숙명인문학연구소

Research Projects

Humanities City Support Project

Opening of systematic Yongsan humanities lectures
Development of curricula related to the Yongsan area
Opening of expert education courses in Yongsan local humanities
Organization of the Yongsan Forum in solidarity with Yongsan residents, local government, and Sookmyung Women’s University
Establishment of a basis for the community on the principles of humanities

<Humanities City Yongsan> Project Stage-By-Stage Goals

Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities

Yongsan-gu Office

Yongsan-gu
Culture Center

Seoul Office
of Education
Namsan Library

Korea Bang
Jung-hwan
Foundation

Kim Koo Museum
& Library

Municipal Center
for Senior Welfare
of Yongsan

<Humanities City Yongsan> Project Pursuance System

	Theme	Goal	Contents
Year 1	Historicity - Ground	Finding the history of Yongsan	Investigating the historical figures, events, and plcaes of Yongsan and their meanings in order to understand the present of Yongsan.
Year 2	Cultural diversity - infinity	Creating the culture of Yongsan	Making various cultures formed based on the history, culture, classes, etc. of Yongsan into a new story of Yongsan.
Year 3	Expandability of future technologies - Benefits	Creating technologies of Yongsan	Creating Yongsan IT brands by combining the culture of Yongsan together with technological civilizations.
Project Goals	To share the historical and cultural heritages of Yongsan with people who have lived in Yongsan as their home and to design the future Yongsan as a humanities city for the harmonious coexistence. To construct ‘Yongsan humanities’ by building the Yongsan Local Humanities Center ⇒ To realize a lifelong education platform based on daily humanities

	Year 1
Theme	Historicity - Ground
Goal	Finding the history of Yongsan
Contents	Investigating the historical figures, events, and plcaes of Yongsan and their meanings in order to understand the present of Yongsan.

	Year 2
Theme	Cultural diversity – infinity
Goal	Creating the culture of Yongsan
Contents	Making various cultures formed based on the history, culture, classes, etc. of Yongsan into a new story of Yongsan.

	Year 3
Theme	Expandability of future technologies - Benefits
Goal	Creating technologies of Yongsan
Contents	Creating Yongsan IT brands by combining the culture of Yongsan together with technological civilizations.

	Year 3
Contents	To share the historical and cultural heritages of Yongsan with people who have lived in Yongsan as their home and to design the future Yongsan as a humanities city for the harmonious coexistence. To construct ‘Yongsan humanities’ by building the Yongsan Local Humanities Center ⇒ To realize a lifelong education platform based on daily humanities