Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of History (Chair: Professor Park Jeong-min) has organized a distinctive faculty lecture series that breaks stereotypes of history to help incoming humanities students who entered through the expansion of recruitment units choose their major. The initiative aims to present history's expansiveness as a tool for interpreting contemporary issues such as economics, food, faction, and conflict, rather than as a discipline centered on rote memorization.

This lecture series was designed to engagingly and visually demonstrate to students in the major-exploration phase that the academic character of the Department of History is not a mere listing of past facts but a discipline that provides important insights for analyzing today's society.

The talks will be held weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00 PM throughout May, in a relay format, in Room 107, College of Humanities Building 2. The program was organized to reflect recent social interests and trends. 

Beginning on May 6 with Professor Yoon Sang-won's 'The Origins of Sinophobia – Revisiting an Incident in Our Region 100 Years Ago,' the series continues on May 13 with Professor Kim Cheol-gi's 'The Genius Scientist Isaac Newton's All-In Leverage: The 1720 South Sea Company Bubble and the Disappeared Some 4 Billion Won,' on May 20 with Professor Park Jeong-min's 'History and Faction as Seen Through <The Man Who Lives with the King>,' and on May 27 with Professor Lee Seom-gwan's 'Malatang and Tanghulu – Reading Chinese History Through Food.'

Through this lecture series, the Department of History plans to provide students considering their major with the opportunity to directly experience the faculty's research areas and teaching styles, and to emphasize a flexible and open academic culture. The event is open to incoming humanities students as well as anyone interested in history.

Professor Park Jeong-min, Chair of the Department of History, said, 'I hope new students recognize history not as a dull memorization subject but as an engaging discipline closely connected to our lives,' adding, 'It will be an opportunity for faculty and students to communicate openly and to experience the pleasures of the humanities.'