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On the Standardization of Management System for Improving Reliability in Construction Industry (건설 분야 신뢰성 향상을 위한 경영표준 운영 방안)

  • Kim Jong-Gurl;Park Yong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2004
  • Domestic construction industry (including plant engineering industry) faces severe competition with world-wide leading companies under WTO (World Trade Organization) system. To survive in this competition, domestic construction company should establish and operate standardization system efficiently. In this paper, check list is presented to prepare the efficient reliability management system in domestic construction. And then, the check list is applied in MIR(Maturity Index on Reliability) estimation item to estimate reliability management level of company quantitatively.

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The Application of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) in Milk Processing Plants (유가공장의 HACCP 적용)

  • Jeong, Dong-Kwan
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 1996
  • With the starting of Uruguay Round(UR) and World Trade Organization(WTO), the direction of trade in world market has been setting up with the beginning of an opening age. However, world nations has been expressed a deep concern on the marketing and the circulations of unsafe foods, especially in the international trade of food products. Therefore, administration of most countries are taking a firm step on the safety of imported food products. The implementation of hazard analysis critical control point(HACCP) system in food industry is strongly appeared on the world stage at this point. Major international organizations, such as WHO, WTO, and EC have been recognized the importance of HACCP and already documented on their future plan for standardization of food safety in the international trade of food products by means of the this system. Several advanced countries have already developed HACCP system for the food industry and have been producing food products under this system. Now they have proposed rulemakings on a mandatory HACCP program in the production of domestic and imported food products. However, with the lacking of knowledge and information on the HACCP, there has been no actions for applying this system in the food industry of Korea. It is a very clear fact that Korean dairy and food industry will be faced on serious problems in exporting food products without applying HACCP system in the very near future. The objective of this article is to introduce the world trend. necessity, and application of HACCP system in food and dairy industry. Also a HACCP system developed by one dairy processing plant in Europe will be demonstrated as a moldel system.

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China-ASEAN Trade Relations: A Study of Determinants and Potentials

  • TRAN, Hiep Xuan;HOANG, Nhan Thanh Thi;NGUYEN, Anh Thuy;TRUONG, Hoan Quang;DONG, Chung Van
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.9
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    • pp.209-217
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the development and determinants of China-ASEAN trade relations over the period of 2000-2018. Employing both the qualitative and quantitative approaches, the results show that the trade relations between China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have remarkably developed and rapidly grown over times, with a significantly important concentration on the segments of high technological and medium technological products. We also find that China's economic scale is crucially impacting on the China-ASEAN trade relations under both the aggregate and sub-sector level. It is interesting to notice that there is no evidence to support accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and officially forming of ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) to enhance trade relation between both sides. The findings also quantitatively indicate that there is much significant potential for the expansion of mutual trade between China and some members of ASEAN such as Brunei, Laos and Malaysia, while less potential is predicted for other members of ASEAN. It is strongly suggested that China and ASEAN should find a new proactive approach and make more efforts in improving the mutual political trusts to enhance trading activities in the coming years.

Study on the Notifications of WTO/SPS - Focused on Food Safety Measures - (WTO/SPS 통보문 분석 연구 - 식품안전조치를 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Seong-Gyun
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.252-260
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    • 2009
  • According to Article 7 and Annex B of the World Trade Organization(WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary(SPS) Measures, WTO members are required to notify their newly established or amended SPS measures that might affect international trade. This study analyzed SPS notifications from 1995 to 2008 to identify international trends for food safety measures. The notifications were collected from the SPS information management system and the official document distribution system of WTO. The 153 WTO members represented 37 developed countries, 84 developing countries and 32 least developed countries. The number of overall notifications was 9,820. The annual notifications increased from 198 in 1995 to 1,264 in 2008. The monthly average notifications were from 44.8 in December to 69.5 in June; however, there were no statistical differences among them. The six leading Members in terms of notification submissions were United States(U.S.), Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, European Community and Korea. Among the regular and emergency notifications, 62.7% notifications were concerned with food safety, followed by animal and plant protections. Among animal protection notifications, 54.8% were emergency situations. Of the 4,821 food safety notifications, 60.4% were from developed countries, and 39.3% were from developing countries. Measures concerning pesticide residues and risk assessments were mainly from developed countries. In contrast, 77.5% of the measures concerning zoonoses were from developing countries. However considering the numbers of developing and developed countries, the average number of measures for each country was similar. Food safety measures were mainly involved pesticide residues followed by food additives, zoonoses, new regulations, labeling. As the overall notifications, zoonosis measures were mainly emergency notifications. Measures concerning pesticide residues, food additives, zoonoses, new regulations, veterinary drugs, and labeling were submitted most often by the U.S., Korea, Albania, U.S., Australia, and U.S., respectively. Identifying the exact trends of food safety measures was complicated by a number of factors. However, WTO notifications might be useful tool in providing a general view of international trends.

Analysis of dependence structure between international freight rate index and U.S. and China trade uncertainty (국제 해운 운임지수와 미국과 중국의 무역 불확실성 사이의 의존성 구조 분석)

  • Kim, Bu-Kwon;Kim, Dong-Yoon;Choi, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.93-106
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    • 2020
  • Trade is an important economic activity. In particular, since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the scope of trade has been expanding due to events such as the entry of China into the WTO in 2001, the establishment of a multilateral trading system, mitigation and integration of trade barriers, and the establishment of the free trade agreement (FTA). Despite the expansion of the trade market, however, extreme events such as the 2008 global financial crisis, the 2016 Brexit, and the 2018 US-China trade war have had a direct negative impact on the trade market. Therefore, the present this study analyzed the dependence structure between the international shipping freight rate index, a variable representing trade activities, and the trade uncertainty between the US and China. The following is a summary of the analysis results. First, the US-Chinese trade policy uncertainty and international shipping freight rate index presented a Frank copula and rotated Clayton copula 270° distribution, respectively, showing the same distribution structure for each country. Second, the Kendall's tau correlation revealed a negative dependence between the international shipping freight rate index and US-Chinese trade policy uncertainty. The degree of dependence was greater in the combination of uncertainty in China's trade policy and international shipping freight rates. In other words, the dependence of global demand and trade policy uncertainty confirmed that China was stronger than the US. Finally, the tail dependence results revealed that the US-Chinese trade policy uncertainty and international shipping freight rates were independent of each other. This means that extreme events related to the trade policy uncertainty or international shipping rate index were not affected by each other.

Strategy for Expansion of Overseas Construction Competitive Power by Official Development Assistance(ODA) (해외건설 수주경쟁력 향상을 위한 ODA (Official Development Assistance) 활용방안)

  • Choi, Jin-Wook;Kim, Jae-Jun;Lee, Han-Seung;Jeon, Rak-Keun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.173-181
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    • 2007
  • The domestic construction market is recently daunted because of the sustainable real estate regulation policy by the government. In other aspect, after the WTO(World Trade Organization)system opened overseas construction is growing continuously with grow of international economy and opening of market through world. Therefor needs to establish strategy on expansion or over seas construction competitive power. The purpose of this research is expansion on over seas construction competitive power by suggesting project cost guarantee methods to Owner and cost guarantee methods are Official Development Assistance(ODA). Accordingly, this research analyzed a developed $country^{\circ}{\phi}s$ ODA and domestic ODA. Moreover, survey to Expert of related field about over seas construction and ODA for identified problems. Especially, based on the results it intends to analyzed domestic ODA competitive power and improve strategy to competitive power of receive an order on over seas construction.

A Study on International Market Share Expansion Based on Derived Problems from Performance Record Analysis on Overseas Construction (해외건설 실적분석을 통한 문제점 도출 및 시장 확대방안에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jun-Youl;Jeon, Rak-Keun;Kim, Jae-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.7 no.4 s.32
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2006
  • The domestic construction market is recovered after a foreign exchange crises but recently it's daunted again because of the sustainable real estate regulation policy by the government. The other aspect, after the WTO(World Trade Organization) system opened overseas construction is growing continuously with growth of international economy and opening of market through world. Moreover, for ballooning oil prices an orders increase by oil-producing countries, the Middle East, gives good chances to domestic construction enterprises. But, the domestic firms decrease on our domain by chases of developing country and high-technology or advanced country. This research will indicate processes of our construction business to analyze performance record about our overseas construction from the 1970s to present. Based on the results it intends to search for problems of our construction enterprises and provide useful analytic data for expansion of overseas construction market.

A Study on the Japonica Rice Farming in Rural China and Korea (중국의 자포니카 벼 재배와 한국 농촌)

  • Lim, Hyung-Baek;Bae, Sung-Eui;Yoon, Jun-Sang
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.103-114
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to examine Japonica rice farming of China. Asian rice is divided into Japonica and Indica species. Japonica rice represents only less than 20% of Chinese rice output, but it can compete with Korea rice in both price and quality. The rise of income level has expanded the scale of production of Japonica rice in China. China’s adhesion to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has forced Chinese policy makers to face their obligations and responsibilities such as abolishing subsidies on agricultural exports. But being member of the WTO entry also helps China exercise and enhance its influential place in the global economy. Because of geographical proximity and the fact that Korea is ranked second among countries with which China still has a trade deficit, China may seek and plead for an opening of the protected Korean rice market to stabilize prices and prevent excess supply of Chinese rice. Though Korean rice farmers feel that prices are still low, Chinese rice remains far cheaper than Korean rice with the price gap is still on the rise. In anticipation of such fierce competition, Korea must carefully review its current policies and closely follow the evolution of rice production, marketing, and trade in China. This study also suggests some of the possible research using more recent data that should be conducted in the future.

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e-Learning 학습 콘텐츠 관련 기술 표준화 동향과 전망

  • 윤영한;이광제;안종득
    • Review of Korea Contents Association
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.60-74
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    • 2003
  • 현대사회를 '정보화 사회'라 부른다. 세계무역기구(WTO : World Trade Organization)의 단일화된 세계경제 질서하에서 국제기업(MNC : Multi-National Corporation)에 의한 세계시장 경쟁은 이 세계를 "One Market One Rule"로 만들어 버렸다. 거기에다 겨우 30여년에 불과한 정보통신의 발달은 그 종착점이 어디인지 모를 정도로 빠르게 성장하고 모든 패러다임을 변화시키고 있다. 심지어 HP의 칼리 피오리나 회장이 "Everything is possible."이란 간단한 어구로 표현한 유비쿼터스(ubiquitous)환경으로 접어들고 있는 것이 현재 우리의 모습이다.(중략)

The Typology Rural Non-Formal Education for the Farmers (기존 농민을 위한 농촌사회교육 유형분석)

  • Lee, Young-Dae
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 1994
  • From 1995, the WTO(World Trade Organization) system will be activated in the world market. Therefore more liberalization in agricultural are expected. Korean farmers should be trained to overcome the difficulty due to trade liberalization. The non-formal education for farmers is carried out by various forms but does not fit need of farmers mostly. The moor part of non formal training was focused on agricultural skills so there must be more emphasis on non-agricultural skills. There are some lacks in linkage between training and government support for trainees. So more support for farmers trainees such as aspects(for example cure finanical support) and non economic support(for example the raising of farmers morale) are needed.

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