• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.85-94
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• 2016

Purpose - Recently, Mobile technologies and devices including smart phones and tablets have increased the possibility of communicating with other people and sharing personal information without time and space restriction. In order to realize the market potential related to mobile technologies, a large number of internet services have been incorporated into mobile platforms. Especially, The number of MIM(Mobile Instant Messenger) users has been increasing dramatically and services using MIM platform also have diversified. In spite of drastic growth in markets related to MIM, there is little empirical research on MIM and users' behaviors. This study designed to examine the structural relationships among belongingness, loneliness, self-disclosure intention, system quality, and self-disclosure behavior in context of MIM. Research design, data, and methodology - Three hypotheses were about the relationship among belongingness, loneliness and self-disclosure intention. The other two hypotheses were about the moderating effect of system quality in the causal relationship between self-disclosure intention and self-disclosure behavior. The data was analyzed by structural equation modeling. Research data were obtained from 330 undergraduate students who were KakaoTalk users and total 314 valid questionnaires were used in the final analysis. Results - The results from this study are as follow. First, the belongingness and the loneliness had a significant impact on self-disclosure intention in MIM. Second, the self-disclosure intention in MIM also had a positive impact on the self-disclosure behavior. Lastly, there is a moderating effect of the system quality in the relationship between the self-disclosure intention and self-disclosure behavior in MIM. Specifically, the higher system quality level was perceived, the positive effect of the self-disclosure intention in MIM on the self-disclosure behavior was greater. Conclusions - Based on the results from this study, academic and practical implications can be drawn. First, the study extends the scope of research about SNS through focusing on MIM to be classified by closed type SNS and identifies the relationship between emotion, behavioral intention and behaviors in MIM. Second, this study provides strategic guidelines to increase the efficiency for promotion activity. Limitations for the study also should be discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.317-322
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• 2013

Personal information is defined information related to users' privacy data. It can be verified information through social security number, image, and means relating to individual can verify. Such personal information is in accordance with the privacy act in law for the collection and usage in enterprises and institutions. However, it can be induced privacy problem when it is exposed information without attention. This user's inadvertent disclosure of personal information has occurred due to social engineering and intelligent cyber-crime occurred in order to solve these problems. A variety of protection solutions for personal information have been developed. Web privacy filtering firewall and solutions related with server have been developed among developed many solutions, web privacy filtering and firewall solutions is proposed in this paper.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.415-423
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• 2016

Smart grid systems can be real-time information exchange between suppliers and consumers, and provides a lot of convenience. However, the risk to the user's personal information exposure is ever-present. Depending on the characteristic of the smart grid environment, there is a threat of the disclosure of personal information based on the personal information life-cycle, and can also be exposed a variety of information based on energy consumption pattern analysis. In this paper, we analyze the existing privacy act in the smart grid and propose improvements for the existing directive.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

In February 2014 Korean Bar Association has amended Professional Ethics Code as to stipulate attorney's duty to protect personal information. While existing Korean law and Professional Ethics Code has made attorney to keep client's confidential information, attorney's newly promulgated obligation has its meaning in that personal information of subject other than client is not protected through confidentiality rules, given that confidentiality obligation is interpreted to protect only client's information relating to representation. Moreover, duty to protect personal information deals with not only disclosure and use of information, which confidentiality rules is about, but also collection and retention process, access to and correction and care of information and even destruction of information. Amid unprecedented theft of personal data in several national banks and other serious leakage reported recently, this paper is going to contemplate the scope and application of the duty to protect personal information with hope to contribute to starting discussion on it.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.961-968
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• 2014

In order to prevent leakage of personal information by insiders a large number of companies install pc security solutions like DRM(Digital Right Management), DLP(Data Loss Prevention), Personal information filtering software steadily. However, despite these investments anomalies personal information occurred. To establish proper security policy before implementing pc security solutions, companies can prevent personal information leakage. Furthermore by analyzing the log from the solutions, companies verify the policies implemented effectively and modify security policies. In this paper, we define the required security solutions installed on PC to prevent disclosure of personal information in a variety of PC security solution, plan to integrate operations of the solutions in the blocking personal information leakage point of view and propose security policies through PC security solution log analysis.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.25-37
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• 2015

By studying the awareness level of students, for the need to protect personal information, and also by studying students' level of perception as to which information needs protection, this study aims to show that increased education is beneficial, and necessary, across all university majors. This increased education is necessary to improve information security, and increase the responsible sharing of private data which has many benefits, specifically in the Healthcare field. Utilizing student volunteers across multiple majors at a university in South Korea. These questionnaires measured the students' awareness of private information, their perception of private information and also the students' experience in receiving university level education regarding private information and the need for its protection. This study shows that, when compared to students in other fields, students in the field of public health had a higher level of awareness regarding the consequences of personal information disclosure for both public purposes and medical research. Within the parameters of this study, this outcome can be explained as the result of exposure to educational curriculum which contained information related to personal information protection. This increased education raised the student's awareness of which information is considered private, as well as, which information is valuable when responsibly shared. As a result, this study shows that an increase in education regarding information privacy, should be included in all university majors, and gives us evidence to support that this additional education is valuable to students at all levels and should be encouraged.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.283-290
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• 2015

As society has evolved to the knowledge and information society, the importance of internal information of the company has increased gradually. Especially in financial institutions which must maintain the trust of customers, the disclosure of inside information is a big problem beyond the a company's business information disclosure level to break down sales-based businesses because it contains personal or financial transaction information. Recently, since massive outflow of internal information are occurring in several enterprises, many companies including financial companies have been working a lot in order to prevent the leakage of customer information. This paper describes the internal information leakage incidents occurred in the finance companies, the PC security vulnerabilities exists despite the main security system and internal information leakage prevention and suggests countermeasures against increasing cyber infringement threats.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.69-76
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• 2016

As the number of SNS users increases, so does their self-disclosure. This study examined the factors affecting self-disclosure based on Social Capital Theory and Regulatory Focus Theory. The (extent of self-disclosure by users/number of users disclosing themselves) in SNSs is expected to differ depending on their social capital (bonding capital vs. bridging capital) and regulatory focus (promotional vs. defensive). As a result of this study, it is found that bridging capital is positively related to self-disclosure in profile and in conversation, while bonding capital is positively related to self-disclosure only in conversation. With regard to regulatory focus, promotional orientation has a significant effect on self-disclosure in profile and in conversation, while defensive orientation is negatively related to self-disclosure in profile, but not related to self-disclosure in conversation. Promotional orientation is found to moderate the effect of bridging capital on self-disclosure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.275-277
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• 2015

This paper proposed have been the business card information to the computer when creating business card printing agency saved to a file, there is always the risk of personal information leakage. Application file organization information into the card, the name, phone number, email address information, such as is capable of easily accessible because it is not encrypted. This paper proposed it encrypts the information entered on the Business Card application file to automate the process of the card application and simplifying the business card application process minimizes the work of staff and linked directly to the print shop how to automatically delete the print file after the completion of business card printing and research.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.43-62
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• 2017

Purpose This study provided empirical support for the model that explain the formation of privacy concerns in the perspective of Information Boundary Theory. This study investigated an integrated model suggesting that privacy concerns are formed by the individual's disposition to value privacy, privacy awareness, awareness of privacy policy, and government legislation. The Information Boundary Theory suggests that the boundaries of information space dependends on the individual's personal characteristics and environmental factors of e-commerce. When receiving a request for personal information from e-commerce websites, an individual assesses the risk depending on the risk-control assessment, the perception of intrusion give rise to privacy concerns. Design/methodology/approach This study empirically tested the hypotheses with the data collected in a survey that included the items measuring the constructs in the model. The survey was aimed at university students. and a causal modeling statistical technique(PLS) is used for data analysis in this research. Findings The results of the survey indicated significant relationships among environmental factors of e-commerce websites, individual's personal privacy characteristics and privacy concerns. Both individual's awareness of institutional privacy assurance on e-commerce and the privacy characteristics affect the risk-control assessment towards information disclosure, which becomes an essential components of privacy concerns.