Fast-food consumption in South Korea

The consumption of fast-food products in Korea has undergone a rapid increase over the past ten to fifteen years. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency with which South Koreans consume seven common Western-style fast-food products and five common Korean-style fast-food products, and to find the socio-economic group most responsible for the increase in fast-food consumption. Data were collected on the dietary patterns and socio-economic backgrounds of 1,745 subjects between the ages of 12 and 64 years in urban and rural areas of Korea. This study showed that the fast-food products investigated were consumed mainly by Koreans under the age of 30, single, female, residents of Seoul, and either presently students or young adults with only grade school education. However, the results indicated that the consumption of most fast-food products was distributed amongst all income levels.     

Antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviours among part-time employees of service organizations in Korea

This study investigates the antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviours by using data consisting of 196 part-time instructors drawn from six sport centres in the Republic of Korea. The results of a structural equation analysis suggest that job satisfaction has a positive effect on organizational and occupational commitment, occupational satisfaction has a positive effect on organizational and occupational commitment, organizational commitment has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) and a negative effect on turnover intentions, and turnover intentions has a negative effect on OCBs. The effect of occupational commitment on both turnover intentions and OCBs was not significant. This research addresses a number of important issues in the management of human resources (i.e. part-time workers) in service organizations; that is, this study examines how part-time employees' satisfaction and commitment with respect to their jobs, occupations or organizations are related to their OCBs; this relationship is arguably one the most important issues facing service organizations today.     

韩国新时尚--什么才是最酷的手机?

2002年12月,据韩国信息通信产业部公布的数字,在4,800万的韩国人中,有3,230万人在使用手机。从学生到BOBO一族,他们纷纷追逐着属于自己的时尚潮流。     

Changing corporate culture over time in South Korea

Corporate culture change is an interesting topic, not least since cultures are often seen as deeply ingrained and slow moving. Here we look at the example of the large, diversified conglomerates in South Korea – the chaebol. This is partly because of their strong corporate cultures, importance in the country's economic development and growth and growing public and political backlash against what are seen as overly powerful institutions. We find that over the decade from one crisis, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, to the next, the 2008 global financial crisis, there has indeed been change between and within chaebol corporate cultures. However, this is not as straightforward as it seems and the situation in and after 2011 has become even more complex, mainly due to changes in the global environment.     

韩国的东北亚经济中心建设构想及难题

为了应对东北亚区域内外环境的变化以及韩国经济可持续发展的需要,韩国政府提出了构建东北亚经济中心的构想。这是一个以东北亚地区经济合作为基础,以促进东北亚地区经济资源流动与经济发展为目的,由韩国发挥中心作用的远大战略,其建设方案主要包括东北亚物流中心、金融中心、企业中心等内容。文章提出,实现这一目标,需要巨大的资本和较长的时间,需要对韩国政治、行政、经济、媒体、教育等领域进行改革;必须得到东北亚区域内国家特别是中国和日本的协助,构建东北亚经济合作组织。     

CCPIT Delegation Visits Major Economic Organizations in South Korea

On March 11, a CCPIT delegation headed by WangJinzhen, Vice President of CCPIT visited Federation of Korean Industries （FKI）, Korean SME Central Council and Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry （KCCI）.     

Infant industry protection and industrial dynamics

A perennial case for industrial policy is based on the protection of young or emerging industries. Despite a natural association with concepts of life cycles, industrial policy has not been analyzed in the context of an industry life-cycle model. In particular, an important life-cycle characteristic, the potential for very large changes in the rate of net entry, is ignored. In this paper, we demonstrate how the impact of industrial policy depends critically on the entry and exit dynamics within an industry. We construct a model of technology adoption in which the number of firms is endogenous, and derive a set of novel predictions about the effects of protection on firm technology decisions. Specifically, we show that permanent protection can induce earlier adoption, but also decreases the probability that a given firm adopts the new technology. Likewise, we demonstrate that reducing the duration of protection results in faster adoption than permanent protection, but also reduces a given firm's probability of adoption. Finally, we show that, for industries characterized by flexibility in firm numbers, protection does not change the rate of technology adoption but does increase the size and probability of a shakeout (large scale net exit).     

交叉与嬗变：韩国广电行业发展趋向解析

本文从韩国广电产业的总体构架、韩国手机电视的开发和应用、韩国广电立法等几大板块介绍了韩国广电行业的发展趋向。为我们了解国外同行的最新研究打开了一扇窗。     

中朝韩经贸关系纵深发展的战略进路

随着东北亚地区经济联系的日益紧密,域内国家间的相互依存度明显提高.东北亚经济合作划时代的契机是域内国家签订自由贸易协定,从而平行地促进产业分工.中朝韩三国经贸合作规模的提升和发展速度的提高,可以推动一度因日本态度消极而搁浅的中日韩自由贸易区建设,并将成为东北亚经济合作发展的催化剂.中朝经贸发展的能动力在于中国建设性的参与朝鲜的经济革新发展,而中韩经贸发展的增长点则在于加速建立自由贸易区.     

Influential Factors of the Social Responsibility of Newspaper Corporations in South Korea

This study examined influential factors of newspaper corporation social responsibility and evaluated corporate social responsibility using a newspaper corporate social responsibility index. Results of this study, which was conducted by survey, showed that arbitrative, essential, and cultural activities were influential factors comprised of newspaper corporate social responsibility. In addition, the findings indicated that higher corporate social responsibility index was not accompanied by Korean newspaper corporations with larger circulations.     

China and South Korea FTA Will Bring New Opportunities

On February 25,2015,China and South Korea have initialed their free trade agreement(FTA),the end of the FTA negotiations,according to a brief statement on the Ministry of Commerce(MOC)website.The China-South Korea FTA is a high-level and comprehensive one that also includes investment and services trade.What’s in the FTA?According to the information from     

浅析韩国技术进步的历程

<正>当今世界,全球发展已步入了知识经济时代。面对知识经济时代的挑战,我国必须在借鉴各国的成功经验和吸取失败教训的基础上,努力改善我国技术落后的面貌,在引进先进技术的同时注重消化吸收、重视对科研的投入和发展高新技术产业,从而提高我国的技术竞争水平和综合国力,在日趋激烈的国际竞争中取得优势地位。因此,分析研究与中国同处东亚的韩国以技术进步推动经济发展,从而走上新兴工业化国家发展道路的历程,有助于我们从韩国的经验中取长补短,以便更好地针对我国的国情来推动技术进步和经济发展。     

韩国对中国贸易竞争力变化研究

目前,中国已经成为韩国第一大贸易伙伴、第一大出口市场、第一大海外投资对象国和第一大顺差来源国,韩国则是中国第六大贸易伙伴、第六大出口市场和第四大进口来源国。随着中国经济的迅速崛起,两国贸易结构和竞争力以及国际市场地位发生着相应的变化,并带来诸多不可回避的问题。因此,深入研究中韩两国之间贸易结构的变化及竞争力状况,对两国贸易关系予以展望具有重要的现实意义。     

中国东北三省与韩国相互投资分析

实施“引进来”和“走出去”相结合的开放战略,不仅要积极吸引外国投资,也要积极引导和组织国内有实力的企业对外投资。经济发展相对落后的东北三省急需提高利用外资以及对外投资的质量和水平。东北三省在吸引韩资方面具有资源丰富、工业基础雄厚、劳动力供应充足、交通便利等方面优势,为进一步扩大东北三省与韩国相互投资规模,我们应创新招商引资模式、优化投资环境、大力促进韩资企业本土化。     

Corporate social responsibility in international joint ventures: Empirical examinations in South Korea

This study aims to investigate organizational characteristics and develop a framework relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of international joint ventures (IJVs) established in the South Korean market. Based on institutional and stakeholder theories, regression analyses produced a framework facilitating a better understanding and identification of factors that drive CSR in local markets. Consumers, competitors, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were discovered to be primary determinants of responsible behaviors. Additionally, some significant differences were found with respect to CSR related to IJV’s formative characteristics. This study contributes to furthering knowledge of IJVs and CSR, as well by providing some practical implications for organizations pursuing international markets.     

The dynamics of small and medium-sized enterprises in Korea and other Asian NIEs

After a brief comparison of data on small and medium-sized enterprises in the four Asian newly industrialized economies (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan), this paper deals with the existing or potential role of small firms in Korea's industrialization process; it reviews Korea's industrial heritage up to the post-Korean war period, then concentrates on the last three decades of very rapid industrial development and on the numerous issues facing the Korean economy today, especially in the field of big versus smallmedium scale business. This particular issue is again at the centre of policy changes, debates and controversies since the beginning of the 1990's.The major arguments of this paper can be summarized as follows: Very little is yet known about the history of Korean small entrepreneurship before World War II and how it might have affected later industrialization process after the Korean war. It seems that little indigenous industrial expertise was accumulated before and during colonial rule, this last period being dominated by the Japanese in a few big key industries, the very start of big scale business in Korea.     

The impact of globalization on HRM: the case of South Korea

Globalization can have far reaching implications for human resource management (HRM) and management practice in general. For some, globalization creates pressures for a common, often taken as ‘best’, transferable set of HRM practices that can spread around the world. These best practices are considered powerful enough to override existing systems. In contrast, others see national based HRM systems as more resilient, partly because of the systemic underpinnings of particular cultural and institutional milieu. Both views contain important implications and lessons. We outline these, a framework for viewing them and the case of HRM in South Korea to demonstrate the issues, contradictions and dilemmas and ways of thinking so that practitioners can make informed choices concerning HRM practices to develop competency enhancing HRM systems.     

中日韩农民收入问题与政府政策

20世纪90年代下半期以来,农民收入问题成了中国政府关注的首要问题。2004年中央一号文件的主题就是关于农民收入的问题,政府并就解决这一问题提出了一系列的政策措施,其中对种粮农民进行直接补贴在历史上是第一次采用。日本和韩国在20世纪60年代也曾遇到过类似的问题,并采取了多方位的对策措施,结果使农民收入水平大幅提高,农民收入问题相应得到了较好的解决。通过对中日韩三国进行比较分析,本文提出了一些结论性的建议。