[IBREA Report Vol.18] Korea-U.S. Earth Management Roundtable
Exploring a New Academic Paradigm for Coexistence
* IBREA Report Vol. 18 presents the English edition of IBREA Report Vol. 17, originally published in Korean in September 2025.
On September 25, 2025, the Korea–U.S. Earth Management Roundtable was convened as a joint initiative of the International Brain Education Association (IBREA), the University of Brain Education, Global Cyber University, and the Institute of Brain Education Graduate School (United States). The forum was designed to examine the academic foundations and contemporary relevance of Earth Management—an emerging field originating in Korea—while expanding international scholarly dialogue and public engagement. In their welcoming remarks, President Byeong-Young Gong and Director Joung Han Lee highlighted the growing significance of Earth Management in an era marked by global uncertainty, ecological crises, and rapid technological change, and framed the roundtable as an academic space for rethinking human agency, decision-making, and responsibility at the societal and planetary levels.
The program was organized around three interconnected dimensions—conceptual inquiry, curriculum development, and practice-based exploration—linking paradigm-level discussions on humanity, society, and the Earth with concrete examples of institutionalization in higher education. In particular, curriculum presentations and student case studies illustrated how Earth Management is translated from theory into educational practice. Building on developments since the establishment of the first Earth Management department in 2016, the roundtable signaled a transition from institution-centered growth toward sustained international collaboration. IBREA Report No. 18 documents this process through the presentations featured in the forum, offering insight into the evolving academic, educational, and practical trajectories of Earth Management.
[Table of Contents]
I. Overview
II. Paradigm Shift: Expanding Beyond Individual Nutrition to Planetary Nutrition
Ho Chan Seo
III. Socioeconomic Inequality and Hongik Ingan — The Starting Point of Political Philosophy for Earth Management
Ji-In Kim
IV. [Curriculum Introduction 1] IBE Graduate School Curriculum — An Academic Model for Cultivating Brain Education–Based Global Leaders
Hyeran Ihm
V. [Curriculum Introduction 2] Earth Management Convergence Major — Integrating Global Mindset, Korean Values, and Inner Capacity
Rae Hyuk Chang
VI. Summary and Concluding Discussion
