Recent developments in South Korea’s foreign and security policies as well as major structural adjustments in the military alliance between the United States and South Korea indicate a new self-understanding on the part of South Korea in terms of playing a more assertive role in regional and...

Over the past few decades, manufacturing production has shifted from the higher to the lower income economies in east Asia. This article uses input-output analysis to explore how total value added in manufacturing has shifted around the region. It finds that for most economies, the domestic...

From the perspective of the intertemporal balance model, we investigate how capital mobility affects the current account for six developing countries from the mid-1970s to the end of 1999. We find that after 1989, when capital liberalisation became prevalent, the causal relationship from the...

The purpose of the paper is to present a methodology for shipbuilding performance assessment, taking into account the characteristics of the shipyard, the production pattern and the industrial environment of the country or region. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model to assess shipyard...

This paper examines the reliability and informativeness of accounting numbers after Internal Accounting Control System (IACS) Standards were enforced in Korea. We analyse whether the magnitude of Earnings Management (EM) and Earnings Response Coefficient (ERC) changed after enforcement. We focus...

The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting job satisfaction among South Korean public servants and to provide relevant policy implication for human resource management. Using the structural equation model (SEM), the authors analysed those factors that affect employee job...

Using the 2002 data from 32 Korean hospitals and using a matching method (16 public versus 16 private hospitals), this study compares Financial Efficiency (FE), Technical Efficiency (TE) and Service Efficiency (SE) between public and private hospitals. This research tests three hypotheses. The...

The present study estimated income-related inequality in EQ-5D health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores by applying the concentration index (CI), one of the most popular methods for measuring income-related inequality in health. The main purpose of the study is to decompose the CI measure...

Nanosciences and nanotechnologies (NST) are a developing scientifictechnological area in full expansion and evolution. Their character of General Purpose Technology has been assessed. Asian countries play a relevant role in the evolutionary path and growth of NST, as in some cases they present a...

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, failed to capture the hearts of South Korean consumers, ultimately withdrawing in 2006 after eight years in the market. Although, it had achieved stunning successes in the U.S. and overseas, Wal-Mart was unable to apply its proven U.S. business model in...