• Korean Security Journal
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• no.31
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• pp.157-185
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• 2012

Today, the emergence of cyberspace and advancement of globalization caused not only the transformation of our productive and conventional life but also the revolutionary transition of use of destructive violence such as crime and warfare. This transition of environmental condition connects various security threats which separatedly existed in individual, local, national, and global levels in the past, and transformed the mechanical sum of all levels of security threats into the organic sum of multi-dimensional security threats. This article proposes that the sum of multi-dimensional security threats is caused by the interconnectivity of various different levels of security threats and the integrated interdisciplinary perspective is essential to properly understand the fundamental existence of today's security problem and the reality of fear that we face today. The holistic security, the concept proposed here, is to suggest the mode of networked response to multi-dimensional security threats. The holistic security is suggested to overcome the conventional divisional approach based on the principle of "division of labor" and bureaucratic principles, which means more concretely that national security and criminal justice are divided and intelligence, military, police, prosecution, fire-fighting, private security, and etc. are strictly separated into its own expertise and turf. Also, this article introduces integrated security approaches tried by international organization and major countries overseas with the respect of the holistic security. The author have spent some substantial experience of participant observation, meetings, seminar, conference, and expert interviews regarding the issues discussed in the article in various countries including the United States, Russia, Austria, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Israel, and Uzbekistan for the last ten years. Intelligence and information on various levels of security threats and security approaches introduced in this paper is obtained from such opportunities.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.39-50
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• 2003

Since the September 11, 2001, the United States has shift their national security policy for homeland from preventing or/and reducing foreign threats to ensuring domestic security. We learned from recent incident, 1.25 Internet Disaster, that it is urgent to establish cyber security policy for our nation. In this paper; therefore, I analyze the US homeland security policy, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 establishment, and cyber security-related part in this act.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.91-98
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• 2013

Cyber attacks threaten the national security in this day and age. The government of the Republic of Korea recently released the National Cyber Security Comprehensive Countermeasures as a new cybersecurity policy. But current legal system cannot provide legal basis for the implementation of such measures. The current legal system related to cybersecurity is applied in each sector, thus the governance system in cybersecurity is separate. So there are many problems in the governance system in cybersecurity. To solve these problems fundamentally, it is righter to make a new cybersecurity law than to revise existing laws. Meanwhile, lawmakers proposed some bills in Congress to strengthen the cybersecurity in Korea in 2013. It will increase possibility of legislation of cybersecurity act to make a law through the analysis of these bills and to derive the essential elements from those. and to reflect these in the new cybersecurity act.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2017

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act(CISA) of 2015, enacted in December 2015, is one of the greatest achievements of cybersecurity legislation in the United States. The promotion of cybersecurity information sharing is one of the tasks to improve cybersecurity governance in Korea. So it is an important issue to be addressed in cybersecurity legislation in Korea in the near future. CISA has many implications for cybersecurity legislation in Korea. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find preceding research that explain the content of CISA and study its normative meaning in Korea. Therefore, in this paper, the contents of the CISA is identified and its normative meaning and implication is found in five categories: definition of terms, establishment of information sharing procedures and conditions, promotion of voluntary information sharing by the private sector, checks on the executive branch and report to the Congress, and other matters. CISA facilitates information sharing based on willingness, while eliminating the side effects that may arise in the information sharing process. It is necessary to appropriately apply the good points of CISA to the cybersecurity legal system in Korea.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.99-106
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• 2013

The definition of the national security is that the lives of its people and the property of the country must be kept from the enemies. The people in the country must have the awareness of national security in their mind, and the fate of the country relies on the security awareness of the people. Most of college students are to have their own goals trying to fulfil in their life. If the national security is not guaranteed, it will not be possible to achieve their dreams and goals. Currently, most of college students have been trained only for passing college entrance exams in their growth processes, and some of them are confused with political, social, and cultural identity. College students are spending most of time on the preparation for getting employment, so they are indifferent to the national security of their country. After the seminar for college student's unification and security, we will survey how much they could be changed and propose the guidelines for college student's security awareness.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.3-10
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• 2013

Cyber attacks are threats to national security. Today, cybersecurity threats have various types, the theft or spread of privacy and national secret, the realization of direct attacks to infrastructure and the hacktivism with political or social objectives. Furthermore, There are special situations in South Korea because of North Korea's threats. Thus, It is necessary to handle cybersecurity as a kind of national security problem. It is a time to identify problems of governance system in cybersecurity and to improve related Acts and subordinate statutes. There are several tasks for legal improvement for governance system in cybersecurity. They are improving legal bases for the roles of the relevant authorities in cybersecurity, consolidating national joint response to cyber accidents, establishing and vitalizing information sharing system, constructing foundation of cybersecurity through industry promotion and manpower development, and acquiring defensive tools by enhancement research an development. In order to address these challenges, it is necessary to pay much attention to enactment and to revision laws and to practice legislative procedure.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.99-105
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• 2019

In this study present the theoretical background and major trends in which cyber threats are securitization through the discourse process. In particular, this study explained based on the theory of Copenhagen school, which is critical of the security of cyber threats. And presented the security of non-traditional threats and the security of emerging security issues, which explained the process of security for cyber threats, based on existing research, and explained the limitations to this. And tried to provide a cautious point of view that the militarization phenomenon of cyber threats that is currently displayed is a phenomenon that is displayed through the combination of technical discourse and military discourse. Through this study, we aim to show the military the limits of universal solution presentation and the borderline perspective of militarization based on objective insights into the cyber threat security process.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.147-158
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of watching 'Real Man' program on university student s' military image and security awareness. For the purpose of the study, 392 university students in Seoul, Chungcheong and Jeolla were selected. With the collected data, factorial analysis, t-test, frequency analysis, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis were performed through SPSS 21.0. First, according to personal characteristic and watching degree, there were differences in military image and security awareness. There were significant differences in rationality, coherence, familiarity, violence, authority among sub factors of military image and in perspective about policy towards North Korea, persepectives about North Korea, military threats of North Korea, security will among sub factors of security awareness. Second, military image of university students who watched 'Real Man' had an influence on security awareness. Military image had an meaningful influence on perspective about North Korea, military threats of North Korea, security will among sub factors of security awareness.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.13-25
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• 2020

The most important responsibility of a government is to protect citizen lives and its own territory from outside threats. Especially recent political changes surrounding the Korea Peninsula seriously threaten the korean national security. To copy the situation, perception of national security based on citizen's trust in the army is needed. Accordingly survey analysis on effect of trust in the army on perception of national security had been conducted on students of a university located in Ulsan. Result of the statistical analysis as follows. First, while social contribution and military abilities among trust in the army are highly evaluated, integrity and characteristics of organizational culture are low evaluated. Second, all the correlation coefficients among studying variables are significantly positive. But correlation coefficient between social contribution and perception of national security is relatively low. Third, integrity, characteristics, and military abilities has a significant and positive effect on perception of national security, but social contribution has no significant effect.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.199-208
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• 2023

South Korea and Japanese governments have never responded cooperatively to North Korea cyber threats in the past 10 years or even before that. There are two reasons: First, The historical and political conflicts between the two countries were so deep that they did not discuss their mutual needs. Second, officially, Japan had not been subjected to a North Korean cyberattack until 2022 . In particular, the issues of comfort women and forced labor during World War II were holding back the reconciliation between the two countries. With the inauguration of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, Korea-US relati ons improved dramatically. Tensions in Northeast Asia reached their peak due to the conflict between the US and China. It has become a situation where peace cannot be garaunteed without close cooperation between Korea and Japan led by the United States.