Blended Wisdom from 30 Movies and 88 Books
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Day 11 Class 1: Applied Science – Being First Doesn’t Mean Being the Best
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents The 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind is based on the true story of mathematician John Nash. The protagonist, John Nash (played by Russell Crowe), is a genius who enters Princeton University as…
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Day 10 Class 2: Evolutionary Economics – The Survivor is the Strong One
Go to Korean Version Explore the Table of Contents In the South Korean historical comedy film Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, Hwangsanbeol (2003), all the characters speak in regional dialects. There is a scene before the Battle of Hwangsanbeol…
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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.…