Aram Hur is a South Korean teacher, practicing humanist, educator, publisher, lecturer, and social entrepreneur.

Biography

Aram Hur was born in

Miryang Miryang (perhaps pronounced as Milbeol using Idu script), formerly also spelled as 推火郡 (probably pronounced as Milbeol or Miribeol using Idu script), Milbeol (密伐) and Milseong (密城), is a city in Gyeongsangnam-do Province, South Ko ...

, South Korea on March 4, 1971, and grew up in

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, ...

. She received her BA and MA from

Pusan National University Pusan National University (PNU), also called Busan National University, is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities in South Korea and second highest public universities in South Korea. Located mainly in Busan (or Pusan), the universi ...

and has lectured on literature, philosophy, art, linguistics and educational studies.

Career

Hur is the founder and

chairperson The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

of Indigo Book Company (인디고 서원) which is located in Busan, South Korea. Opened on 28 August 2004, it is a

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

bookstore for

young people Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...

which also hosts public events, educational movements, and social activities; it is a combination of nonprofit book

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, magazine (Humanities Magazine for Youths "INDIGO+ing"), bookstore, after-school course program, and community center. Indigo represents a vibrant progressive and humanistic counterweight with its idealism and engagement to the world. She is a founding member and chief director of ''Indigo Youth Book Fair.'' And she recently opened a vegetarian restaurant, Ecotopia- the combination of the words: ‘ecology’ and ‘utopia’, which has become a favorite cafe of many young idealists in the environmental and global-justice movements. All proceeds from Ecotopia are donated to Indigo's Library Projects in the remote villages of Nepal.

Publications

*''My Beautiful Girl, Indigo '' (2005) *''Theme and Variations'' Vol. I/II (2006) *''Happy Readings in Indigo Seowon'' (2007) *''Toto meets Morrie-Humanities Class with Teacher Aram'' (2007) *''Youths with Creative Passion, Dreaming a Better World'' (2007) *''Living a Dream: A journey of Young Creative Idealists'' (2008) *''Youths dream of Righteous World, Communicating with the World'' (2009) *''This I Believe'' (2009) *''INDIGO+ing'' Bi-monthly Humanities Magazine for Youth (Korean/English), started 2006 *''INDIGO'' Quarterly Humanities Magazine for Young People (English), started 2010 *''Re-evaluation of Values: A Journey in Search of Core Values'' (2010) *''To Love Is To Read'' (2011) *''Demanding the Impossible: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek'' (Polity Press, 2013) *''The Task of Living: An Interview with

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...

'' (2014) *''The Center of Possibilities: An Interview with

Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic. Biography Karatani entered the University of Tokyo in 1960, where he joined the radical Marxist Communist League, better known as "The Bund," and participated in the massive 1960 Anpo protests aga ...

'' (2015) *''Doing Democracy-Democracy for a New Generation 1'' (2017) *''Poor Society, Noble Life-Democracy for a New Generation 2'' (2017) *''The Eternal Boy-Democracy for a New Generation 3'' (2017)

Awards

*The Korea Publication Ethics Commission (2007) - Grand Prize *The People Who Make Our World Brighter (2007) - Korea Green Foundation *Everest Summit Award (2008) - Nepal Government & Today's Youth Asia *Young Achievers Award (2008) - TYA *Young Korean Award (2009) - Grand Prize (First Winner)Editor, "Young Korean Award' First Winner-Aram Hur" Hankyoreh(Daily Newspaper), 2009. 6. 19.
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References

External links

Indigo Book Company (Indigo Seowon)Indigo Global Humanities Project--Indigo Youth Book Fair
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hur, Aram 1971 births Living people Education writers 21st-century South Korean women writers 21st-century South Korean non-fiction writers South Korean women non-fiction writers People from Miryang People from Busan Pusan National University alumni