• The Southeast Asian review
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.21-51
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• 2018

This article takes several approaches in explaining recent developments in Vietnam. First, it draws upon an array of sources that idealize Vietnam's embrace of capitalism and integration into the global market in order to sketch out its economy's progress in 2017. Second, it observes, evaluates, and diagnoses recent changes in the Vietnamese economy in the medium to long term by incorporating conflicting perspectives on Vietnam's performance as a capitalist country. Third, this article traces the power shifts that have risen from internal struggles in the Communist Party over political and social issues. Fourth, it elaborates on the aforementioned impact that foreign relations have had on socio-political developments in Vietnam, as well as the government's response. In so doing, it also attempts to evaluate, however briefly, the significance of the 25th anniversary of South Korea-Vietnam relations. Finally, it examines the public's reaction to the post-reform transitions in light of recent sociocultural changes. 2017 was a memorable year for Vietnam: a continuous march toward capitalism; the resulting expansion of the Vietnamese people's demands; political controversies and government control; the looming instability of United States-China relations and various attempts to address the situation. These events will inevitably replicate themselves in the future as the ostensibly socialist Vietnam adopts a capitalist model. The problem is that it is unclear whether these experiences will continue with the consent of the people of socialist Vietnam or engender resistance. It is difficult to achieve meaningful consent in the status quo of worsening inequalities, widespread corruption, monopoly on power, and sustained use of unskilled low-wage workers. In other words, when concerns such as welfare, public health, and the environment are set aside in favor of economic development and commercialization as they have been, discontent, rather than consent, will prevail. It is thus important to keep a watchful eye on the viability of the nominal economic growth, surface-level political stability, and strategic responses to foreign relations that took place in 2017.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.328-341
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• 2008

This study is to analyze impacts of a newly developed festival based on place attachment and involvement theories using SEM. The results are that there are positive relationships between festival involvement and festival impacts, but there are negative relationships between place attachment and the impacts. The results mean that residents may have not enough interaction with the newly developed festival. Therefore, the findings suggest that organizers and managers are need to make efforts to communicate with citizens and to enlarge place attachments with the festival.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.259-274
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• 2017

This study estimates the random utility function of fluid milk using 1,165 survey responses in Laos. It finds that both products' attributes and individual characteristics affect consumers' preference for the milk and the hypothetical brand of Laos-Korea has a potential compared to four real dairy products. Results also show that calories have a positive relationship with consumer's preference while the price and fat content have a negative one. The decision for choosing each brand is significantly affected by individual characteristics such as gender, age, whether or not respondents live with their children, the level of education, income, the frequency of purchasing milk per week, and the region where they live. The preference for five brands appears in the order of Foremost, Nabong, Thai-Danish, Meiji, and Lao-Korea, and probabilities of purchasing each brand at the mean level are 30.9%, 17.48%, 21.48%, 15.0% and 10.39%, respectively. Nabong that was Lao national milk brand still has a significant market power even though it was closed in 2008. The policies to promote milk industry by implementing its national milk brand again would be more effective if it focuses on the young generation, female consumers, families with children, quality of dairy products, and Vientiane capital areas.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.5
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• pp.31-65
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• 1992

석탄산업은 서민생활보호와 에너지 안보 등 국가정책 목표달성을 위하여 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 또한 태백지역의 경우에는 석탄산업의 존립이 지역사회의 생존과 직결되고 있어서 이의 활성화가 매우 긴요하다. 그러나 석탄산업은 작업환경이 나쁘고 임금수준 등의 제반 여건이 좋지 않고, 사양산업이라는 인식이 만연되어 있는 관계로 근로자들의 이직율이 높고 신규인력의 유입율도 낮아서 탄광의 운영에 커다란 애로요인으로 등장하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 상황에 직면해 있는 태백지역 탄광업체의 인력난을 해결해 보기 위하여 탄광근로자들을 대상으로 설문지를 배포하고 이를 분석하여 그 해결책을 모색해 보고자 했다. 이를 위해서 경로분석과 이원분산분석을 통해서 이직요인을 발견하고 이를 위한 다각적인 대응방안을 구상해 보았다. 연구결과 태백지역 인력난을 완화시키고 노동인력의 정착성을 제고시키기 위해서는 1) 기업내적(企業內的)인 방안(方案)으로 근로생활의 보람(quality of working life) 조성, 기업문화의 조성, 임금제도의 개선과 생산성 향상, 후생복지시설의 개선, 내부적 제도의 개선과 회사운영의 공개, 대외적 홍보, 2) 정부(政府)의 지원방안(支援方案)과 논의사항(論議事項)으로 석탄산업에 대한 재정적 지원, 소비성 서비스업에 대한 노동력 유출억제, 교육여건의 개선 그리고 해외광원수입에 관한 문제는 장애요인이 많으므로 가능한 신중한 검토가 수반되어야 한다는 것 등을 고려할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 1994.09a
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• pp.311-333
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• 1994

$\textbullet$ 1970년대 이후 국가가 주도한 수출 드라이브 정책에 힘입어 세계사에서 유래를 찾아볼 수 없는 경제 성장을 이룩하여 왔으나 반면 한국경제는 내수시장이 좁은 관계로 국내 정제의 대외 의존도가 심화되는 결과를 초래했음. $\textbullet$ 한국의 교역량은 세계적인 수준에 있음. ▶ 1993년 기준 해운 : 340,531,100톤 (99.5%) 1993년 기준 항공 : 246,176톤 ( 0.5%) (교역량의 대부분을 해운이 차지하고 있음) ▶ 국민 총생산량 : 230조억 ▶ 총물류비용 : 33조원 수송비용 : 13조원 보관비용 : 8조원 포장비용 : 5조원 하역비용 : 3조원 정보비용 : 2조원 기타비용 : 2조원 ▶ 물류 VAM 구축시 3조원 절감(물류비용의 9%추정) $\textbullet$ 해운이 교역량의 대부분을 차지하고 있지만 관련업계의 정보화가 되어있지 않아 선적기일의 지연이나 선복/화물의 적기확보 곤란 등에 따른 물류비용손실 이 막대함. 따라서 신속 정확한 국제운송물류정보를 통한 물류비용 절감 및 신규 영업 개발에 막대한 공헌을 할 수 있음. $\textbullet$ 해운시장의 개방에 따라 외국의 우수한 선박회사/정보사들이 한국시장에 참여하게 됨에 있어서 열악한 한국의 관련업체에서는 큰 타격을 입을 것이 확실한 바 적절한 대처 필요 $\textbullet$ 당사가 구축하고 있는 해운 및 물류관련 Database는 수출관련 기업체 (상대적으로 정보의 부족함을 느끼는 중소기업체)에 도움을 주어 기업의 경쟁력 강화를 통하여 경제의 활성화에 기여할 것으로 기대.(중략)

• 보일러설비
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• s.89
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• pp.57-59
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• 2001

자원고갈로 인해 국가적 사명을 투자되고 있는 대체에너지 개발은 현재 답보상태에 머물고 있다는 평가가 지배적이다. 고유가 시대 도래로 인해 에너지비용이 증가하고 대외적으론 기후변화협약시대가 다가오면서 국내 산업체에겐 대체에너지 개발보급은 절대절명의 과제로 떠오르고 있다. 이는 심야전력 보급에서 정책적인 문제를 드러내면서 더욱 절실히 요구되는 실정이다. 그럼에도 현재 대체에너지 개발보급은 그동안 기술개발에 치중해 보급에는 문제점을 들어내고 있는 상태다. 88년부터 2000년말까지 태양열, 연료전지 등 11개 분야에 1742억원이 투자되었다. 부문별 보급실적을 보면 태양열의 경우 태양열 온수기 18만 5천대와 급탄설비 3천대, 태양관의 경우 마라도등 12000개소에 약 4000kw, 풍력은 제주지역 등 17기를 보급, 약8000KW, 폐기물은 서울 경기 부산 등에 473기를 설치 가동중에 있다. 이 대체에너지의 현재 비중을 보면 폐기물이 $93.4{\%}$, 바이오 $3.3{\%}$, 태양열 $2.1{\%}$, 소수력 $0.8{\%}$등으로 나타났다. 현재 정부는 2003년까지 대체에너지 $2{\%}$보급을 목표로 하고 있다. 그러나 대체에너지는 산발적인 기술개발 과제추진으로 인해 특정분야의 전략적 개발 보급에 문제를 드러내는 등 회의적이다. 이와 함께 정부에만 매달려 있는 업계의 자립부족이 큰 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해선 현재의 개발과 보급의 괴리를 해결할 보완책을 제시하고, 정부는 기술성 경제성 시장성을 동시에 고려하는 체계적인 계획을 세워야 한다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.91-125
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• 2016

Vietnam's "Doi Moi", initiated in 1986, translated to high economic growth and rapid urbanization for the country, but also widened the gap between rural and urban areas. Vietnam's National Target Program on New Rural Development for 2010-2020 was aimed at developing the rural economy and improving the living standards of rural people, but after five years the urban-rural gap remains substantial. Two of the main reasons are the lack of investment capital and lack of effective ways to mobilize community involvement. In contrast, during the 1970s, rural areas in Korea experienced huge improvements under the "Saemaul Undong" movement. The program's success at promoting sustainable development in Korea's rural areas has inspired rural programs in other developing countries. In this paper, we compare and contrast the two movements to provide explanations for the different results between the two countries. Based on this analysis, and policy implications stemming from it, we recommend resource mobilization strategies to change villagers' attitude and increase their involvement in Vietnam's rural development movement, aligning with the inclusivity principle "people know, people discuss, people do and people check".

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.129-168
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• 2016

The Asia-Pacific region is not typically seen as one geographic or socio-economic space. Yet, 58 regional economies occupying the space of 28 million square kilometers from Turkey in the West, Russian Federation in the North, French Polynesia in the East and New Zealand in the South belong to the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). This commission provides a forum for member states that "promotes regional cooperation and collective action, assisting countries in building and sustaining shared economic growth and social equity". In 2013, ESCAP's members adopted the Bangkok Declaration to enhance efforts towards deeper regional economic integration. Yet this document neither proposes a concrete modality or modalities of achieving deeper integration, nor provides a sense of distance of individual countries to a "perceived" integrated Asia-Pacific.This paper aims to comprehensively quantify recent integration efforts of economies in the Asia-Pacific region. We provide an "index of integration effort" based on twelve metrics that measure the relative distance of a given economy to the region as an economic entity. Generally, we find that while the region has trended towards becoming integrated in general, both the level of integration and integration effort are inconsistent among Asia-Pacific economies. We discuss potential applications and extensions of the index in developing our perspective of the region's economic and social dynamics.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.229-275
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• 2016

We study the effect of the high-skilled emigration rate on the growth rate of the source countries. We incorporate the foreign direct investment and the policy variables into the panel model and also their interactions with the high-skilled emigration rate, as they are related to the network externality that may be created by the high-skilled emigrants working abroad. We apply the static fixed-effects model and compare it with the results obtained in the dynamic panel model with system generalized methods of moments estimators. We find the negative effect of the high-skilled emigration rate by itself and in its interaction with the foreign direct investment only in the dynamic model. However, we find positive coefficient for the interaction of the high-skilled emigration rate and the civil liberties index, which holds across the static and dynamic specifications. This implies that the effect of the high-skilled emigration rate on the growth rate of the source countries can be positive, and the extent is larger for countries with 'poor' civil liberties. The developing countries with low levels of foreign direct investment inflows and 'poor' civil liberties can best benefit from the high levels of skilled emigration outward. Through finding significant interactions with other variables, we confirm that the high-skilled emigration should be considered along with other related variables in measuring its impact on growth. The implications offer suggestions for the international trade and aid policies.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.55-79
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• 2013

The objective of this article is to explore the economic relationship between China and the surrounding dynamic Asian economies. It delves into China's influence over the Asian economies and whether this relationship is a market-led or de facto symbiosis. The three principal channels of regional integration analyzed in this article are trade, FDI and vertically integrated production networks. They are essentially based on the activities of the private-sector in these economies. China methodically expanded and deepened its economic ties with the regional neighbors. At the present juncture, China's integration with the surrounding Asia is deep. Another issue that this article explores is the so-called China "threat" or "fear" in Asia. It implies that China is crowding out exports of the other Asian economies in the world market place. Also, as China has become the most attractive FDI destination among the developing countries, it is apprehended that China is receiving FDI at the expense of the Asian economies. These concerns were examined by several empirical studies, and the inference is that they are exaggerated. This article concludes that the private-sector business activities in China and other rapidly growing Asian economies were (and are) instrumental in bringing together the production structures and real economies. The result is both convergence and integration among the dynamic Asian economies. Over the years China and its Asian neighbors has developed a close and symbiotic economic relationship and a de facto regional integration.