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This paper analyzes the impact of each industry by using R&D multipliers in innovative flow of science and technology system and reexamines the regional industry structure by investigating the interindustry R&D spillovers effect of R&D expenditures and by examining the strongest innovative flow of industry group in regional innovative system. These results show that technology intensive linkage effect and diffuse linkage effect are 52.42 and 22.71, respectively in Gwangju city. This implies that if R&D embodied technology intensive linkage effect is higher, both input rate of intermediate goods and influence coefficient are high and, that if R&D embodied technology diffuse linkage effect is higher, both sensitivity coefficient and R&D intensity are high. This paper also reveals that the values of technology linkage effect are greater than one in general machinery and transportation equipments and precision instruments are the highest in technology intensive linkage effect, and electrical and electronic equipments are the highest in technology diffuse linkage effect.

Volunteer Guide for Cultural & Historic Places is a system introduced by Ministry of Culture and Tourist in 2001 in order to raise the understanding of our cultural heritage and improve the quality of cultural experiences. Thus the purpose of this study is to find problems with the system operating in this nation and provide solutions to them through reviewing related literature and comparing and analyzing relevant local and foreign case studies. For the purpose, this researcher closely investigated the current status of the system by making free interviews workers of agencies concerned and volunteer guides for cultural and historic places who were in active service. This also supplemented literature and theoretical researches about the system. Few results and conclusions have been accumulated about the theme of this study, making difficult data collection and theoretical arrangement. For this reasons, the researcher focused on related case studies.

The Seoul Metropolitan Region(SMR) has a small proportion of the country's total land area(11.8 percent), yet its current estimated population of 22 million people represents approximately 46 percent of the total population of Korea. There has been an unequal distribution of regional growth and a high degree of inefficiency in the daily life of its residents, thereby lowering their quality of life. There have been many attempts to reduce population concentration and to institute growth control in the SMR since 1970. There were inconsistencies in both policies and planning systems. This study has found that government efforts to control the growth of the region have not been successful. The Korean experience shows that direct government intervention for growth control is likely to create negative effects rather than to contribute to the balanced spatial distribution of population and industries.

This study deals with the effectiveness of modern roundabouts(MR). The goal is to answer the question of what the traffic conditions make the MRs to be comparatively efficient. To pursue the above, this study gives particular attentions to comparing the performance of MR with the other intersection control methods using SIDRA, which are yield control, all way stop control and signal control, under the given traffic volume.The main results analysed are the followings. First, the MR has the similar delay to the signalized intersection in the case of the traffic volume under 2,600vph, and shows that the more right-turn and the less through traffic have the less delay. Secondly, the MR has the lower volume-capacity rate(v/c) than other methods in the case of below the volume of 1,800vph, and shows that the more right-turn and the less through traffic have the less v/c.The above results indicate that the MRs are relatively effective to other control methods under the some conditions. It could be expected that the results would give an important policy implication to the introduction of MRs.

The objective of this research was to investigate and analyze the degree of the perceptional difference concerning customer-orientation of cadastral officers and civilians in order to implement the customer-orientation successfully. This research intended to measure the true successfulness of customer-oriented management recognized by civilians towards cadastral officers. The factors employed to analyze were responsiveness, convenience, communication, appraisement and amendment, satisfaction, and trust.In all categories investigated, large discrepancies were found between cadastral officers and civilians. That is, while cadastral officers thought their services were customer-oriented attitude of cadastral officers. Though this studies, it is indicated that cadastral officers' consciousness toward the general public is the key to improve the satisfaction of customer oriented land administration services. Effects of this study are follows; First, The study showed that cadastral officers and civilians differed from customer-oriented attitude; responsiveness(2.899, p<.005), convenience (4.525, p<.001), communication(5.882, p<.001), appraisement and amendment(2.658, p<.01), satisfaction(3.947, p<.001), and trust(7.522, p<.001). Second, In order to implement the customer-orientation successfully, Cadastral officers must demand the mind of customer-orientation, the improvement of the cadastral administration service, partner-ship with civilians, systemic improvement ofappraisement and amendment.

The purpose of this paper is to show a plan to induct a customer value creation method, which can be utilized for increasing sales, to housing construction industry by establishing a value creation theory to apply in this study through close examination of value creation theory, which was born from management area. For this, general examples applied to non-construction industry are analyzed to be a base of finding a scheme construction industry can utilize. Induction plans of customer value creation for housing construction industry's sale increase are as follows.First, customers should be classified. Second, characteristics of local markets should be merchandised. Third, grafting of culture, health, and entertainment should be tried. Fourth, products applying concepts of IT and All-In-One should be supplied. Fifth, continuous relationship with customers should be maintained. Sixth, inducting 4Cs on making marketing strategy are needed. Those 6 customer value creation methods are based on customer priority for preparation of changing market condition from supplier-oriented to demander -oriented. Through this study, it is considered that showing a plan to improve competitive power of housing construction industry can help to activate construction boom as well as housing construction industry in today's condition that hard landing of construction industry, which is an important circle of national economy, is now being concerned.

Cluster concept is frequently applied to explain the effectiveness of knowledge sharing among participants located within a geographical boundary. Pittsburgh is cited as one of the important industrial clusters in the USA. In this paper we analyze the IT cluster in Pittsburgh from the two perspectives: innovative milieu and knowledge sharing. For the analysis we employ regional innovation system theory and R&D chain concept, derived from value chain and inter-firm process linkage theories. Compared with the Silicon Valley, the Pittsburgh IT cluster shows that while the downstream R&D chain is strong, the upstream chain is weak.

The purpose of this study was to assess the images of 10 cites and counties of Jeonnam Province (i.e.,Yeosu, Gurye, Damyang, Mokpo, Suncheon, Boseong, Haenam, Jindo, Wando and Gangjin) as tourist destinations, and to suggest tourism promotion and development strategies of the regions based on the images. Data were collected from 550 residents of Jeonnam, Jeonbuk, Gyungnam Province and Gwangju metropolitan city. Results from this study can be summarized as follows: (1)Yeosu and Gurye were the best regions that have good image both in tourism infrastructure (i.e., transportation system, lodging, entertainment facilities) and attractions (i.e., natural beauty, cultural resources, local food, event and festivals. (2) Mokpo and Suncheon had relatively good image in tourism infrastructure while they had relatively bad image in tourist attractions. (3) In contrast, Damyang, Boseong, Haenam, Jindo, Wando and Gangjin had relatively good images in tourist attractions while they had relatively bad image in tourism infrastructure. Based on the results from this study, several points were made from the regional tourism promotion and development point of view.

The author(1998) mathematically proved the general relation between two different notions of direct and indirect input requirements in the open static input-output model. Moreover, Gim(2002) also showed that the elements of the Leontief inverse(output requirements matrix for final demand)can be decomposed into four different parts. From the results of the decomposition, we can get the new concept of output requirements matrix for output. Now, we have two different types of output requirements matrix: the output requirements matrix for final demandand the output requirements matrix for output.The study objectives of this paper can be summarized as follows. (1) We derive and showthe general relationbetween two output requirement coefficients with attention to the decomposition of the Leontief inverse. (2) We can compare the difference and characteristics between the matrixand the matrixfor the usefulness ofthe general relationfound. We hope that the research findings can also be applied in many different areas such as in interindustry and multiplier analyses, intensity analysis of resources, impact analysis, etc. And also, graphically, the various frameworks(or systems) of the requirements matrices can be described as circle diagrams, as shown in Figures 1-4.