Integration of Righteousness, Myself, Reasoning, and Experience for Subjectivity I am always interested in truth and righteousness. I have a lot of thoughts that often lead to endless loops, which can be frustrating. As someone who needs to organize my complex thoughts to soothe my conscience, I constantly write, read, and personally experience to sort out my ideas. Living as the “subject of life,” an attitude that may feel stubborn to some, has played a crucial role in allowing me to be independent. My curiosity, born from reasoning, led me to become a practical empiricist, and the density of my life experiences has been resolved by reasoning. In college, I learned about the realities of various social security systems in Korea through studying welfare policy. In the same year, I participated in an academic conference for political science and wrote a paper on green spaces and human life in Dongdaemun-gu. Additionally, I proposed a new policy for Seoul’s self-reliance school based on my study of labor linkage welfare countries. In a debate for Gyeonggi-do youth, I suggested an education policy for practical project competency to help young people succeed in their career changes. I realized that the standardized talent development system of universities, seen as a ladder to employment, ignored interests and individual desires and only viewed “occupation” as an economic means. Therefore, I proposed an education policy that allowed experience and competency to be assets by finding the connection between previous and current job duties and desired job changes based on a company’s level system. Through these experiences, I learned that to design and implement policies while considering the policy ecosystem, theoretical training must support it, and my knowledge learned through theory can be manifested in the field. Likewise, in the process of acting against “wrong problems,” all my experience and reasoning were woven together, providing valuable lessons that not only increased problem-solving capabilities but also taught what was right. The accumulation of such lessons helped me realize the importance of “subjectivity in life.”

Integration of Righteousness, Myself, Reasoning, and Experience for Subjectivity I am always interested in truth and righteousness. I have a lot of thoughts that often lead to endless loops, which can be frustrating. As someone who needs to organize my complex thoughts to soothe my conscience, I constantly write, read, and personally experience to sort out my ideas. Living as the “subject of life,” an attitude that may feel stubborn to some, has played a crucial role in allowing me to be independent. My curiosity, born from reasoning, led me to become a practical empiricist, and the density of my life experiences has been resolved by reasoning. In college, I learned about the realities of various social security systems in Korea through studying welfare policy. In the same year, I participated in an academic conference for political science and wrote a paper on green spaces and human life in Dongdaemun-gu. Additionally, I proposed a new policy for Seoul’s self-reliance school based on my study of labor linkage welfare countries. In a debate for Gyeonggi-do youth, I suggested an education policy for practical project competency to help young people succeed in their career changes. I realized that the standardized talent development system of universities, seen as a ladder to employment, ignored interests and individual desires and only viewed “occupation” as an economic means. Therefore, I proposed an education policy that allowed experience and competency to be assets by finding the connection between previous and current job duties and desired job changes based on a company’s level system. Through these experiences, I learned that to design and implement policies while considering the policy ecosystem, theoretical training must support it, and my knowledge learned through theory can be manifested in the field. Likewise, in the process of acting against “wrong problems,” all my experience and reasoning were woven together, providing valuable lessons that not only increased problem-solving capabilities but also taught what was right. The accumulation of such lessons helped me realize the importance of “subjectivity in life.”

Through the repetition of reasoning and experience, we can achieve subjectivity in our lives, which has been followed by a mission to achieve “realization of what is right”. However, there has always been a series of unanswered questions about how subjectivity in life should be achieved and respected within a community. Through direct action and practice, we have come to define our direction after suffering from endless unanswered questions. As Charles Taylor said, we have realized that we can create a society that aims for ourselves as the subject of life anhat is “right”. Perhaps it may only exist in each individual’s mind and cannot always be expressed. Now, I am goingd as a social existence, living with the ethics of “self-truthfulness”. People who live upright without being swayed by others and society can share the horizon of the meaning of others, and I have realized that what is right within me is ultimately related to what is right for everyone. However, the biggest problem is that we still have not fully defined w through the next stage. I am not just thinking about what I can shout out to society, but also learning by doing, and considering what efforts are necessary for what I believe to be right to be shared and joined with others, and whether it is really convincing. Therefore, I have decided to major in this field to prepare myself as a scholar who can wisely solve social problems from a future humanistic perspective, not just for academic research, but also to foster teenagers who pursue their own right and live subjectively.