1School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia 2School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK 3Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 402 North Blackford Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA 4Department of Mechanical Engineering,...

In Korean language, the word ‘Korea’ is a term that literally means ‘half an island’ which is, in fact, peninsula surrounded by water on three sides. The Peninsula extends around 620 miles from north to south and lies 142 Japanese island of Kyushu across Korea Strait western coast bordered Yellow Sea. was home clans, tribes, kings different dynasties throughout its long history every civilizati...

This study aims to discover the motives of Moon Jae In (2017-2022) in issuing KoreanPeninsula Peace Initiative (KPPI) towards North Korea. Contrary from previous regime, KPPIemphasized peace aspect reconciling relations between two countries. research isconducted by descriptive qualitative method, then using document method obtainingsecondary data as a reference. The results indicate that signi...

Environmental geospatial data and adult and larval mosquito collection data for up to 106 sites throughout the Republic of Korea (ROK) were used to develop ecological niche models (ENMs) of the potential geographic distribution for eight anopheline species known to occur there. The areas predicted suitable for the Hyrcanus Group species were the most extensive for Anopheles sinensis Wiedemann, ...

In terms of scientific activities generally and ethnobiological pursuits in particular, North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is an almost blank entity on the quilt of global research. During a sabbatical semester at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology the author used this opportunity to gather some information on the uses of insect and other ter...

PURPOSE This study examined anxiety and depression among 108 North Korean adolescent and young adult (age, 12-29 years) defectors who settled in South Korea, and evaluated the relationship between their mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects completed a questionnaire that included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Short For...

One of the reforms that have to be launched in a future unification process in Korea, which seems possible after the political negotiations last year, is the transformation of the North Korean banking system. The question arises whether Korea could profit from the German experience where banking transformation was one of the rather few success stories in unification. In 1990 the East German ban...

This study aimed to examine influenza vaccination coverage of North Korean defectors (NKD) in the Republic of Korea (Korea) and explore the factors affected the vaccination coverage. Total 378 NKD were analyzed. Four Korean control subjects were randomly matched by age and gender from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V (n = 1,500). The adjusted vaccination coverage rev...

Paddy rice in monsoon Asia plays an important role in global food security and climate change. Here we documented annual dynamics of paddy rice areas in the northern frontier of Asia, including Northeastern (NE) China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan, from 2000-2014 through analysis of satellite images. The paddy rice area has increased by 120% (2.5 to 5.5 million ha) in NE China, in compar...