• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to present what the port of Pyeongtaek, the hub of Korean trade with China, should improve in the current situation, wherein the e-commerce trade volume between Korea and China is increasing due to the development of online technology. Design/methodology - In this study, through prior research and expert interviews on e-commerce and port activation between borders, we derived the main improvement factors for 1) Administration and Systems, 2) Facilities, 3) Transport, and 4) Manpower, and selected 12 detailed variables for the major improvement factors. To identify the relative importance of the major improvement factors, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was applied, and a survey was conducted among 15 related experts. Findings - As a result, among the 12 detailed variables, Composition of Association (0.267) was the first factor to be improved, followed by Incentive Support (0.143) and E-Commerce Cluster (0.131). Based on these analyses, the main implications of this study are, first, in the current situation where the cross-border e-commerce market is growing, Pyeongtaek Port needs to form a consultative body among the government, local governments, and related businesses in connection with cross-border e-commerce and develop various support policies for the e-commerce market. Second, it will have to be able to provide differentiated services from competing ports by establishing e-commerce market-oriented clusters. Originality/value - In existing related studies, various improvements were presented to revitalize trade in line with the growth of the cross-border e-commerce market. However, with regard to most cross-border e-commerce businesses, one-dimensional improvement measures, such as improvement of payment systems, improvement of customs clearance services, and promotion of human resources, are presented in a piecemeal manner. In other words, none of the studies have proposed the importance and priority of each measure in terms of both the forward-looking and efficient allocation of resources, which is the purpose of this study. Therefore, this study contributed politically, practically, and academically by presenting countermeasures for ports to revitalize cross-border e-commerce and presenting strategic priorities using quantitative analysis methods.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.95-124
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• 2017

이 사건은 아르헨티나가 적용한 금융 조세 외환 등록에 관한 8개의 조치가 서비스무역에 관한 일반 협정(General Agreement on Trade in Services) 하의 최혜국대우 의무, 내국민대우 의무 및 시장접근 보장 의무의 위반에 해당하는지에 관한 다툼이다. 이들 대상조치는 '조세 투명성에 협력하지 않는 국가'의 서비스 및 서비스 공급자와 '조세 투명성에 협력하는 국가'의 서비스 및 서비스 공급자를 달리 대우하는 조치이다. 아르헨티나는 대상조치가 "조세 목적을 위한 투명성 및 정보교환에 관한 글로벌포럼" 및 "국제자금세탁방지기구" 체제에 부합하며 GATS 제XIV조 및 금융서비스부속서의 예외규정에 의해 정당화된다고 주장하였다. 요컨대 이 사건은 정당한 정책목적을 달성하기 위한 규제를 채택할 국가의 권한과 이로 인해 발생하는 경쟁조건의 변화의 문제이며, GATS 전문에서 밝히고 있는 회원국의 권리와 의무 간 균형을 어떻게 맞추어야 할 것인지의 문제이다. 상소기구는 (i) 서비스 및 서비스 공급자의 동종성 심사, (ii) GATS 제II조 및 제XVII조 하의 불리하지 않은 대우 판정 심사, 그리고 (iii) 금융서비스부속서 제2(a) 항이 적용되는 조치의 범위에 대한 판단을 통하여 이러한 균형을 맞추고 있다. 이 글에서는 이 사건의 대상조치와 패널의 판정을 정리하여 배경을 제시한 후 상소기구 판정을 분석한다. 분석은 앞에서 언급한 주요 쟁점을 중심으로 하며 패널의 판정, 기존의 다른 WTO 판정례 및 연구논문 하에서의 논의와 어떠한 차이를 가지는지를 파악하여 그 의미를 논한다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2020

Purpose: Research on the behavior of using digital banking services plays an important role for banks in the context of increasingly competitive banks, not only for domestic banks but also for foreign banks. Along with the development of science and technology brings new approaches to banking industry, digital banking increases the effectiveness of banking activities. Besides, information safety brings different feeling about digital banking system. Therefore, this research evaluates the relationship between Information safety and Intention to use banking services in Vietnam. Research design, data and methodology: With 329 Vietnamese customers using digital banking, reliability test, and structural equation model (SEM) analysis method. Results: the research shows that information safety has directly effects on perceived ease of use (PU), perceived risk (RIS) of customers to digital banking services. Perceived trust (TRU) has a negative impact on RIS. Perceived of usefulness (PEU) has a positive impact on attitude towards service (ATT), and RIS has a negative impact on ATT. RIS, PEU, ATT, convenience and enterprise image have positive effects on intention to use digital banking service. Conclusions: From the research results, the authors also propose some recommendations to enhance the intention to use digital banking services in Vietnam.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2021

Purpose - This study aims to verify the direct causal relationship between cost competitiveness and global network competitiveness, which are the tangible service quality factors determined by the shipping company, which in turn affect the shipper's customer satisfaction. Additionally, we empirically investigate the intangible, related service qualities determined by shipping companies, such as operational competitiveness and customer relationship quality, and how these then positively affect customer satisfaction through the formation of trust. Therefore, we examine the mediating effect of trust formation among different contractors for shipping services. Design/methodology - In order to examine the shipping company's tangible and intangible service-qualities perceived by the shipper on customer satisfaction and the process of trust formation between contractors, we collected valid data from 114 respondents out of 200 distributed questionnaires. The respondents consisted of domestic freight forwarders who engage with domestic and international shipping and logistics agencies. Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, convergent and discriminant validities, common method bias, and PLS-SEM (partial least square-structural equation model) were analyzed using the program STATA 16. Findings - The findings of this study are as follows. First, our results showed that all hypotheses assumed in this study had statistically significant supporting evidence. Second, it was found that the mediating effect of trust was significant in affecting the quality of intangible service- qualities for customer satisfaction. Third, through supplementary analysis, we found that the global network competitiveness of domestic shipping companies will increase in importance in the future. In conclusion, the theoretical and practical implications of these findings are presented. Originality/value - This study reaffirmed the traditional causal relationship between customer satisfaction and tangible service quality. Additionally, we also contribute to the literature on the understanding of the causal relationship between trust formation and customer satisfaction through intangible interactions from a long-term perspective.

• 무역학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.57-73
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• 2022

The process and change of convergence in the economy and industry with the development of digital technology and combining with new technologies is called Digital Transformation. Specifically, it refers to innovating existing businesses and services by utilizing information and communication technologies such as big data analysis, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Digital transformation is changing the shape of business and has a wide impact on businesses and consumers in all industries. Among them, the big data and analytics market is emerging as one of the most important growth drivers of digital transformation. Integrating intelligent data into an existing business is one of the key tasks of digital transformation, and it is important to collect and monitor data and learn from the collected data in order to efficiently operate a data-based business. In developed countries overseas, research on new business models using various data accumulated at the level of government and private companies is being actively conducted. However, although the trade and import/export data collected in the domestic public sector is being accumulated in various types and ranges, the establishment of an analysis and utilization model is still in its infancy. Currently, we are living in an era of massive amounts of big data. We intend to discuss the value of trade big data possessed from the past to the present, and suggest a strategy to activate trade big data for trade digital transformation and a new direction for future trade big data research.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.437-453
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• 2006

Services could move over the world where they want to go. Especially, travel services shared 29.4 percent of total world exports, 625 billion dollars in 2004 (WTO, 2005). Tourism is a very important sector in service trade in the world. Of developing countries, Korea has been experiencing remarkable development in female outbound travel market since the complete liberalization on overseas travels in 1989, with about 3.85 million travelers in 2005, 2,000 percent growth rate over 1988. It means woman's social status has been increasing in Korea. Especially, in the study young housekeepers, solely office ladies, and college students were described as very important market segments in Korean woman outbound travel market. They were not only major decision makers, but also executors because of both enough economic power and social status improvement on small sized family. This study indicated that woman outbound travel market gets larger because their buying power and status are going to go improved in Korean social system. It is recommended that marketers be worth watching Korean woman travellers as a major target market through continuos observation and analysis.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.233-266
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• 2005

The world trading system has been under many changes in recent years. One notably important development is that much attention away from the multilateralism-oriented World Trade Organization towards FTA(Free Trade Agreement). The Free Trade Agreement signed between korea and chile formally have been come effective for free trade in goods and services as from April 1, 2004. During Free Trade Agreement negotiations between both countries. This study aims at presenting the suggestion for the Korea to make the WTO rules and FTA by analyzing The interpretation of FTA under WTO System. It was founded by the investigation of WTO rules, most of the provisions are similar with other FTA, but a little provisions different from other FTA's. It is an appearance from the contracting party's peculiar circumstances such as state of industrial development or future prospect, conditions around international trade. The whole world has entered the new stage of bilateral and multilateral FTA. The essential or new generation or bilateral and multilateral FTA is creating more trade opportunities, promoting all factors, commodity, service, capital, technology and talent freely flow through canceling the trade barriers between FTA, in order to develop together within the regions. It shows that the cooperations transfer form the whole region into FTA. FTA makes not only the free trade smooth ,but also takes place the trade distortion effect. especially as the agriculture has a speciality each country, should it is ignored in negotiation, many reactions will be occurred in the process of fta Therefore Korea needs to deliver the message that Korea's hub is an essential ingredient for an efficient FTA and WTO system in a bilateral and multilateral win-win framework. Consequently Korea should have criterions about the rules of FTA and WTO system for peculiar circumstances of Korean economy and international trade.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제67권4호
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• pp.203-226
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• 2015

21세기 현재 복지국가가 당면한 최대의 과제는 전통적인 노동자를 대상으로 노령, 실업, 질병, 그리고 장애로 인한 소득의 상실에 대처하는 현금급여 중심의 소득유지 프로그램 위주로 운영된 '오래된 복지'와 청년, 실업자, 저숙련 노동자, 여성 그리고 비정규직 근로자를 대상으로 돌봄의 사회화를 통해서 개인의 역량을 키워주는 사회서비스 중심으로 운영되는 '새로운 복지'를 조화롭게 발전시키는 것이라고 할 수 있다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 논문은 복지국가의 전통적인 분류법에 의거하여 소득보장과 사회서비스라는 두 축으로 최근 복지국가 변화를 실증적으로 분석하여, 양자(兩者)간 관계의 성격을 규명하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 본 논문은 18개 OECD 국가를 대상으로, 1980년부터 2006년 전후의 사반세기에 걸친 시계열 자료를 통하여 소득보장과 사회서비스 지출의 증가를 측정하여 양자(兩者) 간에 교환관계(trade-off)가 성립하는지 여부를 분석하고자 하였다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위한 본 논문의 구성은 다음과 같다. 제2장에서는 현금급여와 현물급여의 개념과 차이를 이론적으로 살펴보고, 소득보장과 사회서비스의 교환성(trade-off)을 세 기둥 접근법(Three Pillars Approach)을 통해서 살펴보았다. 이어 제3장 연구방법에서는 본 연구의 주요 연구방법론인 그랜저 패널분석 모형을 설명하였다. 본 논문의 본문에 해당하는 제4장에서는 소득과 사회서비스의 교환관계성 여부를 상관관계와 그랜저 패널방법을 통해서 분석하였다. 결론적으로 소득보장과 사회서비스는 교환관계가 성립하는 대체재가 아니라 상호 보완재라는 점이 입증되었다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2021

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to develop two medical tourism system models which explain medical tourism phenomenon with a systemic approach. Design/methodology - This research was conducted by using a qualitative data analysis which mainly refers to previous references of medical tourism in the areas of tourism and medicine. Leiper's tourism system model was utilized as a conceptual framework. In-depth interviews with experts in the field were conducted in order to pretest the models. Findings - This research suggests a medical tourism system framework and a medical service provision framework. The first model presents medical tourism components and their relationships within a framework presented in a diagram. The second model shows the relationships among medical services required by medical tourists, the service providers, and service human resources along with movements of medical tourists. Originality/value - The first model presents a spatial composition of medical tourism components and their relationships, whereas the second model shows the linkage among medical services, the service providers, and relevant service human resources along with time sequential steps of medical tourists. These two models are complementary and may be used as useful tools to observe medical tourism phenomenon with a systemic and holistic approach. These two models may enable stake holders avoid unnecessary confusions and conflicts that result in duplication of government policies and a waste of budget and human resources.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.111-137
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• 2001

The establishment of the WTO system means that the global age of trade has officially arrived. Since the integration of the world economy brings about the free movement of goods and services between nations, it is inevitable that sea-bound freight will continue to increase. A recent World Bank report says that China and Korea will be the first and seventh largest economic Powers, respectively, by the year 2020. In particular, the Korea peninsula has a geo-political advantage in being developed as a major Northeast Asian container center. Moreover China's swift uprising needs new order of trade for economy belt in Northeast Asia. Therefore, it can be said that Kunsan Port. which has already been designated as a free trade zone, has greater potential to rise as a regional beach-head port and main region for foreign investment. As such. Kunsan Port will play a major role in accelerating the emergence of the West Sea in international trade. There are several strategies for developing Kunsan Port into a central container port: 1) develop Kunsan port Into an import/export front base f3r multinational corporations, 2) develop Kunsan container port into the core composite container-linked central port, 3) attract foreign investment to the Kunsan Free Trade Area so as to promote balanced development among the regions of Korea, 4) support the central government and local governments to accelerate the coming of the "West Sea Era." These recommendations call for urgent implementation.