in cultural terms, is our culture better or worse then centuries ago?/PARK HYE MIN(박혜민)

 It seems to be an area where it is difficult to clearly divide culture into two areas, 'good' and 'bad'. And since culture is different for each country, I want to set it up as Korea where I live and talk about the above questions. Although we haven't experienced all of Korea's culture directly in the past hundreds of years, I think that the current Korean culture is the result of accumulating past cultures.

 I would like to talk about how Korean culture is better than it was centuries ago. Korea is becoming more vocal than Korea in the past. There are many cultures of voices, but I want to talk about the part that was taboo in Korea in the past. For example, the perception of sex is moving in a positive direction than centuries ago. In the past, women in Korea were perceived as supporting men and serving families rather than being independent and independent. Based on this perception, the idea of male preference has continued since the Joseon Dynasty, but it is now becoming more female in Korea. Recently, women have no choice but to shout their own safety, human rights and rights, including the Me Too incident, the spread of feminists, and the dramatic appearance of the perception of looking at women in Korea, the murder of Gangnam Station, indiscriminate violence against women and dating violence. Based on the situation, women's culture is further being created. It is now breaking the perception of women that has existed for hundreds of years and forming a new culture.

 There is a culture that changes positively, but there is a culture that I think is going in a negative direction. Before Corona-19, there has been a culture of gradual concentration on individuals. It is becoming a society that focuses on individuals and does not have more relationships than on relationships with communities such as "drinking alone" and "eating alone." This has dramatically emerged as a serious problem, not only do I not know who my next-door neighbor is, but also a growing number of lonely deaths that continue to be neglected without knowing if he is dead. Previously, Korea was a society where community culture was strong, and further emphasized becoming one with neighbors and communities. However, as modern Korean society became more complex and became a society where people could live only by winning economic inequality and competition, they cut off other relationships for the survival of the individual, which made the individual culture more visible. This culture appears to be a heartless society where I don't even know the death of my neighbor next to me, and I think it's much worse than before.