a School of Business Administration, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, South Korea b Graduate School of MOT, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, South Korea c Dept. of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, South Korea d Division of Business Administration, Hansung University, 116 S...

1Department of Industrial Engineering, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul 143-701, South Korea 2Department of Industrial Engineering, Kyunghee University, 1 Seocheon-Dong, Kiheung-Gu, Yongin 446-701, South Korea 3Department of Industrial & Information Systems Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology, 172 Gongneung-Dong, Nowon-Gu, Seoul 139-743, South Korea 4Radio ...

The trafficking of women has been a lucrative moneymaker for transnational organized crime networks, ranking third, behind drugs and arms, in criminal earnings. The U.S. military bases in South Korea were found to form a hub for the transnational trafficking of women from the Asia Pacific and Eurasia to South Korea and the United States. This study, conducted in 2002, examined three types of tr...

background and objective: since it is essential for the research policy makers to acquire knowledge about the global ranks of their countries in in pathology and forensic medicine subject areas, scientometrics experts have been always ranking and analyzing countries on the basis of ‘total number of papers’, ‘total number of citations’ and ‘citations per paper’, etc. materials and methods: the ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the changes of body composition and muscle strength of North Korean refugees (NKRs) according to their duration of stay in South Korea. METHODS NKRs who volunteered and were living in South Korea, aged 20 to 75 years were recruited. Body compositions were analyzed by bioelectrical impedance analysis. Muscle strength was measured with the han...

Invasive Bacterial Infection in Korea; from 1994 to 2013 In Ae Yoon, MD; Young June Choe, MD, MPH; Hyunmi Kang, MD; Hyunjoo Jung, MD; Jae Hong Choi, MD; Eun Young Cho, MD; Dae Sun Jo, MD, PhD; Hyunju Lee, MD, PhD; Eun Hwa Choi, MD, PhD; Hoan Jong Lee, MD, PhD, FIDSA; Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea; Department of Pediatrics, Seoul Nati...

HAE SUN JEONG, YOUNGYIH HAN, OYEON KUM, CHAN HYEONG KIM, and JOO HWAN PARK Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, South Korea Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute 1045 Daedoek-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-353, South Korea Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine 50 Irwo...

eEF1A2 through a direct interaction Mee-Hyun Lee*, Bu Young Choi*, Yong-Yeon Cho, Sung-Young Lee, Zunnan Huang, Joydeb Kumar Kundu, Myoung Ok Kim, Dong Joon Kim, Ann M. Bode, Young-Joon Surh and Zigang Dong The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, MN 55912, USA WCU Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology and Tu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to categorize surgery-related medical terminologies used in South and North Korea and to compare and analyze discrepancies observed in the terms. METHODS This study collected medical terminology used in the North Korean medical book "Surgery" and compared it to medical terminology found in the medical glossary of South Korea. The order of the subtitle was...

After the Korean War (1950-1953), nearly 6.5% of South Korea's population had active tuberculosis (TB). In response, South Korea implemented the National Tuberculosis Program in 1962. From 1965 to 1995, the prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB in South Korea decreased from 940 to 219 cases per 100,000 population. Astounding economic growth might have contributed to this result...