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

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

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

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