• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.230-230
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• 2012

일본의 상하수도 사업은 국토교통성(하수도)과 후생노동성(상수도)으로 크게 양분되어 있으며, 환경성이 수질을 담당하는 체제로 이루어져 있다. 이는 수량과 수질을 분리하고 있는 우리나라와도 크게 다를 바가 없다. 그러나 중앙에서의 다원적인 분리와는 또 다른 차원으로 지방자치단체에서는 상하수도 통합이 급속도로 진행되고 있다. 이는 기후변화라는 지구적 환경의 변화와 더불어 해외 물산업에 대한 경쟁력이 밑바탕이 되면서 가속화되고 있다. 즉, 아시아의 신흥국을 중심으로 급격한 경제발전에 따른 인구가 증가하면서 정수장 및 하수처리장의 건설과 더불어 누수 및 도수(盜水) 문제가 현재화하면서 이에 대한 운영관리기술의 도입이 시급해졌기 때문이다. 이러한 과제를 해결할 수 있는 충분한 기술과 경험을 보유하고 있는 일본의 지방자치단체가 해외 물산업을 전제로 지자체 내의 상하수도 통합을 추진하고 있다. 본 연구는 이처럼 이원적으로 이루어지고 있는 일본 상하수도 업무의 법제도적 차이를 살펴보고, 특히 지자체를 중심으로 전개되고 있는 상하수도 통합과정의 동향과 의의를 풍중시((豊中市)토요나까시)의 사례를 중심으로 살펴보았다. 풍중시(豊中市)는 2008년 상하수도 통합을 천명하면서 기존의 운영방침에서 크게 탈각하는 정책을 취하게 되었고, 이 정책을 통하여 시의 지속가능한 발전 및 위기관리체제를 일신하고, 나아가 기후변화에의 대응력 강화에까지 그 범위를 확장하고 있다. 지자체의 상하수도 통합논의가 가속화되는 반면, 일본 중앙 정부에서는 아직 이렇다 할 움직임을 보이지는 않고 있다. 이는 부처간의 이견차이가 큰 부분인 만큼 쉽사리 제도적인 변경으로 움직이기는 어려울 것이다. 그러나 밑으로부터의 이러한 거대한 개혁움직임과 그 동인의 정당성을 확보해가고 있는 과정을 감안한다면 정부차원의 상하수도 통합이 완전히 부정되기도 어렵다. 상하수도 통합논의와 관련한 일본의 사례는 향후 우리나라 상하수도 정책을 재검토할 수 있는 계기가 될 것이다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.181-200
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• 2003

Comovement of international stock market prices has been lately a major controversy in the global stock market. This paper explores whether the common trend has really existed among the US, Japan and Korea's stock markets using the econometric techniques such as VAR, VECM as applied. Pair of indices from the exchange market and the over-the-counter market in each country has been tested, and the exchange market only has been turned out that the common trend existed. The dynamic analyses using the Granger causality test, impulse response function, and the forecast error decomposition have followed to show that the US stock market has played some important role in the Korea and Japan's market in the exchange as well as in the OTC market. The results of the paper imply that the more careful investigation with respect to the co-integration may be necessary in the global market integration studies.

• Journal of International Area Studies (JIAS)
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.421-440
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• 2010

This paper examines middle powers' ODA policy in the post cold war era and discusses its implication for Korean aid strategy. Middle powers' ODA has been more successful than that of super powers in promoting donors' positive images and in stimulating recipient countries' development. Middle powers tend to pursue multilateral solutions to international problems often by taking a mediator role, and their ODA policies set them apart from the great players in international politics. Middle powers' ODA is primarily aimed at reducing poverty and protecting human rights in least developed countries where humanitarian aid needs the most rather than promoting donors' interests. Also, middle powers have provided bilateral untied aid in the sectors of food aid and emergency relief and steadily devoted about 0.7% of their gross national income to ODA. Meanwhile, Korea as an emerging middle power and a new donor has been implementing its own aid strategy under the name of the Korean development model since the post cold war period. The Korean ODA was not successful in building donors' positive images by simply following the short term strategies of US and Japan. Yet, its ODA policy has been quite effective in sustaining local development by creating specific niches in which the country can specialize in. In specific, Korea has focused on developing the sectors of information and communication technology and industry energy in recipients' countries by maximizing its comparative advantage.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.183-193
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• 2020

This study attempts to interpret the causes of offshoring and reshoring, find out facilitating factors and the areas where these happen mainly. In viewpoint of self-organization phenomena, the theory of prospect, quantitative analysis is performed by utilizing actual data of American Reshoring Association. This study shows that offshoring to the U.S. is positively correlated with market power in the U.S. and innovation of investment countries, while reshoring to U.S. is positively correlated with market power in the U.S. not with technology innovation. The reshoring of U.S. companies is influencing offshoring to U.S, emerging countries such as Asia tends to focus offshoring in short catch up cycle area like IT. This study is expected to contribute to investment support policy and decision for optimal production site. Further study will complete the economic benefit assessment model by reinforcing the impact factors of reshoring and offshoring.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.93-98
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• 2018

The article studies macroeconomic effects of the oil shock for Korea, which is a representative emerging economy of Asia and a small open economy. This article analyzed the macroeconomic effects of oil shocks in terms of demand and supply. In the case of Korea, oil price shocks different responds depending on factors of shock. Oil supply shock have led to a decline in industrial activity and interest rate, and oil specific demand shock have shown the greatest increase in interest rate relative to other oil price shocks. In addition, oil demand shock driven by economic activity showed that the comsumer price and the exchange rate are the largest compared to the oil shock caused by other factors. Therefore, policy makers will need to identify the source of the oil shock.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.100-116
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• 2018

Recently, with the US protection trade trend, South Korea 's exports to the US have shrunk and the need to pioneer emerging markets in Eurasia has increased. Due to the bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping, a large Korean national shipping company, the necessity of securing transportation that can replace the Asian - European shipping route has emerged. Moreover, as the international trade and logistics environment is rapidly changing due to the spread of electronic commerce, it is time to prepare for the environment where IT technology is applied to international logistics activities. Therefore, this study was carried out to establish information strategy of Eurasia logistics information sharing platform from Korean perspective through comparison of logistics information level of Eurasian countries. This study aims at standardization direction for supporting logistics activities between Eurasian countries, providing customs clearance and logistics services without interruption, providing information for expanding business of trade companies, and building information linkage infrastructure for expanding cooperation between logistics companies across countries. Through this study, it is expected that logistics activities through information sharing among countries will be actively carried out.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.413-440
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• 2010

Since 2000, as importance of sourcing energy emphasized caused by instability of international oil price, interests toward Caspian countries as an alternative markets has increased. Especially, Azerbaijan, as middle Asian emerging exporting country, has performed drastic economic boom because of massive amount of foreign capital flowed in and construction of BTC pipeline. However, despite this economic surge, there are unbalanced economy which is merely focusing on energy industry and pressure from increase in real exchange rate and inflation. In order to analyze the sustainability of Azerbaijan economy, the total sample time period of this paper is from January 2001 to December 2007 and the term is divided into before and after BTC line construction. Vector Error-Correction Model has been applied to analysis confirming short-term and long-term effect. As a result, Azerbaijan now face the symptoms of the recession during the time period and this is due to high oil price and increase in export influenced by BTC oil pipeline resulting in decrease in real interest rate. This conclusion is to affect competitiveness of manufacturing industry, base industry for economic proliferation, in a negative way.