In the studies of Korean character recognition, the classification of characters by their structural types has been the most common approach; Korean characters have 6 different structural types and are written with 24 letters of the Korean alphabet in rectangular shapes. Because of this structural characteristic of Korean characters, most conventional approaches first classify the structural ty...

This paper investigates whether the advanced Korean learners of standard Chinese produce Chinese with specific voice quality, and which voice quality parameters have significant difference. The study includes comparative analysis between the Korean and Chinese vowel /a/ for Korean speakers. It can be made certain by measuring voice quality parameters by means of EGG (electroglottalgraphy). The ...

Goats (Capra hircus) are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. Native Korean goats are a particularly interesting group, as they are indigenous to the area and were raised in the Korean peninsula almost 2,000 years ago. Although they have a small body size and produce low volumes of milk and meat, they are quite resistant to lumbar paralysis. Our study aimed to reveal the distinct ...

In order to investigate the extent and growth of SCI publication activity of Korean medicine, DIALOG's SCISearch database was searched and the number of SCI Korean medical papers in each medical specialty was measured by publication year and by document type for 1996 and 1997. The percentage contribution of Korean medical papers to SCI database and the SCI publication productivity ratio were an...

OBJECTIVE Acupuncture is commonly practiced in Korea and is regularly evaluated in clinical trials. Although many Cochrane reviews of acupuncture include searches of both English and Chinese databases, there is no information on the value of searching Korean databases. This study aimed to investigate the impact of searching Korean databases and journals for trials eligible for inclusion in exis...

This study investigated the relationship between the production of Japanese stops by Korean speakers and word pitch pattern. Both Korean and Japanese languages have stops, but they have different phonetic characteristics: Japanese has voiced and voiceless stops whereas Korean has three stops (aspirated, tense and lax), but no contrast in voicing. Korean stops are also associated with the pitch ...

We studied the prevalence and trend of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Korean adults aged at least 20 years using Korean National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey data from 1998 and 2001. The prevalence of body mass index (BMI) > or = 25 kg m(-2) among Korean adults in 2001 was 32.9% in men and 27.4% in women, and the number of Korean men with BMI > or = 25 kg m(-2) has increased marke...

BACKGROUND The number of North Korean adolescent defectors entering South Korea has been increasing. The health behavior, including mental health-related behavior, and factors associated with depression in North Korean adolescent defectors residing in South Korea were investigated. METHODS Data obtained from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (2011-2014) dataset were utilized. In ...

The 21st Century Sejong Project is a comprehensive project aiming to build various kinds of language resources including Korean corpora, comparable to BNC (Aston & Burnard, 1998), and Korean electronic dictionaries. The project was conceived of in 1997 and started in 1998 as a 10-year long-term project. By 2003, we completed 6 years of our work. The Sejong Corpora are a collection of raw corpor...

This paper examined the acoustic properties of the pitch accent of South Kyungsang Korean, focusing on generational differences. Kyungsang Korean has lexical pitch accents, whereas standard Seoul Korean does not. However, whether the pitch accents are maintained by younger Kyungsang speakers is questionable given the influence of Seoul Korean. Through comparisons between older and younger speak...