Blended Wisdom from 30 Movies and 88 Books
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Day 10 Class 1: Futures Studies – The Ambiguity Between ‘0’ and ‘1’
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents In the movie Next (2007), the protagonist, Cris Johnson (played by Nicolas Cage), appears to be an ordinary man living a simple life as a magician in a Las Vegas hotel. However,…
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Day 9 Class 1: Business Administration – The Art of Giving Up
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents The movie The Big Swindle (2004) is about five con artists: Choi Chang-hyuk (played by Park Shin-yang), who has just been released from prison a month after serving time for fraud; the…
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Day 8 Class 3: Decision-Making Theory – The Pitfalls of Choice
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents The title of the 1996 British film Trainspotting literally means counting or recording the numbers of trains as they arrive at the station. Surprisingly, many British people spend their time on this…
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Day 8 Class 2: History Class – Leading Choices and Decisions
Go to Korea Version Explore the Table of Contents The 2003 film The Road Taken is a Korean movie that tells the life of Kim Sun-myung, who was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest-serving prisoner.…
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Day 8 Class 1: Sociology – Simplicity Beyond Complexity
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents Gone with the Wind (1939), starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, consistently ranks within the top 100 films in annual box office charts. Considering it has been nearly 70 years since its…
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Day 7 Class 3: Liberal Arts – Finding Truth Through Integration
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents One commonality in action-adventure movies is the need to piece together various clues to find a treasure. In the movie “Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade” (1989), clues hidden in places like…
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Day 7 Class 2: Philosophy – Viewing the World from Various Perspectives
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents The movie “Dead Poets Society,” produced in 1989, tells the story of a teacher who genuinely cares for his students and the students who follow him. Perhaps Todd Buchholz’s book “New Ideas…
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Day 7 Class 1: Complexity Science – Networks in Complex Systems
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents In 2007, Bruce Willis made a comeback after 12 years with Die Hard 4.0. The original Die Hard premiered in 1988, making the series span over 20 years, and solidifying Bruce Willis…