• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.45-57
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• 2020

Among the fintech businesses that are actively developing around the world, payment and settlement are the most prominent. Korea has a well-developed IT industry and a good existing card payment environment, however, its innovative movement is overwhelmingly slower than that of other countries in the fintech. In this study, we try to assess the regulations on fintech and their impacts on the startup ecosystem by comparing the cases of U.S., China, and Korea. We have found that both the United States and China have lowered barriers to entry for the newly launched fintech industry, allowing startups and IT companies to start fintech businesses at the existing financial sector. Particularly the implementation of predictable regulations in U.S., and the failure to apply the financial regulations in China, help start-up companies' growth in the fintech industry. This finding provides us with a lesson that current positive regulations in Korea should gradually change into negative regulations, and predictable regulations that strictly enforce post-management except major items rather than pre-approval. The policy implications are discussed with the perspective of start-ups in fintech industry.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.65-75
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• 2020

This study intends to propose a policy plan for the activation of the Busan Blockchain Regulation-Free Zone, which is selected by the government's comprehensive negative regulation policy. Unlike Europe and the United States, Korea is based on a positive regulation and aims at suppression, not activation. The Korean government proposed a transition to "comprehensive negative regulation" as a groundbreaking regulatory innovation policy to solve the problems of positive regulation. For this implementation plan, seven regulation-free zones were selected. Busan was selected as the Blockchain Regulation-Free Zone, and secured an opportunity to revitalize the stagnant regional economy based on the blockchain. This study is a policy study for the activation of the Busan Blockchain Regulation-Free Zone, and aimed to propose a method to create an industrial ecosystem with the discovery of a Busan-specific Blockchain service that can be commercialized in the Regulation-Free Zone.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.29-35
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• 2021

Fintech, a new form of financial industry that converges IT, is developing rapidly in developed countries such as the US and China. The U.S. and China lowered barriers to entry through deregulation to develop and expand the fintech industry, and, for example, encouraged startup companies to incorporate various ideas through negative regulations that are more relaxed or do not apply regulations for a certain period of time. The U.S. and China did not apply existing financial regulations to the fintech industry, providing an environment where fintech startups could grow more easily. Currently, in Korea, fintech technologies such as 'Samsung Pay', 'Toss' and 'Kakao Pay' have been developed and are being activated, and also their scale is expanding. Although various systems are being reorganized and regulated for the development of Fintech, Fintech's growth rate is slow due to unfriendly and unopened regulations in the financial sector and various markets. This paper examines the status of fintech, focusing on advanced fintech and Korea, and examines fintech-related regulations that hinder the development of the fintech industry. We propose a more flexible way of easing excessive regulation in the financial sector, such as post-regulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.207-214
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• 2009

This paper provides the analysis of economic theories about bundling in telecommunications service. First, the negative aspect of bundling is discussed. Second, the competitively neutral aspect of bundling which is counter response of negative effect is analyzed. Third, some variables affecting the bundling is investigated and the corresponding effect of bundling is discussed. The bundling can increase the social welfare under some circumstance while it sometimes decreases economic efficiency by detering the entry of competitive firms. Finally, regulatory approaches on bundling such as the criteria of bundling provision, the requirement of equal access, the discounting scheme ad a price control, ex anti regulation vs. ex post regulation, and the criteria of predatory pricing are provided.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.586-595
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• 2016

The difference of generation is the main cause of society transition. If we know about the gap of generations, then we know where we go in future. This study focus on the differences of a regulation recognition among the generations. When we understand the differences of regulation recognition among the generations, we can realize the trait of regulation in society. In result, there are a lot of differences of regulation recognition among the generations. The older they are, the more they are positive to regulation. And the younger they are, the more they are negative to regulation. In particular, 50's generation have the opposite regulation recognition to 20's generation in specialty of regulation and in a conglomerate regulation.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1-16
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• 2022

This paper studies the impact of regulatory approaches on innovation and entrepreneurship. As technological progress and environmental changes avail new business opportunities to innovative startups, many governments find it difficult to regulate new and unprecedented businesses promoted by the innovative firms. In order to provide academic and practitional implications on the regulatory design with which to support innovation and entrepreneurship, this paper aims to review classical theories on the demand and supply of regulation as well as empirical research on the impact of regulation on market entry and incentives for innovation. Based on the findings, this paper discusses the recent controversies around the regulatory approaches on new businesses pursued by startups, which are as known as the "positive regulatory approach" vs. "negative regulatory approaches" among practitioners and policy makers in Korea. This paper claims that the Korean context provides an useful opportunity to investigate how the ongoing transition of the once "fast follower" economy into a pacesetter one changes the nature of businesses pursued by firms, investors, and related market players and, accordingly, calls for the changes in the way the government intervenes in markets to regulate businesses of firms. By doing so, this paper sheds light on the role of the government in establishing an entrepreneurial ecosystem where innovative ideas of startups can be tested and nurtured.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.148-156
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• 2016

Party is the main factor in modern country. Therefore, there are a lot of articles about the difference of public policies and citizen's recognition according to their supported party. However, there is few research about the regulation recognition according to citizen's supported party. This study focuses on the differences of a regulation recognition according to citizen's supported party. In result, there are a lot of differences of regulation recognition according to citizen's supported party. The people who support Saenuri Party have a positive recognition about a necessity of regulation, a fairness of regulation, a reliability of a regulation. But the people who don't support Saenuri Party have a negative recognition about those. In Korea, government regulations have a lot of relationship with a party and politics.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.586-603
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• 2012

In order to relieve overcrowding, the Korean government has regulated firm's locations in the capital region of Korea. However, the standard of regulation mainly depends on the place of province. Using KIS-Value data of firms that are located Pyeong-taek(the Capital area) or Cheon-an(Non Capital area), in close proximity to each other, we utilize OLS and negative binomial regression models for identifying the difference of firms' management and innovation performance in terms of firms' location difference(regulation difference). Our analysis shows that innovation performance of firms in Cheon-an does better than Pyeong-taek's, but management performance has no gaps between them. This result indicates that the regulation of firm's location has influence on firm's innovation performance. Thus, regulation policy regarding firms' location need to be minutely amended.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.84-100
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• 2020

미디어 환경은 방송과 통신의 융합으로 모든 미디어는 언제(Anytime), 어디서나(Anywhere), 어느 단말기기(Anydevice)로도 원하는 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 이용할 수 있는 방향으로 발전하고 있다. 국내 미디어 정책의 주요 변화가 있었을 때는 1995년 케이블방송 도입, 2002년 위성방송 도입, 2008년 IPTV 도입, 2013년 OTT의 등장이다. 국내의 경우 2012년 지상파TV의 디지털 전환도 큰 정책변화 중의 하나였다. 그러나 국내 미디어 정책 및 제도는 미디어 환경변화와는 무관하게 여전히 매체별 접근에 기반한 미디어 산업 균형발전 논리를 추구하고 있다. 미디어 정책변화에 따른 지상파 차세대 TV방송(ATSC 3.0) 활성화에 대한 현안 사항을 쟁점별로 분석하여 정책방안을 제언하면 첫째, 아날로그 시대부터 유지되어온 국내 방송정책 및 법제의 플랫폼별 칸막이 규제를 풀어 지상파 플랫폼 규제를 완화하여야 한다. 둘째, 정부의 지상파 ATSC 3.0 부가서비스(이동)부터 규제 완화와 지원이 필요한 시점이다. 셋째, 지상파 차세대 ATSC 3.0에 대한 재난매체 지정이 필요하다. 마지막으로 기술중립적 서비스 허가체계인 Negative 규제방식을 도입하여 사업자의 기술결합과 기술혁신에 대한 유인 독려가 필요하다.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.40-65
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to prevent enactment of regulations on the basis of fragmented claims by stakeholders about e-government business regulations, and to rather decide whether to introduce regulation by quantitative methods based on cost-benefit analysis. To this end, a quantitative regulatory analysis model is to be prepared based on the policy objectives to be pursued when preparing e-government regulations. First, for regulating e-government business, the policy objectives to be pursued were derived large and small categories by applying the Delphi technique. The importance of each policy objective item was then set by applying the AHP technique. Also, based on this analysis model, the appropriateness of the existing e-government regulations was analyzed. As a result of the analysis, many of the regulations partly met the objectives discussed at the time of enactment, but negative effects were also observed in terms of overall efficiency and consumer benefits.