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Series of Age of Wisdom (5 titles)
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Today’s liberal arts knowledge opening the better tomorrow!
The wisdom of the new age presented by Roh, Hae Chan, Kim, Dae Shik, Kim, Hyung Jeong, Byun Young Joo, and Jeong Hye Shin
In today’s society, which is rapidly changing and getting complicated, people say they just manage their own life not to be behind every single day. However, at the same time, more people than ever are eager to want the society to get better and to wish their own lives to be happier. What they need for healthier life, and more righteous society is ‘wisdom’ going beyond knowledge. In particular, it is hard for each individual to judge what is right or what is wrong these days due to the flood of information, therefore, we really need timely wisdom under difficult society.
Continuous lectures held in the first half of 2018, which became the basic of ‘The Age of Wisdom’, were so popular to many citizens enough to record the sold-out even under bone-chilling cold weather. This proves that many people have deeply considered how to make better future going beyond just surviving day by day. After facing with heated popularity at the scene, the authors reorganized their lecture contents with some extra addition, and published the book by including ‘Q&A’ for the questions they couldn’t answer at the podium.
‘In front of separation called death’ Jeong, Hye Shin
The mind wounds caused by the death of someone we love, how should we respond?
The true way for healing suggested by Jeong, Hye Shin, ‘The Doctor of the Street’
As a professional psychiatrist, the author has healed the mind wounds of traumatic victims in our society, including unemployed workers and the loved ones of victims of Sewol ship, and now she deals with the theme of death. Through the deaths the author has directly and indirectly experienced for a long time, she tries to teach people how to respond to the sufferings after losing someone they love. The author emphasizes the fact that no one can avoid the separation with his or her loved ones in lifetime, and we have to be able to cry out loud and to be mourning as much as we need.
‘The State We Dream Of’ Roh Hoe-Chan
We should keep going forward! Roh, Hoe Chan who was freeman, cultural man, and man who admires peace.
What is the challenge and solution he has left in our society.
The late lawmaker, Roh, Hoe Chan, who died in July, 2018, has devoted himself to the liberal party movements since he began labor movement as a student. And during his years as a lawmaker, he has represented the socially weak, and presented the politics to the public with his brilliant communication skill. The author diagnoses that today’s Korean society is now passing the turning point since the candle revolution, and we all can keep going forward only after we resolve the current issues. The current issues he tells are to settle down the fairness, equality, and peace in our society, and to do so, we have to change our politics. That means we have to reorganize the vote system for the National Assembly to represent their people’s strong will. The author also asks readers to continue to participate in the politics just like they used to hold candles in front of the City Hall.
‘A good society makes a good movie.’
The story about the movies and creation from Byun, Young Joo, a movie director.
The author, Byun, Young Joo, has deeply studied the real scenes of modern society so far, and begins the story by looking at the relationship between the movies and our society. A movie is one of the public arts dominated by society, so good movies can be made from a good society.
Therefore, preliminary review on movies, and supports on independent movies can be good examples of showing how our society has affected on the movies. The author tries to fix the misunderstanding about Korean movie industry such as screen monopoly, and suggests that what we really need is to organize the system of Korean movie industry.
‘Move the world by news’ Kim, Hyun Jeong
There is ‘truth’ outside the news frame!
How to sort out real news in the middle of fake news flood.
At first, the author was not an expert in current affairs field as a PD of music program. However, she taught herself how to read the real news, which is ‘to think outside the box of the common news frame’. ‘News’ cannot help but being trapped by certain frames decided by a reporter or media company, even if the ‘news’ is a fact. Therefore, no one can guarantee that the fact presented by news reporting is true. Through this book, citizens will be able to abandon their prejudice thinking beyond the news frame and look at one issue based on diverse points of view, thereby reaching the truth beyond the fact.
‘Surviving from the 4th industrial revolution’ Kim, Dae-Shik, AlphaGo is just the beginning.
In the future when machines can replace intellectual labor, what should humans choose?
The professor, Kim, Dae-Shik, from KAIST, who has been the frontier to spread the concept of brain science to the public, objectively points out the current status of the 4th industrial revolution beginning from AI in this book. The author provides several examples, including AlphaGo, to show us the level of AI and robot technology, originally created by our natural desire of somebody doing my job instead of me, has escalated, and in particular, how AI has dramatically leapt forward thanks to deep learning for the current several years.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Adults, Changbi Books_Adults > Social science
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70 Years of Dialogue: A New History of Relations between North and South Koreas
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Reading today as shaped by a 70-year history of national division…!
This book surveys the history of inter-Korean relations from the Korean War Armistice (1953) to North Korea’s nuclear program with active wisdom instead of passive wisdom, from a broad perspective instead of a narrow perspective, as continuity in history instead of discontinuity in history. Repeating confrontations and aggravation, contacts and cooperation according to the international political order and domestic political circumstances, inter-Korean relations have yet to reach the termination of hostilities, whereby war is ended and peace is established, after the cessation of hostilities, whereby war is temporarily ceased. Kim Yeon-cheol (professor, Department of Unification Studies, Inje University), the author, is currently an advisor to the Office of National Security (ONS) directly under the President. Turning his attention from the traditional emphasis on Pyongyang’s Southern policies when examining inter-Korean relations, he stresses that Seoul’s leading role and Northern policies are crucial above all in the processes of ending the war and establishing peace. The “A New History of Relations” series
reflects the learning and insights of experts on international relations among the Koreas, Unites States, China, and Japan
In today’s dramatically changing international environment, the domestic and overseas politics of South Korea is faced with a great transition. In order to point out accurately the path that the country must take, broad perspectives transcending the narrow scope of national borders and long-term observations are necessary. The “A New History of Relations” series surveys, at a glance, international relations surrounding the Korean Peninsula that have been important variables shaping South Korea’s present. Through inter-Korean, South Korean-US, South Korean-Chinese, South Korean-Japanese, and North Korean-Chinese relations, which have repeatedly undergone conflicts and deadlocks, confrontations and compromises in East Asia, it will be possible to obtain the clues to peace on and reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Following Kim’s A New History of North-South Korean Relations, A New History of North Korean-Chinese Relations by Lee Jong-seok (former Minister of Unification) is scheduled to be published within the year. Table of Contents
Prologue: Perspectives on Inter-Korean Relations
Chapter 1. The Postwar Period: The 1950s and the Geneva Conference
Chapter 2. An Age of Confrontations: Limited War in the 1960s and the Pueblo Incident
Chapter 3. An Age of Confrontations with Dialogues: The 1970s and the July 4 Inter-Korean Joint Statement
Chapter 4. An Age of Agreements: The Nordpolitik and the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement
Chapter 5. Five Years of Hiatus: Inter-Korean Relations under the Kim Young-sam Government
Chapter 6. An Age of Contacts: Two Inter-Korean Summits
Chapter 7. An Age of Sanctions: Inter-Korean Relations under the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye Governments
Epilogue: Both Peace and Reunification Are Processes
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Adults, Changbi Books_Adults > Social science
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MY FIRST COURSE IN GENDER
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With a focus on representative topics that reflect a dichotomous mentality regarding men and women such as love, studies, career, dieting, family, and motherhood myth, this book calmly and, at times, humorously analyzes stereotypes and prejudices and presents accurate and new knowledge that will replace such views. The news that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) officially denied differences between men and women in mathematics and the natural sciences in 2012, research results that the development of household appliances has actually increased household chores, and historical facts such as the initiation of the concept of “romantic love” only in the 18tha century unfold in a fascinating manner.
While smashing stereotypes, the author also actively proposes at the same time ways in which men and women can understand and newly relate to one another. She recommends readers to imagine families where teamwork flourishes instead of patriarchal families, which are categorically led by men, and, borrowing philosopher André Gorz’s ideas, to dream of life where labor for livelihood, household chores, and autonomous labor form a harmony instead of demarcating “men’s” and “women’s” work. She urges them also to hold fast to the idea that the habit of judging people’s appearances is wrong and that beauty is diverse, instead of ceaselessly finding “problems” in one’s ordinary body.
Throughout the volume, the author presents various topics that can resonate with the worries and interests of South Korean adolescents today. Through the results of a survey on teenagers’ ideal types and statistics on appearance-related stress, she approaches the nation’s youths.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_YA, Changbi Books_YA > Non-fiction
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HOW DOES GLOBAL POLITICS WORK?
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Easy, clear, and real politics for those who find politics and international affairs articles difficult! Why do conservatives in South Korea cry out against North Korea so vehemently? What are the circumstances behind the dispute between China and Tibet? What is the key to the successful establishment of social democracy in Sweden? Having sharply pointed out the pitfalls of blind faith in elections in Why Does Politics Betray Us? (published by Changbi), his previous work, Nam Taehyun, a political science professor, examines in this volume the ways in which politics and society affect each other by crisscrossing the entire world through the window of political ideology.
After clearly pointing out the definition and roles of political ideology as a tool that activates politics, the author explains the ways in which representative ideologies such as ethnic nationalism, religion, socialism, and conservatism are related to events in places around the globe including South Korea. He then examines through concrete examples the processes through which political ideology is disseminated, maintained, and reinforced in a society via the mass media, organizations, capital, and social systems, thus revealing in its entirety the entangled relationship between politics and political ideology. Furthermore, he presents the reorganization of the election system as a new path for the healthy coexistence of diverse political ideologies in South Korean society. Examining an all too easily abstruse topic step by step in a readily comprehensible style, the author guides to the world of politics readers who hitherto may have felt vaguely that politics is difficult to understand. On the other hand, he acerbically criticizes the behavior of certain political magnates who have incited the masses with political ideology, thus aiding readers to ponder on fair and just politics without being swayed by others. Table of Contents
Part 1. Political Ideology
Chapter 1. What Is Political Ideology?
Chapter 2. The Functions of Political Ideology Part 2. Political Ideologies
Chapter 3. Ethnic Nationalism: The Clash between China and Tibet
Chapter 4. Zionism: The Dispute between Israel and Palestine
Chapter 5. Religion: The Opposition between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites in Islam
Chapter 6. Socialism: The Differences between Sweden and Venezuela
Chapter 7. Conservatism: Conservative Politics in South Korea and the United States Part 3. How Is Ideology Maintained?
Chapter 8. Mass Media: The Rwandan Genocide the Iraq War
Chapter 9. Organization: Pro-Israeli Forces in the United States
Chapter 10. Capital: The Koch Brothers’ Political Funds
Chapter 11. Social Systems: The Power of Educational and Political Systems
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Adults, Changbi Books_Adults > Social science