This study developed and tested the impact of hallyu 4.0, social media, and consumer ethnocentrism on the decision to purchase Korean products of Generation C in Vietnam. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies were utilized in this study. Qualitative research was first carried out with in-depth interview, conducted to derive measurement items for the interested constructs. Quantitative research used cross-sectional field design by pilot study and official study. The model was tested and developed using data collected by questionnaires, from a sample of 575 respondents, by both electronic and paper surveys with non-probability and convenience sampling techniques. SPSS 20 and AMOS 20 software were employed to analyze the data. The results of structural equation modeling showed that hallyu 4.0, social media, and consumer ethnocentrism influenced the intermediates variables: subject norms, trust, attitude and behavioral intention and influenced purchase decision. The hallyu 4.0, social media, and consumer ethnocentrism are independent variables. They impact purchase decision through mediating variables such as trust, subjective norms, attitude and behavioral intention. Social media influences not only to trust but also to subjective norms. Subjective norms influence on purchase decision. This study also discovers an interesting fact that trust and attitude variables have an impact on behavioral intention and purchase decision.

The paper aims to investigate the impact of trade cost on export: A Case Study Vietnam. The study conducts a static linear panel data analysis on annual data covering bilateral export between Vietnam and 70 major importers of Vietnam from 2001 to 2013. The gravity model has been one of the most successful applications in empirical trade. In this paper we apply the gravity model to estimate the impact of trade cost on Vietnamese bilateral export value. The paper uses gravity model to estimate the impact of trade cost on Vietnamese bilateral export value. The empirical results derive from a static linear panel data analysis (fixed effects model) indicates that trade cost plays a crucial role in determining the export value that occurs between Vietnam and trading partners. Besides, population of importing country, trade openness of importing country, gross domestic product of importing country and gross domestic product of Vietnam are also significant determinants of Vietnamese bilateral export value. The main findings indicates that trade cost plays a very important role in the Vietnamese bilateral export performance. This suggests that the Vietnamese government should attempt to improve domestic trade costs to enhance competitiveness and increase export growth sustainably.

이 연구는 입학전형별 학업성취도의 차이를 검증하고 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소가 학업 성취도에 미치는 영향력을 파악하기 위해 수행되었다. 이에 이 연구에서는 2016～2017학년도 대구 지역 A 특성화고 입학생을 대상으로 입학전형별(취업희망자 특별전형, 일반전형, 기타특별전형) 학업성취도의 차이를 검증하였다. 또한, 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소와 학업성취도간의 상관 관계를 비교·분석하고 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소가 학업성취도에 미치는 영향력을 분석하였다. 분석된 결과는 차기년도 입학전형에서 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소를 보완하거나 새롭게 개발할 때, 필요한 기초자료로 활용될 것이다. 이 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 입학전형별 학업성취도에 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 사후분석 결과, 취업희망자 특별전형-일반전 형, 취업희망자 특별전형-기타특별전형, 일반전형-기타특별전형에서 모두 유의미한 차이가 나타 났다. 게다가 취업희망자 특별전형으로 선발된 학생들의 학업성취도가 일반전형과 기타특별전형으로 선발된 학생들에 비해 높게 나타났다. 둘째, 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소와 학업성취도의 상관관계는 입학년도에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 2016학년도 입학생의 학업성취도는 출결성적과 직업기초능력평가에서 낮은 상관관계를 보였으며, 교과성적과는 다소 높은 상관관계를 나타냈다. 반면, 2017학년도 입학생의 학업성취도는 교과성적과는 낮은 상관관계를 보였으며, 직업기초능력 평가와는 다소 높은 상관관계를 나타냈다. 셋째, 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소가 학업성취도에 영향을 미쳤다. 2016～2017학년도 취업희망자 특별전형의 전형요소들은 학업성취도에 대해 각각 26.4%, 22.3%의 설명력을 보였다. 전형요소들이 학업성취도에 미치는 영향력을 비교해 보니, 2016 학년도에는 교과성적(β =.338)이 제일 크고, 그 다음으로 직업기초능력평가(β =.180), 출결성적(β =.154) 순이었다. 2017학년도에는 직업기초능력평가(β =.338)가 교과성적(β =.257) 보다 학업성취도에 미치는 영향력이 크게 나타났다.

Purpose - The adjustment of one country's monetary policy can cause the macroeconomic change of other countries. Due to this, this paper attempts to analyze the impact of China’s monetary policy on South Korea’s exchange rate. Research design, data, and methodology - Based on the flexible-price monetary model, sets of annual time series from 1980 to 2017 are employed to perform an empirical estimation. The vector error correction model is also used to exploit the short-run relationship between both of them. Of course, the South Korea’s real GDP, the China’s real GDP, South Korea’s interest rate, the South Korea’s interest rate and the South Korea’s monetary supply are treated as independent variables in this paper. Result - The long-run findings reveal that the China’s money supply has a negative effect on South Korea’s exchange rate. Respectively, the short-run findings depicts that the China’s money supply has negative a effect on South Korea’s exchange rate. Of course, other variables selected in this paper also have an effect on South Korea’s exchange rate whatever positive or negative. Conclusions - As the empirical evidence shows, the China’s monetary policy has a negative effect on South Korea’s exchange rate whenever in the long run or in the short run.

In 2018, the Korean government introduced a landfill levy under the Framework Act on Resource Circulation. This was a fiscal measure to ensure that landfill waste disposal is priced so as to reflect its environmental cost and to help promote more sustainable waste management. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the landfill levy as a landfill policy instrument in Korea. In this study, a literature survey was conducted on the existing theoretical and empirical insights to the effectiveness of landfill taxes, including experiences in several EU countries. This survey shows that if landfill taxes are to be effective in terms of reducing the amount of waste going to landfills, the tax rate should be put at a fairly high level. It should be noted that the landfill tax rates should be set based on the external cost of landfill disposal. In addition, it appears that the landfill tax has not significantly affected generated waste per capita in the EU. The landfill tax can result in negative effects. Due to the reduction of waste sent to landfills, there is a risk that landfill operators will not be able to fulfil their financial obligations for closure and aftercare. Additionally, after closure and construction of the surface sealing, the emissions potential of the waste body remains more or less constant, resulting in the extended time-scale and uncertain funding of the post-closure period. This is a problem applicable to most landfills that contain inorganic waste. Thus, landfill operators should be stimulated by means of appropriate regulations to stabilize the waste body as much as possible to guarantee the lowest possible emission potential. This requires financial incentives, which are implemented to encourage operators to actively advance the stabilization of landfill waste.

We study the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of Asian four countries such as Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and China on housing market returns in Korea. Also, we document the relationship between the EPU index of those four countries and the housing market including macroeconomic indicators in Korea. The EPU index of those four countries has significantly a negative effect on the housing purchase price index, housing lease price index in Korea. The EPU index in Korea and Japan has significantly a negative effect on the CPI. The EPU index in only Japan has significantly a negative effect on the PPI. The EPU index in Hong Kong and Korea has significantly a negative effect but the EPU index in China significantly has a positive effect on the stock price index in construction industry. The EPU index in only Korea has significantly a negative effect the stock price index in banking industry. This study shows the EPU index of the Korea has the negative relationships on the housing market economy rather than other countries by VECM. And this study has an important evidence of the spillover of several macroeconomic indicators in Korea for the EPU index of the Asian four countries.

In the globalization and free trade era, the current account deficit problem is a common phenomenon experienced by most countries, both developing and developed countries. Also with managed floating regime of exchange rate, it becomes very important to analyze the dynamics of current account balance which determine the trade. The deficit condition has lasted for four years in Indonesia, as well the deficit value above the value of the surplus that has been experienced during the period 2005-2011. This study is firstly aim to examine the condition of the deficit which happens in the export and import, manufactured goods and oil and gas, whether related to the transaction of goods and services. We try to build a predicted model which near the actual. Then, the focuses examines an exchange rate volatility impact on current account deficit. The model used in this research is a simultaneous model of Indonesia current account deficit from 2005 to 2014. The simulation result indicated that depreciation increase surplus to current account deficit. The decrease of export manufactured goods (non oil and gas) higher than the increase of import. For the oil and gas sector, depreciation of the rupiah against the US dollar results in an increased burden of higher oil and gas imports due to import transactions.

The Korean environmental impact assessment(EIA) system, and explored ways to improve it as a more efficient and viable institution relevant to the demand of our time and conditions in study. The first problem this study identified is found in the fact that the party to write up the assessment report is itself the business operator or the one who is planning to work out the business plan. This structure translates into placing an order with an agent for EIA report. The reporting job may br subcontracted to the agent at a cost far below the rate specified in the ‘Standard for Estimate of Agency Fee for Environmental Impact Assessment.’ This practice also causes the vicious circle of producing a report that is written to justify the project or business in question or it leads to rough-and ready and poor documentation to minimize the time required. Second, in order to achieve the goal of the plan or business, which is the target of EIA, the local residents tend to ve regarded as an obstacle. This means elimination of the local people from participating in the EIA or their opinion being frequently ignored. This is the seed of distrust and hostility that sometimes provoke disagreements or fierce conflicts. The first proposal to improve these problem is to improve the factors that cause poor documentation of the assessment report as well as improve the understanding of the EIA system. This study proposes the following measures for improvement. The agency cost for EIA should be paid by the business operator or a third party that can ensure faithful implementation of the payment. A system should be established to verify transparent estimation of the agency cost. In order to enhance the professional quality of EIA agents, there should be implementation of qualification test for industrial engineer of related engineers in addition to the current EIA Qualification Test. The second proposal for improvement is to improve the citizen participation process by instituting a legal framework to make clear the purpose of the briefing session for local residents, which is held as a procedure of EIA, and to ensure more positive publicity during the stage of listening to the opinion of the local community. For a smooth and rational communication process, a moderator and a communicator of opinion, as is the case in a public hearing, could be instituted to clearly get the purpose of the briefing session across to the residents and to help to carry out the explanation and Q & A sessions according to the categories of the opinion of the residents. At present, the notification of the public inspection of the draft of the assessment report and briefing session for the residents is made on the newspaper and internet network. But some people have difficulty with access to this method of announcement. A higher participation rate could be secured if a legal provision is added to specify putting up placards in specific places such as the entrance to the place for the briefing session for residents or the building of administrative agencies of the area concerned.

Background : Polygonatum is a perennial herbaceous crop that is further classified into P. falcatum A. Gray (wild vegetation of Jeju, Japan), P. sibiricum F. Delaroche (wild vegetation of Korea north, China, Russia, and Mongol), and P. stenophyllum MAx (wild vegetation of South of Danyang), with the herbal name of Rhizoma polygonati. Polygonatum is harvested after 5 - 6 years since planting, and the quality of the radicle is a major factor determining the quantity of harvest. This study presents the morphological characteristics to predict the later quantity of radicles when planting polygonatum, and develops the methods for the prediction. Methods and Results : This study investigated the ground-level growth and the quantity of radicles in underground in 5-years-old, 4-leaf, 5-leaf, and 6- or more leaved polygonatum planted in the Chungbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services. According to the investigation on the ground-level growth by the number of leaves, the 5-leaved plant showed the best plant length and nodal leaf number; 171 ㎝ and 24/stock, respectively. On the other hand, the leaf number and leaf weight were as heavy as 85 leaves and 58.3 g/stock, respectively, in 6-leaved plants or plants with more leaves. The leaf area was as wide as 15.6 ㎠ with 5-leaved plant, and the chlorophyll was also high. The investigation on the underground growth showed the best results in 6-leaved plants or plants with more leaves: the root length was 23.8 ㎝, number of radicle node was 5.7, and root weight was 291 g. The quantity was highest at 2,148 ㎏/10 a with 6-leaved plants or plants with more leaves, and at the lowest at 907 ㎏/10 a in 4-leaved plants. The profit analysis showed a profit of 3,859,000 won/5 years in 6-leaved plants or plants with more leaves, which 86% higher than the 4-leaved plants. Conclusion : If plants with6-leaf or more leaves at the ground level are selected and used as radicles for new polygonatum packaging, the quantity of radicles has increased by 59% and the profit increased by 86%, compared to 4-leaved plants.

In 2018 the South Korean Government introduced the Resource Circulation Act that included a landfill levy (tax) in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill sites and to promote recycling. The objective of this study is to examine the negative and positive effects of landfill tax on national waste management by reviewing case studies from the European Union (EU). In December 2015, the European Commission proposed the Circular Economy Package that sets ambitious recycling rates of 65% and a maximum 10% landfill rate for municipal wastes by 2030, and the European Commission decided that the landfill tax could help move towards these aims. Indeed since the late 1990s, most of the countries in the European Union have introduced landfill taxes. Landfill rates of these countries showed a tendency to decrease gradually. Currently the landfill rates for the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway are less than 5%, and those for the UK, France and Italy have fallen below 30%. However, the landfill tax also had negative effects. In the case of the Netherlands, too little waste was sent to landfills, and private companies can no longer profit. Consequently the companies will not be able to fulfil their financial obligations for closure and aftercare. Thus, based on the results of this study, it is necessary to further consider the landfill levy in Korea.

The purpose of this study is to estimate the thickness of concrete slabs using the impact echo method based on the stress waves, which is one of the nondestructive test method, to evaluate the safety and construction conditions of concrete slabs. If the correlation and reliability of the impact echo method and the slab thickness are secured, it can be considered that the quality control of the concrete slab is possible in existing structures and structures under construction.

One of the indicators evaluate the bridge load bearing capacity is the peak impact factor. The peak impact factor is related to vehicle types and speeds and frequency of the bridges. Among the parameters, the vehicle types such as DB-24 and standard vehicle load presented in the current specification have different load distribution and different load axles space. Considering these features, in the present study, the variation of the peak impact factor according to each vehicle type is investigated and compared.

In this study, we performed a series of experimental studies on the effect of tie-bars and steel-plate strength on the impact resistance of SC walls. A total of 8 impact tests were planned to investigate the impact resistance performance of SC walls at the extreme performance testing center of Seoul National University in Korea. The specimens were designed with the main test parameters of yield strength of steel plate and tie-bars. The results from this study will be used to improve and optimize the AISC N690 design equation for SC walls.

This paper has developed a Derailment Containment Provision(DCP) between rails to prevent derailed accident of the train. And developed DCP under impact loading was analytically evaluated using LS-Dyna. This paper was simulated using Mat_72R3 and Mat_CSCM for concrete material. To modify the developed DCP, this paper was suggested suitable and reasonable analytical concrete material model.

A detailed guideline was prepared to explain the contents of underground safety management guideline and to prevent confusion in the initial implementation of the law to underground safety impact assessment and underground safety inspection subjects. "Special Law on Underground Safety Management", which was created to prevent the safety of the people from frequent occurrences due to frequent occurrence of subsidence, has been systematically settled in the course of design, construction and maintenance of underground facilities. When it works smoothly, it can be said that national security is guaranteed.

Climate change has caused localized torrential rainfalls and typhoons to occur more frequently, increasing damages to both life and property. In particular, debris flows have brought damages not only in mountainous areas but also in urban centers. Many studies have been carried out with the rising concern on debris flows. These studies applied different debris flow models and conduct analyses on behaviors of debris flow and on forecasting. Given this, however, the subject of the impact force of debris flows should also be taken into consideration. Thus, this study applied RAMMS and FLO-2D, two models for the numerical analysis of debris flows used to analyze impact force. Here, the selected study areas are Umyeonsan Mountain in Seoul and Majeoksan Mountain in Chuncheon, where damages on debris flows were caused by the localized heavy rains in 2011. To identify a debris flow–triggering rainfall, we used and applied rainfalls calculated at different frequencies (30-year, 50-year, 100-year, 200-year). This study calculated and compared impact forces produced by the two models at any point in the study areas. Identifying impact forces based on the comparison of the two models will be useful in selecting materials and equipment appropriate when installing facilities in mountainous regions.

본 연구에서는 금강유역(9,645.5 km²)을 대상으로 SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool)을 이용하여 HadGEM3-RA RCP 4.5와 8.5 기후변화 시나리오에 따른 미래 기간(2020s: 2010~2039, 2050s: 2040~2069 ,2080s: 2070~2099 )의 지하수위 변화를 평가하였다. 이를 위해 SWAT 모형의 검․ 보정은 11년(2005~2015)동안의 유역내 2개 댐지점(대청댐, 용담댐)의 일별 유입량 및 저수량, 5개 관정지점(JSJS, OCCS, BEMR, CASS, BYBY)의 일단위 지하수위 관측자료, 3년 5개월(2012년 8월~2015년 12월) 동안의 3개 보지점(세종보, 공주보, 백제보)의 일별 유입량 및 저수량 자료를 이용하였다. 2개 댐의 유입량 및 저수량 검보정 결과, Nash-Sutcliffe 모델효율(NSE)은 각각 0.57~0.67, 0.87~0.94, 결정계수(R2)는 각각 0.69~0.73, 0.63~0.73의 범위를 보였으며, 3개 보의 유입량 및 저수량의 NSE는 각각 0.68~0.70, 0.94~0.99, R2는 각각 0.83~0.86, 0.48~0.61로 검보정 되었다. 5개 지점의 지하수위에 대한 R2는 0.53~0.61이었다. 유역 전체의 미래 기온은 기준년도(1976~2005)대비 2080s RCP 8.5 시나리오에서 최고 4.3°C 상승하고 강수량은 6.9% 증가하였으며, 미래 지하수위는 5개 지하수위 관측지점 중 금강 상류 3개 지점(JSJS, OCCS, BEMR)에서 각각 –13.0 cm, -5.0 cm, -9.0 cm 감소하였고, 금강 하류 2개 지점(CASS, BYBY)에서는 각각 +3.0 cm, +1.0 증가하였다. 미래 지하수위는 유역 내 강수량의 계절별 공간적 편차에 따른 지하수 충전량의 차이에 기인한 것으로 판단된다.

국내 최초의 상업원전인 고리1호기가 2017년 6월에 영구 정지되었다. 고리1호기 해체를 시작으로 한국은 원전 해체시장에 본격적으로 발을 내딛는다. 원자력발전소 해체를 위해서는 고려해야 할 사항들이 많으며, 방사선환경영향평가 또한 그 중 하나이다. 방사선환경영향평가의 목적은 주변주민의 건강과 안전을 도모하기 위해, 해체 전 및 해체 중에 해당 시설에서 방 출되는 방사성물질로부터 주변주민이 받는 피폭방사선량이 규제 제한치를 초과하지 않음을 확인하는 것이다. 현재 국내에는 해체시 방사선환경영향평가서를 작성하는데 필요한 세부지침이 미비한 상황으로, 다수의 원전 해체 경험을 보유한 미국의 해체시 방사선환경영향평가서를 비교·분석하여 국내 상황에 맞는 해체시 방사선환경영향평가 방안을 개발하였다.