The goal of this study was to identify how well learners express themselves when an online conversation environment is provided in a SW education curriculum. In order to achieve this goal, this study took place during the first semester of 2018, with the subjects being 115 students belonging to two classes from 5th grade and two from the 2nd year of middle school in schools that were conducting the SW leadership school project. The results of creating an online conversation environment and collecting the students’ opinions about it showed that the higher the age of the students, the better they adapted to the online environment and, furthermore, female students especially proved to be more active at online expressions compared to male students.

In South Korea, low fertility rate has become a big social issue, making the term ‘ultra low fertility rate’ common. Currently, South Korea, like many other leading industrialized countries, is coping with the problem of low fertility with a focus on the work-life balance policy. Unfortunately, South Korea’s work-life balance policy has been criticized as not so successful. Especially, it has been pointed out that the policy effects are being compromised because ‘it is not because there is no system, but the existing system does not work properly.’ This means that work-life balance policy in South Korea has a structural and fundamental problem. In this regard, it is necessary to reflect on policy discourses and instruments that determine the goals, directions and content of the policy. The result of the analysis in this paper reveals that South Korea’s work-life balance policy consists of the discourse of ‘raising the fertility rate’ and its policy instruments. It mobilizes citizens for the national goals of social reproduction and sustainable growth. It could be said that this reversal of purpose and means was because the policy makers and executives were buried in developmentalist thinking―in pursuit of materialistic social development. In this respect, in order for South Korea’s work-life balance policy to be on its way, it is urgently required that it should shift its policy paradigm to change practices and cultures. This paper argues that such a paradigm shift should be based on a ‘Social Quality Approach’. Only when we pursue humanistic social development in the planning and implementation of policies and continue to monitor and supplement related systems under this stance, can we achieve a stable and effective work-life balance policy.

The Haenyeo are people who do underwater collection activity called mulgil. Stress levels associated with diving can lead them even to death. In order to assess Haenyeo’s occupational stress, stress factors regarding fear, panic and danger at sea were extracted. Based on the stress factors, Haenyeo’s labor songs, which are representative examples, were analyzed, and categorized into 4 steps according to stress intensity. Stress Step 1 is death, Step 2 is a warning against death (due to desire), Step 3 is a stage of recognizing danger, and Step 4 is a joy from financial reward. The labor songs empathized a warning to not forget death and an alert that anyone could lose their mind, exceeding the diving limit if treasures were in front of them. Monetary compensation can also be a way of overcoming stress although they recognized that their bodies are broken due to very hard and dangerous work. Therefore, ways of overcoming the Haenyeo’s occupational stress were education and training using the labor songs. The Haenyeo’s labor songs that the junior Haenyeo learned by the elder Haenyeo provide the best way to overcome occupational stress. This type of indoctrinating education based on the labor songs suggests the importance of precious life, economic reward and success that suit individual situations. Also, it is an opportunity to improve the quality of life, of marine life through the training that helps overcome the occupational stress.

This study analyzed to what degree artificial intelligence conversation systems can recognize and respond to human’s emotion language, and it aimed to suggest areas that need to be supplemented for emotional exchange conversations. For this purpose, the study conducted experiments on three kinds of speakers with artificial intelligence conversation system. As a result, the following points have to be solved for the emotional exchange in the artificial intelligence conversation system. First, from the viewpoint of recognition, it is necessary to strengthen the learning of various phrases and expressions related to the emotion, since only the emotion language composed of one word can be grasped at this time. Second, from the viewpoint of the reaction, it is necessary to construct effective dialogue and content by learning the proper dialogue principles as a communication partner for humans that can empathize and communicate, rather than as a machine that evokes instrumental purpose. The significance of the study is what an artificial intelligence conversation system needs for emotional exchange with humans to establish a foundation for a more accurate and efficient development of technology.

This study reviews theoretical comparisons regarding reentry issues of incarcerated people in order to promote a better understanding of individuals’ criminal desistance. There are three major competing criminal desistance theories, and they include the subjective (identity) theory explaining an individual’s subjective processes, structural (social bonds) theory focusing on structural conditions, and integrative (subjective-social model) theory describing personal commitment and motivation combined with structural resources. First, identity defined as a sense of self is directly linked to one’s motivation and behavioral guidelines. Thus, identity theory assumes that intentional changes in one’s sense of self are necessary for criminal desistance. The theory posits that only justice-involved individuals who intentionally transform their identities can attempt to utilize structural support to help them pursue change. Second, the structural theory on social bonds provides an appropriate theoretical foundation on how social bonds, such as employment, affect criminal desistance through a series of exogenous circumstances called turning points. Employment is an important example of a social bond for justice-involved individuals since it provides structure to one’s life. Third, the integrative model assumes that personal characteristics may interact within social contexts, in that an individual has to identify, select, and act within the structure they live in, through their cognitive transformation. This article also briefly discusses two major methodological challenges deriving from the utilization of the theory.