OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence of insomnia and its clinical characteristics in North Korean refugees. METHODS North Korean refugees living in South Korea (48 males, 129 females; mean age 38.22±12.24 years) and South Koreans (112 males, 203 females; mean age 39.48±10.32 years) completed the following questionnaires: the Self-reported Questionnaire on Insomnia, Center for Epidemiologi...

This paper describes KUNLP system for the English-Korean cross-language information retrieval track in NTCIR-3 workshop and some experiments after the workshop. Query translation method based on the bilingual dictionary and the document language corpus was used. To automatically transliterate some proper nouns such as Korean person names, Korean place names, and Korean company names, we have co...

In recent years, there has been an influx of Korean popular culture throughout the world, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Korean popular culture, also known as the “Korean Wave” (Hallyu in Korean) ranges from television dramas, movies, popular music (K-pop), dance (B-boys), video game, food, fashion, tourism, and language (Hangul). The main focus of this paper is ...

To consider potentially new hypoglycemic and antihyperlipidemic sources, aqueous extracts from four Korean medicinal plants, Chrysanthemum coronarium, Dioscorea batatas, Morus alba, Citrus unshiu, were investigated in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. To induce diabetes, 36 rats were administered alloxan orally (120 mg/kg body weight) for 2 weeks and among those 6 rats were used as a diabetic cont...

Regulatory policies are indispensable to efficiently curbing anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and sustainably producing emission-intensive goods. Though previous modelling practice has studied the cost benefit of different regulatory policies, such as command-and-control (CAC) emission trading scheme (ETS), little is known about that for overlapped regulation policies. Here, we built up a Data Enve...

Korean Circulation Journal (KCJ) is a professional, peerreviewed journal covering the broad fields of cardiovascular disease. KCJ is the official journal of the Korean Society of Cardiology (KSC), the Korean Pediatric Heart Society, and the Korean Society of Lipidology and Atherosclerosis, and is published monthly in English. Additionally, KCJ is indexed by Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE and other inte...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to describe loneliness, depression, and health status in Korean and Japanese institutionalized elderly and explore differences between the countries. Also this study determined predictors of depression in each group. METHODS Elderly subjects, aged 65-98 (n = 184), were recruited from private nursing homes in Korea and Japan. Subjects were interviewed on he...

This paper took an experimental approach and investigated how Korean EFL learners process the English island constructions. Since there are some controversies on the existence of the island effects in Korean, the L1 transfer effect may make it difficult for the Korean EFL learners to learn island constructions in English. To examine if the difference between English and Korean affects the acqui...

Because there are clear molecular differences entailing different treatment effectiveness between Korean and non-Korean cancer patients, identifying distinct molecular characteristics of Korean cancers is profoundly important. Here, we report a web-based data repository, namely Korean Cancer Genome Database (KCGD), for searching gene signatures associated with Korean cancer patients. Currently,...

This paper describes the algorithm for translating English negative sentences into Korean in English-Korean Machine Translation (EKMT). The proposed algorithm is based on the comparative study of English and Korean negative sentences. The earlier translation software cannot translate English negative sentences into accurate Korean equivalents. We established a new algorithm for the negative sen...