<title>Abstract</title> In order to maximize the value of human resources, today's reformers have abandoned traditional merit systems, calling instead for public personnel management systems based on a set of new principles known as <italic>managerialism</italic>. The study at hand, conceived within a principal--agent...

The family name distribution in Korea is investigated in comparison with previous studies in other countries. In Korea, both the family name and its birthplace, where the ancestor of the family originated, are commonly used to distinguish one family name from the others. The family name...

We investigate course registration data of 18 semesters at a Korean University to portray the time evolution of students’ positions in the network of fellow students. Apart from being a study of the social positions of students, the present work is also an example of how large-scale, time...