While everyone acknowledges the importance of community, building a thriving community is complex. Recently, social-economic researchers have been concerned that the government or local government support system, as part of an “Institutionalised social economy,” could harm community formation. Moreover, starting social enterprises only to access support funds is also problematic. This lecture emphasises that socially oriented enterprises should be established on community principles and should work to expand and revitalise communities. The lecturer shares the beginning and operation ways of “Gwacheon Cooperative Village Café TONG,” in which the lecturer has participated until now, and proposes to make a picture of an ideal community.
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Examples of Food Community and Village Enterprises
Lecture Information
- Date2019-01-15
- LocationSeongdong Foundation for Arts & Culture
Instructor
Cheong, Seonghoon
Ph. D. philosophy in Seoul National University/ former research professor in Korea University and former HK research professor in Institute for Urban Humanities, University of Seoul. Currently working as a lecturer in Seoul National Univ., Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology. Published a number of journal articles about tension between diffusion media and success media in digital age, limit of communitarian community and realistic community in modern conditions, Problems left by the debate between Habermas and Luhmann, etc.