- Overview
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Geosigi Meosigi is a book about how language and its intimate relationship to the world exert a great influence in our lives
- Book Intro
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(English) Geosigi Meosigi
Words change the world.
The book is about the linguistic imagination and the fundamental basis of creativity that Lee O-young gleaned from his eighty years of reading and writing
When language is diseased, the world too suffers. When one follows blindly the kind of language that instigates, then one’s world is prone to collapse. When one uses creativity and imagination in the world of language, then one’s own universe can be created. Lee O-young who has proffered a new paradigm of “digilog” and “life capital” from the forefront of intellectualism, “language” is the all-encompassing keyword for his whole lifetime of scholarly pursuit; for it reveals infinite possibilities.
- About the Author
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Lee O-young
(English) Lee O-young was born in in Asan, South Chungcheong Province in 1934. He attended Seoul National University where he received an undergraduate and graduate degree in Korean Literature. While enrolled at SNU, he received much attention from the literary circle with his “On Yi Sang” thesis and made his acclaimed debut with the “Destruction of an Idol” critique that was a critical commentary on the literary establishment. He was active as the editorialist for Seoul Daily Newspaper and others. Starting 1966, for the next thirty years he taught in the College of Letters at Ewha Womans University. In 1988, he masterminded the opening and closing ceremony of the Seoul Olympics with the slogan of “beyond the wall” and the boy with the hoop, instilling the whole world with such images of South Korea. He was appointed as the Minister of Culture in 1990 and helped establish Korea Arts College and the National Institute of Korean Language. In 2021, he received the highest Order of the Geumgwan Cultural Merit from the Korean government for his contribution of advancing Korean literature. He is the author of In the Dust, In the Wind, The Reductionist Japanese, Digilog, From Intellect to Spirituality, Life is Capital, and one hundred sixty other works. He died in February 2022.
(Japanesse) 1933～2022。ソウル大学文理大学及び同大学院を卒業し、檀国大学大学院で博士号を取得。文学評論家であり、梨花女子大学教授、新聞社論説委員、88オリンピック開会式企画委員、初代文化部長官、新しい千年準備委員長、韓中日比較文化研究所理事長を歴任した。2021年、金冠文化勲章を受章した。
評論『抵抗の文学』、『韓国人物語』、『生命が資本である』、エッセイ『土の中に、あの風の中に』、『一枚の葉が揺れるとき』、『デジログ』、『知性から霊性へ』、日本語著書『縮小志向の日本人』、『俳句で日本を読む』などを執筆。
