2018, Vol., No.71

Journal of Humanities 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.6

pISSN : 1598-8457 / eISSN : 2508-4550
https://journal.kci.go.kr/inmun

Human work is the fundamental cultural activities in that human beings have built their own unique cultural world through the work. This public meaning of the work collapsed in the wake of the industrial revolution, after which human production activities have been restricted to those using tools. As a result, Homo faber was reduced to a tool-using man, rather than a tool-making man, and the cultural meaning of the Homo faber has become extremely narrow. In this process, the new technological revolution is understood from the two standpoints. One is that human work is no longer attributable to the private realm, and the other is the boundary of human activities has been extremely restricted. These two are not separate facts, and in this respect they are both a crisis to man and an opportunity at the same time. In order to make this an opportunity, it is necessary to pursue and criticize the meaning of human work that has been distorted since the modern era, and to examine the meaning and possibility of human work that can cope with the age of new technological revolution.

Since 2016, South Korea has taken part in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and has endeavored to stand at the forefront of the global movement. However, the nation’s vision for the Fourth Industrial Revolution still relies heavily on the 4th Industrial Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is led by Davos Forum, and has been biased toward the market-oriented technology. The government has declared a human-centered fourth industrial revolution, but the discussions over and the studies about humans are not easily found. At the present time—being the starting point of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—the number of antisocial economic activities such as the speculation on real estate and virtual currency is rising. In this context, this paper critically examines our current economic and cultural situation and reveals human existence as Homo Culturalis in order to make the Fourth Industrial Revolution a truly human-centered revolution. By re-illuminating the Fourth Industrial Revolution of Germany which has enjoyed a socio-economic prosperity based on the human understanding of Homo Culturalis from the perspective of its social market economy, the paper identifies the locomotive power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as democratization in the workplace, rather than artificial intelligence (AI). In conclusion, the paper deals with the future role of the enterprises—which are the actual driving force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Korea— after drawing the implications from the case study of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Germany.

The greatest competitive edge in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the era of technological revolution, is the convergence ability based on networking of various academic fields. Convergence competency can be reinforced by sharing interdisciplinary knowledge. For example, a humanities major can share knowledge in different fields of study with a major in natural sciences and vice versa. Time and technology are changing too fast to perceive all areas alone without sharing knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to create an environment in which different kinds of knowledge can be shared in the sector of college education. So how do you share knowledge? In this paper, we propose a framework of knowledge sharing program in universities by conducting ‘a science slam’ and ‘a learner-centered teaching method’, which are the representative knowledge sharing programs in Germany, for university students. Under the slogan ‘Everybody is a teacher, everybody is a learner’, we introduce the examples of learners of various fields sharing knowledge with their counterparts in other academic disciplines. Such an attempt could be the foundation of knowledge sharing in the new era.