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Even though I tried to avoid listening to any news about the latest presidential election in South Korea, I happened to listen to the news from the BBC radio while walking on a street in Tokyo. A professor who advises to the newly elected president about diplomacy was talking on an interview with a BBC announcer this evening.He said that, like Trumph who had said America First..

Sometimes I am highly motivated and other times I am struggling with lack of motivation. There was a long period when I suffered from a depletion of motivation last winter. One thing I learned from the experience is that humans should compete to become a better person . I realised how important competition with fair rules is. Without competitions in which a fair rule is obeyed..

People use language. And I found that they use it largely for taking what they want. What they want is connection. Connection with other people. No matter what types of words or sentences they say, the ultimate aim of language is connection, except for its basic utility for our survival. Connection, or relationship or intimacy or whatever... is what humans are always concerned..

Sometimes while talking with people, I find one of the typical social problems that I perceive very severe, and which I am also not free from (and am trying to overcome) all the time. Simply put it, some people have become victims of the socially agitated and inculcated emotion, hatred. They express hatred against certain political ideas, groups and people. But in my eyes, they..

We live largely ignoring the most precious thing for our life. Is it money? or repute? fame? social status? job position? house? car? ... Whatever.. If we got an accident and the airway (respiratory tract) got suffocated, our brain begins to enter the state of brain death in just less than 10 minutes. The movie, Gravity, starred by George Clooney, shows well the preciousness o..

Why institutional reforms failed in 19th century Joseon? Well functioning social institutions are one of the most essential features that can be seen in developed countries. For instance, in the history of British medicine, from the 18th century hospital reform movements began to take place, led by mainly philanthropists such as John Howard who initially had been interested in..

Why all the people's revolutions end up with fascistic dictatorships? The answer is too easy and clear. It is because both political revolutions and the successive dictatorships basically have in common social control by a majority. The dictator is just a symbol of the collective people's desires, self-interests, prejudices and ignorance. The whole society share those fruits o..

대학, 인류 역사상 가장 성공적인 비지니스 모델 배민 (서울 숭의여고 교사, 영국 St Andrews 대학 역사학 박사과정 중) 해마다 이맘 때면 한국의 고등학교 3학년 학생들은 일명 대학 진학 상담 이라는 것을 집중적으로 받는다. 가깝게는 담임 교사로부터. 하지만 거기에 만족하지 못하고 사교..

Dangers of the reductionist approach In British history, one of the things that I've found surprising is its contrasting features of the minds of the intellectuals between the nineteenth century and the present. Over the period of less than two centuries, British intellectual society has significantly lost its interest and passion in the concept of self-responsibility. The pass..

... is a provisional title of my future book that I want to write after finishing my doctorate program. However, I am not interested in drawing lines or setting boundaries between professionalism and amateurism. Nor do I want to argue at all that teachers who teach humanities including history should be academically professional, neglecting the role of guiding students' lives...