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Lessons from the Experiences of Volunteers at the Sewol Ferry Disaster (세월호 자원봉사자의 경험으로부터 교훈)

  • Shim, Sang Min;Yoon, Hyae Young;Choi, Yun Kyeung
    • Stress
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.105-119
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    • 2017
  • Backgound: The first step in disaster response is preparation, and education and training of workforce are considered as important elements of preparedness. The purpose of this study was to identify the needs of volunteers by exploring service experiences after a disaster to develop volunteer education programs. Methods: Participants were 11 volunteers who had supported the victims' families during about 1 year after the Sewol ferry disaster. Focus group interviews were conducted to investigate the experience of volunteer at the levels of individual, within-team and between-teams, and to discover the need of further training. Results: The results showed that the needs for self- and team-care and advanced education were reported. Conclusions: These results were discussed in terms of development of competence and mental health needs disaster volunteers. Limitations of this study and directions of future research were suggested.

Urban Regeneration Plan for Mid-sized Cities Deploying the Concept of Smart City - Focused on the US Smart City Challenge in 2015 - (스마트시티 개념을 이용한 중소도시재생계획에 대한 연구 - 2015 미국 스마트시티챌린지 공모전을 중심으로 -)

  • Yoo, Seungho;Kim, Yongseung;Kim, Soyeon
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2019
  • The concept of smart city is understood as an indispensable component of urban regeneration projects in small cities in terms of providing a better urban environment and efficient living systems with a limited budget. Recently, the Korean government revised the law that related to the construction of the smart city and started to implement the smart city concept not only to new-large urban development but also to small-existed regeneration projects. However, it is difficult for small and medium-sized cities that are suffering from the insufficient professional workforce; knowledge supports for high-tech and lack of professional networks to proceed smart city planning and project that containing regional characteristics. This paper aims to examine the effective way of urban regeneration for small and medium-sized cities through smart city planning and strategy. As an important case, this paper looks at the 'Smart City Challenge' competition that was hosted by the US Department of Transportation in 2015. It examines the background and operation process of the smart city challenge competition, and then analyses each city's strategy and characteristics of seven finalists. This paper highlights the several key lessons to Korean cities: 1) the importance of national government's support in financial and professional resources; 2) the cooperation with local governments and IT corporations which provides realistic and detailed technical solutions; 3) the holistic and integrated approach to urban regeneration starting from transportation issues; 4) the necessity of the government's clear visions and guidelines toward the smart city.

A Development of Automatic Extraction System for Welding Inspection Information based on Shipbuilding and Maritime CAD (조선해양 CAD 기반 용접검사 정보 자동 추출 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Bae-Sung;Hwang, Hun-Gyu;Song, Chang-Sub;Lee, Ki-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2020
  • In shipbuilding industry, there is conducting most of works by welding at the shipyard, and the volume of welding is increasing with international trends of green ships. Welding joint is guaranteed quality through non-destructive testing (NDT). The manual welding inspection report is produced by identifying the drawings designed, which results in losses the many workforce and occurs human errors. To solve these problems, this paper covers a system that reports on inspection information is automatically generation by input data based on shipbuilding-specific CAD. The developed system analyzes the shape data from drawings of modeling. Also, the system determines welding joints through expansion of the part boundary and generates tag numbers. In addition, it provides the function to automatically extract the information needed for inspection such as weld length, thickness and etc. We conducted test to verify the usefulness of the developed system and confirmed that the welding inspection information extracted through system matches the information shown in drawings of modeling.

A Study on the Effecting Factors in IT Worker's Career Change Intentions: Based on the KSA and the Self-efficacy (IT인력의 경력변경의도 영향요인 분석: KSA와 자아효능감을 중심으로)

  • Yoo, Sang-Jin;Lee, Yu-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.197-209
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    • 2010
  • The present state of the IT industry show workers with core capability KSA required by the IT industry having a high frequency of leaving for other industries or having the intention of doing so. This is not beneficial for the worker's career as well as the entire IT industry. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to support the development and management of IT human resources by selecting self-efficacy along with core capability KSA as the variables for researching career commitment and career change intentions. The results are as follows. It was found that the technical KSA and behavioral KSA of IT workforce influences self-efficacy. Self-efficacy has a significant effect on career commitment. It was found that managerial KSA has no effect on self-efficacy and career commitment.

A Study on the Current Situation and Direction of the Computer Network System Upgrading in College to Improve the Quality of Education (전문대학 교육의 질 향상을 위한 전산정보 시스템 고도화 작업 진행현황 및 방향에 대한 연구)

  • Yang, Seung-Hoon
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.175-183
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to present the basic information about advancement of computer network system for colleges that are preparing or in progressing upgrading. For this, we investigated the necessity and direction of computer network system upgrading work, basic guidelines, development requirements, and construction environment. And we suggested those informations through the main subject. In conclusion, we propose that we can obtain expected results such as efficiency improvement of administrative work, strengthen competitiveness, ensure inter-work connectivity, increase the efficiency of student management, efficient workforce placement, provide integrated centralized control solution and building smart campus through computer network system upgrading project.

Differences in Perception of Quality Dental Job Conditions and Job Satisfaction between Dentists and Dental Hygienists

  • Mi-Sook Yoon;Bo-Young Park
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.361-368
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    • 2023
  • Background: This study aims to investigate the perceptions of dentists and dental hygienists regarding quality dental job conditions and to identify differences in perceptions based on job type. Methods: As a result of conducting face-to-face and online surveys, data from a total of 132 people were analyzed. In order to investigate the perception of quality job conditions, the importance of a total of 13 items was investigated, and the work policies and job satisfaction of the current workplace were examined. Since the data did not follow a normal distribution, a non-parametric test, the Mann-Whitney U test, was performed. Results: Both dentists and dental hygienists perceived income and working hours to be of priority importance for quality job conditions. Dental hygienists valued holiday support and welfare, human relations, and personal development potential more than dentists (p<0.05). Looking at differences by job type, dental hygienists rated all conditions as more important than dentists except income, indicating a statistically significant difference (p<0.05). In terms of the work policies, 96.2% of the practices in the study were required to have the four types of social security contributions, but fewer had flexible working hours (19.7%), healthcare support (23.5%), and incentives (25.0%). Of the participants, 60.6% had parental leave available at their workplace, and dental hygienists had statistically significantly higher job satisfaction when parental leave was available (2.57 points) than when it was not (p<0.05). Conclusion: Quality dental jobs are an important factor in keeping workers happy and maintaining an efficient practice. Dental practice owners need to pay attention to the quality of jobs required by the dental workforce, provide flexible working hours and welfare programs such as parental leave, and create a workplace atmosphere and human resource management system that supports the use of these programs.

Security Threats to Enterprise Generative AI Systems and Countermeasures (기업 내 생성형 AI 시스템의 보안 위협과 대응 방안)

  • Jong-woan Choi
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2024
  • This paper examines the security threats to enterprise Generative Artificial Intelligence systems and proposes countermeasures. As AI systems handle vast amounts of data to gain a competitive edge, security threats targeting AI systems are rapidly increasing. Since AI security threats have distinct characteristics compared to traditional human-oriented cybersecurity threats, establishing an AI-specific response system is urgent. This study analyzes the importance of AI system security, identifies key threat factors, and suggests technical and managerial countermeasures. Firstly, it proposes strengthening the security of IT infrastructure where AI systems operate and enhancing AI model robustness by utilizing defensive techniques such as adversarial learning and model quantization. Additionally, it presents an AI security system design that detects anomalies in AI query-response processes to identify insider threats. Furthermore, it emphasizes the establishment of change control and audit frameworks to prevent AI model leakage by adopting the cyber kill chain concept. As AI technology evolves rapidly, by focusing on AI model and data security, insider threat detection, and professional workforce development, companies can improve their digital competitiveness through secure and reliable AI utilization.

A Study of After School Care Services in the Child Welfare System (아동복지제도 방과 후 돌봄서비스에 관한 연구)

  • Yeon Ja Kim;Hyun-Seung Park
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2024
  • In this study, the problem of child care gaps has arisen due to the expansion of women's entry into the workforce and the increase in working couples, and the care cliff phenomenon after children enter elementary school has been identified as one of the causes of women's career disconnection and low birth rates, and child care services have been initiated to solve care problems and balance work and family. The importance of childcare services to the safety and well-being of children has been highlighted by the restrictions on school attendance and the absence of caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has been making policy efforts to reduce the gap in child care, but problems with the effectiveness and efficiency of the child care system have arisen due to unstable target selection and delivery systems by ministries and projects in the implementation of child care services. Therefore, this study examines the child care services implemented by each ministry to reduce the blind spots of after-school care services in the community and prepare efficient operation plans for various delivery systems, and seeks directions for the development of child care services.

Empirical Meanings and Dilemmas of the Profession of an Academic Librarian: Applying Giorgi's Phenomenological Method (대학도서관 사서 직업에 대한 경험적 의미와 딜레마: Giorgi의 현상학 방법을 적용하여)

  • Sun-Ae Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.353-374
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    • 2024
  • This study aimed to delve into the personal experiences of academic librarians as they perform their duties, seeking a holistic understanding of their professional experiences and the subjective experiences underlying them. To this end, the study conducted in-depth interviews with librarians, who were selected as research participants from private four-year universities, and analyzed the collected data using Giorgi's phenomenological analysis method. The findings reveal that the experiences of academic librarians can be summarized as "ambivalent perceptions of the librarian profession," "discrepancies between expectations and reality," "discriminatory personnel practices within university organizations," "growth and limitations derived from professional experiences," and "adaptation and anxiety in response to rapid environmental changes." A closer examination indicated that academic librarians continuously experience and resolve dilemmas within complex contexts. The findings of this study are expected to deepen the understanding of the profession of academic librarians and contribute to the development of practical strategies for workforce management and the improvement of working conditions.

Paradigm Shift in Curriculum: Exploring the Role and Possibilities of Microdegrees

  • Myung-Suk Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.29 no.9
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    • pp.279-285
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    • 2024
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving transformative changes across society, leading to a surge in demand for professionals skilled in computer technologies. However, traditional education systems face challenges in adapting to rapidly evolving technologies, with long learning durations and high costs. In response, microdegrees have emerged as a solution, offering focused, short-term learning in specific fields, thereby enhancing flexibility and accessibility in education. This study explores how microdegrees provide new opportunities within existing educational frameworks, examines their roles and impacts across various domains, and identifies key elements to consider when designing microdegree programs. Ultimately, microdegrees will play a crucial role in rapidly adapting to technological trends and cultivating the workforce needed for the future. This research aims to contribute to foundational studies on microdegrees, driving educational innovation and proposing a new educational paradigm.