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Koo, Ha-na. (2010). Translation Quality Assessment and "Acceptability". Interpreting and Translation Studies 13-2, pp. 1-28 "Acceptability" is an interdisciplinary concept used in various fields, including translation studies. In translation studies, this concept is known to be linked up with the liberal translation or the readability with an emphasis on target language and culture. "Acceptability" has to do with the judgment of the reader, who decides which translation is acceptable for him; therefore it is linked directly with the issue of translation assessment. Nevertheless there is no previous concrete study about the concept of acceptability in the study of translation assessment. Our study has two objectives : (1) after considering previous works on the acceptability in the field of translation studies and textual linguistics, (2) we shall try to analyze, seen from the point of view of the criterion of acceptability, the following two theories of translation evaluation : that of Juliane House and that of Malcolm Williams. Finally, we will try to demonstrate how the acceptability criterion remains valid and effective in the evaluation of translation in general.

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Daegu and Kyungbook area university students’ stress from academic and job-seeking task on their acceptability of people with multicultural background and further, to investigate the differences based on their characteristics and personal experiences. From three universities in Daegu and Kyungbook, 414 university students responded to a survey which evaluated their level of stress from academic and job-seeking work and that of acceptability of migrant workers, marriage migrant women, and children with multicultural family. The collected data were analyzed by using single regression analysis, two way ANOVA, and graph analysis. The main results were as follows. First, the Daegu and Kyungbook area university students‘ stress from academic and job-seeking task negatively influenced on their acceptability of migrant workers and marriage migrant women. Second, the female university students were influenced by their stress from academic and job-seeking work in accepting the people with multicultural background more than the male university students were. Third, their experience on living abroad and having a migrant friends weakened the influence of the stress on accepting migrant workers and marriage migrant women. This study indicates that in order for university students to increase acceptability of people with multicultural background, continuous and reflective multicultural education programs should be provided rather than one-time program. Also, emotional issues such as stress from academic and job-seeking work should be considered when developing those multicultrual education programs.

The study began from the critical thinking that translation class in university should be designed for practicality reflecting students’ interests and actual needs. To this end, textuality theory is applied to suggest criteria for evaluation of translation works. A teaching method to enable learners to apply the theory to self-evaluate one’s translation and solve questions and thus improve competence is also proposed. In practical translation education, the criteria for evaluating textuality has significance not in judging the correctness of a translation work but in guiding students to find principles and methods for good translation in its actual process. In the course of teaching, instructors, rather than identifying errors and giving answers, should guide students to analyze the goals of a given translation and find answers on their own. In this regard, the study presents the seven textualities of Beaugrande & Dressler (1981) and applies them on the source and the target text (i.e. translation output) actually covered in class to examine textuality transition issues in the process of students’ translation. As a viable approach to improve practical translation competence, the study proposes to divide translation class into three stages, i.e. before translation, execution of translation and classroom teaching. This approach may help learners to self-evaluate their works and find answers to questions on their own and consequently improve their translation competence for practical use.

Objective of the present study is to analyze how the SSCCS(Same Shaped Chinese Characters of Synonym)-words with the same shape and meaning in both Japanese and Korean-are translated into Korean, with consideration of their readability. For analysis of translation of the SSCCS, a comparative analysis was conducted in parallel for the translated text . In other words, with consideration of the same source text(ST), the two target texts(TT) were comparatively analyzed. For the analyzed texts, six TTs were compared with three STs. With one ST, a minimum of as many as 1500 same shaped Sino-Japanese words with synonym for Korean words were extracted and data for comparison of ST and TT were typed in Excel 2003 to be classified according to translation strategies. According to this, translation strategies for the SSCCS were classified into 1) translation in same form, 2) partial alteration into an equivalent form 3) translation into a different form, and 4) omission. The analysis results indicated that regardless of original text, time period, and translator, “translation in the same form” was the dominant strategy, followed by “translation into a different form”, “partial alteration into an equivalent form”, and “omission”. With this as a main subject, a survey was conducted to investigate its readability. As a result of survey, a high ratio of translation in the same form as the original was shown to have an adverse effect on the readability.

This study discuses the relation between translation strategy and readers, which is inseparable in the way that the former influences the other. In Translation Studies, the translation strategy has been categorized into two types: adequate translation, with full respect to the source text, and acceptable translation, which concentrates on the readability. Based on the acceptability theory described by Toury, this paper examines elements that determine the reader's response, which can also be classified as 'source text oriented' and 'target text oriented'. And it is based on the analysis of a Korean translation of Cervantes's "Don Quijote". After examining book reviews and author interviews, it is found that the translator displays both 'source text oriented' and 'target text oriented' strategies, which reflects the corresponding response of readers. The analysis concludes that translators should take into account the fact that readers react as they decide how translate a text and focus on the skopos when they fulfill their task.

This study aims to examine the reception of the English translation of García Lorca's representative play Yerma in English-speaking countries, and to analyze changes and transformation made in Gwynne Edwards' English translation in terms of its performability and the cultural translation aspect. For performability, in the English translation of Yerma, strategic translation of stage directions as well as incorporation of more dialogues into the English translation have been made to help the director and actors effectively grasp performance dimension. For cultural translation, in order to lessen the strangeness of traditional Spanish cultural values for the English-speaking audience, the translator has interfered through the manipulation of the cultural perspective of conflicts between the main characters, Juan and Yerma, resorting to existing stereotypes and distorted images of women such as 'femme fatale' or Annie, a character in the movie "Misery", along with binary structure of the innocent husband versus the evil and the cold blooded wife. This kind of manipulated reception of foreign culture in English translation reflects the high degree of resistance of British and American stages against translated plays, and the realistic limit of cultural translation in drama translation.

Theories of the generative framework have excluded various aspects of language use in pursuit of more fundamental generalizations, by separating competence from performance. Facts about language have been explained in terms of abstract, domain-specific knowledge structures, which are mostly unrelated to the child's experience. There emerged, however, an approach, statistical learning, that emphasizes the continuity between acquisition and processing. This new idea, which is based on the mechanism of connectionism, attempts to explain the child's task as learning to use language, not grammar identification. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the boundary between grammar and statistics and show how statistics can serve as an alternative to the research on language, by providing cross-linguistic evidence on the production choice between the locative and the meronymic relation

As the volume of translated literary works is increasing, it is up to the researcher on translation to establish a reliable standard for evaluating translated literary works. It is fortunate that recent years have seen an increase in research on this area. The author discusses the subject of evaluation in terms of both theory and practice. The former concerns the overall trend of evaluation and the latter concerns the establishment of a concrete standard. The theoretical aspect of evaluation can be considered from the standpoints of equivalence and acceptability, with the latter getting more relevant in recent times. The practical aspect of evaluation is considered in light of nine standards; namely, “excessive mistranslation,” “simple mistranslation,” “omissions,” “additions,” “incorrect sentences,” “ungrammatical sentences,” “excessive literal translations,” “excessive liberal translations,” and “unrefined translations.” Evaluations are conducted using concrete example sentences. Mistranslation, omissions and additions are classified into excessive and simple. Ungrammatical sentences, incorrect sentences and unrefined translations are classified into a lot and a few. A total of 14 standards are used for evaluation. A translated material is classified into four levels, with the 1st and the 2nd considered acceptable.

시 교육 제재는 시대적 변화가 반영되어 , 과거 지향이 아닌 동시대 작품이거나 시대와 근접한 작품일 때 학습자의 수용 가능성도 커진다． 현재 문학 교과서에서 현재와 시대적으로 근접한 작품은 대부분 1980년대 작품이다． 본고의 목적은 문학교과서에 수록된 80년대 시 텍스트 중 수록 권수가 가장 많은 김지하의 〈타는 목마름으로〉, 황지우 〈새들도 세상을 뜨는구나〉, 강은교 〈우리가 물이 되어〉의 세 편의 작품을 대상으로 교과서에 수용된 실태를 살펴보고 텍스트 이론의 텍스트성에 기대어 텍스트를 분석하여 의미를 살펴본다． 이를 바탕으로 80년대 작품이 교육제재로서 동시대성의 의의를 가지고 있는가와 교육 제재로서의 수용 방안을 검토해 보는 것이다． 김지하의 시는 70년대 대표적 민중시로 당대의 역사적 맥락이 전제된 속에서만 텍스트 생산자가 의도하는 민주주의에 대한 절박한 소망을 공감 할 수 있는 작품이다． 〈새들도 세상을 뜨는구나〉는80년대의 역사정과 시적 경향을 담고 있으나， 현재의 학습자들에게는 시대적 접근성을 확보하지 못한 작품이다． 〈우리가 물이 되어〉는 다양한 의미로 읽힐 수 있는 작품이나 학습자의 욕구를 채워줄 수 있는 시대적 근접성을 확보했다고 보기는 어렵다． 따라서 이들 세편의 시는 시대적 접근성을 확보하지 못했다고 할 수 있다． 80년대 시 텍스트가 오늘날 시대적 근접성을 갖추고 동시대성을 확보하고 있다면 그것은80년 당대의 정치， 사회， 문화적 맥락을 경험한， 80년대 시 텍스트를 가르치는 교사나 80년대 시 텍스트를 수록한 문학 교재 편찬자들에게 해당한다고 볼 수 있다． 교육에서 학습자를 무엇보다 고려의 대상으로 본다면 학습자가 공감할 수 있는 시대성을 확보한 텍스트 제재가 선정되어야 한다． 텍스트 해석을 바탕으로 세 편의 시 텍스트에 대한 교육 제재로의 수용 방안을 다음과 같이 제안해 볼 수 있다． 첫째， 〈타는 목마름으로〉는 70년대 민주주의에 대한 강한 열망을 드러낸 작품이라는 당대의 시대적 의의로만 수용되었을 때는 현재의 삶과는 동떨어진 작품이 되므로 80년대 또는 그이후의 시대와의 맥락과 관련을 가질 수 있는 방향으로의 교육적 수용과 교육 활동이 필요하다． 따라서 이 텍스트는 생산자의 민주주의 회복에 대한 강한 열망을 읽어내는 동시에 생산자의 부조리한 상황에 대응하는 양식과 오늘날의 상황에서 생산자의 열망처럼 회복해야 할 것이 무엇인지를 떠올릴 수 있도록 수용되어야 한 다． 둘째， 〈새들도 세상을 뜨는구나〉 는 80년대의 사회문화적 맥락과 정치성을 여실히 반영한 텍스트이므로 어떤 경우보다 이 텍스트에 사용된 개념에 대한 배경지식으로서의 전국적 인지 패턴의 활성화가 요구된다． 이것이 활성화되지 못할 때 현실을 여과 없이 드러내면서 현실에 감추어진 놀랍고 참신한 현실 인식과 비판 의식에 공감할 수 없게 되며 현실 세계를 새로운 관점에서 조명하게 하는 텍스트 생산자의 의도를 확인할 수 없게 한다． 이 텍스트의 심미적 효과는 바로 텍스트 생산자의 이러한 의도에서 찾을 수 있으며 높은 정보성도 이 점에 있다고 하겠다． 셋째， 〈우리가 물이 되어〉의 문제 상황은 사회적인 것으로도， 개인적인 것으로도 읽힐 수 있는 불확정적인 의미를 가진 텍스트이므로 시대성이나 사회성을 전면에 드러낸 앞의 두 시 텍스트와는 확연한 차이가 있다． 또한 이 텍스트는 80년대 텍스트라고는 하나 80년대의 시적 경향이나 80년대의 현실을 담고 있는 텍스트도 아니다． 이 텍스트의 교육적 수용은 학습자에 게 다양하게 해석할 수 있는 수용의 자유로움과 즐거움을 줄 수 있는 텍스트로 활용할 수 있게 하는 것이다． 곧 이 텍스트 가진 불확정적인 의미는 수용자에 의해 그 의미가 완결되어야 하며 의미 해결의 단서는 텍스트가 제공하는 지식과 수용자인 학습자의 배경지식의 상호 작용 속에서 만들어져야 한다.

Because poetry education reflects the changes in the current society, the acceptability of the learner increases if the work is of current time or near past. At this present moment, most of the recent works that appearance the literature textbooks are those of 1980s. This paper analyzes three of poetries that are the most frequent among the Literature textbooks-<With the Burning Thirst> by Km Jihah, <Even Birds Leave This World> by Hwang Jiwoo, and <As We Become the Water> by Kang Eunkyo- according to the textuality of the text theory and examines how they are being accommodated in the textbooks. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the works from 80s can be considered a recent work as an educational material and to examine the ways to accept it as an educational material based on these investigations on this paper. Poetries by Kim Jihah are representations of the popular poetry of the 70s. While reading his work, one can only feel the desperate longing for democracy -as the text creator intended- only rf the historical context of that time is presupposed. <Even Birds Leave This World> displays the historical atmosphere and trend of poetry writing of that time, but this work could not gain the readers' historical understanding. Even though <As We Become Water> can be interpreted in many ways, it also failed to do so. Thus, we can assume that these three poems have failed to achieve the historical proximity to the learners. If the poetry texts of the 80s do have historical proximity and the contemporariness, that would be for the teachers or the textbook writers who have once experienced the political, social, and cultural atmosphere of the 80s. Because the learner is the main consideration in education, text materials with the historical proximity that the learners can sympathize should be chosen as the text material for poetry education. Based on the text analysis, we can propose the plans to accommodate the three poems as the educational material. First, when <With the Burning Thirst> is only conceived as a work that shows the fervent hope for the democracy in the 70s, it does not hold any relation to the present life. Thus, this text should be perceived with understanding of the ardent wish for restoration of the democracy while the reader can think about the things that should be restored in the present day Second, because <Even Birds Leave Th~s World> vividly reflects the social and the cultural mood of the 80s, it requires the activation of the global recognition pattern as the background knowledge of the concepts used in this text more than any others. When tihs is not activated, it becomes impossible to sympathize with the original reality-awareness and the criticism-awareness that straightforwardly expose the truth. The beauty of this text can be found in such intentions by the text creator. Also, a high degree of informatively lies within this point. Lastly, <As We Become the Water> holds a distinctive difference from the other two texts formerly discussed because the text shows situations that can be in interpreted in both social and personal way rather than showing the social attitude of the period like the other two texts did. Also, this text does not follow the trend of the poetry writing of the 80s and does not contain the reality of the 80s even though is it from the 80s. The educational perception of this text would be to use it as the text that can give the joy and freedom by letting the learner to interpret it on their own ways. In other words, the uncertain meaning of this text should be interpreted by the learner him/self and the clue to understanding should be derived from the correlation between the facts from the text and the background knowledge of the reader.

Europeans are much more rigid in their thinking on robots and especially have a negative view on robots as peers since they regard robots as labor machines. Recently, Korea invented several educational robots as peer tutors. Therefore, study was needed to determine the difference in cultural acceptability for educational robots between Korea and Europe (Spain). We found that Europe seems to be much more rigid in its thinking on robots and especially has a negative view on educational robots. Korean parents have a strong tendency to see robots as 'the friend of children,' while on the other hand, European parents tend to see educational robots as 'machines or electronics'. Meanwhile, the expectation of children on educational robots showing identification content was higher in Europe than in Korea since European children are familiar with costume parties. This result implied that we may find a Korean market for educational robots earlier than a European market, but European children will be eager to play with educational robots even though their parents have a negative view of them.

Purpose This study aims to explore the expectations and acceptability of a smart nursing home model among Chinese older adults and their family members based on a scoping review that defines the concept of smart nursing homes. Methods A qualitative case study was employed for this research. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted on WeChat. Participants were purposively sampled through snowball sampling in Hainan and Dalian, China. A total of 28 older adults aged 60?75 and six adult children were interviewed until data saturation was achieved, followed by a thematic analysis. Results The expectations of smart nursing homes include: 1) quality of care supported by governments and societies; 2) smart technology applications; 3) the presence of a skilled healthcare professional team; 4) access to and scope of basic medical services; and 5) integration of medical services. The acceptability of smart nursing homes included factors such as stakeholders’ perceived efficaciousness, usability, and collateral damages of using smart technologies, and the coping process of adoption was influenced by factors such as age, economic status, health status, education, and openness to smart technologies among older adults. Conclusions Chinese older adults and their family members have a positive perception of the smart nursing home model. The qualitative evidence regarding their expectations and acceptability of smart nursing homes contributes valuable insights for a wide range of stakeholders involved in the planning and implementation of smart nursing homes.

Purpose: This study investigated the public awareness of manual therapy, perceptions of its nature, cost acceptability, and future usage intentions among individuals with prior experience. Methods: A survey was conducted with 150 adults who had received manual therapy between October 2024 and January 2025. The questionnaire assessed awareness, whether it was perceived as a massage or medical treatment, cost acceptability, payment methods, and future intentions. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, and correlation analysis. Results: Most respondents (95%) were aware of manual therapy, and 79% viewed it as a legitimate treatment, while 13% equated it with massage. Most (87%) relied on private health insurance to cover costs. The future usage intention was high (96%), particularly among those who recognized it as a treatment. A stronger belief in its effectiveness was linked to a greater willingness to pay. Conclusion: Manual therapy was widely recognized as beneficial, but a minority perceived it as massage. High willingness to continue its use, combined with reliance on insurance, suggests the need for public education on the benefits and strategies to reduce financial barriers. Policy measures, including broader insurance coverage and educational outreach, may improve access. Further studies should confirm these findings in more diverse populations.

Background: This study provides development guidance to manufacturers of gochujang to optimize its appeal among UK consumers. Preliminary studies focused on consumer attitudes toward the traditional product and decided on the development of a new ethnic product concept. It was concluded that the modified product should be positioned in the narrow speciality/oriental accompaniments retail category as a distinctive, premium, and regionally authentic table sauce. A structured approach to consumer research was used to investigate consumer acceptability and preferences. This paper describes how these methods were used to optimize the product in terms of market positioning and use. Methods: Two principal approaches were used in the study: (1) a choice-based conjoint test to consider options in terms of packaging, design, pricing, product descriptions and attributes; and (2) a home placement test to explore the relative appeal of the sensory properties of two product variants and their potential applications. Results: Across all six attributes assessed in the conjoint study (n = 676), the sensory properties of the product (43%) followed by brand (24%) were the most important attributes in driving preference. Price (12%) and country of origin (11%) were the next most important, with packaging size and material at 6% and 5%, respectively, being least important. From the home placement study (n = 58), the proposed products were aligned with consumers' existing consumption behaviors. However, it was evident that the products segmented consumer response due principally to their hotness. Conclusion: While reducing the hotness of the product has the potential to broaden appeal, this could erode its positioning as a distinctive, premium product with authentic flavors appealing to a specific market segment. Retaining the modified gochujang flavor profile but linking to an established UK speciality sauce brand may offer the most effective platform to enter the UK market.

Camel meat is an ethnic food consumed across the arid regions of Middle East and North-East Africa. It can be a potential alternative red meat for human consumption worldwide. Camel meat is nutritionally as good as any conventional meat source, in fact has an edge over beef or lamb due to its low intramuscular fat, low cholesterol content, and high iron content. Camel meat quality is a function of age, breed, and type of muscle consumed. Various techniques such as aging, low-temperature storage, and pre-treatment with antioxidants improve the quality and shelf life of camel meat. Active packaging and fermentation are promising techniques to improve consumer acceptance and shelf-life of camel meat. Very limited research is available about the use of novel pre-treatments, packaging, and processing techniques that can improve the consumer acceptability of camel meat. Due to restricted use of camel meat and its products to ethnic regions, a review highlighting the nutritional potential and strategies to improve the quality of camel meat and its products may enhance its global acceptance as an alternative source of red meat.

This paper considers three pragmatic criteria crucial to the translation process of referring expressions in Simultaneous Interpretation based on coherence, relevance, and eaningfulness. Then it is argued that the meaningfulness criterion is more preferable than the others. This criterion is defined in terms of the interpreter’s attempt to reduce overall processing cost and to adjust the production to meet the hearers’ abilities and preferences. The criterion allows for greater flexibility in describing the interaction among decoding, assigning referent, and translation in real time. It also provides an explanation of how the interpreter evaluates one candidate as adequate and the others as inadequate, when there is more than one translation candidate.

Based on two cognitive categories, activation and identifiability, Lambrecht (1994) distinguishes four different types of discourse referents, i.e. active, accessible, inactive, unidentifiable, which represent different mental representation of those referents in the minds of the speaker and addressee, and he suggests the topic acceptability scale, which states that there is a general correlation between the activation and identifiability states of topic referents and the pragmatic acceptability of sentences. According to the scale, the most easily acceptable sentences are those whose topics are active since the mental cost to process active topics is low, and the degree of acceptability decreases in the following order: accessible, inactive and unidentifiable topics. In fact, unidentifiable referents cannot be topics since it is impossible because the addressee has to interpret the proposition of a sentence which is about something he cannot even identify. The main purpose of this paper is to show how topics in different activation/identifiability states are expressed in Korean, and it is shown that topic referents belonging to different activation/ identifiability states adopt different strategies to be expressed as topics. Active topics, which are assumed to be the most easily accepted, are generally expressed as zero pronouns and bare NPs, which requires the minimum amount of mental cost to process them. Accessible referents, which are frequently used as topics in Korean, show that they need the marker -nun to be expressed as topic. Finally, Korean uses the marker -nun or the maliya construction to encode inactive topics.

This study examines English learners’ acceptability to the Nuclear Stress Rule(NSR) on postverbal prepositional phrases in Chinese and provides a piece of evidence to prove that the NSR active at phonology-syntax interface is difficult for English students learning Chinese (L1-English L2-Chinese learners) to acquire. The result from sentence acceptability judgment task shows that L1-English L2-Chinese learners and Chinese native speakers perform significantly differently in three out of four conditions of postverbal PPs. English native speakers rely on their L1 transfer to judge the acceptability of sentences in Chinese. Therefore they are likely to accept grammatical sentences which are prosodically unacceptable to native speakers. Pedagogically speaking, L2 learners need to be instructed in terms of negative inputs in order to acquire this property.

통계에 따르면 중국 모바일 결제 유저의 규모는 매년 성장 추세를 보이지만 60세 이상 집단에서 모바일 결제의 사용 비율은 아직 절반에도 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 중국 초로(初老) 집단이 모바일 결제 플랫폼에서 일반적으로 낮은 사용률을 나타내는 원인에 대한 탐구를 목적으로 하며, 문헌 연구를 바탕으로 설문조사와 실지 인터뷰를 결합하여 연구한 결과 중국 초로 집단의 모바일 결제 플랫폼 사용에 대한 주요 장애는 수용적 장애라는 사실을 발견하였다. 따라서 유저 체험 연구 방법을 기술 수용 모델(TAM)과 결합하여 새로운 연구 모델을 구축했으며, 이 모델에서 수용적 행동에 영향을 끼치는 5개 가정 요소를 정리 및 귀납하였다. 마지막으로 공분산 분석 방법을 통해 가설 요소를 검증하고 만족도 (SA), 인지된 유용성(PU)과 업무 관련도(JR)의 계수가 각각 0.001, 0.000, 0.004이며, 이는 모두 0.05보다 낮으므로 수용성에 대해 선명한 정(+) 방향의 영향이 있는 것이다. 이외에 인지된 용이성(PE)과 자아 효능감(SE)은 수용성에 대해 정(+) 방향의 영향이 없다는 것을 발견하였다. 최종적으로 유저 체험에 대한 새로운 수용 모델을 구축하여 모바일 결제 플랫폼의 개발 업체와 디자이너들이 수용적 관점에 따른 제품 개발을 위한 이론적 근거를 제공했으며, 이를 통해 더 많은 노인 유저에게 적합한 모바일 결제 방식을 개발하여 모바일 결제에 대한 노인의 수용도를 제고하고자 한다.

According to statistics, the number of mobile payment users in China shows an increasing trend year by year. However, less than half of people over 60 years old use mobile payment. The purpose of this study is to explore the reasons for the low usage rate of mobile payment platforms among the elderly in China. Through literature research, questionnaires and interviews, the author found that the main obstacle for the elderly in China to use mobile payment platforms is acceptance barrier. Then, the user experience research method and technology acceptance model (TAM) were combined to construct a new research model and five hypotheses affecting acceptance behavior in the model were summarized. Finally, the Analysis of Covariance（ANCOVA） was used to test the hypotheses and found that satisfaction (SA), perceived usefulness (PU) and job relevance (JR) had significant coefficients of 0.001, 0.000 and 0.004 respectively, all of which were less than 0.05 and therefore had a significant effect on acceptability. The other two elements, perceived ease of use (PE) and self-efficacy (SE), did not have a significant effect on acceptability. Ultimately, a new user experience acceptability model was constructed to provide theoretical support for mobile payment platform developers and designers to develop products from the acceptability perspective, so as to develop more mobile payment methods suitable for elderly users and improve the acceptance of mobile payment by the elderly.

이 연구는 우리사회가 다문화사회로 급격히 변화하고 있는 상황에서 한국군의 다문화수용성 수준과 현황을 파악하여, 다문화장병 유입에 따른 사고를 사전에 예방하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였다. 설문은 다단계 단순무작위 표본추출한 특전사 장병 210명을 대상으로 2016년 7월 19일부터 8월19일까지 실시하여 SPSS를 활용해 다문화 인식의 매개효과를 분석한 결과, 첫째, 연령⋅학력⋅ 계급⋅재직연한에 따른 다문화지수 수용성의 차이를 분석한 결과, 연령, 학력, 재직연한에 따라서는 유의한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났으며, 계급별로는 상병이 가장 높고 병장이 가장 낮게 인식하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 교육경험, 여행경험, 행사참여, 접촉빈도, 다문화경험과 같은 다문화경험요인이나 군 특성요인인 계급이나 근무연수가 현역군인에게 긍정적 인식을 형성하게 하고 다문화수용성지수에도 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 다문화에 대한 인식이 매개변수인지를 검증하기 위하여 매개 회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 다문화경험이 유의한 수준에서 영향을 미치고 있고, 교육 횟수도 다문화수용성지수에 유의한 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났으며 다문화인식이 부분적으로 매개역할을 한다.

This study aims to identify the level and status of multicultural acceptance within the military in Korea rapidly turning into a multicultural society, which can provide basic data to be used by the military to prevent accidents involving multicultural military personnel by developing the level of social integration. The survey results are as follow. First, no significant difference was found in multicultural acceptability index according to age, educational level, class, and years of service. Second, multicultural experience characteristics such as education experience, travel experience, event participation and frequency of contacts or military characteristics such as class and working year have positive influences on active soldiers and affect multicultural acceptability index. Third, both multicultural experience and the number of education have a significant effect on multicultural acceptability index, while multicultural awareness has a partial significant effect.