Daegon's Foresight

Scenario forecasting of South and North Korea facing sudden unification Daegon Lee, Master of Science in Foresight at the University of Houston 1. Introduction Korea suffered the Korean War for three years from 1950, and since then, the Korean Peninsula has been divided into South and North Korea and has existed as two de facto countries. Among them, South Korea has been pursuing continuous industrial and economic development with the help of the United Nations and the United States since the end of the war, and as of 2020, South Korea has become a developed country with per capita GDP reaching $31,000.[1] On the other hand, North Korea has built a socialist state system with the help of the former Soviet Union and China, but now North Korea is a one-man dictatorship centered on Kim Jong-un. In 2020, North Korea's GDP per capita is only $1,700,[2] which is going through a very difficult time economically because North Korea has thoroughly shut off the entire country from the outsid...

Bringing Darwin into the social sciences and the humanities:  cultural evolution and its philosophical implications  by Stefaan Blancke & Gilles Denis Original Source:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-018-0195-0   What is the main point(s) of the reading/theory? In this paper, the author deals with the fact that various schools have recently referred to the idea of biological evolution to advance the study of human cultural evolution. Indeed, the authors say that it is worth harnessing the biological evolution of organisms for us to understand human cultural evolution and derive valuable insights. However, the author explains throughout this paper that there is a lot of room for discussion and research in various academic/scientific fields about how to graft the thought of biological evolution into the thought of cultural evolution.   When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in the 19th century, some scholars thought tha...

The Homeownership Obsession How buying homes became a part of the American dream — and also a nightmare. By Katy Kelleher Illustration by Kelly Abeln Source: CITYSCAPENOV. 13, 2019 Original Article URL: https://www.curbed.com/article/why-buy-house-homeownership-history.html What is the main point(s) of the reading/theory? What is the evidence supplied by the author(s) that the theory is valid? If I could define this article in one sentence, it would be something like this: "As society and people's lifestyles have changed, the way people view homes has changed, and as a result, people in the United States are changing their preferences for real estate and how they buy it." In the past, for people, a home was the basis for the family's survival, coexistence, and prosperity. All human relationships and social life have been designed and operated around the home. Owning a house meant that we had the least amount of security, which gave us the driving force to move forward...