A new cultivar of Rosa hybrida “Orange Flash” was selected from the progenies of a cross between “Lora” and “Timeless” at the Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services in 2000. It was finally selected in 2004 after investigation of the characteristics for three years (2002-2004). “Orange Flash” was developed for a standard type cut flower. The major characteristics of “Orange Flash” are 107stems/m2/year in yield, 24.8 in petal number and 10.9 days in vase life. The cultivar was applied for a variety protection in 2005, and was released to commercial growers in 2006.

A new cultivar of Rosa hybrida “Pink Flash” was selected from the progenies of a cross between “Red Sandra” and “Neon” at the Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services in 2000. It was finally selected in 2004 after investigation of the characteristics for three years (2002-2004). “Pink Flash” was developed for a standard cut flower. The major characteristics of “Pink Flash” are 132stems/m2/year in yield, 57.7 in petal number and 8.0 days in vase life. The cultivar was applied for a variety protection in 2005 and was released to commercial growers in 2006.

Three interspecific hybrid populations, Glycine max/G. gracilis, G. max/G. gracilis, and G. max/G. soja, were developed for genetic analysis. Genetic inheritance of 8 quantitative traits (days to flowering, days to maturity, reproductive period, leaf shap

Young-Soon Kim. 2001. Discourse Functional Interpretation of the Word Order Variation. Studies Modern Grammar 24, 137-159. In many linguistic studies there has been a dichotomy between formal and functional approaches. This paper will attempt to connect the two approaches because linguistic expressions always simultaneously have formal grammatical properties and functional pragmatic properties. In order to do it, this study explains the concept of the discourse-grammar, demonstrates the discourse-grammar relationship of Korean, German, and English, and deals with the motivation of word order variation in English. There are expressions of discourse functions in English, for example, the left attachment and the right attachment. The former has the interpretation of marked topicalization and the latter has the effect of creating a new focus of statement. The outline of results in this study is as follows: Korean and German are pragmatical languages, which make use of grammatical means to cope with discourse-functional requirements in quite a different way from English.

Lim, Ji-Ryong & Young-Soon Kim. 1999. The Integration of the Signification and the Semiosis. Studies in Modern Grammar 18, 129-196. This study handles two important semiotical concepts, i.e., signification and semiosis, within the framework of theoretical semiotics. We have called the academic field `semiotics` as a science of signs, which consist of two elements like the signifier and the signified. According to Saussure (1916) and Hjelemslev (1943), the signified means a mental meaning and the signifier means its material. In general, the signification can be understood as the connection of mental meaning with its material and the semiosis as the process of signs. For Peirce (1931/1935) the semiosis means the action, of signs which must be interpreted. The signification and semiosis seem to be not conceptional differentiated, but correlated with each other. In this study we attempt to find out the clear interaction between the signification and the semiosis. Moreover, on the basis of this interaction we propose the integral semiotic program for the communication, which is composed of signification and semiosis.