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The End of Functional Labor

When functional competence becomes abundant, markets reprice labor around the scarce ability to bear risk, authorize outcomes, and justify decisions. In the AI economy, the bottleneck is not production but approval.

January 22, 202614 min read

Venezuela, Greenland, and the Moment Law Fell Behind Power

The postwar order was built on a simple expectation: force would wait for law. In 2026, that expectation no longer holds.

January 7, 20269 min read

The Age of Outsourced Thinking

AI is not merely accelerating learning; it is reshaping the ecology of cognition. And without a philosophical anchor, education risks surrendering the very capacities that make us human.

November 21, 202531 min read

Words That Wound: The Violence of Hate Speech in Korea’s New Street Protests

The hate rallies in Seoul’s Myeongdong district do not resemble the candlelight vigils that defined Korean democracy. Instead, they echo repertoires seen in Japan and the US.

September 12, 20257 min read

The Philosophy and Architecture of Korea’s Borrowed Scenery

Korean chagyeong, the art of borrowing scenery, weaves distant mountains, rivers, and seasonal light into the living fabric of everyday space.

August 15, 20257 min read

When Labor Remains but Workers Vanish

Algorithms assign the tasks. Platforms reap the value. But the human presence behind labor is fading from legal, social, and existential view.

August 6, 202510 min read

One Answer, One Culture: The Hidden Cost of a Connected World

In a world of infinite content, we are seeing fewer perspectives. As AI curates our lives, critical thinking, intellectual diversity, and even empathy are quietly slipping away.

June 28, 202529 min read

The Threshold of Three: How Complexity Begins

When a third element enters a system — in science, in thought, in selfhood — the world no longer behaves predictably.

June 21, 20257 min read

How the Dominance of Nostalgia is Marginalizing Young Creators

Despite their historical role in driving cultural movements, young creators are increasingly sidelined in favor of safe, nostalgia-driven content.

June 14, 202511 min read

Why Fast Content Feels Right — and Thinking Feels Wrong

From short-form videos to ultra-processed food, today’s culture isn’t just fast — it’s engineered to bypass reflection. Modern life trains us to react, not reflect. What’s lost in this shift isn’t just attention — it’s our capacity to ask why.

May 24, 202511 min read

Spirituality Without Doctrine: The Philosophical Afterlife of Korean Tradition

Religious doctrines may fade, but deeper patterns endure.In South Korea, ancient traditions have migrated from temples into gestures, emotions, and social expectations.This is a story about how we live what we no longer believe—and why it matters.

May 4, 20258 min read

The Silence of Thought in a Noisy World

We live surrounded by words, yet thinking has never been so endangered. When machines speak and we stop listening inwardly, we lose more than knowledge—we lose ourselves. This is a call to restore the slow, dangerous beauty of reflection in a world obsessed with immediacy.

April 15, 20257 min read

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