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Shift

Overlapping and trembling, a path opens

Shift does not mean disconnection or departure. At the boundary where the familiar and the new, where the similar and the different overlap and tremble, an unprecedented path begins to unfold. This is why we gathered the thoughts of the people of Seoul National University—those who step into change and challenge, and who willingly broaden the stage of possibility.

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Interview

Questions at Thresholds in the Age of Shift

Pae Jeong Han, Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering
Hong Jin Ho, Professor in the Department of German Language and Literature

Changes in technologies and institutions, in addition to the advent of new tools, disrupt the ways by which people perceive the world and lead their lives. Along with Pae Jeong Han, professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, and Hong Jin Ho, professor at the Department of German Language and Literature, we explored the questions that these educators have encountered in delving into the structure of cities and life, as well as the relationship between humans and nature.

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Like Water Overflowing,
Shift Comes at the End of
a Walking Path

Lee Sang Hyeok, Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences

Solving mathematical conundrums appear to be a sudden encounter with their solutions at a “Eureka!” moment while an individual wrestles with these problems. It is a serious misunderstanding. In reality, the journey is an arduous quest, in which an explorer can reach the end after turning over every stone despite perpetual tedium. The advice of Professor Lee Sang-hyeok (Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences), who has silently tolerated the process wherein a shift emerges at the end of the road, sounds like a sobering alarm in an atmosphere that emphasizes merely immediate results.

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Posing Unprecedented Questions to the World

Kim Ga Ram, Documentary Producer (Class of 2006, Department of Communication)

Filmmaker Kim, who has been producing public broadcasting documentaries over 15 years with lackluster viewership, heads the field in pursuing unprecedented questions in this world. On a shooting site, having no manuals or definitive answers, she asks, listens, and wordlessly records. The resulting scenes strike a chord with people, and new ideas permeate into their minds.

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