{"product_id":"112158","title":"Flat words ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5ILQ2L7xRBH76IjyljV.png?v=1764958339\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Flat words \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/148756546\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Sociologist Oh Chan-ho, who has bravely stared at the bare face of our society since the bestseller \"We Support Discrimination,\" delves into the broken communication in South Korea, a country filled with \"insults\" and \"cider.\"\u003cbr\u003e In his new work, Flat Words, Oh Chan-ho discusses how discussions about complex social contexts are ruined by flat and lazy language, and how meritocracy and survivalism permeate everyday language, solidifying discrimination and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We have become accustomed to the assertion that there is no need to understand the world in a complex way. \u003cbr\u003ePointing out the gap between the rich and the poor brings back the sarcastic remark, “Go to North Korea,” and talking about the hardships of irregular workers brings back the mocking remark, “Who threatened you with a knife to make you do that?”\u003cbr\u003e The simplicity of thought and language leads to violence that flattens the lives of others.\u003cbr\u003e This book will provide those tired of lazy language like \"Soda,\" \"True Education,\" and \"Are you a swindler?\" with a clue to imagine a more advanced debate.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Prologue: What We Lose to Survive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: The Words That Flow When Talking About Sexism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why did Mother become the most loving word?\u003cbr\u003e Oppose the equalization of suffering\u003cbr\u003e Should women also join the military for equality in housework?\u003cbr\u003e Modify the default values\u003cbr\u003e Pieces of a heart that makes you happy\u003cbr\u003e The roughness of delicacy \u003cbr\u003eThe stereotype that breaks stereotypes\u003cbr\u003e There is no brave new world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Words that mock the right to live\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why was that disabled person so kind?\u003cbr\u003e Freedom is felt only by the 'have-nots'\u003cbr\u003e Human rights education isn't about \"living well.\"\u003cbr\u003e Do you remember this column, “Afghan refugees, don’t come to Korea”?\u003cbr\u003e Who are we to us?\u003cbr\u003e The anti-discrimination law complements the spirit of the Constitution.\u003cbr\u003e An age of poor thinking, a land of flat arguments\u003cbr\u003e Can't you see discrimination beyond institutional discrimination?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Words that only think about my feelings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That's not what I meant to hear.\u003cbr\u003e I have to work harder than you\u003cbr\u003e When you get excited, you make mistakes.\u003cbr\u003e Our sticky side\u003cbr\u003e The bare face of affection\u003cbr\u003e If you talk about social issues, are you an antisocial person?\u003cbr\u003e There is no such thing as a savory Gyeongsang dialect.\u003cbr\u003e I don't know my MBTI, and I never will.\u003cbr\u003e You've experienced it too? The violence of true education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Success or Failure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Luck is also a skill? \u003cbr\u003eThe god of private education speaks\u003cbr\u003e If you just keep digging wells\u003cbr\u003e Who is ordinary and who is extraordinary?\u003cbr\u003e The effect of reading is reading.\u003cbr\u003e I have no friends and can't date, so should I just die?\u003cbr\u003e If that person hadn't graduated from Harvard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWords that turn society back on itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Will you give me the freedom to work harder?\u003cbr\u003e Is the policy to discriminate further?\u003cbr\u003e Hitler also said, the right of the people to resist\u003cbr\u003e They are setting a trap called 'Generation MZ'.\u003cbr\u003e Republic of Tests\u003cbr\u003e Private education is not the cause of national ruin, but its consequence.\u003cbr\u003e How to read a suicide rate graph?\u003cbr\u003e We are pieces of the republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: If only it hadn't been so\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5422\/MidCate010\/542190454(1).jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The core issue of men being discriminated against by the state has disappeared, and what social benefit can there be in a policy of equalizing suffering that fundamentally seeks to satisfy the bizarre complaint, \"Why aren't women discriminated against?\" \u003cbr\u003eI served for 26 months and then served in the reserves, civil defense, and emergency call-ups for 17 years until I turned 40.\u003cbr\u003e If my wife experiences this, will my irritation be insignificant? Will my anxiety about my son going to the military disappear completely once my daughter joins?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Against the Equalization of Pain\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is a sin to touch meritocracy.\u003cbr\u003e Even in places where people criticize the justification of discrimination and hatred based on ability rather than differences, the argument, “Why is meritocracy a problem?” is common.\u003cbr\u003e Even if you're confident, you're too confident.\u003cbr\u003e We try to avoid pointing out the negative aspects by only looking at the positive aspects.\u003cbr\u003e Here and there, only individual stories of bravery abound.\u003cbr\u003e No one cares about the social context of the phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e (…) No matter how much we talk about the problem of inequality, I think I understand why only lazy analyses that say, “human history has always been unequal” continue to circulate. \u003cbr\u003eBecause this is a country of flat debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"The Age of Impoverished Thinking, the Land of Flat Debate\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A place where the sentiment that you can hit someone because they did something wrong is disguised as a justified revenge is a 'jungle', not society.\u003cbr\u003e The reason we do not allow individuals the right to seek revenge is because the other person's wrongdoing is not clearly determined but rather subjectively defined.\u003cbr\u003e Let's think about customer abuse.\u003cbr\u003e Those guests, from their own perspective, think it's justified.\u003cbr\u003e An objectively unpleasant situation has occurred, and giving back is considered the objectively right thing to do.\u003cbr\u003e It's all subjective, you know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"You've Experienced It Too? The Violence Called True Education\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Human immunity is formed by uncontrollable coincidences that accumulate from the time of conception.\u003cbr\u003e Even if we are born to the same parents, people are different.\u003cbr\u003e A person's health is not just the sum of their individual efforts. \u003cbr\u003eBut in a 'meritocracy republic' where people are somehow evaluated, classified, and excluded, the saying that even pain is a skill floats around like a great saying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Luck is a skill?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The right of the people to resist, as evaluated by history, was a moment when people fought for human dignity even when resistance meant death.\u003cbr\u003e So I'm crying.\u003cbr\u003e But the words of those who spread this rumor are all like this.\u003cbr\u003e Reds, pro-North Korean leftists, you will be pulverized, this is your only way to survive, etc.\u003cbr\u003e This is not a readiness to die, but a determination to kill.\u003cbr\u003e It is not the courage to overcome fear, but the violence to make the other person afraid.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- From \"Even Hitler said, the right of the people to resist\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Our conversation is\u003cbr\u003e “How did it come to this?”\u003cbr\u003e Sociologist Oh Chan-ho,\u003cbr\u003e Full of insults and cider\u003cbr\u003e Uncovering South Korea's Broken Communication System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSociologist Oh Chan-ho, who has bravely stared at the bare face of our society since his bestseller “We Support Discrimination,” has returned with his new work “Flat Words.”\u003cbr\u003e Oh Chan-ho describes the scenes of Korean society that he witnessed and experienced while working as a writer.\u003cbr\u003e The retort to “Go to North Korea” in response to the criticism about the gap between rich and poor.\u003cbr\u003e The mockery of “Who threatened you with a knife to make you do that?” comes back to the demand for improved treatment of irregular workers.\u003cbr\u003e The complex social contexts are erased, and the broken public sphere of South Korea, where people silence others with insults, is starkly revealed through Oh Chan-ho's characteristically sharp gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Flat Words tells the story of how the simplicity of thought and language distorts the lives of others, and how meritocracy and survivalism permeate everyday language, solidifying discrimination and violence. \u003cbr\u003eThe landscapes organized through five themes—gender, human rights, daily life, self-development, and society—contain the vertical structure of meritocracy, survivalism, and superiority and inferiority that form the core of Korean society.\u003cbr\u003e This book presents the possibility of a more advanced debate to those tired of lazy language like \"Soda, true education, are you scratched?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHealth is also a skill? Don't blame society?\u003cbr\u003e The Myth of Meritocracy That Blocks All Debate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is full of 'flat words', many of which are created out of blind faith in meritocracy.\u003cbr\u003e Videos of famous instructors with titles like 'Star Instructor's Fact Bomb' and 'Ilta Instructor's Bitter Words' have been dominating Reels and YouTube for a long time. \u003cbr\u003eThey spread the distorted egalitarianism that \"everyone's conditions are the same,\" saying that they know this because they have lived for a long time, and they ridicule the lives of certain people by saying that \"people who live their lives carelessly are destined to fail.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Because meritocracy is considered the absolute truth that explains everything in the world, even in areas where structural problems need to be examined, the yardstick of 'individual ability is the problem' appears.\u003cbr\u003e Minimal solutions, such as special admissions for the disabled or mandatory employment for the disabled, are blocked by comments like, \"Why are you giving a position to someone who doesn't have the ability?\" and \"I worked hard to get here, so this isn't fair.\"\u003cbr\u003e When we talk about women's success stories using terms like \"alpha girl\" and \"supermom,\" we spread the perception that gender discrimination is a problem that can be overcome. \u003cbr\u003eA politician constantly mentions that he is a Harvard graduate, suggesting that no one \"below\" Harvard would dare to know, and describes his school days in Mokdong, where 700 students in the same grade fiercely competed for rankings, as \"perfectly fair competition.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Flat Words\" shows how discrimination and suffering are obscured when all phenomena are explained solely in terms of differences in ability, and urges us to look beyond \"fact bombing\" and \"bitter words.\"\u003cbr\u003e If we don't see the conditions of class, region, parents, and time behind someone's good grades, if we don't see the reality that even highly educated women are blocked by the glass ceiling, if we don't see the situation of the disabled who have to fight to obtain even the rights that are natural to the non-disabled, then all social problems will end up being explained as 'that's just how it is.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe absurd language of \"freedom to hate\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen language is distorted, society regresses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The attack on the Western District Court on January 19, 2025, was a clear act of terrorism against democracy.\u003cbr\u003e However, some people defended those who committed terrorism using the words 'civil disobedience' and 'the right to resist the people'.\u003cbr\u003e Originally, civil disobedience and the right to resist were the words of those who had the courage to defend human dignity in situations where resisting power would have resulted in death, but they have been misused as words to justify disobedience to democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book examines how words that once embodied the meaning of equality and democracy came to serve diametrically opposed values.\u003cbr\u003e For example, fairness has changed to mean unconditional acceptance of test scores and acceptance of all inequalities.\u003cbr\u003e Freedom has long been mobilized for discriminatory logic, such as the \"freedom to hate minorities,\" and for runaway market logic, such as the \"freedom to earn less than the minimum wage.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor a healthy debate to take place, we must distinguish between common sense and nonsense, and exclude the justification of discrimination and hatred.\u003cbr\u003e But in arguments dominated by prejudice and rejecting three-dimensional thinking, only stereotypes ring hollow.\u003cbr\u003e If you say that something like the 'freedom to hate' is impossible to establish in the first place, you will be responded with 'old-fashioned logic that does not recognize diversity.'\u003cbr\u003e This book explains how misused words distort debate in Korean society and envisions a society where these words can realize their original meaning and value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNot a flat language,\u003cbr\u003e In the language of imagining the lives of others\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Flat words' are also words that flatten someone's life, something that cannot be explained in a single word.\u003cbr\u003e Hong Gil-dong, who appears in one episode of this book, had to always live as a 'good disabled person' at work. \u003cbr\u003eI couldn't easily refuse to do work that I shouldn't have done, and I couldn't hold others accountable even when they were at fault.\u003cbr\u003e This is because even if I spoke a little strongly, I had to experience other people gossiping, saying, \"Why are you acting like that when you get special treatment at work?\"\u003cbr\u003e Even in the company's promotional video and new employee training, Mr. Hong Gil-dong had to send the message that our company is a non-discriminatory company and that he is always grateful.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, the day he took a picture smiling brightly to promote the company's creation of a disabled-accessible restroom, he decided to quit.\u003cbr\u003e This is because I am tired of having to routinely say thank yous that non-disabled people don't, and of hearing things like, \"If you were as kind as Hong Gil-dong, everyone around you would treat you well, but why are those people so rough?\" that are thrown at protests for the rights of disabled people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe book also addresses the illogical distortions of gender issues.\u003cbr\u003e For example, the message, “Women should join the military too!” has rarely been used in a logical way.\u003cbr\u003e The argument that women should also serve in the military is mostly based on the logic of why only men should be discriminated against.\u003cbr\u003e The author questions what social benefit there is in equalizing suffering, which seeks to satisfy the fundamentally bizarre complaint that \"women aren't discriminated against!\" while the core issue of men being discriminated against by the state disappears.\u003cbr\u003e And, citing an example of a politician who argued that gender equality in military service must be achieved in order to achieve gender equality in housework, he pointed out that this was a serious admission of the argument that \"women only know how hard it is for men when they go through hardships\", and thus forced a connection between two completely different issues: housework and military service.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOutdated language habits contain structural problems that strangle individual lives.\u003cbr\u003e Before asking why I'm suddenly angry when I've always been like that, here's why I need to look back at my old way of thinking.\u003cbr\u003e \"Flat Words\" tells us that change is possible only when yesterday's current stops moving and changes direction.\u003cbr\u003e This book will help you take the words that flow naturally and not take them for granted, and will help you look at the absurdity contained within them. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv 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