A cross-cultural study was conducted with managers from the United States and China to investigate differences in influence behavior. Managers rated the effectiveness of different influence tactics for several representative situations. Significant differences were found between American and Chinese managers in a large, multinational company with facilities in both countries. The results were r...

Since at least 2013, Western courts judging refugee cases have accepted that North Koreans are, with rare exceptions, considered to be South Korean nationals under law. This Article explores the implications of this holding. Given dual nationality, are necessarily refused status because they can protected in Korea? Or there still routes refugeestatus may available? finds continue potential path...

Background. To explore the correlation between the Arg399Gln polymorphism and susceptibility to esophageal cancer in Korean and Han Chinese individuals in Harbin, China, and its potential interaction with alcohol consumption. Methods. This prospective study included 203 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; 88 were of Korean descent and 115 were of Han Chinese descent. A group of he...

This research addresses the theoretically neglected question of how the internal diffusion of inter-organizational systems (IOS) into a firm’s activities and its external diffusion into the supply chain partners influence performance improvement. Drawing on the resource-based view, our research model posits that organizational and relational resources affect both internal and external diffusion...

Leaves from Panax ginseng Meyer (Korean origin and Chinese origin of Korean ginseng) and P. quinquefolius (American ginseng) were harvested in Haenam province, Korea, and were analyzed to investigate patterns in major metabolites using HPLC-based metabolic profiling. Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was used to analyze the HPLC chromatogram data. There was a clear separation...

This paper addresses a new method of constructing Korean-Chinese verb patterns from existing patterns. A verb pattern is a subcategorization frame of a predicate extended by translation information. Korean-Chinese verb patterns are invaluable linguistic resources that only used for Korean-Chinese transfer but also for Korean parsing. Usually a verb pattern has been either hand-coded by expert l...

Recognition accuracy for non-native speech is often too low to make practical use of ASR technology in interfaces such as CAPT systems. This paper describes how we adapted Korean ASR system to Chinese speakers for building a Korean CAPT system for L1 Mandarin Chinese learners by modeling pronunciation variations frequently produced by Chinese learners. Based on pronunciation variation rules des...

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 ...

Oriental medicine, since its origin in China, has had a long history extending over 2000 years. Today, it comprises several types of medicine predominately practiced in East Asia, including traditional Chinese, traditional Korean, and Kampo medicine. The distinctive medical system of traditional Korean medicine was established shortly after the publication of Donguibogam by Dr. Heo Jun in 1613....

This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...