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Prof. Seunghwan Myeong
Head, Center for Industrial Security & eGovernance, Inha University, Korea

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Seunghwan Myeong is a professor in the Department of Public Administration, Inha University (Incheon, Korea). He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1996. His research interests are electronic government and e-governance, information management in public organizations, and information and communication policy. He served as the President of the Korean Association for Policy Analysis and Evaluation (KAPAE) in 2016 and the Korea Association for Policy Studies (KAPS) in 2018. He currently serves as a director of the Center for Industrial Security and e-governance (CISeG). His work appeared in the Administration and Society, Korean Journal of Information Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Sustainability, and others ([email protected]).

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Hypothesis
Published: 25 June 2021 in Sustainability
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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that creative leadership based on data and citizen volunteers is more significant than vaccines themselves, so this study focuses on the collaboration of sophisticated technologies and human potential to monitor air pollution. Air pollution contributes to critical environmental problems in various towns and cities. With the emergence of the smart city concept, appropriate methods to curb exposure to pollutants must be part of an appropriate urban development policy. This study presents a technologically driven air quality solution for smart cities that advertises energy-efficient and cleaner sequestration in these areas. It attempts to explore how to incorporate data-driven approaches and citizen participation into effective public sector pollution management in smart cities as a major component of the smart city definition. The smart city idea was developed as cities became more widespread through communication devices. This study addresses the technical criteria for implementing a framework that public administration can use to prepare for renovation of public buildings, minimizing energy use and costs and linking smart police stations to monitor air pollution as a part of an integrated city. Such a digital transition in resource management will increase public governance energy performance and provide a higher standard for operations and a healthier environment. The study results indicate that complex processes lead to efficient and sustainable smart cities. This research discovered an interpretive pattern in how public agencies, private enterprises, and community members think and what they do in these regional contexts. It concludes that economic and social benefits could be realized by exploiting data-driven smart city development for its social and spatial complexities.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Khurram Shahzad. Integrating Data-Based Strategies and Advanced Technologies with Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7168 .

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Seunghwan Myeong, Khurram Shahzad. Integrating Data-Based Strategies and Advanced Technologies with Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7168.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Khurram Shahzad. 2021. "Integrating Data-Based Strategies and Advanced Technologies with Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7168.

Journal article
Published: 26 April 2021 in Sustainability
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This study examines the extent to which the symbolic and instrumental images and attractiveness toward an organization are related. This study further focuses on global human resource management and reports findings from two studies: Study 1 uses the data from undergraduate students, and Study 2 cross-validates the findings of Study 1 by using actual data from employees. The distinction of this study from previous works is that the present work focuses on a Korean organizational context (collectivistic cultures) and the differences between the potential applicants and employees in the perception of an organization′s attractiveness. Furthermore, it investigates the relationship between the symbolic and instrumental images toward organizations, unlike existing relative research. The results show that the symbolic and instrumental images are related, and the perceptions of the corporate image differ for the potential applicants and employees in the context of collectivistic cultures. The more competent employees consider their organization to be, the more job security they perceive their organization to provide. Moreover, the symbolic image of being competent is negatively related to the instrumental image of job security. Since this study used cross-sectional data, future studies need to use longitudinal data to establish our model′s causal claim empirically and investigate the underlying reasons behind these differences.

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Juyeon Oh; Seunghwan Myeong. What Matters for Job Security? Exploring the Relationships among Symbolic, Instrumental Images, and Attractiveness for Corporations in South Korea. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4854 .

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Juyeon Oh, Seunghwan Myeong. What Matters for Job Security? Exploring the Relationships among Symbolic, Instrumental Images, and Attractiveness for Corporations in South Korea. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4854.

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Juyeon Oh; Seunghwan Myeong. 2021. "What Matters for Job Security? Exploring the Relationships among Symbolic, Instrumental Images, and Attractiveness for Corporations in South Korea." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4854.

Preprint
Published: 22 April 2021
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Air pollution contributes to a critical environmental problem in various towns and cities. With the emergence of the smart cities concept, appropriate methods to curb associated with exposure to pollutants must have been a portion of appropriate urban development policy. This study presents a technologically driven air quality solution in smart cities to advertise energy-efficient and cleaner sequestration in these areas. It aims to address the issue of how to integrate the data-based strategies and artificial intelligence into efficient public sector pollution management in smart cities as a core part of the smart city definition. Exploratory research has been used in 152 smart cities, and environmental experts contributed to this study. It further addresses the technical criteria for implementing such a framework that the public administration uses to prepare the renovation of public buildings, minimize energy use and costs, and link these smart police stations to monitor air pollution as a part of integrated cities. Such a digital transition in resource management will increase public governance's energy performance, a higher standard of operation, and a healthier environment.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Khurram Shahzad. How to Integrate the Data-based Strategies and Advanced Technologies into Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities? 2021, 1 .

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Seunghwan Myeong, Khurram Shahzad. How to Integrate the Data-based Strategies and Advanced Technologies into Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities? . 2021; ():1.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Khurram Shahzad. 2021. "How to Integrate the Data-based Strategies and Advanced Technologies into Efficient Air Pollution Management in Smart Cities?" , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2020 in Smart Cities
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This study aims to address strategies, models, and the motivation behind smart cities by analyzing two smart city project cases in medium-sized cities, i.e., Gimpo and Namyangju in South Korea. The case of Smartopia Gimpo represents a top-down, infrastructure-focused smart city innovation that invested in building state-of-the-art big data infrastructure for crime prevention, traffic alleviation, environmental preservation, and disaster management. On the other hand, Namyangju 4.0 represents a strategy focused on internal process innovation through extensive employee training and education regarding smart city concepts and emphasizing data-driven (rather than infrastructure-driven) policy decision making. This study explores two smart city strategies and how they resulted in distinctively different outcomes. We found that instilling a culture of innovation through the training of government managers and frontline workers is a critical component in achieving a holistic and sustainable smart city transformation that can survive leadership changes.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Younhee Kim; Michael J. Ahn. Smart City Strategies—Technology Push or Culture Pull? A Case Study Exploration of Gimpo and Namyangju, South Korea. Smart Cities 2020, 4, 41 -53.

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Seunghwan Myeong, Younhee Kim, Michael J. Ahn. Smart City Strategies—Technology Push or Culture Pull? A Case Study Exploration of Gimpo and Namyangju, South Korea. Smart Cities. 2020; 4 (1):41-53.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Younhee Kim; Michael J. Ahn. 2020. "Smart City Strategies—Technology Push or Culture Pull? A Case Study Exploration of Gimpo and Namyangju, South Korea." Smart Cities 4, no. 1: 41-53.

Journal article
Published: 13 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Nowadays, the Government as a Platform (GaaP) based on cloud computing and network, has come to be considered a new structure to manage efficiently data-driven administration in the public sector. When the GaaP concept was first introduced, the ICT infrastructures that could underpin GaaP were not sufficiently developed. However, the recent digital transformation has transformed the previous electronic government, which was system- and architecture-oriented. As part of the next generation of government models, GaaP may reinvent the government at a lower cost but with better performance, similar to the case of electronic government two decades ago. This study attempted to determine the priority of factors of GaaP by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology. Because of the GaaP characteristics, we drew the main components for building GaaP from previous studies and a group interview with experts. The study results show that experts tend to prefer publicness in terms of building GaaP. Most of the factors that the experts weighed with the highest importance are related to the public sector, which revealed that governments should focus on their primary duty, regardless of the origin and characteristics of the platform in GaaP. However, since GaaP allows governments to be more horizontal and innovative, the platform approach can fundamentally shift the existing processes and culture of the public sector. The enhanced activity of citizens with ICT can also accelerate the introduction of GaaP. Finally, the study showed that a data-driven GaaP is necessary to efficiently handle big data, contract services, and multiple levels of on-line and off-line channels. In this public platform, government, citizens, and private sector organizations can work cooperatively as partners to seamlessly govern the hyper-connected society.

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Hyungjun Seo; Seunghwan Myeong. The Priority of Factors of Building Government as a Platform with Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5615 .

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Hyungjun Seo, Seunghwan Myeong. The Priority of Factors of Building Government as a Platform with Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5615.

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Hyungjun Seo; Seunghwan Myeong. 2020. "The Priority of Factors of Building Government as a Platform with Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5615.

Journal article
Published: 22 July 2019 in Sustainability
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The increasing interest in blockchain since the end of 2017 has induced many attempts to apply it to public sector administration. Blockchains have been shown to improve the levels of economic efficiency, security and decentralization in administration. This exploratory study examines the determinants of blockchain administration and their priorities through an analytic-hierarchy process (AHP) analysis. The priority ranking of internal factors was security, economic efficiency, and decentralization. The introduction of blockchains in the evolution of the current e-government to the future of convergent governments will be generalized through trial, error, and learning processes. As experienced both in the knowledge and information society and in the e-government development process, reforming government administration is not solely a technical problem. The study results suggest that future blockchain administration in the public sector be used in the field of e-voting to encourage citizen participation in the process of agenda-setting, to enhance the level of security and transparency of taxation, and to increase the level of equity. Blockchain technology can also be used to improve efficiency in the provision of individually oriented social welfare services. Its adoption via administrative reform may reduce the level of corruption in personnel management, recruitment, and procurement in public sector organizations.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yuseok Jung. Administrative Reforms in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Case of Blockchain Use. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3971 .

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Seunghwan Myeong, Yuseok Jung. Administrative Reforms in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Case of Blockchain Use. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (14):3971.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yuseok Jung. 2019. "Administrative Reforms in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Case of Blockchain Use." Sustainability 11, no. 14: 3971.

Reference work
Published: 14 July 2019 in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
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Seunghwan Myeong. E-government to Smart E-governance: Korean Experience and Challenges. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance 2019, 1 -8.

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Seunghwan Myeong. E-government to Smart E-governance: Korean Experience and Challenges. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. 2019; ():1-8.

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Seunghwan Myeong. 2019. "E-government to Smart E-governance: Korean Experience and Challenges." Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance , no. : 1-8.

Journal article
Published: 25 July 2018 in Sustainability
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Today, there are many discussions and guidelines on the issue of smart cities (meaning cities that introduced smart technology) from the perspective of traditional urban policy. Smart city policies focusing on technology have been criticized for eliminating the different levels of factors that surround smart cities. When governments fail to consider different factors in implementing smart policies, they might not effectively provide quality services to citizens, because smart cities involve not only technical elements, but also the complex elements surrounding them (e.g., the policy ecosystem and urban infrastructure). This exploratory study examines the determinants of smart cities and their priorities through an analytic hierarchy process analysis. In this study, the priority internal factors appeared in the order of citizen involvement, leadership, and infrastructure, and the priority external factors took the order of political will, stakeholders, and the fourth Industrial Revolution. In addition, this study shows that the presence of communication channels, public hearings, and direct stakeholders is important for analyzing each sub-factor.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yuseok Jung; EunUk Lee. A Study on Determinant Factors in Smart City Development: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2606 .

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Seunghwan Myeong, Yuseok Jung, EunUk Lee. A Study on Determinant Factors in Smart City Development: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2606.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yuseok Jung; EunUk Lee. 2018. "A Study on Determinant Factors in Smart City Development: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2606.

Review
Published: 31 March 2016 in Sustainability
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When the level of trust in government is low, government cannot effectively provide services, since the policy goals and the process of implementations are not fully understood by the people. This study hypothesizes that the level of trust in government may increase if the level of social capital increases. It also hypothesizes that the impact of social capital on the level of trust in government may differ depending on the type of social capital. The study examined the relationship between the level of trust in government and types of social capital, including bonding social capital and bridging social capital. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that bonding social capital shows a negative relationship with the level of trust in government, while a bridging social capital has a positive relationship with the level of trust in government. In addition, the study examined the variances of the perceptions of each group based on the degree of social cohesion on the level of trust in government by employing ANOVA. It showed that there are no significant differences in bonding social groups, while bridging social capital groups showed variances in their perception of the level of trust in government.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Hyungjun Seo. Which Type of Social Capital Matters for Building Trust in Government? Looking for a New Type of Social Capital in the Governance Era. Sustainability 2016, 8, 322 .

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Seunghwan Myeong, Hyungjun Seo. Which Type of Social Capital Matters for Building Trust in Government? Looking for a New Type of Social Capital in the Governance Era. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (4):322.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Hyungjun Seo. 2016. "Which Type of Social Capital Matters for Building Trust in Government? Looking for a New Type of Social Capital in the Governance Era." Sustainability 8, no. 4: 322.

Editorial
Published: 12 March 2016 in Sustainability
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Of late, Asian countries have been experiencing serious environmental disasters, such as the particulate matter (PM) smog in China, a yellow sand storm in Korea, and the Fukuyama nuclear power station shutdown in Japan. Since its inauguration in 2009, the Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) has evolved into one of the leading international conferences for coping with these environmental challenges and presenting novel and fundamental advances in sustainable development for Asia. This editorial for SAC 2015 will highlight the contents and new methodologies put forth by selected papers, presenting diverse implications in sustainable policies and business strategies.

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Yongrok Choi; Malin Song; Seunghwan Myeong. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Sustainable Asia Conference 2015. Sustainability 2016, 8, 266 .

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Yongrok Choi, Malin Song, Seunghwan Myeong. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Sustainable Asia Conference 2015. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (3):266.

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Yongrok Choi; Malin Song; Seunghwan Myeong. 2016. "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Sustainable Asia Conference 2015." Sustainability 8, no. 3: 266.

Journal article
Published: 05 September 2014 in Sustainability
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This study empirically examines the correlation between the quality of e-government and trust in government. It used survey data collected in 2013 from the metropolitan areas of Seoul. An index was developed to measure the quality of e-government services, and the Gov 3.0 values were reflected in the analysis, including openness, sharing, communication, and collaboration. The results show a partial correlation between the quality of e-government service and trust in government. In addition, the level of trust varied according to the different type of the digital divide groups. It suggests that as ICT (Information Communication Technology) has become more sophisticated, a willingness to share information among organizations and stakeholders may become a major factor to thoseactively seeking information and resources to make value-added products. It also suggests that more integrated data management including network securityand an open attitude toward information sharing will be more important beyond the level of technical issues.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yongmin Kwon; Hyungjun Seo. Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government. Sustainability 2014, 6, 6049 -6069.

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Seunghwan Myeong, Yongmin Kwon, Hyungjun Seo. Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government. Sustainability. 2014; 6 (9):6049-6069.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Yongmin Kwon; Hyungjun Seo. 2014. "Sustainable E-Governance: The Relationship among Trust, Digital Divide, and E-Government." Sustainability 6, no. 9: 6049-6069.

Research article
Published: 18 March 2010 in Administration & Society
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This study examined the effects of information technology (IT) on policy decision-making processes, especially in the stages of goal setting and choosing among policy alternatives. It used survey data collected in 1998 and 2005 from the metropolitan areas of Seoul and Busan in Korea. The survey results showed that there has been a positive change in the perception of the effects of IT on policy decision-making processes among government users. These changes could be made possible by strong leadership and e-government initiatives in central and metropolitan governments, not just due to the diffusion of technology and technologically capable staff members in organizations. The empirical results also showed that barriers to information sharing had increased in 2005 because of environmental changes, including requirement of authorization for providing information, complicated data management, and negative attitudes to information sharing. It suggests that city governments need to provide policy remedies for overcoming obstacles in information sharing in the areas of protection of privacy, network security, and official authorization processes for providing individual information. This study may contribute to the school of e-government and IT policy research as it helps decrease the gap between theory and practice.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Younghoon Choi. Effects of Information Technology on Policy Decision-Making Processes. Administration & Society 2010, 42, 441 -459.

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Seunghwan Myeong, Younghoon Choi. Effects of Information Technology on Policy Decision-Making Processes. Administration & Society. 2010; 42 (4):441-459.

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Seunghwan Myeong; Younghoon Choi. 2010. "Effects of Information Technology on Policy Decision-Making Processes." Administration & Society 42, no. 4: 441-459.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 1999 in Government Information Quarterly
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How do government officals conceptualize electronic government? Will the electronic government come to pass by means of complex technology? What purpose(s) will electronic government serve? Using a survey given to 69 Korean government officials in charge of administrative informatization, the authors answer these questions. Government officials perceive electronic government as much in terms of technology as they do in terms of effect. However, on the technology side, electronic government is predominantly associated with the use of complex technologies. On the effect side, electronic government is primarily associated with serving the internal use of government operations.

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Sung-Don Hwang; Younghoon Choi; Seung-Hwan Myeong. Electronic government in South Korea: Conceptual problems. Government Information Quarterly 1999, 16, 277 -285.

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Sung-Don Hwang, Younghoon Choi, Seung-Hwan Myeong. Electronic government in South Korea: Conceptual problems. Government Information Quarterly. 1999; 16 (3):277-285.

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Sung-Don Hwang; Younghoon Choi; Seung-Hwan Myeong. 1999. "Electronic government in South Korea: Conceptual problems." Government Information Quarterly 16, no. 3: 277-285.