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Expectation and Satisfaction with Internship Program of Undergraduate Students Majoring in Culinary Studies (조리학 전공 대학생들의 인턴쉽 기대와 만족에 관한 연구)

  • 정효선;윤혜현
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.299-309
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    • 2004
  • This study investigated the degree of expectation and satisfaction with internship program of undergraduates majoring in culinary studies, and suggested improvements in satisfaction for training programs. Differences between expectation and satisfaction were significant in all 21 items including pay for internship program, rest spaces, and break time during working. Expectation questions were extracted to five factors. Factor 1 circumstances of kitchen Factor 2 staff's ability and attitude Factor 3 working environment Factor 4 working hours and pay and Factor 5 rotation, period, and placement of jobs. Five factors were also obtained from factor analysis of satisfaction. Factor 1 working hours and rest Factor 2 staff's attitude and pay Factor 3 facilities and sanitation Factor 4 circumstances of kitchen and Factor 5 period and placement of jobs. Overall satisfaction values showed significant differences depending on gender, school-year system, grade, age, and school. The working hours and rest factor had the most significant influence on the overall satisfaction with internship program of undergraduates majoring in culinary studies.

The Financial Burden of Catastrophic Health Expenditure Among Older Women Living Alone (여성독거노인가구의 과부담 의료비 지출에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Serah
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.17-34
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    • 2019
  • Older women who live alone are among society's most vulnerable people, since they experience increased risk of multiple chronic diseases and have limited financial protection. This can lead older women living alone to catastrophic health expenditure(CHE), which is defined as a healthcare expenditure that exceeds a certain portion of a household's ability to pay. Using the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing(KLoSA), this study investigated the incidence of CHE among older women living alone and identified the factors related to this incidence. Applying health expenditure thresholds of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% of ability to pay, the proportions of those with CHE were 41.3%, 22.9%, 14.6%, and 9.4%, respectively. Logistic regression models were used to identify factors related to CHE incidence, which include demographics, income, the number of chronic diseases, perceived health status, and health insurance type. The results show that the health care safety net in South Korea is insufficient for older women living alone. The findings can guide policymakers in improving healthcare and welfare policies to protect people from catastrophic payments. Particularly, welfare policies should be established for poor non-recipients who are not included within the benefits scope of the National Basic Livelihood Security System due to the unrealistic criteria of income recognition and family support obligation.

Renewing Tonnage Taxation of Shipping in Linkage to Greenship Certification Scheme (친환경선박 인증과 연계한 톤세제도 합리화 방안)

  • Junkeon Ahn;Jieun Lee
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.86-94
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    • 2023
  • Tonnage taxation has contributed to developing the Korean maritime industry through tax relief for shipping companies. The current tonnage taxation relies on the net tonnage as an earning-capacity indicator in a merchant ship. Although the tonnage tax accords with horizontal equity, it does not match vertical equity because of the different taxable capacities of an individual company. Nowadays, maritime transport uses a dedicated vessel, and each shipping freight embeds a different value of time. It means the tonnage taxation regime should consider the added value of each shipping freight. Meanwhile, as the environmental regulations led by the International Maritime Organization are being strengthened, the Korean merchant fleet must be eco-friendly soon after. This study explores the alternative to renewing tonnage taxation by utilizing the Greenship certification and considering the ability-to-pay principle. Because the Greenship certification scheme encourages shipping decarbonization, maritime transport by a certified ocean-going vessel comes to be treated as an activity for the green economy. Special taxation for the green economy may contribute to shipping sustainability and market competitiveness.

Equity in urban households' out-of-pocket payments for health care (도시가계 의료비 지출의 형평성)

  • Lee Weon Young
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.30-56
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    • 2005
  • This paper used two threshold approaches to measure the equity in urban households' out-of-pocket payments for health care from 1997 to 2002, which developed by Wagstaff and van Doorslaer. One approach used catastrophic health expenditure, which means that payments exceed a 'pre-specified proportion' of total consumption expenditures or ability to pay and the other used impoverishment that they did not drive households into poverty. Indicies for 'catastrophic expenditure' captured intensity as well as its incidence and also the degree of which catastrophic payments occur disproportionately among poor households. Measure of poverty impact also captured both intensity and incidence. The methods applied with data on out-of-pocket payments from the Urban Household Expenditure Survey Incidence and intensity of catastrophic payments - both in terms of total household consumption as well as ability to pay - increased between 1997 and 2002, and that both incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic expenditure' became less concentrated among the poor, but more concentrated in 2001 than in 1997. The incidence and intensity of the poverty impact of out-of-pocket payments increased between 1997 and 2002. Health security system may not have provided financial protection against catastrophic health expenditure to low-income households, because of high user fee policy not considering income level. The policies alleviating catastrophic health payments among the poor need to be more developed, and two threshold approaches further evaluated on our policy context.

Evolution of OTT Service and Changes of Pay TV Industry (OTT 서비스 진화와 유료방송 생태계 변화)

  • Do, Joonho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2022
  • The diffusion of OTT service has brought the fundamental changes in the value chain of the existing media industry. OTT service based on the public Internet has increased the number of subscribers by using dominant marketing capability, making the pay TV platform player's ability to connecting users powerless. This study examined the changes in the media market and pay TV industry in the USA due to the diffusion of OTT service and analyzed the changing strategies of media firms. The number subscribers of the expensive pay TV service in the USA has diminished, experiencing cord cutting and cord shaving due the diffusion of OTT. OTT players are changing the media market, showing the dramatic excellence in making original contents and distributing the newly released movies. Examination of the recent merger and acquisition cases of media firms tells that the investment in making original contents has increased in order to have the competitiveness in OTT business. The future media industry will be rapidly reshaped mainly based OTT service and strategic judgement is important to maintain the competitiveness of all media firms in the existing value chain of media industry.

The Non-Market Value of Science Museum (과학관 시설의 비시장적 가치)

  • Gwak Seung Jun;Yu Seung Hun;Heo Jae Yong;Lee Ju Seok
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.73-89
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    • 2005
  • As a scientific educational facility, the role of science museum has been enlarged. However there are few study to evaluate the public value of science museum. This paper applies a conjoint analysis to measuring the public value of science museum. At first, this paper chose the attributes of science museum and derived the marginal willingness to pay, As a result, the choice works for selecting a preferred option among three alternatives were within respondents' ability and the derived marginal willingness-to-pay estimates were statistically different from zero. This paper contributes to complementing the existing valuation methods by estimating the attributes of science museum and providing policy-makers with useful methodological framework and quantitative information in the decision-making process related to the policy of cultural facilities.

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A Study on The Terror Recognition of Security Guard: Focusing on the Southern Gyeonggi Province (일반경비원의 테러인식에 관한 연구 : 경기남부지역을 중심으로)

  • Park, Hyeng-Gyu
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.11-25
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the security guard of the destination and type of terrorism, surveillance, and identification / carried out in order to identify the recognition site the ability to respond to terrorism prevention measures, safety measures on terror. Analysis was conducted by the survey research through the literature for recognition of terrorism in order to derive the measured variables for the general recognition of the guards, pay security guard 300 patients.

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Effects of the benefit extension policy on the burdening of health care expenditure for households with patients of chronic or serious case (보장성 강화정책이 만성질환자 및 중증질환자 보유가구의 과부담 의료비 발생에 미친 영향)

  • Choi, Jung-Kyu;Jeong, Hyoung-Sun;Shin, Jeong-Woo;Yeo, Ji-Young
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.159-178
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    • 2011
  • Korea ranks high among the OECD member countries with a high out-of-pocket share. In 2006, the government implemented in full scale the policy of extending the health insurance benefit coverage. Included in the policy are lowering the out-of-pocket share of patients of serious case and expanding the medical bill ceiling system to mention just a few. This study proposes to confirm effectiveness of the benefit extension policy by identifying changes in 'out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of the ability to pay' and 'incidence rate of catastrophic health care expenditure' of each individual household as manifested before and after the benefit extension policy was implemented. The 1st and 3rd year data from the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS), conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), were used for the analysis, where low-income households and ordinary households are sampled separately. While the absolute amount of 'out-of-pocket expenditure' occurred to the average household increased for the period 2005-2007, the 'out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of the ability to pay' decreased. At the same time, the share decreased in the case of low-income households and households with patients of chronic or serious case as contrasted with ordinary households. 'Incidence rates of catastrophic health care expenditure' of ordinary households for 2007 stood at 14.6%, 5.9% and 2.8% at the threshold of 10%, 20% and 30%, respectively. The rates decreased overall between 2005 and 2007, while those of low-income households with patients of serious case statistically significantly increased. An analysis of this study indicates that it is related with the medical bill ceiling system regardless of incomes introduced in 2007.

Integrated Solid Waste Management for the Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development (환경적으로 지속가능한 개발을 위한 폐기물의 통합적 관리 방안)

  • Hong, Sang-Pyo;Nam, Kie-Chang
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2000
  • The costs of solid waste management have continued to increase. Stricter environmental regulations have been applied to waste management units. Future integrated solid waste management should be balanced between source reduction, recycling, energy recovery, and land disposal. To achieve more balanced solid waste management programs, more local governments must adopt diversion and recycling goals and finance to meet those goals. The hierarchy of integrated solid waste management must be enforced in a manner that is flexible enough to allow local governments to implement waste management facilities that match the communities' ability to pay for them. In establishing a hierarchy of integrated solid waste management, local governements have difficulties in implementing source reduction and recycling because of a lack of local control and inability to pay for new facilities. Integrated solid waste management involves selecting compatible options for facilities to manage the collection, recovery of energy and materials(transformation), and disposal of solid wastes efficiently. Waste Collection, transformation, and disposal must support source reduction and recycling activities.

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A Study on the Productivity Factor of Employees in Tax Accounting Offices (세무회계사무소(稅務會計事務所) 종사자(從事者)의 생산성(生産性) 인자(因子)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Doo, Chang-Ho;Kim, Ha-Seo
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.45-61
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    • 2009
  • This research is aimed at grouping for the extent to which the workers' job satisfaction influences productivity with a view to improving theirs, shedding light on the difference between the workers' concepts of job satisfaction and those of the executives of the matter in terms of the statistic characteristics of individuals and coming up with efficient measures to put the Korean tax accounting offices into smooth operation. The paper is suggesting a total of eight hypotheses, and the researcher tested those with the help of difference analyses and a regression analysis. The findings reveal that there was a difference in productivity in accordance with academic background, positions and total number years of work, etc. but tat there was no difference in gender. And superiors and pay among the factors of job satisfaction influenced productivity, whereas promotion and coworkers didn't. The worker subjects and the executive subjects turned out to differ in terms of pay levels, the welfare of the works, and the level of their ability to carry out their business in regard to the actual situation of tax accounting offices in Korea.

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