The book "Foodstyle's Humanities, King's Dinner" by Kim Eun-hyung (김은형)

2023-06-20 weekly, walkintoKorea

Book Introduction

In the era of the metaverse generation, the concept of enjoying healthy food and leading a healthy lifestyle goes beyond the mere act of eating. It encompasses the visual aspect as well. There's an old saying in Korea that goes, "Just by looking, one can feel full". However, the decline in appetite is closely related to the decline in reproductive desires. The phenomenon of young people filling their reproductive desires solely through virtual reality (VR) and similar virtual worlds, rather than engaging in direct human interaction and love, has become a global issue in relation to birth rates. What does it mean to "see without eating, and watch without loving?". If this phenomenon becomes widespread and intensified, humanity could face the risk of extinction within 80 years, as Professor Choi Jae-cheon has warned. So, what should we do at this critical moment?

Background

This book combines the philosophy of "Education and Rest", where reading becomes a toy that awakens and enlightens. It aims to create a world of elegant and refined food lifestyle called "Sura, King's Dinner", where everyone lives peacefully as beautiful and precious beings, embracing their true human nature.

Chapter 1: Why Should We Arrange and Enjoy Our Meals? (Arranging and Eating: The Importance of Food and Foodstyle). How can we transform familiar ingredients (food) and diets into enjoyable meals (foodstyle)?

Chapter 2: How Should We Arrange and Eat? (Sharing and Eating: The Significance of Foodstyling). Through food styling that encompasses various meanings of sharing and the act of eating itself, we explore the meaning of food style as a form of lifestyle education for future humanity.

Chapter 3: Why Should We Share Our Meals Together? (Eating Together: Rituals as a System for Community Maintenance and the Development of Foodstyle). We delve into the process of symbolizing and attaching meaning to food through life cycle feast dishes, along with the value of communal eating and traditional Korean food styling for community cohesion.

About the Author

Kim Eunhyung is a specialist in humanistic education and cultural planning, who pioneered the field of lifestyle education. She proposes everyday life as an alternative for future education. Embracing the philosophy that learning is life and life is learning, she has led the transformation of students' lives for 30 years as an icon of the school revolution, actively turning the global educational revolution into reality.

As a fashion-forward lifestyle enthusiast and the founder of the publishing and planning agency, Education and Rest, Kim Eunhyung currently serves as a professor at Mokwon University's College of Education, teaching digital education. Her previous works include "Mother's Lifestyle, Becoming the Future of Children", "Metaverse School Revolution", and "Metaverse Detox School".