HK+ Project:
HK+ <How Humanities Cope with the Era of Hatred> Agenda

Our institute was selected for the Type 1 creative/challenge sector for the 2020 HK+ project funded by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation. Accordingly, we organized the "HK+ Project Group" for the "Age of Hate, Response of Humanities" agenda research project, and we have secured research funding of approximately 8.4 billion KRW for about seven years up to 2027. Our institute dynamically cuts across various academic fields, such as science technology, social science, culture, and arts, in addition to humanities, to create a new flow and mood for the humanities. Based on this, we are doing our best to achieve the success of the HK+ project.

The National Research Foundation ended the Humanities Korea project that has been running for 10 years, and began operation of the second HK+ project in 2017. The Humanities Korea project aims to construct a research basis for college research centers and strengthen research capacities to foster world-class humanities research centers. The goal of this support project is to achieve quantitative and qualitative improvements to Humanities Korea research based on research built through the Humanities Korea support project. This project also supports the sharing of information by sharing research outcomes with our society and the world.

The HK+ research project group closely examines humans living in this age of hate. The 21st century faces more diverse and complicated hate problems than ever before. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated that hate is not limited to a single country, but is widespread all around the globe and can cause people to inflict lasting injuries on each other. Our research project group searches to gain a deeper understanding of hate issues and various ways to respond using the humanities.