Professor Lee Jong-kwan of the Department of Philosophy was selected for the 2021 Excellent Scholars Support Project
- 문과대학
- Hit1823
- 2021-10-18
Professor Lee Jong-kwan of the Department of Philosophy of Korean University was selected for the 2021 Humanities and Social Excellence Support Project announced by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Foundation on Thursday, September 23.
The Korea Research Foundation's "Excellent Scholars Support Project" is an in-depth research support project to produce world-class scholars in the field of humanities and society through long-term in-depth research and promotion of writing activities. It is the largest project to support individual researchers in the humanities and social sciences, with a total of 250 million won over five years.
Professor Lee Jong-kwan, a philosopher who has pioneered digital civilization transformation from a humanities perspective since the late 1990s, currently serves as the director of the Hybrid Future Culture Research Institute and the head professor of future humanities. In particular, he wrote excellent books and papers such as "Posthuman Coming," an academic award-winning work of the Korean Publishing Culture Awards and Lotte Publishing Culture Awards, and "Future of Work and It's Temporality in the Age of 4th Industrial Revolution" (2017; Korea), future human beings.
Through these research results, he was invited to serve as an advisor to various state-run institutions and served as an advisor to the Future Housing Research Committee under the Ministry of Construction, planning and general committee member of the Institute of Information and Communication Policy.
In addition, Professor Lee Jong-kwan successfully conducted "Mega Trend Research" with researchers at the Hybrid Future Culture Research Institute, and from 2017 to 2018, he planned "Technical Revolution and Publicity of Human Work" research and produced excellent results as a research director.
Through this <Excellent Scholarship Support Project>, Professor Lee Jong-kwan aims to present a future vision of humanitarian ecological respect that overcomes this through in-depth cross-sectional studies that encompass the crisis of civilization that has already occurred several times since the early 21st century. In addition, in order to substantially drive the progress of history toward a better future, and to realize ecological respect and humanitarian economic vision, we will conduct a pioneering study of this era to uncover the possibility of dematerialized economic activities through virtualization.