Seong-taek Park

• Chungbuk National University

At present, we live in prosperity contrary to the past times. As income increases, people enjoy wealth, but more people tend to pursue their own inner happiness: travel. People go to other places or visit foreign countries for business or journey. This study aims to identify the best tour route for foreign tourists in South Korea. Based on the revi...

With the advent of the Internet, there have been many changes. As existing means of off-line communication have transferred to the Internet, a wide range of multimedia services are emerging. And unlike in the past, these work as tremendous sources from which people’s opinions and attitudes can be obtained. Particularly, diverse opinions and reviews...

The purpose of this study is to provide useful points to companies by performing an analysis about patent litigation (dispute) trends that is recently coming to the fore as an important issue and also the solution measures. In this study, network analysis method will be used. For this, data was collected from dissertation database and Twitter, and...

Digital transformation increasingly gains broad attentions from all the world and particularly studies on artificial intelligence, big data, cloud, and mobile are currently conducted. In addition, research based on ambient intelligence are also performed. Everything including condition information of all objects are shared on real time in AMI envir...

This study investigated the status of appropriability mechanisms and relevant policy measures as an option to secure the returns on R&D investment, which businesses employ to create new knowledge and competitiveness for knowledge-based management. Also, it conducted the AHP analysis of responses from a range of ICT-related experts surveyed. Moreove...

Diffusion of smart devices, explosive growth of SNSs, increased speed of mobile network, alongside with the rapid development of ICT, all allow provision and use of many services on smart (mobile) devices, which have been provided in the wired network environment. Particularly, the use of a cloud service that allows users to access it in any place...

Background/Objectives: This study identifies the effects of corporate motivation for innovation and innovation activities on innovation performance. For business organizations to create some innovation performance, the motivation for innovation and innovation activities override anything else. In that a persistent global economic crisis has driven...

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study is to recognize the significance of security of cloud service activation and success and to draw the direction and importance for the development of Korean cloud service. Cloud computing service makes it possible to conduct a test easily and quickly at a low cost, to be scalable with an inexpensive c...

This study aims to shed light on the influence of the factors (social presence, nostalgia, gratification opportunities and sense of virtual community) on users’ gratification of social connection needs and friendship maintenance under the context of group chatting community via mobile instant messaging application Wechat. Questionnaire survey was c...

Many countries and firms are exploiting and utilizing big data for a solution of social problems and creation of jobs, and economic effects. This study is tried to understand trend of IT-related occupational fields by systematic analysis of data and analyzed the most posted IT-related jobs by classification standards. We used Java programming langu...

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effects of technological innovation competency on patent activities, patent management activities, and patent rights enforcement activities as well as the effects of patent activities on product performance. Methods/Statistical analysis: This study used Smart PLS 2.0 to verify the research mo...

Background/Objectives: Topics of Open Science and the recent trend will be examined in this research based on the articles that were published in Scopus, the representative foreign academic journal on the subject. Methods/Statistical analysis: This research was carried out in order to search Scopus Web DB, on the basis of which to grasp research tr...

The purpose of this research is to draw the direction and tasks for Korean Fintech industry taking into considerations of the importance of successful operation of Fintech and security. News data from Naver the most famous Korean portal site have been collected and analyzed and 20 most frequently used keyword were ranked both in 2015 and 2016. Paym...

Background/Objectives: This study identified the relationship between exploration and exploitation activities and patent activities and the relationship between such activities and innovation performance so as to present some reference data conducive to viable patent strategies. Methods/Statistical analysis: The present study used the PLS (Partial...

This study is aimed at investigating the factors that influence the profits of Internet personal broadcasting to improve unstable benefit structure. 50 viewers of game broadcasting that includes most of internet personal broadcasting`s personalities are surveyed, who are watching the broadcasting everyday more than an hour and backing to a broadcas...

With a rapid development of the wireless broadband technology, consumers can have more freedom in searching and exchanging of information without the limitation of time and space. This article constructs a research framework of consumer characteristics on mobile social network and its influence on information searching behavior. This article aims t...

Career and academic Counseling is often viewed as the catalyst for frequent and consistent interaction with students, but it is more than simply advising students about which majors, universities or jobs to consider. Ongoing, personal contact of career and academic counselors with students is an essential component in long-term career-related effic...

Objectives: This study aims to shed light on the factors that influence mobile social networking applications (Wechat) users' intention and behaviors to share knowledge from the perspective of both media and psychological features. Methods/Statistical analysis: This research conducted questionnaire survey via online survey company (Wenjuanxing) and...

Objectives: This study, on the subject of China's electrical and electronic industries which are making much investment in R & D, aims to grasp why they patent or don't patent the output of R & D. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This study drew "to patent" and "not to patent" factors through specialist Delphi with factors drawn from foregoing studies...

Objectives: This study aims to grasp an enterprise's monopoly mechanism strategy on the subject of Korea's ICT industry and propose monopoly strategy through it. Methods/Statistical Analysis: For 9 monopoly mechanism drawn from foregoing studies, direct survey was conducted on the subject of 50 ICT enterprise practitioners. Survey was made using 5-...

Companies innovate to survive tough competition in a rapidly changing environment. Since companies have to invest much money and time in R&D for innovation, strategies to secure the appropriability of R&D spending may override all other concerns. Appropriability refers to the extent to which the return on innovation investment is exclusively protec...

Background/Objectives: The present study performed a positive analysis on the factors affecting entrepreneurial intention with a focus on the moderating effect of self-efficacy by pre-entrepreneurs including university students and nascent entrepreneurs. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The present used Smart PLS 2.0 to verify the selected model. PLS...

Background/Objectives: We wanted to find out the relationship between self-disclosure intent to disclose themselves online openly and the right to be forgotten that they want their information to be forgotten online. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In order to measure each variable of the research model, all items of the questionnaire were measured w...

Background/Objectives: This study was aimed to derive directions and implications of self-directed learning semester policy by comparing similarities and differences between self-directed learning semester policy in Korea and transition year policy in Ireland and highlighting experiences of the transition year policy. Methods/Statistical Analysis:...

Background/Objectives: This study was conducted to solve the problem by predicting vaccine demand in advance through analysis of progress of birth of newborn babies in our country. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The deducted problem was defined and information, data, and use analysis method and planning procedures for creating alternatives for this...

Background/Objectives: This study drew six important elements from the valuation models presented in the preceding research and technology value valuation institutions through an expert survey. In addition, an analysis was conducted on the differences in the important elements of patent valuation by each product group using the AHP method. Methods/...

Background/Objectives: The present study analyzes an improvement plan for bicycle roads by using the public data of Seoul and proposes its implications. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In this study, an analysis was performed by utilizing a big data analysis tool, R. The present study, after defining the deducted problem phenomenon, conducted a proce...

Technology industry is experiencing its dramatic changes in the amount of data that requires management and the place that such an asset are stored. Despite the exponential growth of information, business leaders are expecting agility in order to complete a lot of works much faster and less expensively using data. With the generalized spread of sma...

The number of multicultural families is on the rise worldwide. In this respect, the central government and municipal governments are also implementing and supporting multicultural-related policies. However, they are in progress, not as services needed for multicultural members but as policy issues. This causes multicultural members to fail to figur...

Despite its many technology maturity and significant advantages, the cloud services are still far from success in the market. In accordance with some research, security risks have been regarded as the main factors that impede activating cloud service. Accordingly, this study divides the factors of security risk into Information leakage risk, Fault...

This paper analyzed the effects of security risk factors fit for cloud computing paradigm on the acceptance of enterprise cloud service with intent to illuminate the factors for vitalizing the adoption of corporate cloud services in the future. The acceptance intention was set as a dependent variable. Independent variables were set in reference to...

The objective of this research is to empirically analyze the impact of contents update or patch service in online game, being provided after delivery to correct faults and to improve performance of the game. Regression analysis is applied to the data set, where the weekly increase rate of playing times is dependant variable, and the time(week) and...

As recognition and value on big data has become significant, companies, public institutions, intelligence agencies have started to have interest on big data. Of course, there were analytic techniques based on data in past as well, but data was limited and analysis also limited. However nowadays, interest on structured data due to social media and u...

There is a growing need to assess the value of patents, which represents intellectual properties in the age of knowledge economy. For instance, invigorating IP Finance assumes the assessment of patent values. Likewise, when business entities map out patent strategies, it is essential to assess the value of patents. In this context, this paper revie...

Vendor Managed Inventory(VMI) is a distribution channel system where the inventory at the retailer is monitored and managed by the manufacturer or vendor. By pushing the decision making responsibility further up the supply chain and centralizing the replenishment decision, the vendor can help the entire supply chain be more competitive. The purpose...

Technical innovation is becoming more and more important in order to create competitive advantage in this management environment that the speed of technical changes is getting faster and the lifecycle of product is being reduced. To improve the performance of technical innovation, companies need to have absorption ability to utilize external knowle...

As globalization is accelerating, companies are making great efforts to grow. Thus, many companies are trying to make innovations, and their interest in patent, the result of innovations, is also increasing. Thus, this study tried to examine cases that companies registered study results from innovations as patents, and activities that they are doin...

Recently, the value of big data is being considered important. Also, the government, public institutions and private enterprises began to be interested in big data. Now, data has a lot of values, unlike the past. With the emergence of various planning and analysis techniques which are based on this data, big data is being established as a foundatio...

The resident registration numbers were used for administrative purposes including people's up-to-date residence information and vital statistics or provision of public services in Korea. In 2005, the government of Korea devised the i-PIN, a new online personal identification system replacing resident registration numbers. In the context of the i-PI...

CCTVs are already much ingrained into our lives, and can be commonly seen not only in public spaces but also in private ones. Although CCTVs were developed for military purposes at first, nowadays they are used for the purpose of the safety of society. Furthermore, the public sectors such as fire stations, local governments, and the police also mak...

Now, the Korean mobile communication market already reached full growth. In this situation, mobile communication companies are constantly trying to find ways to differentiate their services. But it was quite difficult. The only thing that differentiates their service is quality. This study aims to examine the impact of service quality and satisfact...

Innovation strengthens the company's competitiveness and moreover, it greatly contributes to the country's economic growth. Now, the importance of innovation is higher than ever before. Global enterprises innovate to survive in cutthroat competition environments, and interests in output of innovation, appropriability are increasing day by day. Appr...

With the rapid development of ICT and the market, the border in the market began to be meaningless any more, and it came to be difficult to produce products just with a single technology. Especially, with the acceleration of the convergence and integration of technologies, this phenomenon will further continue in the future, and at the point of tim...

Recently, the increasing demand of information security consulting and securing workforce for information security consulting companies have emerged as major pending issues especially with the expansion information and communication infrastructures and the increase of instances of personal information leakage. This research aims to provide guidelin...

Country image has been regarded as the source of competitiveness of a country in the age of globalization. The purpose of this study is to examine what impact does the utilization of social media has on country image, and the relationship between social media usage and the images of a country’s economy, politics, nationality, culture and the countr...

Smartphones have a big advantage making infinite expandability possible by downloading new applications consistently through application store. These new devices provide us with multimedia features such as high quality voice calls, listening to music, and internet searching while previously cell phone just executed functions of voice calls, SMS, an...

Innovation is one of the important drives for the reinforcement of companies' growth and competitiveness. With the progress of globalization, there is no meaning of the border any longer and invisible competition takes place. Companies make a lot of investment in R and D for innovation and make massive R and D results. In general, they use an appro...

South Korean Government confirmed the creation of competency-centered society as a key national issue and announced development and utilization plan of NCS(National Competency Standards) On May 21, 2013. As a part of the government`s plans, they had been developed NCS about 833 jobs by 2014. But Big Data related job, as an emerging job, cannot be s...

In case that they do not have counterstrategies ready for patent disputes in advance, they would not be able to survive competitions or would fall behind in the market. Most of domestic companies are not equipped with appropriate counterstrategies, and there are only few studies on the countermeasures for patent disputes. Thus, this study examined...

WeChat is the most representative mobile socialization application in China as well as an important platform in enterprise publicity. The special transmission method of WeChat emphasizes the importance of user participation. Therefore, how to make effective use of the antecedent factors of user participation and user participation incentives appear...

Quantum information and communication technology(QICT) holds out tremendous promise for efficiently solving some of the most difficult problems that are intractable on any present or future conventional computer. QICT is one of the most active research areas of modern science, attracting substantial funding that supports research groups at internat...

The rapid trends toward outsourcing have created more complex and fragmented multi-tier supply chains for Engineering, Procurement & Construction(EPC) industry. Working with suppliers and sub-suppliers requires continuous integration activities during project execution. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing the performanc...

In devising technological innovation strategies and implementing successful technological innovation, some of the most important factors may be to determine whether to protect technological innovation and to choose how to protect it. Traditionally, technological innovation has been emphasized to obtain compensation as much as possible for innovatio...

POSCO has been chosen as the most competitive steelmaker in the world, for the 4th year in a row. It`s potentials and key success points lay at technology innovation as well as effective partnerships with suppliers and customers. Partnership with suppliers is based upon the effective supply chain management. While ERP system supports the standard b...

With the rapidly changing information and telecommunications technology, the importance of the patent is increasing day by day. Many companies have been litigated involving patent dispute in the global market. In the past, companies did not recognize the importance of the patent. Currently, companies are aware of the need for the importance of the...

Securing the appropriability strategy of R&D funding for technology innovation is very important because R&D needs a lot of time and money. Appropriability means the environmental factors that govern an innovator's ability to capture profits generated by an innovation. Generally appropriability mechanism has five kinds, including patent, secrecy, l...

The age of social network has arrived. Social media is the various online media for sharing of opinions and experiences and open for internet users' participation. As the new communication tools, social media has been in the limelight, threatening the traditional media as alternative media. In globalization, country image is seen as the source of c...

Small and medium-sized firms are increasingly dependent on the knowledge and expertise of the supply chain as a whole to innovate and improve supply chain performance. This research examines the capabilities that enable firms to collaborate successfully, and aims to identify the determinants of SCM performance of the suppliers participating in supp...

This study empirically investigates how the switching barriers influence the consumer's perceived intention to change his or her current favorite internet shopping mall. Drawing from switching cost theory, variables pertaining to trust, shopping mall service quality, product price, web page quality, switching barriers were examined to examine the c...

Despite the rapid growth of digital signage market with diffusion of digital media, there has been little case study in digital signage research area. More specifically, this case study of Intellian Systems, one of the leading digital signage companies, reveals how it made the successful growth by developing signage technology and its service in su...

The changing paradigm due to the emergence of smart phone and the rapid spread of internet-based social media usage is considerably impacting the politics, economy, society, culture and many other fields. As the new communication tools, social media is receiving spotlight for its advantage of low cost but high efficiency. With the accelerating of t...

There is growing recognition that individuals with mental retardation are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse due to multiple factors including life-long dependence on adults for care, trained compliance, social isolation, lack of education about sexuality and sexual abuse, and a societal view that devalues people with disabilities. Teaching ab...

The innovation is an important element controlling national economic growth and the competitive power reinforcement of the company. The developed nations concentrate interest on upbringing and investment in knowledge intensive industry and advanced technology base industry for national competitive power reinforcement. I support in particular it as...

In this paper, we discuss patent pool and a patent valuation scheme for fair royalty distribution among the patents in a pool. In the knowledge-based economy, intellectual capital-the accumulation of technology and know-how-is recognized as the most important source of company's competitive advantage and economic growth. By providing exclusive righ...

It is well known that in the knowledge-based economy a firm's intellectual property including patent is crucial for its competitive advantage. In industrial economy, tangible assets such as land and equipment have been of critical importance for a firm's competitiveness. However, as the paradigm shift to the knowledge-base economy is being accelera...

This paper presents a study on the introduction of User Model-Based Dialogue System. Also we present a plan-based Korean dialogue system as a natural language database user interface for product search. The system can be characterized by its support for mixed initiative to give user more control over dialogue, employment of user model to reflect us...