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Rediscovery of the Arctic: A New Arena of Competition for Natural Resources in the 21st Century? (북극의 재발견: 국제 자원경쟁의 새로운 각축장?)

  • Lee, Seo-Hang
    • Strategy21
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    • s.30
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    • pp.200-235
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    • 2012
  • Over the past few years, due to the climate change of the earth, the Arctic's sea ice cover is undergoing a historic transformation - thinning, extent reduction in all seasons, and mitigation in the area of multi-year ice in the central Arctic Ocean. These changes allow for increases in maritime access throughout the Arctic Ocean and for potential longer seasons of navigation and possibly transarctic voyage in the summer. These changes also allow more exploration for oil, gas, and other minerals. The Arctic is now an archetype of the complex, multi-dimensional global problems of the twenty-first century. Military security, environmental security, and economic security interact. The potentially enormous economic stakes, sufficient to change the strategic balance among the states of the region, set off competitive pressures for national advantage. Korea, which is heavily dependent upon the sea lane in terms of transportation of its exports and imports, is very much interested in the Arctic sea routes. Korea believes that the Artic sea route, particularly the Northern Sea Route (NSR), could serve as a new useful sea lane, which will enable shorter times between East Asia and Europe, thus resulting in substantial cost saving for ship operators. In addition to shipping, Korea is interested in other Arctic-related maritime industries. Korea, as a leading shipbuilder in the global market, is interested in building ice breakers, drill ships, and other vessels which can contribute to safe operation in Arctic resource development and exploration. Korea, as one of the future stakeholders in Arctic maritime activities, should be ready to foster international cooperation in the region.

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A Study on Technical Criteria of the Transport Vessel for Radioactive Wastes (방사성폐기물 수송선박의 기술기준 분석)

  • Lee, Heung-Young;Chung, Sung-Hwan;Park, Yoon-Gyu;Yoon, Suk-Joong;Nam, Jang-Soo
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.285-296
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    • 1995
  • The site of Korea Final Repository, KFR, to collect and dispose of radioactive wastes produced in nuclear power plants will be selected to seaside. As all the radwastes stored temporarily in the site of power plants should be transported by the sea, Nuclear Environmental Management Center, NEMAC, of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, KAERI, has been developing the sea transport system to secure safe and efficient transportation of the radwastes from the power plant sites to the final repository. Investigating the status of advanced techniques of foreign countries for transport vessels and considering inland circumstances, the technical criteria of the transport vessel have been suggested in this study. Therefore, all the radwastes will be transported safely by the sea, without releasing any radioactive material to environment even in the case of accident.

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Quantitative microbial risk assessment of Vibrio parahaemolyticus foodborne illness of sea squirt (Halocynthia roretzi) in South Korea

  • Kang, Joohyun;Lee, Yewon;Choi, Yukyung;Kim, Sejeong;Ha, Jimyeong;Oh, Hyemin;Kim, Yujin;Seo, Yeongeun;Park, Eunyoung;Rhee, Min Suk;Lee, Heeyoung;Yoon, Yohan
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2021
  • The annual consumption of fishery products, particularly sea squirt (Halocynthia roretzi), per person has steadily increased in South Korea. However, the quantitative risk of Vibrio parahaemolyticus following intake of sea squirt has not been analyzed. This study focuses on quantitative predictions of the probability of consuming sea squirt and getting of V. parahaemolyticus foodborne illness. The prevalence of V. parahaemolyticus in sea squirt was evaluated, and the time spent by sea squirt in transportation vehicles, market displays, and home refrigerators, in addition to the temperature of each of these, were recorded. The data were fitted to the @RISK program to obtain a probability distribution. Predictive models were developed to determine the fate of V. parahaemolyticus under distribution conditions. A simulation model was prepared based on experimental data, and a dose-response model for V. parahaemolyticus was prepared using data from literature to estimate infection risk. V. parahaemolyticus contamination was detected in 6 of 35 (17.1%) sea squirt samples. The daily consumption quantity of sea squirt was 62.14 g per person, and the consumption frequency was 0.28%. The average probability of V. parahaemolyticus foodborne illness following sea squirt consumption per person per day was 4.03 × 10-9. The objective of this study was to evaluate the risk of foodborne illness caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus following sea squirt consumption in South Korea.

Design of Surveillance System for Fishery Safety and Security Using F-AIS (F-AIS를 이용한 어장보호 시스템 설계)

  • Yim Jeong-Bin;Nam Taek-Keun;Jeong Jung-Sik;Park Seong-Hyen;Yang Weon-Jae
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes Fishery Safety and Security System using F-AIS based on the concepts of RFID(Radio Frequency Identification). This system is to track, protect and arrest the thief who invaded in an fishing ground. The system composed with various functional modules to implement selectively available system providing low cost to high cost and simple function to high function according to user's requirement in a practical fishing fields. Sea trial tests are carried out at Mokpo, Busan and Incheon and, it is found that the system can guard the wide area of cultivating farm field.

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A Study on the Development Plan for the Port Facility in the Han River Estuary (한강하구지역의 항만시설 개발방안 연구)

  • Choi Yong-Seok;Choi Sang-Hei;Yang Chang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.153-162
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this paper is to quickly examine the prosperity of a marine transportation system ana port development in the Han river Estuary and Yellow Sea border areas and to establish a cooperative management plan for the development of marine transportation and port service for cargo transportation in Seoul. as well as between South Korea and North Korea. Specifically. a development plan with a sincere effort to preserve the environment surrounding Marine Peace Park. The intent is to prove that prosperity is possible through the development of marine transportation and port service.

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Cointegration based modeling and anomaly detection approaches using monitoring data of a suspension bridge

  • Ziyuan Fan;Qiao Huang;Yuan Ren;Qiaowei Ye;Weijie Chang;Yichao Wang
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.183-197
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    • 2023
  • For long-span bridges with a structural health monitoring (SHM) system, environmental temperature-driven responses are proved to be a main component in measurements. However, anomalous structural behavior may be hidden incomplicated recorded data. In order to receive reliable assessment of structural performance, it is important to study therelationship between temperature and monitoring data. This paper presents an application of the cointegration based methodology to detect anomalies that may be masked by temperature effects and then forecast the temperature-induced deflection (TID) of long-span suspension bridges. Firstly, temperature effects on girder deflection are analyzed with fieldmeasured data of a suspension bridge. Subsequently, the cointegration testing procedure is conducted. A threshold-based anomaly detection framework that eliminates the influence of environmental temperature is also proposed. The cointegrated residual series is extracted as the index to monitor anomaly events in bridges. Then, wavelet separation method is used to obtain TIDs from recorded data. Combining cointegration theory with autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model, TIDs for longspan bridges are modeled and forecasted. Finally, in-situ measurements of Xihoumen Bridge are adopted as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the cointegration based approach. In conclusion, the proposed method is practical for actual structures which ensures the efficient management and maintenance based on monitoring data.

The Records of Origin and Transport of Sediments From the Past to the Present in the Yellow Sea

  • Yi, Hi-Il;Chun, Jong-Hwa;Shin, Im-C.;Shin, Dong-Hyeok;Jou, Hyeong-Tae
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.96-106
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    • 2004
  • A total of 116 surface sediment samples were obtained on the Yellow Sea and analyzed for grain size and geochemical elements in order to interpret the present sediment transportation. Thirty-nine cores and 3,070 line-km shallow seismic profiles are analyzed for sedimentary records of Yellow Sea in the past. Results show that the boundary of sediment transport between Korean side and Chinese side is about between $123^{\circ}E$ and $124^{\circ}E$. The similar result is produced from Shi et al. (in this publication). Two cyclonic patterns of surface sediments are recognized in the northeastern and southwestern Yellow Sea, while the strong front zone of the mud patch and sandy sediments are found in the southeastern Yellow Sea (the southwestern part of Korean coasts). The formation of fine-particle sediment packages, called for Northwest Mudbelt Deposit (NWMD), Hucksan Mudbelt Deposit (HSMD) and Jeju Mudbelt Deposit (JJMD), are resulted from eddies (gyres) of water circulations in the Yellow Sea. NWMD has been formed by cyclonic (anticlockwise) eddy. NWMD is composed of thick, homogeneous, relatively semi-consolidated gray clay-dominated deposit. On the other hand, HSMD and JJMD are formed by anticyclonic (clockwise) eddies. They are thick, homogeneous, organic-rich gray, silt-dominated deposit. Both core and surface sediments show that the middle zone across Chinese and Korean side contains bimodal frequency of grain-size distribution, indicating that two different transport mechanisms exist. These mud packages are surrounded by sand deposits from both Korea and China seas, indicating that Yellow Sea, which is the shallow sea and epicontinental shelf, is formed mostly by sand deposits including relict sands. The seismic profiles show such as small erosional/non-depositional channels, sand-ridges and sand-waves, Pleistocene-channelfilled deposits, a series of channels in the N-S major channel system, and thick Holocene sediment package, indicating that more complex sedimentary history exists in the Yellow Sea.

Implementation of Aquaculture Security System (어장 도적방지 시스템 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Yim, Jeong-Bin;Nam, Taek-Keun;Ahn, Yeong-Seop;Jung, Jung-Sik;Park, Seong-Hyeon;Kim, Chol-Seung;Yang, Yeon-Jae;Jeong, Dae-Deug;Jeong, Jae-Yong;Kim, Woo-Suk
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.105-111
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    • 2006
  • This paper describes Fishery Safety and Security System which is to secure an aquaculture area. The system composed with various functional modules to implement selectively available system providing low cost to high cost and simple function to high function according to user's requirement in a practical fishing fields. Sea trial tests are carried out at Abalone farm, located in Jin island, Jeonranam province and it is found that the system can guard the wide area of cultivating farm field.

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Analysis of bulk freight transportation (벌크화물 수송실태 분석)

  • Lee, Suk;Kim, Young-Joo;Kim, Kyoung-Tae;Kwon, Yong-Jang;Kim, Seung-Mo
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.3278-3288
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    • 2011
  • Bulk freight is transported by a freight car, ship and tank lorry without packaging in a state of particles or powders. In korea, the main bulk freight include oil, grain, coal, cement, iron ore and these are occupied nearly 30% of the volume of gross domestic freight transportation. Therefore it is in important to transport efficient bulk freight transport system for the improvement of national distribution competitive as raw material for industry. Generally environment-friendly transfer modes such as railway and sea transport play an important role in bulk freight transport due to the mass transfer characteristics of bulk freight. This study is carried out for examining the problem of oil, grain, coal, cement, ore transportation through analyzing distribution flow of items and understanding characters of transfer modes.

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Analysis of marine accident probability in Mokpo waterways

  • Kim, Kwang-Il;Park, Gye-Kark;Jeong, Jung-Sik
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.729-733
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    • 2011
  • The maritime risk assessment is important not only to evaluate the safety level of the ports and waterways but also to reduce potential maritime accidents at sea in terms of the proactive measures of the maritime accidents. In this paper, the collision risk assessment in Mokpo waterways has been carried out based on the IALA recommended model, IWRAP. To evaluate the accident probabilities in Mokpo waterways, all data of vessels were collected from AIS and Radar observations data and the computer simulations were carried out. To assess the risk on the traffic, the scenario-base approach has been applied to the Mokpo waterway by using the maritime accident statics over the past 5 years.