• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.504-508
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• 2010

A reducing labor is a big issue in rural community due to a increasingly aging society. In this paper, the water control system for corps production with a function of automatically controls and solar energy system is developed. The water level was measured by ultrasonic sensor and water gate was controlled by using servo motor. The system had included ATmega 128 control unit for signal controls. The water level control system will be able to contribute to the aging rural society.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2021

This study regards the need for jobs to overcome the poverty of the elderly in an aged society, and as well as researches ways to participate in active economic activities in old age. The results of the study are as follows. First, the legal system needs to be improved. In addition to institutional support for the expansion of jobs for the elderly, improvement of awareness of the elderly and reinforcement of infrastructure such as a delivery system are required, and a legal basis for this is needed. To this end, occupations targeting the elderly must be selected first, and legal procedures must be prepared by the government. Second, there must be social consideration and support for the elderly. Extension of the retirement age plays an important role in enhancing employment for the elderly. Along with the improvement of the legal system, social consideration is required. Therefore, since the elderly policy without social consensus is bound to fail, various support methods that can lead to social support must be devised. Third, the elderly must have a sense of poverty and willingness to rehabilitate themselves. Elderly people should not only ask for their children and social support. The elderly must be able to find a way to become the economic agent themselves. To do this, a basic awareness of the elderly poverty consciousness is needed, and a change of awareness to escape the poverty of the elderly is necessary. Therefore, the elderly need to be self-reliant, and they must choose jobs according to their own abilities. In conclusion, the elderly job program is a part of income increase that solves the poverty of the elderly in the aged society, and the elderly are required to actively participate in economic activities.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.215-228
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• 2021

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify cultural factors among older Americans that could influence them to accept new welfare technologies. This study also explored how social and cultural-based plans could increase the acceptability of welfare technologies for improving the quality of life of older adults in the future. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten professionals who work with older adults. The collected interview data were subsequently analyzed using a two-cycle open coding process. The data analysis generated 29 codes that were organized into 7 primary codes, or categories, and 22 secondary codes nested within the primary codes. Several themes were identified: individualism, family-oriented culture, pragmatism, low-context culture, privacy, fun-seeking culture, and a less hierarchical culture. These findings will inform the development of a future survey to examine the relationship between older adults' intentions when using technology and socio-cultural factors in community settings. In order to explore the different impact levels of the cultural factors found in this study, the future study will need to include measures for identifying socio-cultural variations among individuals in one country or across countries.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.121-128
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• 2015

This study analyzes the space in A Brighter Summer Day, covering the meaning of space from inside to outside of the film extended. A violent spaces in the inside causes Xiao Si'r's homicide, including society, house, and school. In the external space, the film's form presents director's attitude and will resisting against dominant system of society with an audience's space. The audience join the space being the director's intention, actively interpreting this film, doing self-reflection and taking an opportunity for social participation.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.99-104
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• 2008

As a part of improving early response system for senior emergency patients in rural areas in preparation for accelerated transition of Korea into aged society, this study seeks to make effective use of town broadcasting equipments and improve conventional educational ways for the first aid for senior people to boost up availability of private rescue personnel, so that it can contribute to improving capacity to early response to potential occurrence of emergency situations. In addition, this study focuses on profiling current activities of 119 geriatric Emergency Medical Services available in Korea, and also exploring possible ways to improve emergency services for senior safety which can play useful roles of social safeguard in imminent aged society as well as efficient ways to build up infrastructure for senior safety on the basis of opening up senior safety center.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.131-142
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• 2012

Since Korea is moving towards the aged society, increasing is the social attention on overall life satisfaction of the elderly. The purpose of this study is to find the factors affecting the life satisfaction of the elderly among demographic characteristics of aged people, categorized satisfactions and sources of income, based on the 2008 national survey data of the actual living condition of the elderly and welfare need. We found that many factors have significant impact on the life satisfaction of the elderly, such as demographic characteristics, the level of physical and mental health, the economic level.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.638-653
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• 2021

The study intends to understand the meaning of the family in the novel 「Aging Family」. The Novel texts were analyzed from the perspective of In-mo, the main character, using qualitative research methods. Findings show that his family members were non-blood related as well as blood related, and the meaning of his family was changed from a "family with no pride, no affection" to a family with "human affection" and "loyalty stronger than blood". Based on these results, some implications for family social welfare practices were discussed.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.279-279
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• 2010

• 가정의 벗
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• v.37 no.2 s.426
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• pp.4-6
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• 2004

보건복지부는 저출산$\cdot$고령화사회에 효과적으로 대처하고 공공보건 의료 확충 및 통상협력 등에 적극 대응하기 위해 정책기능을 대폭 확충하는 내용의 직제 개편을 단행하였다. 변화하는 미래사회를 대비한 적극적인 사업 추진이 기대되는 2004년도 주요 업무 계획을 살펴보기로 한다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.827-835
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• 2017

With the rapid progress of ageing several issues concurrently occur, and one important social issue that must be resolved is accidents involving Elderly drivers. Efforts to reduce the frequency of such accidents is a must in order to be prepared to face a superaged society. Currently people aged 65 or older are prescribed as an "Elderly person." Therefore, various studies concerning accidents involving Elderly drivers apply this age criteria to separate regular drivers and Elderly drivers. However, there is no criteria to practically discern Elderly drivers with certain physical features as vulnerable road users based on a level of acceptable accuracy. Therefore, this studies intends to compare the possibility of accidents by age group of Elderly drivers by correlation analysis to analyze the accident characteristics by age group. Results showed that for drivers aged 75 and older, their influence on major accident characteristics by vehicle type increased with higher age groups. In particular, passenger cars had a relatively low accident frequency rate for drivers aged between 70 and 80, but for drivers aged 75 to 84, they had higher influence on accidents for the same vehicle type. This demonstrates that as ageing progresses and the average life expectancy increases, the age span of elders continues to increase, meaning that characteristics differ by age group among the aged. This study confirmed that the influence on the possibility of accidents differs by age group among the aged.