• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.40 no.4 s.109
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• pp.373-386
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• 2005

This paper aims to analyze the regional system of car rental offices by investigating the location of headquarter and branch offices. Spatial characteristics of car rental industries attempts to emerge from local markets. Car rental industries try to reconstruct their organizations by establishing corporation and limited partnership companies. Also, in various reasons, they divided space extensively by placing business offices in the areas within and out of headquarter. The formation of network by offering short period car rental services between offices, to meet the increasing demand of leisure activities etc., causes the economies of scale.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.503-508
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• 2007

The practice of revenue management has become increasingly important in a number of industries, notably in the airline, hotel, and rental car industries. A common interest of these industries is to maximize their revenue by developing a variety of products from perishable and limited resources over a finite time horizon. This paper provides review of revenue management models and classifies them with 2 different criteria. Finally, this paper concludes with several promising future research topics.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.410-416
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• 2008

The inter-industrial inducement effects of the korean railway services on the output, value-added, imports of the 403 industrial sectors of the korean economy have been computed by the input-output analysis technique utilizing the 2003 Input-Output Tables, which was published most recently in April 2007 by the Bank of Korea. The korean railway service industry produced \2,766 billion worth of passenger and freight railroad services in the 2003 year, and it has induced \1,701 billion worth of output, \781 billion worth of value-added, and \580 billion worth of imports of the korean industry as a whole. The energy sector industries such as diesel fuel, thermal power generation, nuclear power generation, crude oil, liquid natural gas, bituminous coal, liquid propane gas have been most affected by the korean railway services. Other industries mainly affected by the korean railway services include railroad car manufacturing, cleaning and decontamination, medical and health service, machinery equipment and rental, construction and maintenance, transportation related services, business R&D, property insurance, and telecommunication.