The College of Humanities provides invitational lectures every month, while supporting the redevelopment of humanities through the event of
A Talk on Humanities
. The College invites renowned writers or authors to give a lecture every month. For September event, the author Jin Joong-kwon was invited as a special lecturer and he will give a lecture on Sept. 26. Jin Joong-kwon has continuously evoked controversies in our society with his harsh critiques. At the special lecture, he will talk on his views on the relationships between media and politics with the title of
The Matrix - Deceiving the World.\" He will ask questions of us and give his answers regarding to our knowledge of the world around us; \"Is it the real world that we know it is?\", \"How much of my own world can be called my real world?\" \"What is the way to make the matrix in mass media today?\", \"Who are the soldiers to disclose the falsehood of the imaginary world?\", \"What significance does the word
reality
have in the modern society?\", etc. Jin, 40, graduated from Seoul National University and received his master
s degree. He studied aesthetics, analytics, and the philosophy of languages at Freie Universitat Berlin in Germany. In 1999 he returned to Korea and started to write critiques on our society. He published a large number of books such as
Odyssey of Aesthetics 1 & 2\", \"Dancing Death 1 & 2\", \"Reading Pictures Slowly\", \"I Will Spit on Your Grave! 1 & 2\", \"A Cow of Sicily\", and \"Violence and vulgarity\", etc. He also published many translated works including Oskar Lafontaine
s \"Das Herz schlagt links.\"