A Possibility of the Korean Wave Renaissance Construction Through K-Pop: Sustainable Development of the Korean Wave as a Cultural Industry

In the era of the digital road, Korean popular music ( K-Pop ) has disseminated into every part of the world. In fact, South America, the farthest continent from Korea, goes wild for K-Pop, and the craze moves on to other continents naturally. Without Koreans having to recommend K-Pop, if listeners of K-Pop around the world believe that K-Pop has some charm, they absorb the trend and pass the music on to others. It has now come to the point where government agencies, the press, and entertainment management companies do not need to promote K-Pop because foreigners are consuming K-Pop feverishly on their own

REVIEW: Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (2014) by Robert M. Thorson

Robert M. Thorson draws on the methodologies of bibliography studies, Ecocriticism, and the history of geology, and investigates another aspect of Thoreau’s career – that of a field geologist with a keen insight into the glaciated landscape of Concord during the late Pleistocene

Cormac McCarthys The Crossing: Demystifying American West through Bioregional Reinhabitation and Nomadic Border‐Crossing

In this essay, I critically reexamine the scholarly works on Cormac McCarthys The Crossing, most of which have hitherto revolved around either the American West or the demystification of it, especially delving into the American frontier psychology often described with Manifest Destiny, and aim to formulate my own proposition that McCarthy attempts to demystify the American Western myths through the protagonist Billy Parhams nomadic border‐crossings across the Southwest borderline between the US and Mexico. It is my contention that the trajectory of Billys three bordercrossings suggests to us the emergence of his bioregionalism, or a way of life directed by human affection and ethical responsibility for the biotic community of a life place, which gradually erases the politically designated borderline and instead substitutes it with a more ecologically‐drawn cartography. The demystification of American West that The Crossing fulfills is also predicated upon McCarthys conceptualization of place and space, which eludes a more conventional dyad famously proposed by Yi‐Fu Tuan in Space and Place. McCarthy renders the Southwest borderland a conceptually fluid one in which place, space, and identity interact with one another, permeating through and beyond the conceptual boundaries among them. To explicate the concept of a fluid place depicted by McCarthy, I refer to such concepts as Heideggerian dwelling, Caseys idea of event, the nomadic bioregionalism, and the rhizomatic West, among others. In so doing, I aim to show how McCarthy destabilizes not only the political borderline but also the common dyads of humanity/alterity, contingency/ necessity, and place/space

First and Second Levels of Intermedia Agenda Setting: Political Advertising, Newspapers, and Twitter During the 2012 US Presidential Election

In a world of big data, with more information at the audience&rsquo;s fingertips than ever, gatekeepers such as media and political parties still play a huge role in mediating issues to the general public. Recognizing this issue, this study investigated the first and second levels of intermedia agenda setting between political advertisements, newspapers, and Twitter postings (tweets) about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. A series of computerized content analyses with ARIMA time-series modeling were employed. Our findings will extend agenda-setting theory to the social media environment.</p

Correlations between regional characteristics of counties and the ratio of intracounty to extracounty sources of COVID-19 in Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea

Objectives This study aimed to examine the correlations between the regional characteristics of counties in Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea and the ratio of intracounty to extracounty sources of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Methods The region of the infectious contact was analysed for each COVID-19 case reported in Gangwon Province between February 22, 2020 and February 7, 2022. The population, population density, area, the proportion of urban residents, the proportion of older adults (>65 years), financial independence, and the number of adjacent counties were assessed for each of the 18 counties in Gangwon Province. Correlation coefficients between regional characteristics and the ratio of intracounty to extracounty infections were calculated. Results In total, 19,645 cases were included in this study. The population, population density, proportion of older adults, and proportion of urban residents were significantly correlated with the ratio of intracounty to extracounty infections. A stratified analysis with an age cut-point of 65 years showed that the proportion of older adults had a significant negative correlation with the ratio of intracounty to extracounty infections. In other words, the proportions of extracounty infections were higher in counties with higher proportions of older adults. Conclusion Regions with ageing populations should carefully observe trends in infectious disease outbreaks in other regions to prevent possible transmission

The Great Migration and the Emergence of Black Havens in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Toni Morrison's Paradise

In this article, I situate August Wilsons Joe Turners Come and Gone and Toni Morrisons Paradise in the Great Migration (1915-1970) during the early- and mid-twentieth century. In so doing, I intend to show both the potential and limit of building all-black community against the white oppression in the US. Specifically, Seth Hollys boardinghouse in Wilsons play and the Convent in Morrisons novel serve as a temporary shelter for African American wanderers but fail to produce a Utopian sanctuary for all-black community. Nonetheless, they become a stage where black migrants frustration, internal conflicts, rage, and trauma are projected and re-enacted. By reiterating the pathological symptoms of black migrants even in those sequestered, supposedly safe black havens, the two authors put the idea of all-black community in question and defer the moment of black migrants wish-fulfillment through which they dramatically expose the traumatized mentality of black migrants and their rootless wanderings

Phonetic Segment Rescoring using SVMs

We used SVM to rescore the output of an HMM speech recognizer. We focused on confusable phone pairs to improve recognition rates and used the confusion matrix in order to choose confusable pairs. We performed experiments using parallel SVMs to determine which frames are most useful for rescoring in each context.