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Editorial
Humanities ChangedIts
Clothes for People
ESTABLISHED1954
Publishedmonthlyexcepttheschoolholidaysbyand
for students of Hankuk University of Foreign
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any newspaper articles claim that humanities students these days have
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difficulties finding jobs. Also, they add that most companies want
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employeestohavetechnologyskillsorknowledgerelatedtoengineering.
campusjournalismandacademism.
In contrast to the skeptical view on the benefits of studying humanities, Korean
societyhasstartedtoseek‘HumanitiesforthePublic.’
Whatis‘HumanitiesforthePublic’?Accordingtopopularopinion,itisnewkind
PresidentandPublisher
Dr.KimInChul
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ofstudybasedonhumanicsfieldandforpeoplewhohavealowlevelofknowledge
ExecutiveEditor
Prof.KimInchon
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ofhumanities,whichisstudyofhumanthoughtandculture.Somepeopleshowtheir
criticalviewsbycallingitanextensionofhealingandself-improvement.However,
Editor-in-Chief
KimMin-jeong(H-3)
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people who have longed for the knowledge of the humanities are acclaiming the
EditorialConsultants
ChaEon-jo(EIT2-4)
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newstudy.
Students of humanities fields feel employment is difficult to find; on the other
ParkHyun-chul(EC-4)
hand,peoplewhoarealreadyemployedwanttostudythehumanities.Howironicit
JoHe-rim(ELG-4)
is!ThereasonforthisabsurdsituationissaidtobebecausetheKoreanhumanities
educational system has focused only on accepting textbook knowledge without
PlanningDirector
LeeYeong-eun(ELG-4)
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allowingforthelearners’ownthoughts.Theultimategoalofthestudyshouldhave
Reporters
KimHae-ju(PA-2)
beentofosterkeeninsights.
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If someone asks university students taking a humanities course about what
CopyReaders
Prof.LeeDong-il
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humanities is, will they be able to answer with confidence? Probably not. We
Prof.BrandonWalcutt
realize that what we learned was just a summary of the classics that are read to
gain entrance to well-known universities and not for scholarly attainment in itself.
Prof.MichaelHeinz
Acceptance without critical thinking eliminates our own consideration. With the
recent appearance of ‘Humanities for the Public,’ Korea could be at a starting
pointofchanginghowtolearntostudyaswellasshowtheimpactofhumanicson
society.
It is wrong to rashly declare that students in humanities courses are finding it
harderandhardertomakealiving.Theonlythingtheyhavedoneissimplybelieve
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humanities. Considering the current circumstances, it is too soon to be frustrated
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aboutwhatwehavestudied.Iamsurethathumanitieswillfinditsrenaissanceinthe
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