Engaged Learning classes are those in which students actively participate in the learning process, take responsibility for their own learning, and acquire knowledge in various ways. This learning method encourages students not to simply accept information passively, but to solve problems, think crit

In 1936, university student Byun Dong-rim, who loved coffee, music, and writing, often spent time at Nakrang Pala in Gyeongseong, an old name for Seoul during Japanese colonial period, after her classes. There, she was introduced to Lee Sang, who would later be remembered as a genius poet. After San

In an increasingly polarized and sensationalized media world, it is hard to find reliable news sources that focus on issues that are important to the lives of regular people. Providing guidelines to help interpret modern media, Manufacturing Consent was written by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in 1

1. Sociological Imagination Manufacturing Consent “The smell crosses the line. The smell of people on the subway.” This is the line from director Bong Joon-ho’s film ‘Parasite,’ which won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France, and the Oscar Best Picture Award at the Academy Awa

“If you strive, you can succeed” had been one of the foundational moral principles in Korean society for long. John Locke posited that humans hold a legitimate right to property over things into which they have mixed their labor. Here lies the philosophical root of the belief that “effort is the fou

"노력하면 성공한다"는 말은 한국 사회에서 오랫동안 하나의 도덕률이었다. 존 로크는 인간이 자신의 노동을 투입한 대상에 정당한 소유권을 갖는다고 보았다. 노력이 곧 재산과 성공의 근거라는 믿음의 철학적 뿌리는 여기에 있다. 부모 세대는 이 명제를 몸소 증명해왔다고 믿었고, 그 믿음을 다음 세대에게 그대로 물려주었다. 문제는 이 믿음이 오늘날에도 그대로 성립하느냐는 것이다. 토마 피케티는 자본 수익률(r)이 경제 성장률(g)을 앞지르는 현상을 지적했다. 자산을 가진 사람의 부는 노동하지 않아도 불어나는 반면, 노동으로 버는 소득은 그

In recent years, newly coined terms such as “text hip” and “dokpamine” (a mix of dopamine and reading) have emerged, signaling that reading has expanded beyond a mere means of acquiring knowledge into a broader cultural phenomenon. The ways people engage with books are also evolving—through “book da

최근 '텍스트힙', '독파민' 등 독서 관련 신조어가 등장하며 독서가 지식습득의 수단을 넘어서서 하나의 문화로 확산되고 있다. 책을 읽으며 시간을 보내는 북데이트, 교환 독서, SNS 기록 등 독서 방식 또한 변화하고 있다. 이른바 '독서 붐'의 시대에 들어선 것이다. 이러한 흐름은 2024년 10월 한강 작가의 노벨 문학상 수상을 기점으로 더욱 가속화되었을 가능성이 크다. 문학이 다시 대중적 관심의 중심으로 떠오르며, 독서는 하나의 ‘트렌디한 선택’으로 자리 잡기 시작했다. 특히 2030

Movies have always been a medium for consuming predetermined stories. Following a single narrative flow designed by the director, audiences laugh, cry, and reflect. However, this long-standing premise has recently begun to shift with the emergence of content that allows the audience to directly choo

A single banana taped to a white wall with duct tape. Is it worth $6.2 million? In 2019, Maurizio Cattelan submitted “Comedian”—a banana worth a mere 30 cents taped to a wall— to Art Basel in the U.S. What is Art? The definition of art has constantly evolved over time. The ancient philosopher, Arist

As we stand at a major inflection point, where artificial intelligence(AI) is transforming industries across the board, intuition-based decisions are rapidly being replaced by “intelligent decision-making” based on data analysis. Amid this shift, “Data Literacy” is emerging as a core competitive adv

1. The Weight of Digital Thought In our lectures, we often treat code as abstract logic—lines of text existing in a vacuum. But in reality, every LLM query is a brute-force physical event. A single prompt triggers trillions of matrix operations, demanding high-density power that pushes server infras

Voyager Mission In In the late 1960s, an astronomical luck was predicted. It was the arrival of a rare 176-year cycle where all the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune, would align in a fan-like formation. Utilizing this phenomenon would enable “gravity assist” maneuvers, as seen in science ficti

Banks are rapidly advancing toward full digitalization. The integration of regulatory frameworks and operational guidelines into computerized systems aims to standardize procedures, minimize human error, and mitigate legal and reputational risk. In principle, this objective is well justified. Digita

A Re-Closing Border Remember the COVID-19 pandemic that hit our lives in 2019? The pandemic, which lasted for about three years, seems to have come to an end, but our lives haven’t gone back to before the pandemic. The same goes for the economy as well. The global economy, which has stagnated since