D supplements to breast-fed infants are being encouraged in Korea, and other countries. However, the reliability and validity assessment of supplements is insufficient. Therefore, this study suggests new Korean guidelines for vitamin D supplements of breast-fed infant. Methods The roles of Vitamin D for bone metabolism in children and the correlation between breast milk and Vitamin D were examined throughout domestic and international literature review. In addition, the efficacy and safety of vitamin D supplements were reviewed. Results Preventive effects of rickets by vitamin D supplementation remain unclear. Furthermore, concerns about the safety of vitamin D supplements intake have been raised. Korean guideline suggests breast-fed infants can get vitamin D through the skin safely, but maternal intake of vitamins through sunbath and diet is more effective and safe. Conclusions Limiting sunlight excessively and applying foreign countries' medical guideline for vitamin D supplements are not valid to apply as a domestic guideline for Korean breast-fed infants without considering ethnic and cultural characteristics.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.84-88
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• 2008

여러 개의 자석을 삼킨 경우 자석들이 서로 잡아당겨 압력 괴사로 인한 장폐쇄, 장천공, 누공 형성 등의 합병증을 일으킬 수 있다. 따라서 영 유아나 정신과적인 문제가 있는 큰 아이의 경우 자석이나 자석이 포함된 장난감과 같은 물건들을 멀리하고, 자석을 삼킨 경우에는 즉시 확인해 보아야 한다. 저자들은 1년 전부터 주기성 구토를 호소했던 중등도 정신지체를 가진 12세 남아에서 삼킨 장난감 자석 4개로 인해 위-십이지장 누공을 형성하였고 수술 후 호전된 1예를 치험하였기에 보고하는 바이다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2008

게임, 애니메이션, 영화와 같은 다양한 영상 미디어가 발전함에 따라 한 가지의 콘텐츠 소스를 여러 형태로 이용을 하는 확장으로서 피규어(Figure)라 일컬어지는 상품이 만들어 졌으며, 오늘날 많은 인기를 모으고 있다. 하지만 국내에서는 어린이들의 단순한 장난감 취급을 받으며 관련 산업의 발전이 더디게 이루어지고 있는 반면 외국의 경우 콘텐츠 산업에 있어서 마케팅의 수단으로 중요성을 인정받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 피규어에 대한 의미와 종류를 알아보고 철학적 사상과 이론을 통하여 피규어가 지닌 성격을 학문적고찰(발터 벤야민, 프로이드 및 심리학자들의 이론)을 통하여 분석하였다. 현재 국내 외 피규어 산업은 발전을 지속하고 있으며, 특히 한류 스타라는 콘텐츠를 활용한 피규어는 문화 아이템으로서 많은 가치를 지니고 있으며 발전성이 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2017

BACKGROUND: Immigration to South Korea from neighboring Asian countries has risen dramatically, primarily due to marriage between Korean men and foreign women. Although Filipino women rank fourth among married immigrant women, little is known about the health condition of this population. This manuscript focuses on the design and methods of Filipino women's diet and health study (FiLWHEL). SUBJECTS/METHODS: FiLWHEL is a cohort of Filipino women married to Korean men, aged 19 years old or over. The data collection comprised three parts: questionnaire, physical examination, and biospecimen collection. Questionnaires focused on demographic factors, diet, other health-related behaviors, acculturation and immigration-related factors, medical history, quality of life, and children's health information. Participants visited the recruitment site and answered the structured questionnaires through a face-to-face interview. We also measured their anthropometric features and collected fasting blood samples, toenails, and DNA samples. Recruitment started in 2014. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: Collection of data is ongoing, and we plan to prospectively follow our cohort participants. We expect that our study, which is focused on married Filipino women immigrants, can elucidate nutritional/health status and the effects of transitional experiences from several lifestyle factors.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.91-115
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• 2006

English immersion has emerged in Korea only recently as an innovative approach to learning and teaching English. Lack of real life experience of using English has been one of the biggest obstacles for Korean learners of English and has resulted in an increasing number of children being sent to English-speaking countries and a huge amount of dollar outflow. This recent innovation is expected to be the magic wand to resolve all these problems. However, setting up an immersion program in a typical EFL context like Korea has brought in another set of issues and challenges. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of a short-term immersion English program in Korea and provide some empirical data to develop programs that can better cater to the needs of EFL learners. A two-week English immersion program was developed and implemented with 57 Korean and Japanese students whose grade level ranged from 4 to 12. The study results show that the program was successful in terms of changing the participants' attitude toward learning English, improving their English skills, enhancing intercultural understanding and competence, and motivating them for further studies of English and other foreign languages and cultures.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.665-668
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• 2007

The location based service means the service using the location information and the service used based on the location information comes into the spotlight as the critical information of the future mode townsman ubiquitous-City construction. LBS settles down as the core element of ITS or the telematics as the cutting edge technology appearing according to the power generation of the mobile communication technology and recently gradually broadens a range to the public safety service including the distribution management, the asset management, a children and old and the weak protection means, the disaster preparation rescue service like the E-911 of U.S. In the national, the technical regulations about the ground wave LBS was established at November 2005 for the first time in the country. but it actually operated and problems were deduced. Therefore, in this paper, domestic and foreign LBS usage trend and technical standards case try to be analyzed for the revision of the technical regulations of the ground wave LBS serviced in the national and the national technical standards bill for the revision tries to be prepared based on this.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.157-182
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• 1998

The primary goal of this study is to identify disintegration and reconstruction of the family/kinship structure in the rapidly industrializing urban area, Seoul. For this purpose, detailed data about (1) the value related to the family and kinship (2) the family relationship, especially marital relationship (3) the attitude of divorce and remarriage (4) the characteristics of the social network (5) the family/kin rites and attitude about the rites are gathered. A total of 716 subjects completed structured questionnaires. Major conclusions of the study are as follows: Firstly, most of the respondents are found not to support familism and boy preference, and they show an ambivalence about the child value analyzed by concepts of the cost and reward. Secondly, most of the respondents perceive that marital relationship has been changed toward the direction of increased relative importance of wives' opinion in the decision making process within the family. However, they believe that husbands still have more power than their wives. Respondents also believe that parents have more power than their children. Thirdly, most of the respondents view divorce as an altemative to unhappy marriage. It was also shown that relatively few have negative attitude toward remarriage. Fourthly, the social network of the respondents is characterized by two distinct trends, namely, strong parent-child ties and narrowed kin relationship. Fifthly, the urbanization and the introduction of western life style have disrupted the traditional rites of passage. But ancestral rites serve to confirm family ties, especially the gathering of siblings to perform ancestral rites for parents. Therefore foreign element exist in parallel with pre-existing traditional elements.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.67-89
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• 2005

Writing is a difficult skill for many people, both for children and adult alike and generally most people find it difficult to write down their thoughts effectively. Numerous studies have revealed that teachers find it frustrating to teach writing and many failed to help ESL students develop their writing ability. The theoretical emphasis on process oriented writing instruction has, in general brought about positive changes in the way writing is taught and has become widely accepted in the teaching of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). Although the interpretation and implementation of the process approach varies considerably from instructor to instructor, nevertheless, the emphasis on process writing has brought about significant and beneficial changes in teachers' orientations to writing. Despite the theoretical recognition of writing as a recursive process, many ESL/EFL classrooms continue to teach writing as a linear sequence of planning, pre-writing, writing, revising and editing and has not enhanced ESL/EFL students writing ability to the desired level. There appears to be a missing link in helping students to crystallize their thoughts before writing. Studies have shown that incorporating visual thinking tools into the process approach of ESL writing can enhance students' ability to write. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study on the effects of using visual thinking tools in enhancing ESL students writing.