개도국의 대선진국 직접투자는 흐름방향면에서 역투자로서의 의미를 지니며 전통적인 해외직접투자와는 그 특징이 상이하기 때문에 기존의 해외직접투자이론으로서는 그 설명이 어렵다고 할 수 있다. 본고에서는 한국제조업 중 대선진국 직접투자가 가장 활발한 가전산업의 해외투자를 분석한 결과 가전산업의 대선진국투자는 i) 독점적 우위의 부재, ⅱ) 방어적이고 생존적인 차원에서의 진출 ⅲ) 미성숙한 유형의 투자라는 특징을 가짐을 알아내고 이를 바탕으로 기존이론의 설명력 한계를 살펴본 다음, 대선진국 역투자를 설명할 수 있는 새로운 이론을 제시하고자 한다. 즉 한국가전산업의 역투자는 우리 경제의 성장구조적인 특징으로 인해 선택된 대량생산- 저가수출전략이라는 기존의 의사결정을 단기간내에 바꿀 수 없는 경직성으로인해 독점적 우위없이 불가피하게 이루어진, 수출시장보호라는 생산차원에서 내려진 구조적 시장방어행위임을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 특성으로 인해 가전 산업의 대선진국투자는 그 생명이 길지 못할 것으로 예상되므로 독점적우위확보, 글로벌 네투워크화, 전략적제휴 등을 통하여 이에 대한 대책을 마련해야 할 것이다.

Occurring economic loss of economics by the earthquake, such as Gyeongju and Pohang in Korea, interest in seismic stability of facilities is increasing. Electrical Cabinet Structure in Power Plant should be prepared for malfunctions and its structural safety should be ensured as well an earthquake event. The purpose of this investigation is to increase the seismic stability of the cabinet. Through finite elements analysis, dynamic characteristics of the cabinet were identified herein, and time history analysis was performed by converting the design response spectra. In order to improve safety against earthquakes, a variable analysis was conducted to utilize steel dampers for seismic retrofit of the cabinet, and time history analysis results compared with the response of basic and seismic retrofitted cabinets.

In order to cope with some drawbacks of conventional CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) technologies, the new way to deal carbon dioxide have been studied a lot. One way to deal emitted carbon dioxide is to convert carbon dioxide into metal carbonate salt which can be used for various purposes such as raw materials for construction, additives for paper-making industries and so on. In this method, securing the source for metal cation is important and in this research, concentrated industrial wastewater was used to supply metal cation. In the wastewater, calcium and magnesium ions were dissolved and this could make cpatured carbon dioxide to be converted to metal carbonate salts. As a result of the chemical conversion, the amount of carbon dioxide converted to the precipitated salts and the crystal structures of them were suggested. To verify the crystal structures and the composition of salt mixtures, Scanning Electron Microscope and X-Ray Diffraction analysis were utilized.

This study classifies the types of spatio-functional differentiation in Korean island areas and analyses typical characters and suggests the development directions by each type. Eup/Myeon-level island areas are classified as six types by the factor analysis and the cluster analysis. First type is the traditional rural center. This type puts emphasis on maintaining phase as the central space and has to maximize development potential of the whole of settlement zone. Second type is the specialized region in manufacturing industry and the qualitative mutual growth of regional industries is able to be suggested. Third type is the specialized region in the neighborhood service provision. This type needs to devise the plan for utilizing potential customers actively and developing into the region specialized in tourism industry. Fourth type is the specialized region in tourism-support service functions. This type has to promote differentiated policies for maintaining amenity infra or value of countryside capital and preservation and utilization of resources by regional features. Fifth type is the fishing industry-dominated region. This type has to promote sustainable fishery development through the policy reflecting regional features and condition. Finally, sixth type is the sluggish region dominated with the traditional agriculture and fishery. This type is needed to aim at developing into the new food production base having the advantage of clean environment by strengthening support in specialized agro-fishery products. The existing researches on spatio-functional differentiation were mostly discussed with respect to land development, but this study highlights the difference in deal with the island areas distinguished from the condition of industry.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of regional ageing rate to industrial structures of rural areas in Korea. This paper shows that there are cause-effect relations between the industrial specialization and ageing rate in 'Agriculture', 'Finance & Insurance', and 'Real Estate & Leasing' sectors. The ageing levels are classified into ageing society, aged society, and super-aged society according to UN standard that cause different impacts on industrial specialization of regions. This paper finds that the industrial specialization is determined by the ageing levels. If there is an increase in ageing rate by 1% in ageing society, the industrial specialization of the three industries could be strengthened by 0.14%. But, ageing rates have negative impacts on the industrial specialization in aged society and super-aged society by 0.76% and by 1.20%, respectively, as increasing ageing rate by 1%. As the ageing rate progresses, 'Agriculture', 'Finance & Insurance' and 'Real Estate & Leasing'sectors have positive impacts on the industrial specialization in the ageing society. But 'Finance & Insurance' and 'Real Estate & Leasing' sectors have changed into negative impacts on the industrial specialization in the aged society. In the aged society, the employment of elderly persons of 'Agriculture' and 'Finance & Insurance' sectors increase by 1% makes positive impact on the industrial specialization by 1.54%, by 0.45%, respectively. The result of this paper can be applied to a significant guideline at establishing regional employment planning such as elderly customized employment, vocational training for rural areas, where above 14% of ageing rate.

The waste-to-energy (WTE) industry draws global attention by using wastes as energy resources. Korean government is very inclined to invest in the WTE industry. Therefore, it is believed that there will be an industrial scale-up. Also it is needed to make proper strategies for promoting the industry by creating the added value of related companies. This study analyzes whether the value-added structure of Korean WTE industry exhibits a virtuous cycle through the value chain (VC) within related companies by using a regression analysis based on a survey to Korean WTE companies. As a result, the government’s R&D support is analysed not to contribute to an increase in the R&D investments of the WTE companies. Also an increase in corporates’ R&D investments does not lead to an increase in corporates’ R&D outputs. An increase in corporates’ R&D outputs, however, has the positive influence on an increase in production. In contrast, an increase in production does not have an effect on a decrease in production costs. And a decrease in production costs does not lead to an increase in profit rates per sales. In addition, it is shown that an increase in profit rates per sales does not contribute to an increase in production and R&D investments. Therefore, it is estimated that the Korean WTE companies do not organize the virtuous cycle of the VC yet. This study has a policy implication to need further efforts to create the virtuous cycle in the VC of Korean WTE industry.

The Korean electric power industry autonomously developed the Korea Electric Power Industry Code (“KEPIC”) with political support from the government with a view to creating domestic codes and standards for electric power facilities. Since KEPIC was initially issued in November 1995, the Korea Electric Association (“KEA”) has consistently updated it, developing new codes and standards like Structural Maintenance Inspection and so on.

This Paper Checks Requirements of Nondestructive Examination in KEPIC-S(Structure Field in Korea Electric Power Industry Code). And Remind other Requirements differing with KEPIC-MEN That is a Sub-Suction in KEPIC.

This study, in order to complement instability of analysis result stemming from the choice between reference point and comparison point which is pointed out as the defect of shift-share analysis, conducted shift-share analysis using Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) trend of Geumgang area, Chungcheongnam-do for the period from 2000 to 2011. As a result of the analysis, ➀ industries that had both the positive Regional Share Effect (RSE) and Industrial Mixed Effect (IME) were service industries such as manufacturing industry, electricity gas, transportation industry, art, etc., which are positively influencing the regional industry. ➁ industries that had both the negative RSE and IME were other service industries such as wholesale and retail businesses, lodging industry, food industry, real estate business and leasing service, business service industry, public administration, etc., which provide basic livelihood services for the residents. ➂ industries that had the positive RSE and negative IME were agriculture, forestry and fishery industry, mining industry, construction industry, and educational service industry. ➃ industries that had the negative RSE and positive IME were info-communications industry, financial and insurance businesses, health industry, etc.

By the continued island-mainland bridging works, increased consumer demand for seashore regions and fundamental improvement of accessibility to metropolitan areas, rural service industries in the island areas has been rapidly developed in the past decades, and also, their functions differentiated geographically. In most island areas, catering and accommodation sectors have been expanded, while traditional trading sector decreasing. And the dominant power of public sectors has been increased but private ones decreased. So, the overall development trends of service industries in island areas would be considered as unhealthy for rural economic sustainability. As a tentative solution, it may be proposed that through the functional specialization/differentiation and efficient linking/networking of rural service industries with multifunctionality of countryside capitals, their spatial cohesion would be strengthened.

The purpose of this paper investigates the operational efficiency of nationwide flower chain based on survey data in Korea. Three problems in the operational efficiencyappear: first, the main office does not match the amount of order with that of delivery, and there are competitors of the same chain in the same district second, the quality of flower delivered is not standardized third, the main office and the chain store in the nationwide flower chain does not achieve the incentive compatibility in making and sharing the joint profit. Hence the key point to succeed in the small flower shop is to create its own customers in the district and the nationwide chain only provides the complementary market to local flower store.

The following is the summary to promote the efficiency of distribution structure in the flower business. First, considering the fact that off-line sale is still the major part of flower businesses, we should make a greater effort to activate e-business which is the combination of off-line and on-line businesses. Second, the sale sizes, when we do not consider those who did not give an answer to the survey, appear polarized into 2 million and 8 million Won. It means that we should develop a new distribution structure through which small local flower shops can also have their own shares in the nationwide flower market. Running a nationwide chain can be one way to resolve that polarization problem, but there are still some issues that need to be addressed. For example, there already exist more than 10 companies that have nationwide chains, but the reality that the bigger chains tend to attract bigger number of people shows that network externality is an important factor for the success of the flower business. Further studies, therefore, are needed to find out an answer to this critical issue on what is the minimum number of members which can create the necessary network externalities.