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Research on the Information Architecture and its Structure of Cyber Museums (사이버 전시관의 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE와 그 구성에 관한 기초적 연구)

  • 송정화;임채진
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.112-116
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    • 2001
  • We are facing the new revolutionary age which industrialism and capitalism have been disappearing at tile transition period of civilization. This revolution means the internet, a communication system that is free from the limits of time and space through the establishment of global network. This research aims at finding how the structure of museums and galleries are designed and expressed in the cyber world. It is also intended to analyse factors of their composition.

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Regional Dynamics of Capitalism in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: The Case of the Rubber Industry in Laos (메콩유역권 내 자본주의의 지역적 역동성: 라오스 고무산업의 사례)

  • Andriesse, Edo
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.73-90
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    • 2015
  • This article focuses on geo-institutional differentiation and a multi-scalar analysis of emerging capitalist development in Laos. It discusses the impact of the Greater Mekong Subregion on new institutional economic and economic geographical arrangements. It demonstrates the usefulness of the varieties of Asian capitalism approach. The rubber industry was chosen to unravel emerging but various sub-national institutional arrangements linked to higher scale levels. Rubber is a growing agribusiness industry throughout the country, led by the insatiable demand from China. Overall, this study shows that the capitalist development of the rubber industry features much geo-institutional differentiation, due to the different strategies of Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese investors. Since Laos is still in transition from a state-led economy to something else, it is impossible at this to identify the exact number capitalisms. Yet, the evidence on rubber clearly lays bare the presence of multiple institutional arrangements. Without more inclusiveness, however, the implications for regional development are worrying. Exclusive arrangements will most likely lead to more uneven regional development and higher regional inequality. To refine theories on sub-national varieties of capitalism in developing countries it is instructive to consider more explicitly the notion of regional personal capitalisms and the complex interplay between national and regional states and relationships between capital accumulation and livelihood analyses.

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Institutional Complementaries of Production and Welfare: Some Evidences from the Advanced Welfare Capitalist Countries (생산과 복지의 제도적 상보성에 관한 비교연구: 선진자본주의 국가를 중심으로)

  • Ahn, Sang-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.205-230
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    • 2005
  • This study empirically examines if there is a certain linkage between the production regimes and welfare systems; and if linked, how they are linked. It also investigates what the different regimes performed in terms of economic growth and redistribution. As a matter of fact, we have a series of studies that explores structural diversity of production and welfare. However, the existing studies are limited in that they consider only specific facets of the structure, although the structure of welfare capitalism should be studied as a comprehensive whole. This is the gap which this study tries to overcome. The study is composed of two major parts. The first one is the cluster analysis that examines if Esping-Andersen's notion about three different welfare regime and the thesis of diversity of capitalism can be dealt within a single research framework. The second is the ANOVA analysis investigating if variables of production and welfare are to be statistically different in the trichotomy framework. According to the result of the analyses, we can find at least two important evidences about institutional complementaries of production and welfare. First, Esping-Andersen's framework is useful to comprehensively deal with production as well as welfare. Secondly, there are statistically different regimes of production and welfare in the context of political economic and social policy variables. What is the most striking conclusion of the study is that there is no difference among the regimes in terms of the level of economic efficiency; while we can find a huge differences in terms of the level of welfare effectiveness. In conclusion, there is no substantive evidence to argue that welfare is innately antithesis of economic growth.

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Love and Economy in Cross-border Marriages in South Korea (사랑과 경제의 관계를 통해 본 이주결혼)

  • Lee, Jae Kyung
    • Women's Studies Review
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.183-206
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    • 2009
  • This study attempts to explore a phenomenon of an expansion of emotional capitalism in the context of marriage migration. Emphasizing that 'emotion,' 'love,' 'affection,' 'intimacy,' and 'care' are neither materialistic nor a work, and noting that they are social roles attached to natural femininity and that they are separated from the economic realm, modern myth has been challenged by the increase of marriage industry, emotional/service work, and care industry. This study discusses the ways in which individual desires for love and intimacy and her/his economical needs are combined or negotiated. Specifically, this study 1) reviews existing literature on how 'love' and 'intimacy' has been combined with economy under capitalism in general, 2) discusses the ways in which a marriage has been commercially negotiated within the context of South Korea, 3) analyzes combined aspects of 'love' and 'economy' within cross-border marriages and suggests that cross-border marriages, even though they are highly commercially negotiated, may not be fully explained by 'economy' only as other marriages have both aspects of 'love' and 'economy.' An analysis on 'love' and 'economy,' not only separated from each other but also controversial, is essential for understanding 'intimacy' and transitions of Korean families in post-modern era. However, the evaluation criteria for commercial trades in 'love' and 'intimacy' have not developed yet. Whereas a certain trade is inevitable or essential, others may threaten our lives. Developing the ethical and political evaluation criteria on such commercial trades requires future study.

A Study on Land Reform under Capitalistic Spirit (자본주의(資本主義) 정신(精神)과 농지개혁(農地改革)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Jai Hong
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.387-395
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    • 1982
  • Land reform was performed in most under-developed countries after liberation from colonialism. In Griffin's thesis, the objectives of the land reform were classified in to three categories based on their ideology. Under capitalist ideology, emphasis was placed on the property ownership, so there has been existed large farms and various tenancy systems. But in this study the characteristics of capitalism was defined as deligence and thrift, and parity exchange. Land reform, tenants must have their own land, is the basic solution to support these characteristics.

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Entrepreneurial Universities Case Study: Based on Ambidextrous Strategy (기업가형 대학의 사례 연구: 양손잡이 전략 관점으로)

  • Won, Chi Un;Bae, Tae Jun;Choi, Kyung Chul
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.27-43
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    • 2020
  • Recently, there has been growing interest in entrepreneurial universities. Accordingly, this study discussed the paradigm shift from traditional university roles to entrepreneurial universities and conducted case analysis of Oxford University, Stanford University and Berlin Institute of Technology from the perspective of ambidextrous strategies of universities. Universities are emphasizing the importance of academic capitalism through market activities as well as the educational and research-oriented role to adapt and survive the rapidly changing uncertain environment. Therefore, many studies related to this have been conducted. This paper discusses the background and necessity of the transformation from traditional universities to entrepreneurial universities, and applies the case of a university that has been successful in transforming into an entrepreneurial universities and creating excellent outcome in terms of ambidextrous strategy. Specifically, this study examined the structural, contextual, and leadership perspectives as a antecedents for ambidextrous strategy. This paper expects not only to introduce cases but also to be used as reference for adapting to future paradigm shifts to entrepreneurial universities and setting the direction of universities.

The Rated Self: Credit Rating and the Outsoursing of Human Judgment (평가된 자아: 신용평가와 도덕적, 경제적 가치 평가의 외주화)

  • Yi, Doogab
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.91-135
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    • 2019
  • As we live a life increasingly mediated by computers, we often outsource our critical judgments to artificial intelligence(AI)-based algorithms. Most of us have become quite dependent upon algorithms: computers are now recommending what we see, what we buy, and who we befriend with. What happens to our lives and identities when we use statistical models, algorithms, AI, to make a decision for us? This paper is a preliminary attempt to chronicle a historical trajectory of judging people's economic and moral worth, namely the history of credit-rating within the context of the history of capitalism. More importantly this paper will critically review the history of credit-rating from its earlier conception to the age of big data and algorithmic evaluation, in order to ask questions about what the political implications of outsourcing our judgments to computer models and artificial intelligence would be. Some of the questions I would like to ask in this paper are: by whom and for what purposes is the computer and artificial intelligence encroached into the area of judging people's economic and moral worth? In what ways does the evolution of capitalism constitute a new mode of judging people's financial and personal identity, namely the rated self? What happens in our self-conception and identity when we are increasingly classified, evaluated, and judged by computer models and artificial intelligence? This paper ends with a brief discussion on the political implications of the outsourcing of human judgment to artificial intelligence, and some of the analytic frameworks for further political actions.

Needham Revisited : Chinese Medicine and Modernity (니덤을 다시 생각한다 : 중국의학과 근대성)

  • Song, Seok Mo;Lee, Kwang Gye;Lee, Sang Ryong
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.520-529
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    • 2013
  • Needham Problem(NP) is the influential question that English historian of Chinese science Joseph Needham raised, "Why modern science had not developed in the Chinese civilisation but only in that of Europe?" Our objectives in this paper are as follows: First, we will revisit NP in the broad context of the emergence of modernity rather than treating it just as an internal problem of Chinese science. After that, the problem of modernity in Chinese medicine will be discussed from the viewpoint of NP. After NP's intellectual backgrounds are summarized, its value and implications are examined, and then Needham's own answers are presented. Afterwards, we present supplementary hypotheses, adapted from Weber, as our solution to NP in Chinese science and medicine. Needham thought that the European scientific revolution would not have been possible without the rise of modern capitalism. He also believed that Chinese bureaucratism facilitated early development of Chinese science and in turn, inhibited later radical change by interrupting the rise of capitalism. According to our hypotheses, scientific changes are related to social changes, especially to the legitimation crises, which lead to the alternations of mode of justification in sciences. The Chinese society did not go through the legitimation crises as the European society did, and therefore it failed to produce a radically different kind of justification from the traditional one. This is the reason why there was no revolution in science and medicine in China.

A Study on the ‘Profit Mechanisms’ in Blog Production (블로그 생산의 이윤화 기제에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Seon
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.37
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    • pp.307-341
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    • 2007
  • The Blog enables individuals to become communication producers, not merely consumers. This study aims to analyse the practice of the Blog communication and the surrounding social dynamics. Employing ethnographic content analysis, in-depth interview, and participatory observation, this study tried to explore following research questions: 1) What are the value-added process and social dynamics surrounding the production and practice of the Blog communication? From the perspective of political economy, the mechanisms of market economy of capitalism directly and indirectly worked in Blog production, making it as a medium for profit. The power of capital overwhelmed the blog. These results enable us to predict that Blog can be a new tool for capitalism to create profit.

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Situating the Subject within the Global Material Conditions -A Critical Review on the Theorization of Postcolonial Ideas (지구화 시기 주체 구성의 물적 토대 복원을 위한 시론 -포스트식민주의 이론화 과정에 대한 리뷰를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sumi
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.70
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    • pp.66-94
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    • 2015
  • Postcolonialism, as a school of thought, has become enormously influential for understanding the recent phenomena of globalization. While rejecting the universalizing categories of the Enlightenment, postcolonialism has called into question the old idea of culture and identity as a transcendent regime of authenticity and purity. It has also celebrated the diasporic experiences that entail porous and hybrid cultural identities as a potential site of struggle and resistance against the dominant cultural and discursive order. It is argued, however, that postcolonial theory's emancipatory claims relating to the diversified global culture tend to be complicit with transnational capitalism that brings about global issues of material as well as cultural injustice. This article, through a thorough review of the ways the postcolonial theoretical framework has been developed and appropriated by main figures in postcolonial scholarship, seeks for a theoretical and critical strategy to grasp the complex conditions of global inequality.

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