Many departments in the governmental organization including Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) allocate some of their budget into research and development in astronomy and space science. We identify the research projects related to astronomy and space science that were funded by the government during fiscal years 2004-2005. Then the distribution of budgets of those projects is analyzed according to several classification schemes and characteristics in order to find out the status and trends of the investment in this field. Five departments had conducted more than 190 projects related to astronomy and space science, which accounted for 7.3% of the government R&D budget in space and aeronautics area. As for most fields of basic science, MOST and Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development invested the most of budget in astronomy related projects. We briefly discuss the implications of this study.

In this paper, we analyze the scientific inquiries type on Almanac and Historical Astronomy asked through the Q&A service in Korea Astronomy and Science Institute(KASI) webpage with the aid of scientific inquiries analysis methods. We also study the contents of the questions. Specifically, we have created statistics of questions and inquiries, and have developed categories to analyze the characteristics of questions with regard to their cognitive aspects. Each question is categorized as either of the two elements based on their recognitive aspect: science knowledge or science study. Each element also has sub-categories that help the reader understand the characteristics of the questions. For the analysis, we used the sample consisting of questions collected from April, 2005 to June, 2007. Through this study, we achieved a better understanding of the questions in the area of Almanac and Historical Astronomy asked in the Q&A service. Throughout this study, we find that the need of questions in the area of Almanac and Historical Astronomy are increasing with time, and the overall quality of the questions is getting improved. As we expect that the number of people using our Q&A service will increase and that the questions will get more difficult to answer, development of improved contents is required.

본 논문에서는 한국천문연구원에서 2000년부터 운영중인 홈페이지 질문상자의 질문 및 조회 수를 통계적으로 분석하고, 그 질문 내용에 나타난 인지적 측면에서 과학탐구 유형을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 홈페이지 질문상자에 올라온 질문 및 조회 수를 월별/연도별로 통계를 작성하였으며, 질문문항이 과학탐구의 어떠한 인지적 측면이 부각되어 있는가를 분석하기 위하여 과학탐구 분석틀을 개발하였다. 질문유형 분석은 인지적 측면에서 과학지식과 과학탐구로 분류하였다. 과학적 지식의 하위유형으로 내용지식, 방법지식, 지식본성 이해로 분류하였다. 과학탐구의 하위 요소는 과학탐구 수행능력으로 분류하고 각 세부 요소를 고려하였다. 질문유형 분석틀에 따른 과학탐구 유형의 분석은 분석틀을 통해, 2004년 7월부터 12월까지 6개월간 질문상자에 질문한 703개 질문 항목에 대해 질문들의 세부 사항 및 속성들을 세부적으로 살펴서 질문유형 분석틀에 따라 분석을 시행하였다. 이 분석을 통하여 질문상자의 질문에 대한 이해와 잦은 질문들에 대한 응답을 마련하는 등, 앞으로 질문상자의 운영 방안에 대한 방향을 설정할 수 있었다. 이 분석을 통해 질문수의 증가와 함께, 질문의 내용도 일상생활 과학 지식수준을 넘어 해마다 난해해 지고 전문화 되어가고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 앞으로 질문상자의 이용자 수가 계속 증가될 것으로 예상되고, 지적 요구의 증대와 함께, 질문의 내용도 더욱 난해해 질 것으로 예상됨으로 심도 있는 콘텐츠의 개발이 필요하다.

We present for the first time the characteristics of upper atmospheric horizontal winds over the Korean Peninsula. Winds and their variability are derived using four-year measurements by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) meteor radar. A general characteristic of zonal and meridional winds is that they exhibit distinct diurnal and seasonal variations. Their changes indicate sometimes similar or sometimes different periodicities. Both winds are characterized by either semi-diurnal tides (12 hour period) and/or diurnal tides (24 hour period) from 80–100 km. In terms of annual change, the annual variation is the strongest component in both winds, but semi-annual and ter-annual variations are only detected in zonal winds.

This paper presents at the characteristics of publications in the Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences from 1984 to 2018. Since its first publication, a total of 1,113 papers (~35 volumes) have been published up to December 2018. While the space astronomy field has made up a large portion of the total number of papers, the number of annually published papers in this field is decreasing. In contrast, the number of papers in the space environment field has been showing an increasing trend since 2013, accounting for more than 30% of the annual publications. The participation rate of foreign researchers has been maintained at greater than 20% since 2012. Despite the decrease in the number of paper per year, there are positive developments including sustained foreign researcher participation at greater than 20% and improvements in the impact factor. We believe that JASS has the potential to enter the distinguished level of international academic journals following a welldeveloped future road map.