• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.20-36
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• 2020

Purpose - As the global product network expands through both internationalization and diversification of the multimodal transportation system, corporate strategies have shifted to emphasize the importance of a high value-added international logistics system. To guide policies and strategies to attract relevant industries, this study aims to analyze the location competitiveness of regional logistics distribution center to serve Northeast Asia. Design/methodology - Multi-criteria techniques are considered to offer a promising framework for evaluating decision-making factors. This paper employed an analytic hierarchy process to analyze the hierarchal structure of determinants for selecting the location of a regional logistics distribution center. Adopting both qualitative and quantitative evaluations, this study suggest political implications for a regional logistics distribution center development, such as the direction of political support, service differentiation and infrastructure development. Findings - This study developed a location competitiveness evaluation model, based on the case study of the major port-cities in Northeast Asia. Evaluation model incorporates five factors underpinning 17 components extracted using factor analysis. The results revealed that the logistics factor is the most significant factor for evaluating the competitiveness of a regional logistics distribution center. The remaining factors were market, costs, and services environment. Comparing qualitative and quantitative evaluations, results provide useful insights for a regional logistics distribution center development in Northeast Asia. Originality/value - This study revealed differences between qualitative and quantitative evaluations. The finding implies that prior works on evaluation models of competitiveness has not successfully measured the gap between quantitative data and expert' evaluations. To overcome this limitation, this paper considered both actual data such as actual distance, cost, the number of companies located, and expert opinions.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.245-245
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• 2023

This paper examines the extent to which the Mekong River Basin countries have achieved socioeconomic benefits based on regional cooperation through the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Program, focusing on hydropower development and the Mekong Power Grid. This study pays attention to the time period from 2012 to 2022. The benefit sharing approach is employed to evaluate the extent to which hydropower development and the Mekong Power Grid have contributed to the regional energy trade in the GMS program. The GMS program was launched by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1992, and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam have taken an active part in the program. The goals of the GMS program are to achieve poverty alleviation, economic development, and regional cooperation in various sectors, including energy, tourism, and transportation. The GMS Economic Cooperation Program Strategic Framework 2030 (GMS-2030), in 2021, provides a new framework for prosperous and sustainable development in the river basin. In the energy sector, the GMS program has been instrumental in facilitating hydropower development and creating the Mekong Power Grid with the Regional Grid Code (RGC), contributing to economic benefits and promoting regional trade of hydroelectricity. It is argued that the GMS program has enhanced regional cooperation between the riparian countries. Despite such achievements, the GMS program has faced challenges, including the gap of economic development between the riparian countries, socioeconomic and environmental concerns regarding hydropower development between the Upper and Lower Mekong countries, and geopolitical tensions from the US-China rivalry. These challenges should adequately be addressed within the program, which can guarantee the sustainability of the program for the river basin.

• 무역학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.217-236
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• 2017

본 연구는 2000~2014년 기간 동안 한국의 16개 지역에 유입된 IFDI가 지역성장에 미치는 영향을 동태적 패널모형인 시스템 GMM을 적용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과, 한국에 유입된 IFDI는 지역 내 경제성장 즉 자본형성, 고용창출, 수출확대 등에서 정(+)의 효과가 나타났으나, 수입은 부(-)의 효과가 발생하였다. 반면, 인적자본은 정(+)의 효과를 보였으나 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다. 한편 권역별로 유입된 IFDI의 성장효과를 살펴보면, 수도권과 동남권은 GRDP의 성장에 부(-)의 효과를 보인 반면, 대경권에서는 정(+)의 효과를 보였다. IFDI유입과 인적자본 간 보완관계에서도 유사하게 나타났다. 본 연구는 한국에 유입된 IFDI가 지역성장에 중요한 요인이지만, 지역 내 GRDP에 미치는 성장효과는 지역특성에 따라 차이가 존재한다는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 지역 내 유입된 IFDI의 성장효과를 확대하기 위해서는 지역특성에 맞는 IFDI유치전략과 함께 산업구조개편이 시급하다고 판단된다.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.191-205
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• 2016

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a Roman period guide to trade and navigation in the Indian Ocean. Justly famous for offering a contemporary and descriptive account of early Indian Ocean trade, the work has been subject to and a point of departure for numerous studies. Its extensive influence on scholarship is, however, also problematic, as it reflects the limited information and cultural and personal bias of its unknown author. Arguably this might have led scholars to overemphasise so-called western or Roman participation in early Indian Ocean trade. Network analysis allows us to map, visualize and measure interconnectedness in the Periplus Maris Erythraei. Many of these connections are not explicitly mentioned in the text, but by connecting not only places with places, but also products with places that export and import them, we get a partly different impression of Indian Ocean trade from that conventionally gathered from the Periplus. It allows us to ask questions about the relationship between coastal cabotage and transoceanic shipping, to identify regional trading circuits, and unexpected centres of long-distance exchange.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.19-34
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• 2019

This study investigates the WTO dispute over Japanese fishery products originated from Fukushima and another seven prefectures. Being subject to an import ban and additional radioactive test requirements, Japan complained that the Korean government's trade measures are inconsistent with the principles of the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. This paper considered the contrasting judicial decisions made by the Panel and Appellate Body and analyzed the debates with respect to their trade-discriminatory effects (Article 2.4), the relevance of appropriate level of protection (Article 5.6) and the precautionary approaches (Article 5.7). Consistent with the final rulings, this paper identifies the need for a broaden understanding of regional conditions and qualitative aspects of protection in risk analysis. Findings also suggest that Korea has diverted its fishery imports from Japan to other countries, while Japan has created export diversion from Korea to other destinations.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.163-186
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• 2014

This paper argues that the formation of regional integration frameworks can be best understood as a dominant state's attempt to create a preferred regional framework in which it can exercise exclusive influence. In this context, it is important to observe not only which countries are included in a regional framework, but also which countries are excluded from it. For example, the distinct feature of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is its exclusion of China, and that of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is its exclusion of the United States (US). An exclusion of a particular country does not mean that the excluded country will perpetually remain outside the framework. In fact, TPP may someday include China, resulting from a policy of the US "engaging" or "socializing" China rather than "balancing" against it. However, the first step of such a policy is to establish a regional framework from which the target country of engagement is excluded.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2011

China's proposal of the CAFTA (China-ASEAN Free Trade Area) in 2001 prompted a great debate about whether China was a trade competitor of ASEAN, given their similarity in economic development levels and trade/export structures. That Beijing shifted its focus on economic cooperation from the international level to the regional level led to its proposal of the CAFTA. As the Framework Agreement (Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between China and ASEAN) showed, Beijing's careful consideration for four newer ASEAN members (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) intended not only to help all ASEAN members develop economically, but also to narrow the economic gap existing between them and the six old ASEAN members; in return, China was recognized as a full market economy, which it is not currently recognized within the framework of the WTO. The substantial rise in bilateral trade and the structural changes of the trade in goods between China and ASEAN member nations after 2001 proves that ASEAN benefited more from the CAFTA, particularly when the areas where ASEAN had the comparative advantages were designated as the priority cooperation areas between China and ASEAN. In sum, similarities existing in economic development levels and industrial structures between China and ASEAN made them natural economic competitors. However, closer studies of trade in goods of S1-7, S1-6 and S1-0 reveal that China acted as an increasingly complementary trade partner of ASEAN after 2001.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.83-103
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• 2016

본 연구는 무역 자유화 추세에 따라 국가 간 농식품 무역 구조의 특성이 어떻게 변화하는가를 규명한 것이다. 이를 위해 2000-2014년 동안 HS 코드 기준 농식품 4개 품목의 45개국 간 수출액 통계를 이용하고 사회네트워크 분석방법을 적용하여 교역 네트워크의 중심성 및 응집구조 등을 파악하였다. 분석결과 첫째, 지역 간 연계는 확대되고 있으나 여전히 역내 네트워크의 연결정도가 강하게 나타난다. 둘째, 경제통합 정도가 가장 높은 유럽국가들이 농식품 교역의 중심국가 위상을 차지한다. 셋째, 아시아 지역 농식품 교역에서 통합정도가 강화되는 품목은 채소 및 각종 가공식품이다. 이는 역내 경제통합이 유사한 문화권에서 비롯된 농식품 교역을 활성화시킬 것이라는 것을 유추하게 한다. 넷째, 한국이 RCEP과 TPP 등 메가 FTA에 참여할 경우 한국 농식품 교역의 네트워크 지위가 강화되며, 특히 가공식품의 경우 그 효과가 현저하게 나타난다. 이는 상이한 지역 간의 경제통합 환경을 반영하여 한국 농식품 교역의 공간정책을 수립하는 것이 무엇보다 필요함을 시사한다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.293-316
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• 2002

본 연구는 북한이 1991년에 처음 자유경제무역지대로 지정하여 개방한 나진-선봉지구에 대한 기초적인 지역연구의 일환으로서. 입지특성과 지역구조를 밝히는데 중점을 두었다. 3차에 걸친 현지답사와 위성사진. 그리고 관련자료를 수집하여 지난 10년간 토지이용과 지역구조 변화여부를 분석하였다. 입지적 특성인 중계기지로서의 역할은 인프라 구축 미비, 수출가공기지로서의 역할은 주변지역과 산업연계 부족 등이 문제점으로 확인되었다. 10개 계획공업구는 자체 산업구조의 취약과 공업구간의 유기적인 기능 분담이 이루어지지 않아 효율성과 잠재력이 뒤떨어지는 것으로 평가되었다. 앞으로 이 지구의 성공 여부는 북한 당국의 의지와 여러가지 입지적 문제들을 어떻게 극복하느냐에 달려 있다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2018

Purpose - The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) among 16 countries including South Korea, the largest free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region, will be concluded next year. The participating countries decided to pursue a comprehensive and high -quality agreement, while ensuring flexibility considering development level of each country. In this study, trade structures between nations from 2005 through 2016 were examined to see the impact that this agreement will have on Korea and to come up with effective countermeasures. Research design, data, and methodology - The method of analysis includes the analysis of the trade matrix, which is useful for identifying the dependency of the individual countries on the market in the region and the reciprocal dependency of the member countries on the market, and the index of intensity of trade, which is useful for figuring out the share of trade between the parties in total trade. Results - The results showed that first, the international trade coefficients of Vietnam and Philippines are higher than those of China and Japan. Secondly, the international inducement coefficients between China and Japan were high, and that between Indonesia and Burma were low, indicating that Korea's exports did not have much effect on export increase of these countries. Third, as a result of analyzing Korea's trade intensity, it was found that export intensity and import intensity were greater than 1 in Vietnam and Philippines, which shows that there is a high degree of relational bond with these countries. India and Laos countries still have a low level of relational bond, which indicates that there is room for improvement in economic relations when the agreement is concluded. After the signing of the agreement in the future, more diverse industrial structures should be continuously studied. Conclusions - The analysis of trade matrix, trade structure, trade inducement coefficient and trade intensity between Korea and RCEP participating countries shows that the majority of the countries have the high level of economic relationship with Korea. Korea should drive a harder bargain when negotiating the terms of the RCEP, in comparison with the level of the existing FTA agreement excluding Japan.