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For dealing with environmental problems, due to the complex features of them it requires new environmental governance beyond government which can be operated under the relatively well-defined condition. This article suggest the necessity of transformation from environmental governance into sustainable development governance after reviewing the development of environmental governance in the view of Korean and world level. As Brundtland Report said, sustainable development governance must be based on administrative system with flexible and self-corrected capacities. For this, constitution has to say at the preamble we have to sustainable development as universal world value. And it has to be revised to consider the contradiction among the basic fundamental human rights such as environmental right or development right, and transform the existing constitutional organizations to metagovernance organizations for sustainable development.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the renaissance strategies of urban village in Busan metropolitan city. The four renaissance strategies for creating Gamcheon Culture Village are composed of comprehensive-collaborative strategy, community-based collaborative strategy, strategic incrementalism and independent-experimental strategy which are based on co-operationism and incrementalism. The findings are as follows. First, comprehensive-collaborative strategies were applied to almost every policy stage by the operational commission for urban village creation. Second, community-based collaborative strategies were also applied through residential participation and self-governing. Third, professional artists and public bureaucracy led cultural renaissance through setting up public art works and infrastructure from the viewpoint of strategic incrementalism. Fourth, the independent-experimental strategies based on redundancy concept were highly adequate to cultural renaissance and creation because the role of the leaders and flowers, the community situations, and the developing contexts were very different from other urban villages. Above all, I suggest that the consistent cooperation among cultural artists, public bureaucracy and residents be needed for creating culture village.

This article studies the change of the function and role of government and various actors based on historical institutionalism and actor-centered institutionalism in the new institutionalism. In contrast to the historical institutionalism, the actor-centered institutionalism focuses the change of institutions by the actors like government, enterprises, and the civil organizations, in order to adjust to changing circumstances in the era of Globalization. This article focused on the two theories shows that in Germany the various actors including social enterprise endeavor adapt to the changing circumstances in society, while the government transfers it’s role from the steering to the regulation of the society. But the Korean government remains in the role of steering while the actors in the Korean society still depend on the government. Therefore the development of the Korean social enterprise delays, although the government and actors make an effort. In this article, the authors try to make a proposal that the government must transfer it’s role from the steering to the regulation in order to promote social enterprise.

The purpose of this study is to examine the motivation of college students to participate in volunteer activities and to analyze the relations of participation motivation and its satisfaction with volunteer activities of them. Especially, this study aims to identify the mediating effect of educational experience related volunteer activities in the relationship between participation motivation and its satisfaction of college students to participate volunteer activities. The results of this study are as follows. First, educational experience factor related volunteer activities mediated the relationship between participation motivation and its satisfaction of college students' volunteer activities. Second, whatever the participation motivation of volunteer activities, educational experience factor related volunteer activities affected positively the participation satisfaction of volunteer activities through the direct and indirect mediating effect.

It is true that Korea has never officially classified which public institution should deal with which emergency, via a national framework. This article aims at encouraging Korea to adopt newly proposed "the National Response Framework (NRF)" for the ultimate purpose of contributing to the goal of emergency management such as reducing human loss, economic damages, and psychological impacts. To do so, the article has carefully and systematically examined the related implications as well as the existing problems after sequently comparing three major subjects to include the U.S. NRF, Japan's Disaster Management Plan, and Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management. The article has proposed how to improve Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management as a key finding, while elaborating on the general improvement direction, governments and their policy, NGOs and their strategy, the establishment of coordination network, and the revision of related laws. In short, this paper has emphasized that Korea should make efforts to radically transform its Basic Plan on National Safety Management into advanced NRF.

This paper is an expanded work for the advanced study 'Theoretical Review of Needs for the Development of Teaching and Learning Program of Intercultural Education Utilizing Digital Image Media and Game Contents’ published in the journal Korean Society for Computer Game. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the needs for the development of teaching and learning program of intercultural education utilizing digital image media by analyzing the survey targeting 325 undergraduates. The digital image media are regarded as one of the most efficient communication media which can satisfy optical desires of humankind and realize multilateral and sympathetic interchanges using other sense organs. In this context the digital image media are expected to be a very efficient tool of intercultural teaching and learning program. Compared to the class depending on only written text, the class using the digital image media can arouse much more learner’s interest, improve a lot more concentration on learning contents, get even more learning motivation, provide still wider indirect experience for learners.

Recently, it is perceived the demand of change in rental housing market by way of low interest rate, low birth rate, and rapid aging, which has not been experienced in the past decades. It is pointed out the increase of housing costs of the ordinary people as the one of factors to the demand of change in rental housing market. Accordingly, it is very important to understand the preference on the Jeonse(the lease of a house on a deposit basis) and monthly payment housing in order to have an establishment of proper housing policy for the settlement of the ordinary people. The study is trying to investigate the preference structure on the Jeonse and/or monthly payment housing to the landlord and leaseholder in rental housing market. We conduct the survey to the current landlords and leaseholders in Seoul and Busan areas. The result of analysis is that the changing rate of Jeonse to monthly payment housing is reflected the risk premium. Also, the Jeonse is prefer to the monthly payment housing as far as the housing satisfaction is concerned. In addition, the Jeonse is revealed the function of capital accumulation for the preparing one’s own house. The preference of monthly payment housing as a view of landlords is expected to continue when it comes to keep the low interest rate.

This study aims to clarify the functions of the French National Commission for Public Debate (Commission Nationale du Débat Public) to find out possible lessons for a near introduction of the same institution in Korea. It is highly possible that the French system is susceptible to cast some lessons for Korean public decision-making process. This study examined and reconstituted the itinerary of French National Commission for Public Debate and finally drew five major perspectives to be conceived to rationalize Korean public administration's deicision-making process and to invigorate public debates for preventing increasing public conflicts in a policy process.

In this study, we would like to stress that child-care is the most important factor in the child-welfare and the society should make a solution regarding it, due to women’s social participation and the trend towards to the nuclear family. The number of child-care centre in our society is important, but quality of child care centre is even more important. To make a cooperative, co-parenting, and cooperative-coparenting successful, the social awareness change that the most important values in our society are not competition, efficiency, globalization, technology, but co-operation, co-habitation, environment are being asked for. To make it happen, the education regarding a cooperative and a coparenting should get diversified and activated. Therefore I will first start with the switch from national child-care system to cooperative child-care system and follow with the diversified support methods to induce the switch from private child-care to cooperative child-care, and finally end with how we support communitarian child-care system. In this thesis, cooperative child-care will be treated as the alternative and solution to the present child-care situation and the points regarding its positiveness and its uses will be made strongly. Although there will be possible limitations of co-operative system, this thesis tries to illustrate the advantages of cooperative child-care and the methods to improve its system. The result of this study can be used for strengthening cooperative’s credit.

The regulatory body must be structured in such a way as to ensure that it is capable of discharging its responsibilities and carrying out its functions independently, effectively and efficiently. One of the most important attributes of a regulatory body is its independence from interference in its regulatory functions. This idea has been developed in a number of IAEA documents and in relevant international conventions. The requirements are reviewed in this paper relate to the organization of the regulatory body: its structure, allocation of resources, coordination with other governmental authorities, management system, staffing, and relationship with advisory bodies under the IAEA laws. This paper is also analyzed general requirements for performing the functions of the regulatory body to preserve the consistency and stability of operations and constructive liaison with authorized parties, comparing the IAEA laws and Korean laws of nuclear safety. As a result, key point was derived. That is the regulatory body shall perform its functions in a manner that does not compromise its effective independence. And legal policy of supplementation is proposed in this article.