There have been various discussions as to women's images and roles depicted in mass media. I would like to show in this paper how men's and women's roles are presented in the programs and what sorts of the words are used for women as well. The target subjects in this research were news programs, educational programs, and entertainment programs dealing with current affairs broadcasted in the 3 broadcasting stations(KBS, MBC and SBS) during 2 weeks from May 1st through 14th, 2006. I am sure that this research clearly illustrates women's social status in mass media through specific data. I also hope that it helps us to know how our ideas of women in society have changed.

This study was to investigate purchase of women for commercial kimchi. Survey was carried out by questionnaire method that is target on 322 female over 20 age in Seoul area. The results of the study was that the way they get kimchi of women answered that they make it by themselves(63.3%). The reason of purchasing is they do not have enough time to make it at their home(43.8%) and its good taste(56.8%) result in their purchase. In the degree of preference about package material, prefer polyethylene(39.6%). Also respondents prefer purchasing poggi kimchi(63.4%) among other different types of kimchi. The promotion facts of purchasing commercial kimchi shows a high score in cold chain system package and specific kimchi development.

This study was designed to examine the relationship between clinical symptoms, self-efficacy, and performance of women with osteoarthritis. It is a survey study of 60 women who were diagnosed as osteoarthritis and given medical treatments from September, 2005 to October, 2005 in hospital 'H' located in Yongin-si. For clinical symptoms, radiographs of the subjects' knees were taken and evaluated the pathology grade by the Kellgren-Lawrence grade. Pain and stiffness was measured by the measure of WOMAC (Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index), and functional reach test was measured in order to examine balancing abilities. Self-efficacy was measured by a tool which has revised the ASES (Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale), and performance was measured by recording the difficulty of the WOMAC measurements themselves, and the time taken for 20 m walking, going up and down 9 stairs, and 5 sit-down and stand-up repetitions. The resulting differences in the other variables according to performance and the relationship between performance with variables are the following. First, an increase in pain in women with osteoarthritis led to decreased functional ability. Second, an increase in stiffness in women with osteoarthritis led to a decrease in functional ability. Third, a decrease in balance in women with osteoarthritis led to a decrease in functional ability. Fourth, a decrease in self-efficacy in women with osteoarthritis led to a decrease in functional ability. Fifth, the variables for estimating the performance by self-report were pain and self-efficacy. The variables for estimating the performance by recording the time taken was balance and self-efficacy. As a result factors such as pain, balance and self-efficacy in women with osteoarthritis were closely related to performance. Based on the results, it seems that physical therapy programs to decrease pain and to increase the balance in women with osteoarthritis, and psychological approaches to increasing self-efficacy are needed. I hope that the results of this study will be useful data for clinical management and intervention for women with osteoarthritis.

The term ‘modern’, in broader sense, refers to the concepts like modernity,modernization, modernism and the like, which came from Westernization impling therecognition of indigenous culture as being inferior to Western culture by comparison alongwith the expanded influences of the Empire of Japan. These concepts, however, ratherthan evolving from Western standards, came into being as a form of civilization led byJapan which had already tasted the fruits of modernization by 1920s. Since 1920s, the policy of, so-called, reconstructing Asian countries by Japan came tocreate eastern way of modernism, as a new East Asian trend mainly revealed in Chinawhich was against colonization after Japan’s invasion and conquest of Manchuria.Therefore, Eastern‘modern’unlike Western one could be understood in the widespreadterminology,‘Modern(摩登)’in Shanghai, reflecting consciousness like‘Fashion’or‘Trend’in female images on a variety of visual media. By 1930s it was the most notablethat‘modern’was accepted as something similar with‘Fashion’, or‘Trend’in socio-cultural contexts. These atmosphere had led commercial arts to enable to communicatewith the public in a great deal of supports and success in Shanghai which was widelyregarded as the citadel for the inflow of Western culture, among which transformations infemale images were remarkable as a representative form of culture. It is also remarkablethat‘historical modernity’transforming from the feudal age to modern society wasconsidered a synchronic modernity, and nationalism was regarded as a sort of beingmodern, while involved in the newly-changed female images as a fashion mode. Changes in fashion including hair style in Shanghai by 1930s, as a way ofexpressions showing what was modern through commercial artistic productions, wereeasily noticed in visual media as an outlet of modern women’s inner desire revealing theirpursuit for new mode of life in metropolitan cities. As a characteristic of the time creating anew code of visual female images, it is notable that there existed another form of‘modern’satisfying socio-cultural needs of the general public seeking for being‘modern’.

The main objective of this study is to analyze characteristics on the somatotype of modern adult women In order to standardize of products. The sample for this work chosen from data which were collected and measured by Size Korea during two years(2003~2004). In order to analyze feature of the somatotype of modern adult women, analysis was peformed in 1,371 subjects(645 twenties women, 725 thirties women) about 21 body parts such as height(4 parts), width(3 parts), thickness(3 parts), circumference(7 parts), length(3 parts) and body weight. According to the result of analysis, it was found that the twenties group was near in slender somatotype, whereas the thirties group was near in fat somatotype compared to standard somatotype.

한국에 있어서 여성범죄는 남성범죄에 비해서 현저히 적은 편이었지만 1980년대 이후부터는 계속적으로 증가추세를 보이고 있다. 이는 한국사회가 급속히 산업화, 민주화가 진행되는 과정에서 한국고유의 대가족 제도가 무너지고 핵가족제도로 변화되면서 여성들의 가치관이 많은 변화를 하게 되었으며, 무분별한 외래문물의 도입, 지나친 이기주의 발생 등은 물질만능주의와 개인주의의 사회분위기를 형성하게 하였다. 특히 1990년대 후반 발생한 한국의 IMF 상황은 가장의 실직으로 인한 남성의 권위상실을 초래하였으며 여성이 생활전선에 나서는 사례가 증가하여, 지금까지는 보수적이며 남성 의존적이던 여성의 역할이 큰 변화를 가져와 가사나 자녀를 돌보는 일에 소홀하게 되었으며, 이로 인해 파생된 부부간의 애정의 결여는 이혼, 탈선 등으로 이어져 결국에는 가정이 붕괴되는 등 여성범죄의 결과를 초래하는 결과를 가져오기도 하였다.따라서 최근 한국사회의 변화에 따라 급증하고 있는 여성범죄에 대하여 그 원인과 동기 등 여성범죄를 유발하는 여러 가지 요인을 분석 검토 하여 여성범죄를 사전에 예방하는 제도적 보완이 어느 때보다 절실히 필요하다 할 수 있겠다.

The purpose of this study was to examine the isokinetic moment of quadriceps and hamstring strength ratio among women of different ages. The study population consisted of 1,184 women referred to the Health Promotion Center at the S district. All subjects were aged 20 to 69 years old and divided into 5 groups; 20s (n=248), 30s (n=255), 40s (n=248), 50s (n=228), and 60s (n=205). The strength of the knee extensor and flexor, quadriceps, and hamstring of all the participants were assessed at 60 degrees/second with an isokinetic machine. We calculated the peak torque, peak torque %BW (%Body Weight), deficit of peak torque and hamstring/quadriceps ratio of the knee. The data were analyzed by one way ANOVA to investigate statistical differences in strength variation between different age groups and were computed by ⊿% difference from women in their 20's. The results were obtained as follows: 1. Peak torque of the knee extensor, quadriceps, were significantly reduced in women older than 30, but peak torque of the knee flexor, hamstring, were significantly reduced in women older than 50 compared to women in their 20's. (p<.05). 2. Peak torque %BW of the knee extensor, quadriceps, were significantly reduced in women older than 20, but peak torque %BW of knee flexor, hamstring, were significantly reduced in women older than 40 compared to women in their 30's (p<.05). 3. Compared to the women in their 20's, there was no significant difference among any of the age groups in the deficit of peak torque of the knee extensor and flexor, but the deficit of peak torque of knee extensor among women between 30 and 50showed significant difference within the normal range of deficit. 4. Compared to the women in their 20's, there was no significant difference among any of the age groups in the hamstring/quadriceps ratio These results showed that peak torque, peak torque %BW, deficit of peak torque, and hamstring/quadriceps ratio of the knee were reduced in each age group, but especially among the women over 50. Further longitudinal study may be needed to see if volume of muscle mass and intervention of exercise affect knee strength in spite of aging.