A B S T R A C TThe purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the financial indicators of hospitals by identifying the hospitals' characteristics. To evaluate indicators of hospital performance, liquidity, financial performance, turnover ratio, growth rate, and productivity indicators are selected. Data was collected from the reports of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute for the 2013 -2016 period. The results of study confirmed the following: First, a comparison of financial indicators revealed that liability to total assets was generally declining. Second, for public hospitals, the total assets turnover was assessed to be actively utilized in hospitals with more than 160 beds in 2016. Third, in private hospitals, the total assets turnover did not meet in the recommended ratios. Fourth, the net profit to total assets of performance indicators was positive in private hospitals. Finally, the number of doctors per 100 beds did not change significantly, whereas the value added to personnel expenses was found to increase. The results of the study have important theoretical and practical implications for operational efficiency in hospital management based on characteristics of hospitals. This study contributes to both the practice of healthcare management and the body of literature by it employing new insights into how hospitals should operate to enhance organizational competitiveness based on a comparison of the financial indicators of Korean hospitals.
This study examines the recent phenomenon of “cross-border marriage” in South Korea: foreign brides migrating into Korea to get married to Korean bachelors. Using data from the National Survey of Multicultural Families 2009, one of the biggest data sets on marriage migrants, we analyze how the difference in migrants’ initial methods of entry affects the level of their life satisfaction. The findings show greater life satisfaction for those who used personal social networks, when compared with those who used commercial brokers as a method of entry. The analyses also reveal the importance of current social networks and their role in moderating the effect of the initial methods of entry after a prolonged period of residence.
In this article, I investigate how gendered nationalism is articulated through everyday practices in relation to immigrant integration policy and the intersectional production of inequality in South Korea. By using ethnographic data collected at community centers created to implement national “multicultural” policy, I examine the individual perspectives and experiences of Korean staff and targeted recipients (marriage migrants). To defend their own “native” privileges, the Korean staff stressed the gendered caretaking roles of marriage migrants and their contribution to the nation as justification for state support. The migrants, while critical of the familial responsibilities imposed on them in Korea, underscored their gendered value to the nation (as mothers to “Korean” children) to offset their subjugated position. The diverging perspectives of the two groups are informed by “everyday” nationalism, generated through constantly gendered terms and effects. Bringing together the literature on nationalism and migration through a focus on reproductive labor, I expose how national boundaries are drawn through quotidian practices of gendered nationalism, with significant implications for gender and ethnic hierarchies.
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