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This study analyzes the urban regeneration program, portraying a spatial policy for the past ten years in the aspects of state space and spatial selectivity. First, by examining the existing research frame that has analyzed state space broadly, this study introduces a method of understanding a specific policy program as a vector of state spatial shape change. Through this, it analyzes the trends within the state space that past urban regeneration programs, especially the 'Urban Regeneration New Deal' project, have been selected and formed as spatial projects. As a result, this study theoretically identifies that the central government-led urban regeneration policy is a state spatial project that has caused top-down homogenization at the national scale within the state space. Through these conclusions, in addition to thinking about the direction of fundamental decentralization and fiscal decentralization, this paper urges the practice of continuously monitoring and evaluating the spatial selection of each current policy program and the vector of fluctuations in the state space.

The current study investigates the impact of task-irrelevant negative facial expression stimuli on performance in tasks requiring the maintenance and recognition of visual or spatial information. Previous research has shown that task-irrelevant negative scene stimuli affect spatial memory but not visual memory. To further explore these findings, our study expands on them by examining the effects of facial expression stimuli. In Experiment 1, participants were instructed to remember location stimuli, while in Experiment 2, they were asked to remember shape stimuli. Throughout both experiments, negative and neutral facial expressions were presented while participants held the stimuli in memory. Interestingly, our results reveal that negative facial expressions enhance performance compared to neutral in a spatial memory task (in Experiment 1), but there was no significant difference in a visual memory task (in Experiment 2). These findings suggest that both negative emotions evoked by scene stimuli and facial expressions engage spatial attentional resources. However, the specific processing mechanisms may differ depending on the type of stimulus. Moreover, the results indicate that visual and spatial information might be processed independently in working memory.

Northeast Asia, in which we Koreans live, is a specter-like concept unlike our empirical commonsense. Unlike when the tribunal trade system under the name of Sinocentrism functioned well, Northeast Asia in the present is not a sympoietic community but a community of interest due to historical traumas following their respective pain and suffering from their histories. and their trauma. Thus, it is hard to say that the nations and people in the Northeast Asia region have a sense of identity as Northeast Asians. In this situation, climate change, ecological crises, the pandemic, and so on firmly warn us that our common destiny will be a co-destruction, if we Northeast Asians share a sense of living and making life together. This artile examines if Northeast Asian religiosity can plait senses of symbiosis and sympoiesis into our ways of living. The four-seven debate in Joseon Neo-Confucianism says that we can cultivate a sense of becoming human through four emotional thresholds like sympathy(惻隱 之心). Although there is already and always a risk when religious sensitivity can be corrupted in its justification for a totalitarian ideology, religious concepts like sympathy in Confucianism and compassion in Christianity can help us a lot to recognize the fact that we are entangled with all other beings in the Northeast Asia region on the globe, living with them and forming actor-networks.