• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.305-313
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• 2016

Movements of the lower limb are important for normal walking and smooth oscillation of the center of gravity. The ankle rotations such as dorsi-flexion, plantar-flexion, inversion and eversion allows the foot to accommodate to ground during level ground walking. Current below knee (B/K) prostheses are used for replacing amputated ankle, and make it possible for amputees to walk again. However, most of amputees with B/K prostheses often experience a loss of terrain adaptability as well as stability because of limited ankle rotation. This study is focused on the development of multi-rotational prosthetic foot for lower limb amputee. Our prosthesis is possible for amputees to easily walk in level ground by rotating ankle joint in sagittal plane and adapt to the abnormal terrain with ankle rotation in coronal plane. The resistance of ankle joint in the direction of dorsi/plantar-flexion can be manually regulated by hydraulic damper with controllable nozzle. Furthermore, double layered rubber induce the prosthesis adapt to irregular ground by tilting itself in direction of eversion and inversion. The experimental results highlights the potential that our prosthesis induce a normal gait for below knee amputee.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.210-218
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• 2016

Recently, as service design was introduced to improve the quality of public service, there have been many attempts to improve various public service. In the process, various stakeholders including general citizens are participating in the design improvement activity through a method of design service but the parties are facing a difficulty in the progress because of a limitation of time and budget and a lack of professionalism among the member while the parties are planning the process and activities based on the professional service design method. Persona method that is usually used in the process of service design is encountering a limitation as well. Also, there are continuous attempts to understand the limitation of persona and apply an alternative research method among service and UX designers. For this reason, this thesis is to recognize the limitation in deduction method of traditional persona and suggests a fast and economical production method of Rapid Persona speaking for the goal of users and overcoming the limitation. Furthermore, by applying the suggested method of making Rapid Persona to an actual public service design project of National Statistical Office, the test through an empirical study was conducted. This was conducted with the purpose of progressing a discussion in the respect of actual application beyond a banal discussion. Through the research method suggested in this study, it is expected to overcome the limitation of time and a lack of professionalism and, based on these, can be used in the process of various service design and UX design as establishing persona in a fast and easy way.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.63 no.3
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• pp.133-156
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• 2011

This study used the qualitative research for deeply interviewing Chinese-Koreans who live and work in Dearim-dong area, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, collectively. The variation of recognition to the local community at the migration early and the present and their response for overcoming their pending issues are studied through this, To understand the reality and conflict they encounter, the effort for overcoming the pending issues, the inner change of their own community, their fixed direction and so on becomes the core variables for integrating them to our society. They have formed the enormous cluster and have been already developed as the minority group. They are doing 'the struggle for recognition' for being recognized from the dominant group and trying to approach the politics for overcoming the inferiority of power. Accordingly, the intervention of social welfare to this minority group should be a more active working to protect the fragmentation of our society which can be resulted from the increasing influx of the foreigners and be also an approach to mutual enlightenment for making our society adapt to the phenomena of multi-nations and multi-cultures and for accepting them as the population.

• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.293-306
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• 2005

In order to bridge the digital divide issues in the Asia Pacific region, Japan initiated the Asia Broadband Program, during implementing E-Japan and U-Japan Plans with collaboration among Asia Pacific Counties. This paper describes first joint experiments that were undertaken in Japan, Singapore and China. Then this paper also describes Japanese efforts to build space infrastructure for development of ICT Society in the Asia Pacific region for further international cooperation to bridge the digital divide Article 1, para. 1, of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, calls for exploration and use of outer space to be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development. The augmentation of common benefit from space communication could contribute to bridge the digital divide issues in developing countries in Asia Pacific region. Accordingly, space- infrastructure building would be very important to implement common benefit among countries concerned through international cooperation and collaboration

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.59-69
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• 2014

Korea's spatial information companies have been supported by the government due to overcome the weak global competitiveness. This research examines possible causality between the request from the company and the policy support by the government. Structural equation model is used to analyze the recognized competitiveness and the supporting policy. The analysis result shows no statistically significant causality between the company's request and government's support. In other words, the current policies including subsidies, tax incentives, national certificates, and information channels do not impact the global competitiveness of a spatial information company. This research concludes that it is necessity to identify actual weaknesses of the company and to review the efficiency of the supporting policies to overcome those identified weaknesses.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.444-453
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• 2017

Moral education is essential to the military in fostering elite warriors to have clear sense of their nation and the security, while arming themselves with military spirit that strives for victory. To reach this goal, various moral education has been set forth through boot camp training, academic education, unit training, etc. depending on various subject and supporting agencies in question. Also, in order to heighten the effect of the education, various attempts to combine concert-style cultural activities with the programs are carried out. However, the ultimate goal for this moral education is to facilitate soldiers to voluntarily set their minds and will in combat, and the current education system lacks that motivation as it concentrates mostly on educating knowledges about nationality and security. Under such circumstances, various units have attempted to raise morality in creating many public and media activities within the unit, which proven to be successful. In theory, the usual definitions in the field of education such as emotion, interest, attitude, and personality can be expanded upon with public and media activities. With this in mind, we have researched on how effective this method is by conducting various public and media activities in multiple units, total of 531 soldiers, starting from June to July of 2016. As a result, these activities brought positive effects on young soldiers to build pride in their assigned units, and also increased their willingness to carry out their assignments and missions. Through this research, we drew to the conclusion that unit-level public and media activities, which was solely used for gaining trust and communicate with the general civilians, can be used to boost the soldiers moral strength and help them express the strength in action.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.59-67
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• 2020

This study aims to contribute to overcoming difficulties that disability assistance workers experience by verifying the effect of job stress and self-efficacy on their turnover intentions, and whether job engagement has a mediating effect in the process. For this purpose, a survey was performed on 290 disability assistance workers associated with disability support organizations in the Seoul and Gyeonggi area during the period of 2019.5.1.-2019.6.30. The collected survey data was analyzed with the SPSS 24.0 statistical software, the results of which are as follows. First, job stress and self-efficacy appears to affect job engagement. High levels of conflict and maladjustment in the workplace had adverse effects on job engagement, while high levels of emotional, evaluative, and informational support had positive effects. Second, job stress and self-efficacy also had an effect on turnover intentions. High levels of conflict, instability, and maladjustment in the workplace led to a higher level of turnover intentions. Third, job engagement had a mediating effect between job stress and turnover intentions. Fourth, job engagement had no mediating effect between self-efficacy and turnover intentions. These results serve to propose practical measures to reduce the job stress and improve the job engagement of disability assistance workers.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.13-28
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• 2018

This study aimed to suggest the tasks which public support groups should fundamentally perceive and develop support models based on it so that socioeconomic activities, which have been spreading in recent years, can settle in local communities. For this aim, this study was proceeded based on Gyeonggi Province, which has established socioeconomic support center at metropolitan councils and local government councils. The demands by Gyeonggi Province residents toward the policies by Ddabok communities and local community invigoration measures have been examined through demand survey. In the analysis, characteristics and support tasks of the demands have been identified based on the survey results and six support models have been developed according to the tasks. The derived tasks are overcoming low understanding of Ddabok communities, low participation in community activities, and poor will to perform socioeconomic practices and satisfying the demand toward community activity areas adjacent to residence. Furthermore, the differences with the residents who have an experience of taking part in the Ddabok Community Project have to be overcome. Based on these study findings, this study suggested that support models of integration style and differentiated style, response to demand style and customization to capability style, and resources-focused style and resources-scattered style are necessary in order for socioeconomic communities like Ddabok communities to settle in local communities.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.111-111
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• 2011

전 세계적으로 지구온난화에 따른 기상이변 또는 기후변화로 재해발생이 증가하고 있는 현실속에서 반복되는 재해를 극복하기 위해 세계 각지에서도 재해에 강한 도시와 마을 만들기에 대한 노력을 정책적으로 진행하고 있다. 우리나라의 경우 방재시범마을에 대한 연구를 3곳에서 진행중에 있으며 일본의 경우 한신 아와지 대지진 이후 방재마을 조성사업이 매우 활성화 되어 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 한국과 일본의 방재마을에 대한 이론 및 사례를 검토하고 분석하였다. 방재마을에 대한 정의 및 기본개념은 양국이 서로 유사하며 유형적인 면에서는 일본의 경우 자연재해 에방외에도 교통안전, 방범 분야까지 폭넓은 유형을 가지고 있었다. 또한 구조적, 비구조적 측면은 재해에 대한 사전, 사후대책이 근간이 되어 구축 운영된다는 것이 매우 유사하다. 그러나 실제 구축 사례를 살펴보면 한국의 경우 구조적 측면은 성숙단게에 이르럿지만 비구조적 측면의 경우 경험부족과 짧은 사업기간으로 아직 미성숙단계에 있다. 일본의 경우 주민 스스로가 필요한 조례를 제정하고 활동에 있어서 주민주도하의 마찌츠쿠리 활동을 실시한다는 점에서 시사하는 바가 크다. 이에 우리나라의 실정에 맞는 비구조적인 운영 방안 및 주민참여방안이 연구되어야 하며 행정조직의 발전방안등에 대한 연구또한 이루어져야 한다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.217-250
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• 1994

21세기까지 기술선진국(技術先進國)에 진입(進入)하기를 원하는 한국경제는 향후(向後) 기술(技術) 및 시장(市場) 불확실성(不確實性)이 큰 핵심기반기술(核心基盤技術)의 자립도(自立度)를 높여 나가야 할 입장에 있다. 네트워크의 활용(活用)은 이와 같은 기술 및 시장불확실성을 극복하는 유용한 방법일 뿐 아니라 WTO라는 새로운 교역질서하에서 더욱 중요해지는 기술정책(技術政策)의 주요수단(主要手段)이다. 본고(本稿)는 기술혁신네트워크를 통한 기술의 창출(創出) 및 확산과정(擴散過程)에 유의하면서 한국 기술혁신시스템을 장기전망(長期展望)하고 산업계(産業界), 학계(學界), 연구계(硏究界) 및 정부의 장기기술발전전략(長期技術發展戰略)을 도출하고 있다. 장기발전전략에 기반한 기술정책(技術政策)의 당면과제(當面課題)는 대학(大學), 공공연구기관(公共硏究機關), 중소기업(中小企業)의 기술혁신 기여도 향상을 위한 개혁과 제도개선으로 요약된다. 왜냐하면 국내의 연구기관, 대학, 중소기업 등의 기술적 기여가 부진하면 기업내(企業內) 세계분업(世界分業)을 전개하는 대기업(大企業)의 혁신활동이 국내경제(國內經濟)와 유리(遊離)되어 전개될 수 있기 때문이다. 대기업들이 해외연구개발거점(海外硏究開發據點)을 통하여 해외 연구자원을 활용하고 해외생산거점(海外生産據點)에서 생산된 소재, 부품의 역수입을 증대하는 전략에만 주력하게 되면 국내에 지식집약적(知識集約的)인 산업활동(産業活動)의 집적(集積)이 지연(遲延)된다.