한국 민주주의가 제도적으로 공고화되었다고 평가하는데는 폭넓은 합 의가 존재한다. 그러나 한국 민주주의의 정치문화적 기반이 민주주의의 제도적 공고화 만큼이나 견고한지는 불명확하며, 한국인의 민주주의에 대한 이해에 대해서도 알려진 것이 많지 않다. 이에 본 연구는 한국인들 의 민주주의에 대한 이해가 어떤 차원으로 구성되어있는지, 민주주의에 대한 여러 이해가 존재한다면 그것이 왜 다른지를 분석하는 것을 목적으 로 한다. 세계가치관조사에서 수행한 한국인 대상 설문조사 데이터를 활 용하여 분석한 결과, 한국 유권자들은 민주주의 구성개념으로 절차적 민 주주의, 실질적 민주주의, 권위주의적 요소 순서대로 민주주의에서 중요 한 가치라고 인식하고 있었다. 또한 본 연구는 국가안보에 대한 우려는 권위주의적 요소에, 실직우려는 실질적 민주주의에 유의미한 영향력을 보인다는 것을 확인하였다.

We have developed a data integration system for ground-based space weather facilities in Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). The data integration system is necessary to analyze and use ground-based space weather data efficiently, and consists of a server system and data monitoring systems. The server system consists of servers such as data acquisition server or web server, and storage. The data monitoring systems include data collecting and processing applications and data display monitors. With the data integration system we operate the Space Weather Monitoring Lab (SWML) where real-time space weather data are displayed and our ground-based observing facilities are monitored. We expect that this data integration system will be used for the highly efficient processing and analysis of the current and future space weather data at KASI.

KASI and Seoul National University developed the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) as one of major scientific instruments for the 1.6 m New Solar Telescope (NST) and installed it in the Coude room of the NST at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in May, 2010. The major objective of the FISS is to study the fine-scale structures and dynamics of plasma in the photosphere and chromosphere. To achieve it, the FISS is required to take data with a spectral resolution higher than 105 at the spectrograph mode and a temporal resolution less than 10 seconds at the imaging mode. The FISS is a spectrograph using Echelle grating and has characteristics that can observe dual bands (Hα and CaII 8542) simultaneously and perform fast imaging using fast raster scan and two fast CCD cameras. In this paper, we introduce briefly the whole process of FISS development from the requirement analysis to the first observations.

We have performed the flat-fielding correction for the Hα full-disk monitoring system of KASI (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute), which is installed in the Solar Flare Telescope (SOFT) at the top of Bohyun Mountain. For this, we used a new method developed by Chae (2004), to determine the flat pattern from a set of relatively shifted images. Using this method, we successfully obtained the flat pattern for Hα full-disk observations and compared our result with the image observed in Catania Astrophysical Observatory. The method that we used in this study seems to be quite powerful to obtain the flat image for solar observations. In near future, we will apply this method for the flat-fielding correction of all solar imaging instruments in KASI.