Theme: 21.2 century

The theme of the 8th TEDxSNU event is '21.2 century'. 21.2 century is a coined term that represents the second ten years of the 21st century or the 2010s. As the speed of social change accelerates, dividing history by the century is an anachronistic concept. A hundred years is too broad to capture the immense changes our society goes through every day.
To clearly understand our most recent ten years, we wish to invite inspiring speakers, who are leaders in their field, creating new futures as we speak. In addition, we wish to look at the 21.2 century in various perspectives. Just like anyone can become speakers at TED, we believe every person has their own version of the 21.2 century. All these ideas coming together at the 8th TEDxSNU event, we will be able to have a better look of our past, present, and future.

Baekam Art Hall
7, Teheran-ro 113-gil, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 06173
South Korea

Anthony Paek

Anthony Paek is the CEO of Cldi, a startup that has successfully applied machine deep learning to the field of visual recognition. Globally, his company participated and ranked 7th in the 2014 ILSVRC (ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition). Their start was as intriguing as the technology they have developed. Having started as a hip-hop club in KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), it is exciting to see what Cldi will do next to expand and commercialize its technology.

Jin Yeob Lee

Jin Yeob Lee is the director and the producer of the theater company ‘Elephants Laugh’ which started in 2009. She connects life and art, by holding performances not on stage but closer to our lives. Other major works including ‘Neighborhood Museum Series’ all tries incorporate region-specific characteristics. More recently, she is up to bigger and more challenging performances with the hope of awakening emotions that are easily forgotten

Jong Jin Lim

Photographer Jong Jin Lim has worked in various progressive mass media for a long time. After his career, he put focus on people not easily reachable and living in difficult conditions in North Korea, Iraq, and Cambodia. He approached photography not in the artistic point of view, but in its useful aspect in close connection with people in and out of Korea.

Ki-hyun Kim

After studying philosophy at Seoul National University, Ki-hyun Kim received a master’s degree in epistemology from University of Arizona. Having taught philosophy at University of Oklahoma and now a professor at Seoul National University, he have always been interested in how thoughts occur inside peoples’ minds.

Sung-ho Park

In spite of his outstanding criticisms on social affairs, he refuses to define himself a critic. Instead, he prefers to be called an ‘opinion-proposer.’ For such reasons, his talk should also be considered an ‘opinion’ rather than a ‘criticism.’ (http://murutukus.kr/)

Yelol Han

Yelol Han is a special artist. She works on children’s paintings as one genre of art, named ‘Children Art’. The collaboration starts from communicating with the child. Using only the pureness that the child has as the main ingredient, she leads the child to draw by him or herself through storytelling. (www.yelolhan.com)