Academics From South Korea

"The inner music of things sounds only when you close your eyes."

"Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same."

"The eros-driven soul produces beautiful things, and, above all, beautiful actions, which have a universal value."

"There is no such thing as data-driven thinking."

"Thinking is an expedition into quietness."

"Logos is powerless without the force of eros."

"Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails."

"We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transforming being at home to being in the world. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space. They render time habitable."

"Ritual practices ensure that we treat not only other people but also things in beautiful ways, that there is an affinity between us and other people as well as things."

"Rituals are also symbolic practices... in the sense that they bring people together to create an alliance, a wholeness, a community.""

"Those who devote themselves to rituals must ignore themselves. Rituals produce a distance from the self, a self-transcendence."

"Every religious practice is an exercise in attention. A temple is the highest degree of attention."

"The 'intense life' advertised by the neoliberal regime is in truth simply a life of intense consumption."

"Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified."

"Today, tattoos lack symbolic power. All they do is point toward the uniqueness of the bearer. The body is neither a ritual stage nor a surface of projection; rather, it is an advertising space."

"Sabbath rest does not follow creation; it brings creation to completion."

"When we subordinate rest to work, we ignore the divine."

"Silent listening unites a people and creates community without communication."

"In contrast to festivals, events do not create community."

"Capitalism lacks narrativity."

"Capitalism dislikes silence."

"Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is threatening to a society that is organized around work and production."

"It is a sign of sovereignty to risk one's life, that is, to turn life into a game."

"Following Foucault, we may define the art of life as a practice of suicide, of giving oneself to death, of depsychologizing oneself, of playing."

"Today, to live means merely to produce."

"Poems are magic ceremonies of language."

"The liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist economy of the commodity."

"Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules."

"In the empire of signs, the soul, psychology, is erased. There is no soul to infect the holy seriousness of ritual play."

"It is not honourable to attack an enemy without putting yourself at risk."

"Thinking is more erotic than calculating."

"The pornographic body lacks any symbolism. The ritualized body, by contrast, is a splendid stage, with secrets and deities written into it."

"The freedom of the 'everyday mind' consists rather in not kneeling down in awe. Its mental attitude is better expressed as "sitting unmoveable like an object."

"Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things."

"...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence."

"God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'"

"...I pray to God to make me free of God."

"At the deepest level, the desire for complete union with God exhibits a narcissistic structure."

"Zen Buddhism is inspired by a basic trust in the Here, a basic trust in the world."

"The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom."

"Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday."

"Emptiness empties the one seeing into what is seen."

"Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself."

"The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things."

"Struggling to stay ahead of your rivals? No need. Instead of trying to match or beat them on cost or quality, make the other players irrelevant--by staking out new market space where competitors haven't ventured."

"In a nutshell, Blue Ocean Strategy proposes that strategy can shape industry structure, whereas competitive strategy sees strategy as choosing the right position under given structural constraints. The field of strategy has been long dominated by a structuralist view; in other words, the idea that the industry’s structure is fixed. Strategy, as commonly practiced, tees off with industry analysis and is conventionally about matching a company’s strengths and weaknesses to the opportunities and threats present in the existing industry. Here, strategy becomes a zero-sum game where one company’s gain is another company’s loss, as firms are bound by existing market space."

"The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition."

"Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space."

"Value innovation is created in the region where a company's actions favorably affect both its cost structure and its value proposition to buyers. Cost saving are made by eliminating and reducing the factors an industry competes on. Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered. Over time, costs are reduced further as scale economics kick in due to the high sales volumes that superior value generates."

"Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers. The simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost."