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@article{ART001991876},
author={Suk-Soo Kim},
title={The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2015},
volume={72},
number={2},
pages={235-269},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235}

TY - JOUR
AU - Suk-Soo Kim
TI - The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2015
VL - 72
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 235
EP - 269
SN - 1598-3021
AB - We Koreans became engulfed in sadness and anger owing to the sinking of the MV Sewol which occurred on April 16, 2014. It never happened by chance. It is also a self-portrait of Korea demonstrating the fact that Korean society is sick as a whole. The sickness we are suffering from is the loss of the memory community and the life of thoughtlessness. We have a wound because our country was colonized by Japan and our nation was split by other powers. Unfortunately, we had to accept the excessive control of the state and the excessive domination of the market in order to escape from that damage. The former controlling system and the latter competing system have demanded of us to become subjects participating in creative activities, rather than subjects participating in memorizing activities. These creative subjects had to fulfill the mission of faster growth. Therefore, these subjects were not able to become autonomous subjects that were free from the order system of the state and the competi-tion system of the market. We cannot but think either non-subjectively or fightingly. The former thinking is identical with the latter thinking in the point of unreflective thinking. Just as the evil of Eichmann occurred from this thoughtlessness, so did the evil of the MV Sewol. Of course, there is a difference between the two, but they all basically occurred from thoughtlessness. As Karatani Gojin said, we must pursue “associationism” in order to solve the problem of thoughtlessness which the over-governing of the state and the market gave birth. We have to overcome the poverty of the thought implied in the obeying thought and the competing thought through the solidarity of imagination like this. But we must proceed from the command type education and the competition type education, in which a fissure between thought and reality exists, to the open education in which mediation between the two takes place through the act of judging. When we engage in this education, finally we will be able to escape from the evil of the MV Sewol caused by the collusion between capital and the state.
KW - Memory;thoughtlessness;evil;judgement;MV Sewol;sensus communis
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235
ER -

Suk-Soo Kim. (2015). The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 72(2), 235-269.

Suk-Soo Kim. 2015, "The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.72, no.2 pp.235-269. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim "The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 72.2 pp.235-269 (2015) : 235.

Suk-Soo Kim. The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol. 2015; 72(2), 235-269. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim. "The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 72, no.2 (2015) : 235-269.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim. The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 72(2), 235-269. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim. The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2015; 72(2) 235-269. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim. The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol. 2015; 72(2), 235-269. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235

Suk-Soo Kim. "The Life of Thoughtlessness and the Evil in the Modern History of Korea - With regards to the Sinking of the MV Sewol" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 72, no.2 (2015) : 235-269.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.72.2.201505.235