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The more you know, the more useful and curious general knowledge of 'Marine humanities' is coming!
- Joint planning of Department of History, PKNU and Kookje Daily Newspaper...Serialized 'The best scene of marine culture' every Wednesday

Department of History of PKNU attracts attention from the beginning of the new year as a leader in informing marine humanities.

△ Newspaper with articles of Department of History Ⓒ Photo Lee Sung-jae (Public Relations Team)

It will be serialized every Wednesday. It is an unusual attempt to take part in the six professors of History Department of PKNU.

In short, when it comes to 'Marine Humanities', PKNU takes the most important role in Korea, and there is Department of History at the center.

The prologue article on this day reviewed, "PKNU's history department is the first pioneer in Korea on 'Marine Humanities'. In terms of the 'individual departments' of the university, it has also accumulated outstanding achievements in the marine humanities in Korea."

It also introduced, "PKNU was selected as a CORE project by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Foundation in 2016.", "The History department of PKNU is a key engine, which has pioneered marine humanities in the past 10 years in the marine humanities specialization project from 2016"

What will this article show for the next?

The paper reviews, "'The best scene of marine culture' is the output resulted from the question "How to make marine humanities interesting to citizens and readers?" by Pukyong National University with many interests in the sea and the ocean, and the Kookje Daily Newspaper that has steadily planned marine culture articles as the newspaper of marine city, Busan.

According to the article, "For this project, six professors from PKNU who have been engaged in research and education at the forefront of maritime humanities are participating in this project. "

Professor Lee Keun-woo, Shin Myung-ho, Jo Se-hyun, Park Won-yong, Kim Mun-ki and Park Hwa-jin are the protagonists.

According to the article, Professor Lee Keun-woo, who majored in Korean ancient history and actively studied Tsushima, maps and marine chart, wrote a book on marine history that he had read through chart and maps, △and professor Shin Myung-ho who wrote many books on the history of the Joseon Dynasty, will write an article comparing maritime perceptions from the era of the Three States to Chosun Dynasty, and Professor Jo Se-hyun, who deeply studied Chinese ideology and cultural history and East Asian anarchism, will write about the formation of modern China as seen from perspective.

In addition to this, △Professor Park Won-yong, major in modern and contemporary history and translator of 'a critical biography of E.H. carr' and "October Revolution", will write about the relationship between national power and pirates in the establishment of modern state in Europe, △and Professor Kim mun-ki, who studies environmental history, climate history and maritime history, will tell about herring in the world history, △ Professor Park Hwa-jin, author of research on the Korean news agency, will introduce some of the exciting maritime culture scenes by introducing the Korean-Japanese exchange scans that took place in the sea.

The article said, "The scene, in which outstanding 6 scholars who are different in their fields of interest are willing to take a popular writing as a result of their quick cooperation under the banner of marine humanities, is a rare in academia." and added, "Their skills and knowledge are already well known, and teamwork is so good that all of professors were able to get an 'okay sign' at the same time. Wish your powerful pen!"<Pukyong Today>