• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.257-280
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• 2022

In this study, we analyzed comments on news articles of representative companies of the three industries (i.e., semiconductor, secondary battery, and bio industries) that had been listed as national strategic technology projects of South Korea to identify public opinions towards them. In addition, we analyzed the relationship between changes in public opinion and stock price. 'Samsung Electronics' and 'SK Hynix' in the semiconductor industry, 'Samsung SDI' and 'LG Chem' in the secondary battery industry, and 'Samsung Biologics' and 'Celltrion' in the bio-industry were selected as the representative companies and 47,452 comments of news articles about the companies that had been published from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020, were collected from Naver News. The comments were grouped into positive, neutral, and negative emotions, and the dynamic topics of comments over time in each group were analyzed to identify the trends of public opinion in each industry. As a result, in the case of the semiconductor industry, investment, COVID-19 related issues, trust in large companies such as Samsung Electronics, and mention of the damage caused by changes in government policy were the topics. In the case of secondary battery industries, references to investment, battery, and corporate issues were the topics. In the case of bio-industries, references to investment, COVID-19 related issues, and corporate issues were the topics. Next, to understand whether the sentiment of the comments is related to the actual stock price, for each company, the changes in the stock price and the sentiment values of the comments were compared and analyzed using visual analytics. As a result, we found a clear relationship between the changes in the sentiment value of public opinion and the stock price through the similar patterns shown in the change graphs. This study analyzed comments on news articles that are highly related to stock price, identified changes in public opinion trends in the COVID-19 era, and provided objective feedback to government agencies' policymaking.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.85-99
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• 2021

Graphene, called the "dream material" is drawing attention as a groundbreaking new material that will lead the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Graphene has high strength, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, excellent optical permeability, and excellent gas barrier properties. In this paper, as the South Korean government recently announced Green New Deal and Digital New Deal policy, we analyze graphene technology, which is also attracting attention for its application to Corona 19 biosensor, to understand its national R&D trend and knowledge structure, and to explore the possibility of its application. Firstly, 4,054 cases of national R&D project information for the last 10 years are collected from the National Science & Technology Information Service(NTIS) to analyze the trend of graphene-related R&D. Besides, projects classified as green technology are analyzed concerning the government's Green New Deal policy. Secondly, text mining analysis is conducted by collecting 500 recent graphene-related articles from e-newspapers. According to the analysis, the field with the largest number of projects was found to be high-efficiency secondary battery technology, and the proportion of total research funds was also the highest. It is expected that South Korea will lead the development of graphene technology in the future to become a world leader in diverse industries including electric vehicles, cellular phone batteries, next-generation semiconductors, 5G, and biosensors.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.185-207
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• 2012

Since the Hwang scandal, the South Korean state has expressed often-conflicting interests of encouraging stem cell research and the IVF industry to save the country and introducing the ethical regulation in conformity with "Global Standard." As the tightening ethical regulation of stem cell research has enervated the field of human Embryonic stem cell(hESC) research, somatic stem cells (re-)emerged as an alternative savior that could rescue the future of research communities, bio-industry, practicing doctors, patients and the nation itself from the crisis. The recent literature on Korean biotechnology, however, mainly focus on hESC and relatively little attention has been given to the rapidly growing field of research on somatic stem cells like hematopoietic stem cells(HSCs) or Adipose derived stem cells(ASCs). While the hESC therapy is often regarded as experimental and ethically controversial, the HSCs or Mesenchymal stem cell(MSC) therapies have already made their ways into people's everyday life through market without much public discussion. Many ordinary people in South Korea are familiar with the story of patients who survived leukemia with the HSCs treatment; the number of doctors who are actively marketing the ASCs therapies is on the rapid increase; the concept of cosmetic products made from ASCs is gaining popularity among consumers. In this context, this article argues that the current ethical debates solely focusing on hESC or on the state policy and research regulation are too limiting to fully illuminate the politics of stem cell technologies in South Korea.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.677-685
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• 2021

Cannabis sativa L. belongs to the Cannabaceae family and is an annual herbaceous flowing plant. The plants can be classified into narcotic marijuana and nonnarcotic hemp. Different parts of C. sativa L. have been used as food, medicine, cosmetics, fiber and textile. However, the use of leaf, flower, and seed of C. sativa L was forbidden in Korea in January 1977 as a result of the Cannabis Control Act due to the narcotic properties. The plant's mature stems have limited uses for the production of fiber and sheets. Recently, various cannabinoids, terpenes and essential fatty acids were identified from C. sativa L., and their safety and useful bio-activities, such as neuroprotective, anti-inflammation, antithrombosis, antiepileptic, and antimicrobial activities, and the relief of pain, have been highlighted. Furthermore, the process of reduction of tetrahydrocannabinol, a representative narcotic compound, and the isolation of cannabidiol, a nonnarcotic active compound in C. sativa L., have been determined. These findings resulted in the legalization of C. sativa L. in Korea for medical use in December 2018 and the exclusion of C. sativa L. from the narcotic list of the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs (UNCND) in December 2020. Therefore, developments of various high-value added products have commenced worldwide. Additionally, in 2021, the Korean government deregulated special zones based on hemp. In this study, the current status and the prospect of the hemp industry, as well as essential techniques for developing new hemp products, are provided for the activation of the Korea Green-Rush.

• KIPE Magazine
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.23-27
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• 2009

자동차 산업의 공통된 최대 이슈는 환경, 안전, 에너지, 편의이다. 이러한 시대적 요구에 따라 자동차 메이커들은 대응 방안 마련은 물론 시장 주도를 위한 기술개발 등 다양한 노력을 하고 있으며, 전장부품과 센서 등 최첨단 하이테크 기술과 플라스틱 , 나노, 하이브리드 소재 등이 적용된 다양한 부품들을 자동차에 적용시키고 있다. 또한수소연료전지, 바이오디젤, 태양광, 전기 등 석유 대체 에너지를 적용한 차세대 연료 자동차들이 전세계 모터쇼 등 전시회에 출품되어 세계의 이 목을 집중시키고 있으며 , 이미 일본과 미국시장을 중심으로 하이브리드 전기 자동차(HEV) 및 수소연료전지 자동차 (FCEV) 시장이 확대대고 있는 실증이다 따라서 국내에서도 그런카에 대한 관심도가 증가하고 있고 일부에서는 개발에 박차를 가하고 있다. 이에 그린카에 대한 간단한 구조와 최근 연구동향에 대해서 기술하고자 한다.

• Clean Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.459-463
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• 2013

Recent rapidly growth in nanotechnolgies is promised novel benefits through the exploitation of their unique industrial and biomedical applications. In addition, these nanomaterials and nano-consumer products have increased in quantity per year, and thus their uncontrolled release into the environment is anticipated to grow dramatically in future. Many papers for cytotoxicity of nanomaterials have been already reported, and thus government supports has funded to various research topics for nanosafety. Herein, we analyzed the importance and performance of nanosafety researches and tried to show the research direction where we have to go.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.1181-1184
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• 2023

최근 드론은 군사 작전, 물류 운송, 인명 구조 등 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있으며 관련 산업의 규모는 증가하는 추세이다. 이에 따라, GPS 스푸핑, 조종사 비익명화 등의 드론을 향한 공격 기법들 또한 발달하고 있다. 이런 공격들은 드론에 대한 인증을 도입함으로써 대비할 수 있는 공격들이다. 이에, 학계에서는 강건한 인증을 위해 드론 하드웨어의 고유 특성을 활용할 수 있는 RF 신호, 소리 신호, 드론 내부 센서 신호 등에 기반한 인증 기술들이 연구되어온 바 있다. 본 논문에서는 지금까지의 드론 인증 기술 연구 동향을 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 향후 연구 방향을 제시한다.

• Clean Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.215-221
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• 2007

Biosorption is considered to be a promising alternative to replace the present methods for the treatment of dye-containing wastewater. In this study, sewage sludge was used as a biosorbent which could be one of the cheapest and most abundant biomaterials. The objective of this work is to develop a surface-modified biosorbent with enhanced sorption capacity and binding affinity. The FT-IR and potentiometric titration studies revealed that carboxyl, phosphateand amine groups played a role in binding of dye molecules. The binding sites for reactive dye Reactive Red 4 (RR 4) were identified to be amino groups present in the biomass. In this work, based on the biosorption mechanism, the performance of biosorbentcould be enhanced by the removal of inhibitory carboxyl groups from the biomass for practical application of the biosorbents. As a result, the maximum capacity of biomass was increased up to 130% and 210% of the increment of sorption capacity at pH 2 and 4, respectively. Therefore, chemically modified sewage sludge can be used as an effective and low-cost biosorbent for the removal of dyes from industrial discharges.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.517-518
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• 2018

국내 제약 산업은 상위 30대 기업이 전체 생산 매출의 55.1%를 차지하는 불균형적인 구조를 가지고 있으며, 중소업체들은 공급자 과잉의 힘든 상황 속에 처해 있다. 이러한 가운데 중소제약업체를 중심으로 기존 설비를 활용하여 외국 제약회사의 Original 의약품을 복제한 Generic 의약품을 생산하여 납품하는 OEM/ODM 방식의 위탁생산이 증가하고 있다. 또한 글로벌 바이오의약품을 중심으로 CMO(Contract Manufacturing Organization) 생산에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 의약품 위 수탁 사업에 있어서 영업사원의 핵심역량인 정보제공, 전문성, 판매기술, 태도 및 관계형성, 업무유연성이 고객 만족에 미치는 영향을 분석하여 CMO업체의 경쟁력 강화를 위한 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.3-11
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• 2019

최근 화장품 산업은 제약사들을 중심으로 기업들이 보유한 바이오 및 의약 기술을 접목하여 기능성 화장품 개발에 주목하고 있다. 화장품과 의약품의 경계가 무너지고 코스메슈티컬이 화장품 산업의 블루오션 시장으로 각광받고 있다. 특히 현대병으로 알려진 고질적 피부질환 아토피성 피부 인구가 늘면서 아토피 기능성 스킨케어 시장이 급부상하고 있다. 98년부터 시작된 아토피 관련 시장은 국내 약국 아토피성 화장품 시장 100억 원을 포함해 현재 700억원대로 급성장하고 있어 앞으로 확고한 수익 시장으로 자리잡을 것이라 전망되고 있다. 현 사회에서 심각한 문제로 인식되는 아토피 피부를 치료할 수 있는 다양한 화장품 제품들이 급증하고 있으므로, 본 기획에서는 아토피 화장품 시장의 현황, 동향 및 전망을 분석하여 살펴보고자 한다.