[New book] Can we say that we are no more ignorant than humans in the past?

History of Ignorance / Peter Burke / Lee Jung-min / Hankyung

All the eras thought their eras were more knowledgeable than their predecessors. Renaissance humanists saw the Middle Ages as dark ages, Enlightenment thinkers did not believe in superstitions, and the modern state tried to eliminate ignorance. In today's Internet era, information is easily found. But are we really less ignorant than humans in the past? Peter Burke, a tenured master's professor at Cambridge University, explores the history of humanity's ignorance. It presents a remarkable story of various forms of ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and disaster.

antique days / by Park Young-bin / literary notebook

An antique collector of young collectors who pour tea into Goryeo celadon tea wan, burn incense on white porcelain incense burners during the Yuan Dynasty, and light candles on candlesticks during the Japanese colonial era. In the book, author Park Young-bin, who is active under the nickname "Lotus Perilla Sesame" on X (X, old Twitter), tells the story of collecting antiques after falling in love with them. He describes the antiques he collected, what he went through while collecting them, the relationships he formed in the process, and the feelings he felt in the form of an episode. It also tells the story of the beauty of antiques themselves, and life with antiques that have become a lifestyle beyond hobbies in a pleasant rhythm.

Actor Ha Ji-sung / Ha Ji-sung / Sotdae who expresses the character as meHa Ji-sung, born in 1991, is a 34-year-old actor who has difficulty in speaking and walking due to brain lesion disorders. With the award of the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2023, he received a lot of attention from the world as a disabled actor. When I was lonely in school, I longed for the job of an actor who communicated with the public. Meeting the theater company Lovers, he took the first step in acting with the role of Estra in Waiting for Godot. Having been active in various works, he will receive the acting award in the theater category at the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2023 for "Teenage Dick." The story of an actor with brain lesions who wants to convey the excitement and tremors, joy and sadness, disappointment and reward of the stage.

My Authorism / Jung Sung-il / Mind Walk

Film critic Jung Sung-il explores his work with Chinese film director Wang 兵. Wang Bing appeared in 2003 as a 9-hour, 11-minute documentary about the collapsing factory complex 鐵 區 in Shenyang, China, and imprinted his name on the world's film industry. Since then, based on a deep-rooted problematic consciousness about the history of his country, such as "Three Sisters," "Until Madness Divides Us," "Honor," and "Black Men," he continues to search for and film people whose identity has been undermined by the state and pushed to the periphery. From Wang Bing's life to film criticism, interviews and filmography that Jung Sung-il had in person in Busan, everything about him was captured.

Korean horror literature night / Jeon Kun-woo, Lee Shim-eun, Bae Myung-eun, Kwon Yeo-won, Woo Jae-yoon, Ji-eon, and Kim Jong-il / Golden Brancha series of horror literature novels in which seven novels in

are published in a book. It is a new novel collection that combines various genres such as science fiction, thrillers, and fantasy with horror genres with strong Korean colors to meet the present of Korean horror literature. Writer Kim Jong-il, well-known for "Body" and "Witch Girl," and author Jeon Kun-woo of "Vortex" and "The Twisted House," wrote the new films "Zero" and "Alligator," respectively, and collected five new works by five new writers, including a selection of more than 50 novels submitted through BritG's writer project.