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An Assessment of Technological Competitiveness in Core Products of Foreign Design & Construction markets (해외 유망 건설상품의 기술 경쟁력 평가)

  • Choi, Seok-In;Kim, Sang-Bum;Lee, Young-Whan;Kim, Woo-Young;Jang, Hyoun-Seung
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2008
  • In this study, surveys and interviews are used to evaluate technological competitiveness of each product with respect to that of foreign leading firms, for seven leading domestic construction products which have been determined to have competitive edge in offshore markets, Such evaluation provides a more in depth study than previously conducted research, and is meaningful in that corporate level, rather than industry level, perspective is projected. Major findings of such evaluations are the following. First, as expected, it has been evaluated that domestic technological competitiveness in desalination plant and power plant has reached the point where it can compete with foreign leading firms. Moreover, a noteworthy result of the evaluation is that development program sector, including urban development of satellite cities, has reached considerable level of competitiveness in offshore market. In the case of the development market, domestic firms have accumulated sufficient experience in domestic market and engineering technology is not a decisive factor as in plant sector, and these factors lead to such an evaluation. Second, in the cases of gas, oil refinery and petro-chemical plants, domestic products' technological competitiveness that can contest in offshore market is still centered around production and construction. On the other hand, there are still weaknesses in license technology and basic design capabilities, which constitute the "value added" area. Third, skyscrapers, a promising product in offshore construction market and a product group which domestic firms have much performance record and projects in progress both in domestic and offshore markets, are considered. While direct comparison between skyscrapers and plant sector is not feasible, with the exception of production and construction, overall domestic capability in this sector has been assessed to be the lowest amongst those products that were surveyed. Fourth, it has been indicated that competitiveness is relatively higher in common technology than in key technology. In project management capability, it has been assessed that there are weaknesses in procedure document area. Also, a characteristic is the point that low overall assessments have been given across all product groups for corporate and management areas, not technological areas. Especially, financing, contracting/claim, risk management and investment on research and development received low evaluations. Fifth, it has been assessed that overall corporate and governmental supports are weak. This result is especially evident for corporate management and support areas across all product groups surveyed.

A study on requirements of the system components in advanced EMU (차세대전동차시스템 구성품별 요구조건 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Hyuk;Oh, Seh-Chan;Lee, Chang-Mu;Jung, Suk-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.705-709
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    • 2007
  • This paper introduced the system characteristics of advanced EMU to be applied in urban transit system after 2010. The system characteristics are improvements of vehicle efficiency, implementation of lightweight vehicle body, improvements of passenger's convenience, facilities for handicapped people, improvements of system reliability, strengthening national competitiveness.

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A Study on Activation of Green Tourism - with an Emphasis on Boseong County - (그린 투어리즘 활성화 방안에 관한 연구 -보성군 지역을 중심으로-)

  • Song, Kyung-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.171-183
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    • 2007
  • Green tourism is a stay-flow activity between people in urban and rural area, using a natural view, tradition, and life in agricultural area. And green tourism provides rest, recreation, and new experience fur people living in urban area as well as opportunities to increase income for people in rural area. In recently, amenity is rapidly rising as a main factor fur a regional competitiveness. Boseong county shows a typical agriculture industrial structure with a weak independent base, but has a beautiful tea fields in full seasons. Boseong county is making an effort to activate the regional economy, but the result fall short of one's expectation. Several methods to activate the green tourism of Boseong county are as follows: i) introduction of specialized theme relating Boseong green tea; ii) provision of information regarding tourist resort and development of experience-program related to green tea business; iii) establishment of a sales network of products through accommodations in private houses; iv) establishment of networks among regions to achieve systematic sales of tourist experience, accommodations in private houses, and local speciality simultaneously.

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Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages of Five Northeast Asian Cities

  • Hahn, Yeong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.117-130
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    • 1999
  • Northeast Asia's burgeoning mage- cities have an extraordinarily economic vitality. While national statistics disguies how economic activity is concentrated, much of the region's robust growth of recent decades has centered around large cities, such as Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shaghia, Hongkong. These cities are also at the heart of the Northeast Asia's emerging reional economy. This paper aims to compare the advantages and disad- vantages of these selected Northeast Asia cities in various categories of urban competitiveness and cooperation. Above all, the paper compares the individual cities with one another, and analyzes relations and linkages among them. Then, strengths that can be reinforced and weakness that can be overcome are identified for each city. Finally, an urban development strategy for Seoul in the context development strategy for Seoul in the context of Northeast Asian cities is provided : I) Seoul should strive to be an effective regional capital of Northeast Asia ; ii) Seoul should be a focal point for the intermingling of Chinese, Japanese and Western cultures.

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A study of comparing the travel time between urban railways and arterials in the Seoul metropolitan area (수도권 교통축별 도시철도와 간선도로 승용차 이용자 통행속도 비교연구)

  • 김양지;김경철
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2001
  • The aim of tins study is to compare the travel time of urban railway with that of arterial roads in the Seoul metropolitan area, focusing on the five main railways and arterials - Ilsan, Bundang, Kwacheon, Kyoungwon, and Kyoungin in order to make suggestions about improvements of railways. We found that the travel times of railways and arterials are about one and a half hour and an hour respectively, also the ratio of railway travel time to arterial travel time is 1.34 at peak and 1.58 at off-peak. We conclude that the competitiveness of the railroads is lower than the arterials. It will be necessary that we research the ways to improve the service of railways and investment ranking among the five main railways.

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DEVELOPMENT OF COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED OPERATION OF U-SPACE

  • Sang-Hun Paek;Jeong-Nam Lee;Jae-Hee Cho;In-Shick Song;Sang-Chae Lim;Kyoon-Tai Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1377-1382
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    • 2009
  • U-City related researches and development have been actively conducted in Korea since 2002. According to the Act on Ubiquitous City Construction, "U-City" is defined as "the city to provide ubiquitous service anytime anywhere through the existing ubiquitous backbone systems and ubiquitous technologies, ultimately for the purpose of improving urban competitiveness and quality of life. This research explains the plan to develop collective management technology for integrated operation of U-Space which makes up U-City. Specifically, this report is intended to suggest basic approach of identifying collective management elements of each U-Space type, developing integrated management system and creating interface module to link the system with urban integrated operation center.

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A Study on the Capital City, Chang'an's(長安), Water System (수당(隋唐) 장안성(長安城)의 도성 형식과 수체계에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hee-Soung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.127-140
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    • 2011
  • The research described in this report was conducted to find out how elements of the natural environment contributed to the formation of Chang'an, how its water system reinforced its status as the capital city, and what role it took for its urban function based on studies of the canal constructions. During the period of Sui and Tang, Chang'an built a sophisticated water system using Qu(渠), the irrigation facilities. In the water system, hills are called Yuan(原), and rivers with the proper environment to be developed plan into urban infrastructure facilities for irrigation water, urban living water, the composition of garden-based facility, reservoirs, and others. They improve agricultural productivity and, consequently, increase the city's competitiveness as well as contributing to the urban infrastructure, serving as a convenient source and ensuring the quality of life was abundant. So, the urban effects of the water system have raised the capital's status. With the contribution of its pragmatic water system, Chang'an not only performed its urban function brilliantly, but also established itself more firmly as a capital city.

Guidance system improvement method of subway and urban bus (도시철도 및 버스의 안내체계 개선방안)

  • Han, Woo-Jin;Kwon, O-Hyeon;Park, Jeong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1777-1782
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    • 2007
  • Since July in 2004, starting with urban bus reorganization of Seoul metropolitan government, the change of the public transportation which integrates the urban bus and the subway of the metropolis are being continued. But the integration of such bus and the subway is staying to only a fare system mainly, and the guidance system of the subway and the bus has not changed. So we propose the concept of the new guidance system following public transportation change tendency. At first we introduce the new information system which can guide city railroad and bus altogether, and we propose new system which can guide divided by the trunk line and the branch line instead of bus and subway. Last high-functional guidance system which can give passengers tip and hint for various and effective usage of public transportation in more complicated city transit network is introduced. This new guidance system can increase competitiveness of public transportation system and stretch transportation share of it. And that guidance system is high-class contents that all public transportation business can utilize, so it can originate new industry. In conclusion, this new innovative guidance system is important field that government, local administration and public transportation business must be concerned and develop.

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A Study on the Uneven Growth and Geographic Distribution of Creative Industries (창조산업의 불균등 성장과 지리적 분포 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Kyung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.447-464
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    • 2014
  • Creative industries are important due to the capability of enhancing urban competitiveness. This study is focused on unravelling the uneven growth and geographic distributions of creative industries. The main results are as follows. First, the primary city, Seoul, has too much eminence than the citysize rule suggests, and the creative-industry elasticity is very high compared to population and all industry. Second, Seoul is reinforcing the uneven growth with adjacent cities. Third, the local main cities have little power to enhance creative industries and the local small cities grow randomly. Fourth, each city should have more deliberation in accepting creative industries as an urban growth strategy.

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A Study on the Art Management and Cultural Activities in China from the K-Wave Case

  • Jia Ning LI;Su SHUAI;Zhang FAN
    • Journal of Koreanology Reviews
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between Art management and Cultural activities in China from the K-wave case. Research design, data, and methodology: This study used the method of the cases study survey, with the K-wave case in as the survey objects, 3 valid survey sample case were collected in this paper. Results: The two dimensions of art management and cultural activities differently influences from the K-wave, and the influence of availability on customer satisfaction is not significant. Conclusion: The results of this study will provide useful reference for the Art management and Cultural activities in China from the K-wave case. And improve the development of art management and cultural activities in China by improving the K-wave of service quality. Art management can shape urban commercial space in a beneficial way, create a good consumption atmosphere, and enhance the attractiveness and competitiveness of the city. The introduction of art elements into urban commercial space can create a strong cultural atmosphere, so that the city presents a smart look. Art management has a positive impact on K-Wave production and operation activities, which can promote the shaping of art commercial space, the promotion of urban cultural atmosphere.