• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2024

This paper evaluates explanations for China's growth slowdown. The natural tendency for rapidly growing economies to slow down is a major factor, along with problems bequeathed by unbalanced growth, including a declining ICOR, slowing total factor productivity growth, and rising indebtedness. A number of other mechanisms are of lesser importance: demographics, President Xi's centralization of political power and anti-corruption campaign, and U.S. export controls. Sustaining growth in the longer term will require China to step away from investment, debt and export-fueled growth in favor of a balanced growth model with household consumption playing a larger role. Doing so will require hardening of the budget constraints of regional and local governments and restructuring of the nonperforming debts of property and construction companies.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.110-131
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper investigates the implications for facilitating trade in the products of Industry 4.0. To identify the issues caused by the conflicts of policy objectives such as applying the tariff concession under the ITA and imposing the export control, by exploring the case of classification of drones. Design/methodology - We adopted a single case study method to gain a deeper understanding of the complex and multifaceted issues of Customs classification in the context of facilitating trade in the products of Industry 4.0. This study employs the case of drones to explore how these issues of Customs classification affect trade facilitation. We ensured the internal validity of the study by confirming the pattern of the results with the existing theories. Findings - Our main findings can be summarised as follows: the intrinsic nature of the products that converge several technologies causes issues in the classification. The inconsistency in product classification delays customs clearance by hindering the Customs risk-management system that pinpoints products subject to controls. To address the issues, therefore, we proposed fundamental reforms of Customs to empower themselves with management roles. Facilitating trade in the products of Industry 4.0 requires more enhanced Customs capability. Therefore, the reforms should include comprehensive capacity-building activities, such as changes in staff-trainings, promotion system, organisation and culture. Customs also need roles in robust designing of cooperative systems to compensate for the lacks of controls and to ensure concrete risk management for expedited Customs procedures. As well, by equipping the Single Window of Customs with crucial control functions of other ministries, Customs need to support the cooperation. The role of harmonising various preaudits of other ministries with its own is another essential role that ensures predictability of clearance procedure. Originality/value - There are scanty studies in the field of knowledge about what obstacles exist and what solution is available in the course of transforming to 'Industry 4.0'. In filling out the gap of knowledge, this paper is of academic significance in that it applies the research theory on trade facilitation for the specific cases of classification of the product of Industry 4.0 to verify its effectiveness and to extend the subject of the studies to the scope of Industry 4.0. It also has practical significance in that the results have provided implications for reforms of Customs procedures to facilitate trade in the products of Industry 4.0.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.55-73
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• 2010

The thesis examines new innovation of various aspect to overcome lots of problems which come by when we execute simplification of trade procedure and administration fairly. Practical implications regarding the innovation of electronic trade infrastructure are as follows. First, it will propel the standardization of electronic trade section in the technical side and the construction atmosphere of international authentication system must be created. The work process should be redesigned in order to implement export-import procedures that meet the relevant standards. Second, the improvement of system for electronic process is necessary in the law and institutional aspect. In order to eliminate any obstacles to the trade procedure, clearer legal grounds regarding legitimate controls and minimum necessity must be established. Also, laws should be revised to admit mutual recognition among certification organizations, in lieu of international agreement-based mutual recognition between government. Third, the detailed improvement for the integration of the electronic trade infrastructure will be demanded. Additionally, user-centered quality management protocols should be established via connections with the systems already existing in governmental bodies. Fourth, various trade institution should harmonized and interconnected with other partners through mutual cooperation for standardization of operational system. A system which can monitor and remotely diagnose and resolve system errors should be established to provide tailor-made service and improve operational efficiency. At the same time, it is necessary to build a cooperative system to share information and promote comprehensive management for efficient operation.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.6069-6075
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• 2013

Background: At present, the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) requires a colorectal biopsy which is an invasive procedure. We undertook this pilot study to develop an alternative method and potential new biomarkers for diagnosis, and validated a set of well-integrated tools called ClinProt to investigate the serum peptidome in CRC patients. Methods: Fasting blood samples from 67 patients diagnosed with CRC by histological diagnosis, 55 patients diagnosed with colorectal adenoma by biopsy, and 65 healthy volunteers were collected. Division was into a model construction group and an external validation group randomly. The present work focused on serum proteomic analysis of model construction group by ClinProt Kit combined with mass spectrometry. This approach allowed construction of a peptide pattern able to differentiate the studied populations. An external validation group was used to verify the diagnostic capability of the peptidome pattern blindly. An immunoassay method was used to determine serum CEA of CRC and controls. Results: The results showed 59 differential peptide peaks in CRC, colorectal adenoma and health volunteers. A genetic algorithm was used to set up the classification models. Four of the identified peaks at m/z 797, 810, 4078 and 5343 were used to construct peptidome patterns, achieving an accuracy of 100% (> CEA, P<0.05). Furthermore, the peptidome patterns could differentiate the validation group with high accuracy close to 100%. Conclusions: Our results showed that proteomic analysis of serum with MALDI-TOF MS is a fast and reproducible approach, which may provide a novel approach to screening for CRC.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2021

항만운영을 위협하는 요인들이 다양화되고 있다. 최근에 전 세계적으로 문제를 야기한 코로나19도 그 중 하나이다. 2020년 부산 감천항에서 발생한 러시아 선원의 코로나 확진으로 인해 하역작업이 전면 중단되었는데, 이는 감염병으로 인해 항만이 폐쇄된 대표적인 사례이다. 항만은 우리나라 수출입물류의 대부분을 담당하는 국가 기반 시설물로서 감염병 등 위협 요인에 대한 레질리언스(resilience) 확보가 반드시 필요하나, 관련 연구는 아직 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 시스템 다이내믹스를 활용하여 감염병이 컨테이너 항만운영에 미치는 영향에 대한 흐름도를 구축하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 감염병에 대한 항만의 레질리언스를 생산성과 물동량 측면에서 측정하였다. 시뮬레이션 분석을 통해 구축한 모형이 실제로 항만의 레질리언스 측정에 활용할 수 있음을 보였으며, 항만 내 감염병이 발생했을 시 격리 정책 시나리오를 설정하여 효과를 비교함으로써 레질리언스 향상을 위한 정책 수립의 기반으로 활용할 수 있음을 확인했다는 점에 본 연구의 의의가 있다.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2015

2014년 4월 미국낙농수출협회의 자료에 의하면 미국 치즈 가격이 사상 최고로 올랐다(Fig. 1). 이는 부분적으로 한국 등 신흥시장에서 피자와 정크푸드 소비가 늘어난 덕분으로 사료된다. 한국에서 치즈, 특히 피자에 쓰이는 치즈의 인기가 늘면서 한국이 멕시코 다음으로 미국에서 가장 많은 치즈를 수입하는 국가가 되었다. 미국낙농수출협회에 따르면 한국의 2013년 치즈 수입량은 전년보다 25% 이상 증가한 49,000 M톤을 기록하였고, 미화 달러로 환산하면 한국으로 수출되는 미국 치즈는 지난해 3억 4,800만 달러로 2012년 수치인 2억 7,600만 달러를 휠씬 뛰어넘는 수준이었다. EU Monitor의 자료에 의하면 한국의 피자 배달 시장은 2013년 약 15억 달러를 기록하였는데, 이는 일본의 16억 달러 규모 시장에는 약간 못 미치지만, 일본의 인구는 한국의 2배 정도 된다(US Dairy Export Council, 2014). 또한 중국의 피자 시장은 약 24억 달러로 아직 빠르게 성장할 여지가 있다. 미국이 전 세계로 수출하는 치즈의 양은 지난해 하반기에 전년 동기 대비 41% 증가하였다. 하지만 아직까지 유럽연합(EU)이 세계 최대 치즈 수출국의 자리를 차지하고 있다. 한편, 한미 자유무역협정(FTA)으로 인해 관세가 철폐돼, 한국의 미국 치즈 수입이 더 수월해졌다. 물론 현재 한국에서는 살균 또는 이와 동등한 처리가 된 치즈가 수입되고 있는 상황이지만, 자유무역협정(FTA)에 의해서 앞으로 더 품질이 좋은 많은 외국산 치즈가 수입되고, 또한 다양한 비살균 치즈도 다양한 방법으로 수입이 될 것으로 예상되고 있다. 따라서 비살균 치즈의 안전성 확보를 담보할 수 있는 다양한 관련 법령 개정뿐만 아니라, 과학적인 방법에 근거한 기술 개발과 관련된 다양한 연구 등의 추가적인 연구가 진행되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.