• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.104-114
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• 2015

Seomin has been used frequently in mass media and political discussion. However, who is Seomin, how to define Seomin, and whether Seomin and middle class are different has been rarely discussed. This study conducted both national level of survey and in-depth interviews and explored how to define Seomin and who respondents think as Seomin. The majority of respondents consider themselves as Seomin and that monthly income is the most important criteria to define Seomin. Seomin was considered as those who have high school education and 200~300(million won) monthly income, live in a rented house, and work as a small-scale self-employer, skilled laborer, and low level of white collar workers. Also, Seomin is a precarious group which can achieve upward or downward mobility and is located between low and middle class. Those who have Seomin identity tend to have pride in their social status and hope for upward mobility rather than depreciate their social status or envy the middle class. In order for Seomin to be able to achieve upward mobility and to maintain pride in current status, diverse social policies are needed. Further analyses on examining characteristics and policy needs of Seomin are needed.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.717-741
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• 2012

This paper investigates the role of perceived income hierarchy and political affiliation in individual attitudes toward environmental protection. Estimation results show that rises in perceived income hierarchy increase the possibility of agreement to an increase in taxes to prevent environmental pollution in general, but not linearly increase it. As individuals are more satisfied with the financial situation of their household, they are more likely to agree to an increase in taxes. These results imply that individual attitudes toward environmental protection can be deteriorated even though average household income level increases, if either the degree of financial satisfaction decreases or income inequality worsens. We find that there is no difference between the liberals and the conservatives on the likelihood of paying additional tax to prevent environmental pollution. This result differs from the cases of Western society, which indicate that the liberals are more likely to pay for environmental protection.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.17-52
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• 2018

The purpose of this paper is to measure the clustering change and analyze empirical results. Additionally, by using k-means, hierarchical, and mixed models on Asian container ports over the period 2006-2015, the study aims to form a cluster comprising Busan, Incheon, and Gwangyang ports. The models consider the number of cranes, depth, birth length, and total area as inputs and container twenty-foot equivalent units(TEU) as output. Following are the main empirical results. First, ranking order according to the increasing ratio during the 10 years analysis shows that the value for average linkage(AL), mixed ward, rule of thumb(RT)& elbow, ward, and mixed AL are 42.04% up, 35.01% up, 30.47%up, and 23.65% up, respectively. Second, according to the RT and elbow models, the three Korean ports can be clustered with Asian ports in the following manner: Busan Port(Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Qingdao, and Singapore), Incheon Port(Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Manila, and Bangkok), and Gwangyang Port(Gungzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, and Kasiung). Third, optimal clustering numbers are as follows: AL(6), Mixed Ward(5), RT&elbow(4), Ward(5), and Mixed AL(6). Fourth, empirical clustering results match with those of questionnaire-Busan Port(80%), Incheon Port(17%), and Gwangyang Port(50%). The policy implication is that related parties of Korean seaports should introduce port improvement plans like the benchmarking of clustered seaports.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.232-241
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• 2000

This study suggests an integrated method based on concept hierarchies, information gain, and rough set theory for efficient discovery rules from a large amount of data, and implements an optimal rules discovery system. Our approach applies attribute-oriented concept ascension technique to extract generalized knowledge from a database, knowledge reduction technique to remove superfluous attributes and attribute values, and significance of attributes to induce optimal rules. The system first reduces the size of database by removing the duplicate tuples through the condition attributes which have no influences on the decision attributes, and finally induces simplified optimal rules by removing the superfluous attribute values by analyzing the dependency relationships among the attributes. And we induce some decision rules from actual data by using the system and test rules to new data, and evaluate that the rules are well suited to them.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.113-118
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• 2022

Global warming has also increased the number of casualties caused by heat-related diseases caused by heat waves along with an increase in global temperature. The vulnerable groups from heat wave damage are outdoor workers and the elderly in particular, and it is necessary to respond the increasing heat wave damage. We propose a real-time control platform in order to reduce casualties of the vulnerable group from heatwaves, this research collects and analyzes user's vital signs data from wearable devices that generates alarms out of the suspected victims who are expected to be affected by heat-related illness and to respond quickly.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.557-565
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• 2015

Sea level rise due to global warming causes seawater intrusion into aquifers in coastal areas. Seawater intrusion vulnerability index was developed using PSR (Pressure, State, Response) model and analysis hierarchy process (AHP). Coastal regions in Korea, Gangwon-do Sokcho-si, Incheon-si Ganghwa-gun, Chungcheongnam-do Taean-gun, Jeollanam-do Yeosu-si, Jindo-gun were chosen and 14 indicators were selected by considering the humanities, economic, social, environmental aspects. Re-scaling method was used for the standardization of indices and questionnaire survey was performed to calculate weight values for each index. The results showed that Yeosu-si was selected as the most vulnerable region to seawater intrusion. The seawater intrusion index developed in this research can be used to analyze the vulnerable regions to seawater intrusion and to establish a policy to minimize the seawater intrusion problems in coastal regions.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.549-572
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• 2004

This paper develops the methodology for the indexation of Sustainable Development Indicators(SDIs) in 4 sectors(social, environmental, economic, and institutional sectors), and provides the empirical results of Sustainable Development Index(SDI) for Korea from 1990 to 2001. Given 1995 as the basic year, the trend of SDI for Korea displays a slowly curving U-shape. The down trend of SDI until mid-90's results from the decline of SDI in economic and environmental sectors, and the uptrend of SDI after mid-90's results from the sharp rising of SDI in social and institutional sectors. The implication of the results is that Korea generally shows a positive trend toward the sustainable development. However, there should be a careful consideration about partly downward trend in individual SDIs, because of the different trend of SDI in each sector.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.34-43
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• 2016

Urban development and population increases are continuously progressed in the coastal areas in Korea, thus it is expected that vulnerability towards coastal disasters by sea level rise (SLR) would be accelerated. This study investigated trend of the sea level data using Mann-Kendall (MK) test, and the results showed that the increasing trends of annual average sea level at 17 locations were statistically significant. For annual maximum extremes, seven locations exhibited statistically significant trends. In this study, non-stationary frequency analysis for the annual extreme data together with average sea level data as a covariate was performed. Non-stationary frequency analysis results showed that sea level at the coastal areas of Korean Peninsula would be increased from a minimum of 60.33 mm to a maximum of 214.90 mm by 2100.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.605-605
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• 2015

최근 지구온난화로 인해 전 세계적으로 기상이변이 발생하여 강우량과 집중호우 발생빈도가 증가하는 추세이다. 특히 동북아시아 지역은 인구밀도가 높아 강우량 및 집중호우 발생빈도 증가에 따른 도시홍수 발생확률이 높으며 홍수피해가 가중될 수 있다. 또한 도심지에 위치한 하천의 외수위 상승 및 배수시설 설계빈도 이상의 강우의 발생빈도가 증가하여, 기존 홍수방어대책으로는 제어하기 어려운 실정이다. "수자원장기종합계획(2011~2020), 2011, 국토해양부"에 따르면 기상청의 한반도 장기 미래 전망을 21세기말(2071년~2100년)에 대해 한국 평년 기온은 $4^{\circ}C$정도 상승하고, 강우량도 증가할 것으로 전망하고 있다. 따라서 도심지에 위치한 하천의 외수위 상승 및 배수실 설계빈도 이상의 강우가 빈번히 발생하여 기존 홍수방어대책으로는 제어하기 어려운 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 연구 대상지역인 서울, 북경, 도쿄 지역의 과거 도시홍수 사례의 비교분석을 통하여 집중호우 빈발, 기존 방재시설물의 기후변화 대응능력 부족, 저지대지역 지형적 영향, 무분별한 도시개발로 인한 도시지역 불투수면적의 증가, 고령화와 재해취약계층 등 여러 가지 도시홍수 재해 영향인자들을 제시하였다. 앞으로 도시홍수 발생의 근본 원인 파악 및 홍수관리 효과를 최대화 시킬 수 있는 대책 설립에 대한 연구가 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 동북아시아 지역 도시홍수로 인한 인명 재산 피해를 최소화하기 위해 기존 한국, 중국, 일본 삼국의 주요 도시별 홍수에 대한 구조적 비구조적 방어대책을 종합하고 비교분석을 실시하였다. 향후, 국내외 도시홍수 저감대책 수립을 위한 참고자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.375-384
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• 2020

This study examined the trajectories of the marital satisfaction of parents to classify its latent classes and how marital satisfaction influences the behavioral problems of their children between the identified latent classes. The 1st to 8th and 10th data from the Korea Child-Adolescent Panel Survey were analyzed using the latent class growth analysis and BCH method. First, based on the mother's trajectory of marital satisfaction, five latent classes were identified: 'low constant', 'intermediate constant', 'temporary increment-constantly decrement', 'high constant, and 'highest constant'. At the same time, based on the father's trajectory of marital satisfaction, four latent classes were identified: 'increment', 'intermediate-slightly decrement', 'high-slightly decrement', and 'highest constant'. Second, mothers with low marital satisfaction had more children with behavioral problems, and their influence had more problems with internalized behavioral problems. These problems progressed to externalized behavioral problems as they grew. Both internalized and externalized behavioral problems were also found between the identified latent classes of the father's marital satisfaction. Children of fathers with low marital satisfaction showed more behavioral problems. These findings suggest that the marital satisfaction of parents is an important variable that can influence the behavioral problems of their children.