• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.201-220
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• 2010

Geographical name is not only a spoken or written language that has been constructed as a linguistic element, but it is also a geographical phenomenon and a cultural element. Based upon this consciousness, the purpose of this paper is to examine current classification and management systems of the geographical names in Korea and to propose a new alternative classification and maintenance of the geographical names. In particular, the paper suggests three categories for the type classification of the geographical names: morpheme, linguistic change, and contestation types. In turn, this paper investigates the index of the geographical names contained in THE NATIONAL ATLAS OF KOREA (2007) on the basis of the preceding classification types in order to unveil the practical problems and limitations of the current classification articulated in the national atlas. This paper also proposes a new classification of the geographical naming that reflects the divisions of front and back morpheme of geographical names. Finally, from the discussions with the reinforcement of National Committee on Geographical Names, this paper invokes administrative and institutional protection and systematical management of the contesting and unofficial small scaled geographical names that have been set apart from the current geographical name standardization.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.310-319
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was building a new method for map making with a toponym by connecting a toponym DB with a digital topographic map DB. First, the table of toponym history in the toponym DB was revised. Second, a table linking the toponym DB and the digital topographic map DB was added. To integrate the toponym DB and the digital topographic map DB, a loose-coupling method was suggested and the combination of legal Dong and a toponym could be used as ID for liking those two databases. Thus, the method presented in this study would be used for effective map making using a toponym. Through the improvement of a toponym DB, it is expected the active use of the toponym DB such as map making.

• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.56-77
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• 2021

Toponyms are located not only in the site between human cognition and the physical environment but also in the name of cultural heritage. Accordingly, certain identities and ideologies for which human groups and community have sought, their holistic way of life, and all cultural symbols and cosmos, such as sense of place and genius loci, are included in their toponymic heritage. Denoting, symbolizing, integrating and representing the culture and nature belong to the human community. Based on these perceptions of the toponymic heritage, the aims of this article are to examine the values of a toponym as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and to suggest the application methods using the toponymic functions for governing of tangible cultural heritage. This article discusses the multivocality, diversity, and non-representational theory of landscape phenomenology intrinsic to the terms of culture and cultural landscape and then the domestic and international issues on the toponymic heritage in the first chapter on the values of toponym as a part of the ICH. In particular, it analyzes the preceding research in the field of toponymy, as well as the Resolutions of UNCSGN and UNGEGN on "Geographical names as culture, heritage and identity" including indigenous, minority and regional language names since 1992, which is related to the UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003. Based on this, I suggest that the traits of toponymic cultural heritage and its five standards of selection, i.e., cultural traits of toponyms, historical traits, spatial traits, socio-economic traits and linguistic traits with some examples. In the second chapter discussing on the methods using the toponymic denoting functions for creating and governing of the tangible cultural heritage, it is underlined to maintain the systematic and unified principle regarding the ways of naming in the official cultural heritage and its governing. Lastly, I introduce the possible ways of establishing a conservative area of the historical and cultural environment while using the toponymic scale and multi-toponymic territory. Considering both the spatial and participatory turns in the field of heritage studies in addition to the multiple viewpoints and sense of cultural heritage, I suggest that the conservative area for the cultural heritage and the historical and cultural environment should be set up through choosing the certain toponymic scale and multi-toponymic territory.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.706-722
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• 2009

This study aims to find the ways to correct and fix the errors in transcription by analyzing Romanization of Korean geographical names in foreign countries. The gazetteers from many countries, place name databases, and map-providing websites are the main source of research. Common error types found in this study are variant name posting, subordinated marking, double posting, spelling errors, and location errors. In fact, transcription of geographical names exhibits more diverse forms and types. The counter measures to fix these errors are as follows, firstly, consistent efforts with regular monitoring to fix errors are essential. Secondly, the one and only standardized Romanization principle is urgent. Thirdly, prompt update and publication in case of place name and/or boundary change is necessary. Fourthly, efforts to register unregistered geographical names are necessary. Lastly, the establishment of central agency solely for the management of geographical names is required.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.321-343
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• 2016

This study aimed to design a semi-automatic web-based pilot system 1) to build a Korean novel geo-name, 2) to update the database using automatic geo-name extraction for a scalable database, and 3) to retrieve/visualize the usage of an old geo-name on the map. In particular, the problem of extracting novel geo-names, which are currently obsolete, is difficult to solve because obtaining a corpus used for training dataset is burden. To build a corpus for training data, an admin tool, HTML crawler and parser in Python, crawled geo-names and usages from a vocabulary dictionary for Korean New Novel enough to train a named entity tagger for extracting even novel geo-names not shown up in a training corpus. By means of a training corpus and an automatic extraction tool, the geo-name database was made scalable. In addition, the system can visualize the geo-name on the map. The work of study also designed, implemented the prototype and empirically verified the validity of the pilot system. Lastly, items to be improved have also been addressed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.11-13
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• 2016

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.38-47
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• 2014

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) Affairs of Korean government improved RSMS to be linked with GIS data and now we have research foundation. In case of expressway and rural national highway, there is a referenced place-name for direction road sign, but there is no reference in urban road and is only a guideline. Direction signs in urban could not have consistent place-name and it is vary difficult to select the proper place-name. Based on the change of analysis environment and perception of road sign - related problem, This study is aimed to suggest how to deduce the spatial impact zone of place-name from DB and GIS in RSMS of Changwon City. The results indicated that there is a spatial difference between place-names according to whether is near or far on the road sign. It is expected that this method would be effectively used in case of new road sign and so the process to select the place-name would be simple.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.241-250
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• 2019

Road signs are guide facilities for road users, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has established and operated a system to enhance the convenience of managing these road signs. The role of road signs will decrease in the future autonomous driving, but they will continue to be needed. For the accurate mechanical recognition of texts on road signs, automatic road sign recognition equipment has been developed and it has applied image-based text recognition technology. Yet there are many cases of misrecognition due to irregular specifications and external environmental factors such as manual manufacturing, illumination, light reflection, and rainfall. The purpose of this study is to derive location-based destination names for finding misrecognition errors that cannot be overcome by image analysis, and to improve the automatic recognition of road signs destination names by using Levenshtein similarity verification method based on phoneme separation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.341-345
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• 2006

현대의 기업 활동을 위한 시장 상황은 제품에 대한 글로벌 환경규제가 갈수록 강화되어가고 있으며, 기업들은 생존을 위해서는 다양한 환경규제에 능동적으로 대응하며, 기업의 지속적인 성장을 모색해야 하는 것이 현실이다. 본 연구 논문에서는 글로벌 환경 정책의 변화 트랜드를 살펴보고, 글로벌 핵심 환경 규제 및 지침인 RoHS, WEEE, EuP, REACH 및 ISO 14000 환경경영시스템 등 국내기업들이 각종 환경 규제에 대응하기 위해서 구축하고 있는 환경관리 정보시스템들에 대하여 그 종류 및 형태를 살펴보고, 효율적인 환경관리정보시스템(EMIS) 구축을 위한 방안을 도출하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.580-584
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to analyze managemental problems that were made by cooperator and to offer improvable plan for small and medium construction company. The adapted research method a case study three small and medium contractors and investigate the managemental operation of cooperator and rating standard. Also analyze problem of the rating standard and managemental state of the cooperator and offer improvable plan. The results of this research are as follows. 1)Applying open bid system for supplying low price subcontract for practical rule. 2) Applying rating ratio of subcontract that is followed by receiving status, constructing ability, and selling scale of small and medium construction company for improving working of cooperator.