How did your time at Gunmyungwon shape the way you think?

The part of Geonmyeong that influenced me most was the regular philosophy course Professor Seo Dong-uk ran every week. I had taken Introduction to Western Philosophy as an undergraduate, so I assumed this would be similar and did not expect much. But the curriculum, designed to build a framework for philosophical thinking over a full year, was quite different.

If I had not taken this class, I think I would have lost even more of my ability to explain my own thinking in connection with existing philosophical currents, and I would have had great difficulty organizing my thoughts, which had been spreading out without any system. Even before entering Geonmyeong, I had already sketched out Embrace and Striving and the Learning Income for existentialist purposes, but I had not been able to pinpoint exactly where they are distinct from the dialectic that earlier philosophers dealt with. I want to study philosophy more.