Seoul National University

This course focuses on the history of Buddhist philosophy, which spreads out over 2,500 years in India and East Asia. It covers the central themes of Buddhist philosophy, such as the Four Noble Truths and dependent origination. The course also includes aspects of the historical influence of Indian Buddhism on East Asian culture. 

This course examines the process of Korea’s growth and development from the macroeconomic and institutional perspectives. The transformation of the Republic of Korea from one of the most devastated nations to an advanced one is a rare success story in the world development. However, the underlying causes and mechanisms of the success are not well understood, although its surface level performance is well recognized. This course seeks the fundamental understandings about the causes and mechanisms of Korea’s growth and development in order to make Korea’s experience helpful for other developing countries. Furthermore, we draw useful lessons and insights for the future process of Korea’s growth and development from such understandings. This course provides a series of quantitative empirical analyses of Korea’s long-run process of growth and development at both aggregate and sectoral levels, together with theories of growth and development which are be used in interpreting the empirical analysis. We also discuss the issues of policy design and implementation methods that were used to materialize specific development goals. Historical data as well as current issues are explored together, relating the past and the present with each other, so that we pursue an evolutionary understanding.

This course provides an introduction to Buddhism. It explores the commonalities within the Buddhist tradition as well as the wide variety of practices across Buddhist communities. The course also provides a basis for further study of Buddhism and different approaches in the study of religion. 

This course provides critical viewpoints on innovation at three different levels. On the individual level, information technology developments enable super-large firms (e.g., Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook) to provide service to their paying customers. At the societal level, the course shows that information technology platforms (such as Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit) allow for evading taxes, laws, and stakeholder protections and could erode the societal achievements of the past 150 years. At the global level, the course demonstrates that technological innovation in industrialized countries impacts the economy in developing countries. 

This course provide students with fundamental concepts in accounting, such as accounting postulates, concepts of assets, liabilities, equities, income, expenses, etc. It discusses, in particular, the whole accounting cycle from recording business transactions to the preparation of financial statements.

Over the past 20 years, digitization and the Internet have transformed business and society. The firms of the digital economy not only affect the daily life of most people in industrialized countries, but they are also highly profitable. In this course, we use the tools of game theory and industrial organization to understand the impact that digitization and the Internet on markets. The topics discussed in this class include internet infrastructure, standards, platforms, price discrimination, bundling, auctions, reputation, advertising, user-generated content, social networks, piracy and privacy.

This course offers a basic understanding of the judicial system, constitutional law, civil law and civil procedure, and criminal law and criminal procedure of the Republic of Korea. Three of the law school faculty members jointly teach their respective parts as a team during the semester. There is no requirement for the courses to be taken prior to this course or for the major of the students. Each week, some of the essential concepts of law, relevant law and legal system, cases, policies and practices are introduced and discussed. In further detail, the course proceeds along the following themes and topics: a general overview of the judicial system; in the area of constitutional law, a history of the Constitution, the separation of powers and the constitutional institutions, the fundamental rights and the constitutional adjudication; in the area of civil law, distinctive features of the Korean civil law, particularly focusing on contracts and torts, and the civil procedures in Korea; and, in the area of criminal law and criminal procedure, basic principles and core issues of the Korean criminal law, and the structure and recent changes of the Korean criminal procedure.

This course provides knowledge and skills to ascertain ways of improving the current state of human rights in Korea in accordance with the changing environment of the international community. It also covers and evaluates the validity of current human rights regulations and institutions. Finally, through assessment of theoretical debates about social movements it analyzes Korean civil society and social movements.

This course covers theories, research methods, and current issues related to child development. It specifically explores changes in biology; cognition; language; emotion; personality, and morality from birth throughout childhood.

The course provides an overview of Japanese civilization from ancient to modern times, delving into the eras of the Samurai, Shogun, Tenno, Kamikuni.