[Feature] The Path of Education Reform to Challenge the Global Capitalism / Kim Jong-yup
The Quarterly Changbi 173, Autumn 2016
Abstract
Kim Jong-yup, the sociologist, argues that the peculiar position Seoul occupies in Korean society, despite of its belonging to the middle rank in the world system, functions as the main cause of not a few pathologies of our society, such as the centralization toward the metropolitan area in terms of incomes as well as resources. He believes the key to fix these problems is the combination of the relocation of the administrative capital with the integration plan of national universities, the two main projects the participatory administration tried to implement. According to him, to overcome the capitalist mode of accumulation, we should adopt 'the educational-social fix', instead of 'the spatial fix', by constituting the unifying network of national universities, with Sejong-city as its center. We expect this audacious suggestion will be followed by a lot of heated discussion.