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Social Support for Social Commerce: An Empirical Study with Trust as a Mediator and Culture as Moderator

  • Hossain, Md. Alamgir;Jahan, Nusrat;Kim, Minho;Yesmin, Most. Nirufer;Hasan, Raquibul
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.75-91
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    • 2021
  • Purpose - Social commerce (SC) is the growth of social media highlighting the e-commerce transactions and currently, the greatest challenges of e-commerce have attracted the influence of trust in social commerce intention (SCI). Based on the challenge, the study's purpose is to discover the effect of social support (informational and emotional support) on the SCI. The study also explores the mediation effect of trust and the moderation impact of culture between the USA and Korea. Design/methodology - This study used a sample of 482 surveys filled out by online shoppers from the US and Korea, two countries with divergent cultural values. Structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyze the hypothetical paths. In addition, bootstrapping and multi-group analysis are perform to view mediation and moderation effects respectively. Findings - The results of our study shows that both informational and emotional support significantly influences trust and SCI. Our results also supports the mediating effect of trust in social support and the moderating effect of culture in forming SCI. Originality/value - Our empirical results provide important information to businesses formulating cross-cultural SC strategies. This will help SC companies to analyze the aspects of customer trust through social support, which in turn will increase SCI and thereby established a competitive position for SCs. Our results will also be holistic directions for SC vendors in cross-cultural settings, which will offer important social and economic contributions to the sustainable growth of SC's business.

The Character as Genre and History as Image of Female Gugguek (여성국극의 장르적 성격과 이미지로서의 역사)

  • Kim, Sung Hee
    • Journal of Korean Theatre Studies Association
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    • no.40
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    • pp.61-96
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    • 2010
  • This research established that the two characteristics of Femail Gugguek were explored on the character as genre and the nationalism discourse. This research also included how to encounter the characteristic of Female Gugguek as a popular entertainment with the social context at the time and how to re-produce the social ideology. The 'historical nationalism narrative' piercing Female Gugguek had the close relation with the nation/state discourse of the time. The history reproduced by Female Gugguek was not real. It was the imagined past, the history as image. The Female Gugguek was a genre which typically showed how to intermediate fantasy, ideology and narrative. The happy-endings with the victory of male hero, the narrative pattern on overcoming national crisis, the narrative emphasizing the glorious past and the unification of nation, all these were projected the discourse on nationalistic ideology and nation/state-making in 1950's. The Utopian desire of Female Guggeuk imagining the glorious past and strong nation was the fantasy which concealed the contradiction in real life and the national identity damaged by colonial experience, division of territory, governance by U.S. Military Government and the Korean War. The Female Guggeuk was doing well, because it had amusement. Futhermore, imagination of glorious past and strong state/nation of Female Guggeuk satisfied the public's desire of escapism and wish to establish their position and identity in the rapid social-economic changes. However, Female Guggeuk repeatedly produced the never-changing characters, narrative pattern and conservative world-view. Thus, it became regarded as immature and obsolete thing in late 1950's. Female Guggeuk, which kept re-producing the retrogressive image of the past without modern viewpoint and interpretation, was not sensitive about change of time and trend of the people. Consequently, it was pushed out of people's major interest.

Factor Influencing Depression in Eco Boomer (에코붐 세대의 우울에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Ji-In
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.341-352
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was identify the factor affecting depression in eco boomer. This study used the data from the $7^{th}$ Korea National Health and Nutrition Examinations Survey and identified factor affecting depression in adult aged 24 to 37. Data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS 25.0 program. As a result, there were significant differences according to sex, education level, house ownership, health insurance, economic activity status, status of workers, position of servant, working time system, employment condition, perceived health status, smoking, work related physical activity, suicidal plan, suicidal attempt, stress, frequency of meal, companion for meal. As a result of regression analysis, influencing factors of depression in eco boomer were sex, employment condition, perceived health status, smoking, stress, work related physical activity, suicidal plan, companion for dinner. According to the results of this study, depression of the echo boomer should be improved by considering sex, work related characteristics and life style of eco boomer.

Meaning of Happiness Based on ERG Theory in Middle-Aged Korean Women (ERG 이론에 근거한 한국 중년여성의 행복에 관한 구성요인 도출 연구)

  • Shin, Hee-Jin;Kim, Jeung-Im
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.315-328
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the components and nature of happiness in middle-aged women in Korea. Methods: Thirty middle-aged women living in metropolitan Seoul and Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces agreed to participate in this study. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with the participants in one-on-one settings. The data were analyzed qualitative using Colaizzi's method of phenomenology. Results: The three theme clusters were extracted from the raw data, along with 13 themes and 138 meaningful sentences and phrases. The three happiness theme clusters in middle-aged women were "live healthy for stability," "rule one's mind for harmony," and "activate hopes for self-esteem." The first theme cluster included healthy life, economic stability, physical youth, and positive thought. The second theme cluster included that harmonious family, ruling of mind, my position as invisible person in social relationships, and precious relationships to support. The last theme included the center of one's life is oneself, a sense of accomplishment, self-improvement, recognition of one's worth and rest for one self. The three theme clusters were associated with the existence, relatedness, and growth (ERG) of ERG areas, respectively. Conclusions: We conclude that the core components of happiness in middle-aged women are to live healthy and mind-ruled and activate hope. The nature of happiness is egocentric stability in middle-aged women. The results suggest that theme clusters might be used to develop a scale for measuring happiness in middle-aged women. This will be helpful to assess the psychosocial status of middle-aged women in Korea.

Value of Cultural Heritage and its Role for the Culture-Creative Industries (문화창의산업에서 문화유산의 가치와 활성화 방안)

  • Jang, Ho-su
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.82-95
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    • 2015
  • Cultural heritage contains traditional values and we have to conserve its intrinsic value. But in the other hands it is argued that it's no need to preserve heritage for its own sake, and nowadays we appreciate that active use of heritage is enhancing its value and making position secure in its society. It will need not only to protect heritage, but also to ensure its use, and its economic value are harnessed to the benefit of local communities. We are going to enter upon experience economy through information society and to have a creative economy policy discourse. The effects of globalisation on societies are manifested in the attrition of their values, identities of vernacular heritage. Therefore relationship between development and heritage must be examined. In this article I suggest the methodologies of vitalizing cultural heritage based creative industries, especially through making the creative ecosystem and optimising the performance of the cultural heritage based cluster.

Cyber Weapon Model for the National Cybersecurity (국가사이버안보를 위한 사이버무기 모델 연구)

  • Bae, Si-Hyun;Park, Dae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.223-228
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    • 2019
  • Recently, the United States has been trying to strengthen its cybersecurity by upgrading its position as an Unified Combatant Command that focuses on the Cyber Command in the United States, strengthening operations in cyberspace, and actively responding to cyber threats. Other major powers are also working to strengthen cyber capabilities, and they are working to strengthen their organization and power. The world demands economic power for its own interests rather than its own borders. But Cyber World is a world without borders and no defense. Therefore, a cyber weapon system is necessary for superiority in cyberspace (defense, attack) for national cybersecurity. In this paper, we analyze operational procedures for cyber weapons operation. And we design cyber weapons to analyze and develop the best cyber weapons to lead victory in cyberwarfare. It also conducts cyber weapons research to solve the confrontation between Cyber World.

Propylene/Propane Separation Through Polyimides Containing Bulky Ethyl Substituents (부피가 큰 치환기를 포함하는 폴리이미드의 합성 및 프로필렌/프로판 분리특성)

  • Yoo, Seung Yeon;Park, Ho Bum
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.450-459
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    • 2020
  • Membrane-based separations have the potential to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact associated with conventional processes. However, many researches have been done to develop new membrane materials with greater selectivity and permeability. Here, we report highly selective membranes by introducing bulky ethyl substituents into the polyimide. The ethyl group in the ortho position to the imide nitrogen interferes the chain packing and increases chain stiffness and the distance between the polymer chains. The polyimide membranes were synthesized from various aromatic dianhydrides and 4,4'-methylenebis(2,6-diethylaniline) (MDEA). The synthesized membranes with increased gas diffusion length due to bulky substituents showed improved propylene/propane (C3H6/C3H8) selectivity. Single gas permeation showed high C3H6/C3H8 selectivity of 14.5, and C3H6 permeability of 7.0 barrer was found in MDEA-polyimide. Mixed-gas permeation results also demonstrate that MDEA-polyimide can achieve high selectivity in mixed-gas environment. Furthermore, this approach could significantly increase the feasibility of economic propylene separation compared to conventional polymer materials.

A Study on Converter Topology to Drive Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) (스위치드 릴럭턴스 전동기(SRM) 구동용 Converter Topology 연구)

  • Yoon, Yongho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 2021
  • Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) has a characteristic that the inductance changes very nonlinearly depending on the magnitude of the current and the relative position of the rotor and stator, and the torque is generated In consideration of these problems, many studies have been conducted on a topology for driving that can improve efficiency and performance in an existing asymmetric bridge converter in order to simplify the circuit and economic efficiency. Therefore, in this paper, we want to check the performance by comparing and analyzing each converter used by applying it as a topology for SRM driving. The driving converters applied to the comparison and analysis are Conventional C-dump, Modified C-dump, Energy efficient C-dump, Resonant C-dump converter with C-dump converter type structure and the most widely used asymmetric bridge converter and 6-Switch inverter that used for general motors.

South and North Korean Sport Viewed through the Life History of Female North Korean Defector Sportswoman (탈북 여성 스포츠인의 생애사를 통해 본 남북한 스포츠)

  • Choi, Young-Geum
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.311-320
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    • 2021
  • The study looked at a cross section of inter-Korean sports through the lives of female north korean defector. The researcher was a north korean national team player in the early and mid-1990s and defected to the north and played for the national team in South Korea. After her retirement, she became a coach, but felt limited and left the sports world. After analyzing the informant's interviews, the prevailing idea was that she was always politically used, and there was a regret that he was spotlighted as a defector rather than an athletic skill. And she was not in a position to choose between South Korea and North Korea. It was also shown that inter-Korean sports exchanges could not be developed unless economic conditions were supported. As a stranger, the research participants felt alienated and adapted to South Korea. Her life is an example of experiencing inter-Korean sports at the same time, and it is believed that she can have personal, specific, and concrete characteristics while showing universality in the upcoming era of unification.

Event-Triggered NMPC-Based Ship Collision Avoidance Algorithm Considering COLREGs (국제해상충돌예방규칙을 고려한 Event Triggered NMPC 기반의 선박 충돌 회피 알고리즘)

  • Yeongu Bae;Jaeha Choi;Jeonghong Park;Miniu Kang;Hyejin Kim;Wonkeun Yoon
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.60 no.3
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    • pp.155-164
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    • 2023
  • About 75% of vessel collision accidents are caused by human error, which causes enormous economic loss, environmental pollution, and human casualties, thus research on automatic collision avoidance of vessels is being actively conducted. In addition, vessels must comply with the COLREGs rules stipulated by IMO when performing collision avoidance with other vessels in motion. In this study, the collision risk was calculated by estimating the position and velocity of other vessels through the Probabilistic Data Association Filter (PDAF) algorithm based on RADAR sensor data. When a collision risk is detected, we propose an event-triggered Nonlinear Model Predict Control (NMPC) algorithm that geometrically creates waypoints that satisfy COLREGs and follows them. To verify the proposed algorithm, simulations through MATLAB are performed.