Jeong Yak-yong (Drama - 2009)

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  Park Jae-jeong
  박재정
  As
  Jeong Yak-yong
  (정약용)
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  Lee Young-eun
  이영은
  As
  Seol-ran
  (설란)
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  Hong Seok-cheon
  홍석천
  As
  Cheol-doo
  (철두)
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  Jo Sang-gi
  조상기
  As
  Gak-soo
  (각수)
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  Jang Dong-min
  장동민
  As
  Jang-i
  (장이)
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  Jeong Yang
  정양
  As
  Hong-choon
  (홍춘)

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  Rivers, the new national playgrounds
  2012/05/12, Source,
  Outdoor enthusiasts, sportsmen, and families in South Korea have much to look forward to this spring- and it's not just the warm weather (photo courtesy of Korea Sports Promotion Foundation) The four major rivers in South Korea - the Hangang, Nakdonggang, Yeongsangang, and Geumgang - have become venues for families and friends to engage in all manner of leisure activities including cycling, trekking, and camping. People are now able to enjoy the lovely scenery and history of Korea through leisure activities. Roaming the nation on two wheels The nationwide bicycle path project started in early 2010 and will be completed this year with the opening of the Nakdonggang bicycle path in April,...More

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  How can I help you? A day in the life at a 24/7 hotline
  2012/04/28, Source,
  A worker at the 120 Dasan Call Center, the Seoul Metropolitan Government's 24-hour call service, answers a call at their headquarters in Dongdaemun District, central Seoul on April 12. The yellow placard on her left states, "It takes a long time to gain one customer, but an instant to lose one". By Park Sang-moon This is part 1 of a 2-part series about a call center in Seoul. Part 2 will explore the foreign language department of the service tomorrow. "I'm in the Gimpo Airport area. Where is the nearest hospital that specializes in internal medicine? Preferably a big one". The female voice on the other end of the inbound call is slightly panicked. Cho Mi-hee, a 38-year-old telephone consultant at the Seoul Metropolitan Government's 24-hour, free call service center, quickly types the location into their computer database,...More

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  Jeong Yak-yong and Hegel
  2012/04/14, Source,
  This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest thinkers of the later Joseon period ― Dasan Jeong Yak-yong (1762-1836). Last Saturday, more than 500 worshippers visited his tomb in Namyangju, northeast of Seoul, to commemorate his death. Why does this Joseon-era political "victim" command respect from his great, great, great descendants? His legacy is bigger than his real life. He was the first Korean who advocated democracy and politics for the people,...More

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  On Confucian values
  2012/01/21, Source,
  The main purpose of this short sketch is to raise the awareness of the background of certain actions. I will present 3 Rules and 5 Bonds (Relations) that are fundamental in Confucian philosophy and their reverberations in the modern society. Confucian values. Realization of those values in life. Contemporary society. Actually, the philosophy I am referring to is not Confucianism per se but Neo-Confucianism (seongnihak) that was widely spread during Joseon period (1392 – 1910) and its features are etched subconsciously in every Korean psyche. I will call Neo-Confucianism as Confucianism to just keep it short,...More