Aram Hur

Aram Hur
Aram Hur
Born	4 March 1971 Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do
Residence	Busan
Nationality	South Korean
Fields	Literature Education Humanities Global justice
Institutions	Indigo Book Company
Korean name
Hangul	허아람
Revised Romanization	Heo Aram
McCune–Reischauer	Hŏ Aram

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

Biography

Aram Hur was born in Miryang, South Korea on March 4, 1971, and grew up in Busan. She received her BA and MA from Pusan National University and has lectured on literature, philosophy, art, linguistics and educational studies.^[1][2][3][4]

Career

Hur is the founder and chairperson of Indigo Book Company (인디고 서원) which is located in Busan, South Korea.^[5] Opened on 28 August 2004, it is a humanities bookstore for young people which also hosts public events, educational movements, and social activities;^[6] it is a combination of nonprofit book publisher, magazine (Humanities Magazine for Youths "INDIGO+ing"),^[7] 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^[8] - 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.^[9]

Publications

• My Beautiful Girl, Indigo (2005)
• Theme and Variations Vol. I/II (2006)
• Happy Readings in Indigo Sowon (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)
• Demanding the Impossible: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek (Polity Press, 2013)^{[10][11][12][13]}
• The Task of Living: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman (2014)^[14][15][16]
• The Center of Possibilities: An Interview with Kojin Karatani (2015)^[17][18][19]

Awards

• The Korea Publication Ethics Commission (2007) - Grand Prize^[20][21]
• The People Who Make Our World Brighter (2007) - Korea Green Foundation^[22]
• Everest Summit Award (2008) - Nepal Government & Today's Youth Asia^[23][24]
• Young Achievers Award (2008) - TYA
• Young Korean Award (2009) - Grand Prize (First Winner)^[25]

References

1. Kyunghyang News
2. Busan Daily News
3. Sisa In Magazine
4. PRESSian Corp.
5. The Hankyoreh Column by Cho kuk
6. "Indigo's young Idealists seeking for Innovative Change-Makers around the world"
7. Hankook Ilbo(Daily Newspaper) "World's Eminent Intellectuals contribute their Provocative Writings to INDIGO+ing"
8. http://blog.naver.com/737cc?Redirect=Log&logNo=93383992
9. Busanilbo Daily News
10. Kungree Press Newsletter
11. Slavoj Zizek Interview at Hankyoreh News
12. Young Idealist Meet Slavoj Žižek Weekly Kyunghyang
13. Common Good is Common Struggle for Freedom by Slavoj Žižek
14. Finding Hope in the History by Zygmunt Bauman
15. In the Eye of a True Sociologist
16. In This Time of Uncertainty
17. Yonhap News AP
18. Kookmin Ilbo Daily
19. High and Noble Cause of Future Idealist Kookje Daily News
20. Dong A Ilbo Award Speech
21. Award Announcement
22. Yonhap News
23. National News Agency, Nepal
24. Busan Ilbo Interview
25. Award Announcement by Hankyoreh

External links

• Indigo Book Company (Indigo Sowon)
• Indigo Global Humanities Project--Indigo Youth Book Fair