The Evolving Policy Debate on Border Closure in Korea

Su-Jin Kang,Jihyun Moon,Heewon Kang,Heekyoung Nam,Sangwoo Tak,Sung-Il Cho 대한예방의학회 2020 예방의학회지 Vol.53 No.5

302 Copyright © 2020 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine J Prev Med Public Health 2020;53:302-306 • https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.20.213 The Evolving Policy Debate on Border Closure in Korea SuJin Kang1, Jihyun Moon2, Heewon Kang1, Heekyoung Nam3, Sangwoo Tak1, Sung-il Cho1,3 1Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; 2Samsung Advanced Institute of Health Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea; 3Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Brief Report Objectives: In this paper, we aimed to investigate the evolving debate over border closure in Korea during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, to address the main themes associated with border closure, and to discuss the factors that need to be considered when making such decisions. Methods: We collated and reviewed previously conducted review studies on border closures during infectious disease outbreaks to derive relevant themes and factors. Results: According to our systematic review on border closures and travel restrictions, the effects of such containment efforts are limited. We suggest considering the following factors when determining whether to impose border closure measures: (1) disease characteristics, (2) timeliness of implementation, (3) transmission delay and the basic reproduction number, (4) globalization and pandemics, and (5) social and economic costs. Conclusions: Our assessment indicates that the effects of border closures are at best temporary and limited. Alternative measures must be contemplated and implemented to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in particular and infectious diseases more broadly.

Encountering the Impossible Gaze of the Outcast

Heewon Kang 한국비평이론학회 2011 비평과이론 Vol.16 No.2

The question that orients the examination of the ethical issues embodied in William Wordsworth’s poetry is how one should encounter or represent the outcast figure as a rupture in meaning. The ethics of subjectivity which Jacques Lacan explores in terms of his theory of the gaze, and the reconsideration of the nature of community which this entails allow us to see more clearly the importance of the profound and mysterious encounters found in Wordsworth’s poetry―often between a speaker and some “outcast” other. This essay rereads the Blind Beggar episode included in The Prelude on the basis of Lacan’s insights concerning psychoanalytic ethics. The first thing to note in respect to the Blind Beggar episode is that it is a beggar whom the speaker encounters unexpectedly and is fascinated by in some way. Giorgio Agamben’s commentary on homo sacer as limit figure helps us to examine some important points about the status of the beggar in relation to the society. This prepares the way for a thought of community that would not be based on the symbolic order as a field of totality, but that would instead be capable of registering its own incompleteness, its own relation to the void in meaning. Lacan’s concept of the gaze gives us an important clue when we attempt to answer the question of why the speaker is caught precisely by the blind beggar. For the concept of the gaze allows us to understand the speaker’s encounter with the blind beggar as a specific moment in the constitution of the subject. The speaker’s relation to the beggar can thus be read not simply in relation to the beggar (who he is, what his legal status is), but also in relation to the speaker himself.

Predicting Failure Modes of Resistance Spot Welds from the Chemical Composition of Materials

Heewon Cho(조희원),Sangwoo Nam(남상우),Minjung Kang(강민정),Munjin Kang(강문진),Young-Min Kim(김영민) 대한용접·접합학회 2020 대한용접·접합학회지 Vol.38 No.5

The failure mode of resistance spot welds on steel sheets was predicted according to the chemical composition of the materials. Resistance spot welding was performed on various steels sheets ranging from 440 to 1180 MPa grade steel. Tensile strength tests were performed, and the size and hardness of the nuggets were measured to analyze the mechanical properties of the welds. The hardness values of the fusion zone and heat affected zone were determined on the basis of the chemical composition of the materials. The interfacial and pull-out-failure-generated loads were calculated and compared to predict the failure mode of the welds. The failure mode prediction results demonstrated a trend analogous to the experimental results.

Mechanisms to prevent caspase activation in rotenone-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration: role of ATP depletion and procaspase-9 degradation

Kang, HeeWon,Han, Baek-Soo,Kim, Su-Jeong,Oh, Young J. Springer-Verlag 2012 Apoptosis Vol.17 No.5

Multicast Scenario에서 Vector Perturbation이 결합된 송신 빔포밍에 대한 연구

강희원(Heewon Kang),조영민(Youngmin Cho),김동구(Dongku Kim) 한국통신학회 2012 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2012 No.2

상상력, 무로부터의 창조

강희원(Heewon Kang) 한국비평이론학회 2024 비평과이론 Vol.29 No.2

이 글의 목적은 『상상된 주권들: 새로운 정치적 낭만주의를 향하여』에서 쿠이켄이 제공하는 상상력에 대한 논의를 토대로, 워즈워스의 『서곡』 속에 등장하는 세 장면을 다시 읽어보는 데 있다. 이러한 다시 읽기는 자크 라캉이 『정신분석의 윤리학』에서 소개한 ‘무로부터의 창조’란 개념에 대한 검토와 함께 진행된다. 라캉이 말하는 ‘무로부터의 창조’는 무로부터 유가 창조되는 상황을 지시하는 것이 아니다. 이 개념에서 강조되는 것은 오히려 상징적 의미의 구성과 함께, 이 상징적 의미로 환원될 수 없는 무 또는 공백의 창조가 ‘동시적으로’ 발생한다는 점이다. ‘무로부터의 창조’란 개념은, 무엇보다 워즈워스의 『서곡』 읽기와 관련해서 반복적으로 거론되는 주체/자연, 과거/현재, 전체/부분이라는 대립구조를 재고할 수 있도록 해준다는 점에서 중요하다. 『서곡』 6권을 다시 읽는 과정에서 논의의 초점은, 화자가 의식하지 못한 사이 지나가 버린 알프스 정상에의 도달 순간이 상상력의 영광을 노래하는 현재 속에서 재구성되는 과정에 맞춰질 예정이다. 이미 지나가 버린 과거의 순간은 현재 속에서 반복됨으로써 의미를 갖게 되지만, 동시에 이는 현재에 공백을 창조해 상상력의 영광에 대한 인식이 완결될 수 없도록 만든다. 7권 다시 읽기에서 분석 대상이 되는 부분은, 화자가 눈먼 거지와 만나는 장면으로, 여기서 문제가 되는 것은 전체/부분의 대립구조이다. 눈먼 거지가 주요한 검토 대상이 되는 이유는, 그가 런던이라는 전체 속에 ‘있는’ 부분이지만, 동시에 동질적인 전체 속 무한히 대체가능한 부분으로 더 이상 고려될 수 없는 ‘텅 빈’ 존재라는데 있다. 8권 다시 읽기는 런던 진입 장면에 등장하는 ‘지금’이라는 단어에 주목함으로써 시작된다. 첫 번째 ‘지금’이 두 번째 ‘지금’의 반복을 통하지 않고는 적절하게 의미화될 수 없지만, 두 번째 ‘지금’의 반복 속에서 첫 번째 ‘지금’의 흔적이 여전히 살아남아 있을 가능성이, 다시 말해 두 ‘지금’의 겹침이 공백의 창조로 이어지는 과정이 주요 논의 대상이 된다. This essay attempts to read three scenes of The Prelude by William Wordsworth, using as guiding thread what Kir Kuiken articulates with regard to the concept of imagination in his book, Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism. In order to bring Kuiken’s articulation of imagination to bear on the psychoanalytic concept of the void of the Thing, the essay will make a detour through the notion of creation ex nihilo that Jacques Lacan introduces in his book, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. The notion of creation ex nihilo should not be taken to imply the process in which something is created from nothing. At stake here is nothing less than the simultaneity between the construction of the symbolic meaning and the introduction of a void. What Lacan elaborates regarding the creation ex nihilo is worth dwelling upon in that it allows us to problematize the opposition of subject and nature, past and present, whole and part which has functioned as the basic theme in the previous readings of The Prelude. The analysis of Wordsworth’s recounting of his passage across the Alps in book six of the Prelude is centered primarily on the way in which the missed crossing of the Alps is (re-)constructed in the ode to the imagination that follows. The episode of the blind beggar in book seven is especially important for grasping the logic that makes the ‘whole’ and the ‘part’ inextricable from but at the same time irreducible to each other. The reading of book eight begins with a consideration of the two “nows” in the passage of Wordsworth’s entrance into London. This leads us to formulate the singular way in which the first “now” is intermingled with the second “now,” instead of trying to figure out the extent to which the significance of the first “now” can be restored through the second “now.”

유한한 심볼확장을 이용한 간섭정렬 클러스터링 기법

강희원(Kang Heewon),장진영(Jang Jinyoung),조성윤(Cho Sungyoon),김동구(Kim Dongku) 한국통신학회 2012 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2012 No.11

공동체의 (불)가능 조건으로서의 시인

강희원(Heewon Kang) 한국동서비교문학학회 2015 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.0 No.32

This essay examines how the community can confront the rupture within itself and how the poet can trigger off the process of confrontation on the basis of a close reading of William Wordsworth’s “The Thorn” and Chang-dong Lee’s film, Poetry. The close reading is preceded by the brief reflection of Franz Kafka’s “The Community” and Sigmund Freud’s account of the mythical primal horde in Totem and Taboo. This offers a preliminary clue to what is at stake in “The Thorn” and Poetry, that is, the supplementary relationship between the community and the other expelled from it. The reading of “The Thorn” focuses primarily on the villagers’ effort to establish their community as a field of totality and sameness by keeping Martha at a proper distance. It is the firm barrier erected between the village community and Martha that the narrator, as a version of the Wordsworthian poet, makes problematic by inscribing Martha’s cry within the community’s story. Lee’s Poetry shows us how Mi-ja begins to develop her interest in poetry and finally writes one poem by the end of the month-long course. The important point to retain here is that the process of writing a poem is intimately bound up with the process of confronting with Hee-jin as an absolute exception to the community. This is why this essay, with regard to Poetry, attempts to explore the poet’s mysterious position of reporting or transmitting to the community some of the crazy nonsense or resistance to meaning.

DVB-T2 MISO 전송모드에서 Sum & Difference 채널 추정에 관한 연구

강희원(Heewon Kang),전은성(Eunsung Jeon),서정욱(Jeongwook Seo),김동구(Dongku Kim) 한국통신학회 2011 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2011 No.6

아이라 불리는 틈

강희원(Heewon Kang) 한국비평이론학회 2016 비평과이론 Vol.21 No.1

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to show how the idea of the child as a gap makes (im)possible the very opposition of adult and child, in terms of close reading of Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven” and “The Idiot Boy.” In order to have a better understanding of the uncanny dimension pertaining to the idea of the child as a gap, this paper takes a detour through the essay written by Sang-hwan Kim. He tries to give a brief overview of the history of philosophy on the basis of how each major philosopher addressed the child. The way in which the child is addressed also offers a preliminary clue to the ethical import of Wordsworth’s texts. The analysis of “We Are Seven” begins by putting into question the adult-child opposition, which is followed by an examination of the opposition between knowledge and ignorance, life and death. What is at stake here is that the adult is perpetually haunted by the repressed and yet intimate relation to the child. The possibility of the child within and beyond the adult complicates the opposition of life and death or knowledge and ignorance, thereby leading us to reformulate the opposition in light of the Lacanian logic of not-all and the idea of poetic uncertainty or ignorance as analyzed by Andrew Bennett. In “The Idiot Boy,” Johnny functions as the gap that divides the narrative itself. Johnny remains almost silent except that he produces the burring sound and the story of his travel which consists of only two lines and is nearly impossible to decipher; nevertheless, he testifies above all to what has happened. The narrator’s failed attempt to fill in the narrative gap caused by the silent witness compels him to repeat the word “perhaps,” which is evocative of Derrida’s elaboration of the “dangerous perhaps.”