Political power plant(Ver. eng)

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Political Power Plant

What is Political Power Plant?

* It’s a political community project that gives young energies who dream of

good politics an opportunity to seek for alternative political activities.

01. Beginning

Citizen Starts Delightful Political Experiments

When a great energy who dreams of good politics

was being discharged and wasted without any purpose,

we thought:

“Let’s make a power plant!”

“Let’s gather all the energies and power politics!”

A power plant where every citizen is fuel to good politics and

every citizen can receive good political energy.

A small yet eco-friendly and highly efficient power plant

where everyone can study, plan, and work together.

Delightful Political Experiments Community,

Political Power Plant.



02. We Are

The Political Power Plant Doctrine

+ We must educate ourselves to become good politicians and citizens

who can develop the Korean society and democracy.

+ We must study democracy with positive attitude and contemplate the

ways to generate excellent party politics.

+ We must participate in making changes in politics starting from our

surroundings.

+ We must pay for the cost of participation ourselves, but share the

benefits of participation fairly.



The Rights and Responsibilities of the Members of the Political Power Plant

+ They may participate in planning various political activities at

Political Power Plant.

+ They may receive discounts on courses at Political Power Plant.

+ They may use the office space at Political Power Plant.

Membership

+ Sign-up Terms & Conditions: You must agree with political values of <The Political

Power Plant Doctrine> and <The Rights and Responsibilities of the Members of the

Political Power Plant>, and want to study, plan, and participate in different activities to

create good politics.

+ Sign Up: http://bit.ly/join_powerplant

03. Milestones

The Special Meeting Between Politics and OO – Special Lecture

Experts in each field/Lectures by prominent figures/Discussions

1 Hour Lecture + 30 Min Q&A = 1 Hour & 30 Min Total

Number of Attendees : 30


Special Lectures

Jang-Jip Choi’s <Political Interpretation of the Movie ‘Lincoln’>

Reading politics through Steven Spielberg's newest film, ‘Lincoln’

-The U.S. political situation during American Civil War, which was the background of

the movie

-Lincoln’s political vision and agony

-Elements of politics & politicians’ ethics of responsibility: Political philosophy of

Niccolo Machiavelli and Max Weber

03. Milestones

The Former Minister of Unification, Dong-Won Lim’s <With The Relationship Between South and North Korea Standing on the Edge of a Cliff, Which Road Should We Take to Attain Peace?>

Peacemaker Dong-Won Lim, Talks About the Tinderbox Relationship Between South

and North Korea.


Special Lectures

+ Lecturer : Dong-Won Lim _ Co-Chair of Korea Peace Forum, Former Minister

of Unification

+ Date & Time : Saturday, April 20th @ 3PM

Professor Changsup Kim’s < The Crisis of Blackouts, Energy Policies in Danger >

He tells the ugly truth about energy policies that are hidden behind the electricity crisis.

+ Lecturer : Changsup Kim _ Gachon University professor, Chair of the Planning

Committee of Korea NGO’s Energy Network, Green Growth Consultant of the

Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, Chair of the Power

Generating Committee of the Sixth Basic Plan for Long Term Electricity

Demand and Supply

+ Date & Time : Saturday, July 6th @ 1PM


Special Lectures

Policy Director, Kyungmee Kim’s < European Political Parties & Report on Labor Unions>

She peeks into the current situation and potential of European parties and labor

unions, which strengthen the European society.

+ Lecturer : Kyungmee Kim_ Policy Director at Political Power Plant

+ Date & Time: November 27th @ 7:30PM

Researcher Hyung-Sik Um’s < Can Cooperative Associations Rescue Us? >

1 year after the Fundamental Act on Cooperatives took effect, he talks about the

problems and alternatives to the rapidly growing number of cooperatives.

+ Lecturer : Hyung-Sik Um _ PhD Researcher at the Center for Social Economy

of the University of Liege in Belgium (In charge of statistics of International

Organization of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers’

Cooperatives/Social Cooperative Alliance

+ Date & Time : Friday, November 8th @ 7:30PM

03. Milestones

Professor Jang-Jip Choi’s < Courses on Political Philosophy>

Political Power Plant Academy

Planned Courses

+ Date & Time : June 22nd – July 20th (Term I), August 24th – September 28th (Term II)

Every Saturday 10AM ~ 12PM (5 sessions in each term, 10 sessions total)

+ Number of Students : 50

Curriculum (10 Sessions )

Term Date Philosopher Topic

TermⅠ 6/22 Plato Ideal republics that can be alternatives to democracy

6/29 Aristotle The most appropriate and realistic form of a government

7/6 Machiavelli The major problems of politics: violence and evil

7/13 Hobbes & Locke The modern paradigm set-up of the constituting principle of a society and a nation

5/21 Rousseau Is direct democracy connected with representative democracy?

TermⅡ 8/24 Smith / Ferguson Market and civil society

8/31 Montesquieu & Madison

Institutionalizing democracy to take action against autocracy

7/7 Tocqueville & Mill

Democracy as a social condition & a great number of autocracies

9/14 Weber Characteristics of democracy which utilizes nations

9/28 Dahl The structure of the current representative democracy and recommendations for it : Pluralist democracy & Economic democracy

03. Milestones

Sang-Hoon Park’s <From the Discovery of Politics to the Rediscovery of Democracy>

Curriculum (7 Sessions)

Session Topic

1 The reason why Politics is Important

2 Who are the Players in Politics?

3 How to Practice Politics

4 How to Understand Democracy

5 Misunderstanding About Democracy

6 Democracy Vs. Non-democracy

7 What Kind of Democracy Should We Establish?


Planned Courses

+ Lecturer : Sang-Hoon Park _ Head of Humanitas Books

+ Date & Time : March 20th ~ May 1st, Every Wednesday 7PM-9PM

+ Location : Political Power Plant


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03. Milestones

http://www.sisainlive.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=15995



Mid/Long-Term Project to Seek for Alternative Political Parties① <Reading with Comments: Theory of the Political Parties>


Planned Courses

+ Date & Time : November 7th, 2013 ~ January, 16th, 2014

Every Thursday 7:30PM ~ 10PM (11 Sessions Total)


Date Topic Text

11/7 The Beginning and the Birth of Parties Sartori [Parties and Party Systems] Chapters 1~4

11/14 Party Systems, How to Classify Them Sartori [Parties and Party Systems] Chapters 5~7

11/21 Analyzing the Party Systems Sartori [Parties and Party Systems] Chapters 8~9

11/28 Competitive Party Systems Sartori [Parties and Party Systems] Chapter 10 Anthony Downs [An Economic Theory of Democracy] Chapters 5~10

12/5 Conflicts and Party Systems Shattschneider [Semisovereign People]

12/12 Power and Theory of Party Organization

Angelo Panebianco[Political Parties: Organization and Power]

12/19 Parties, Party Systems, Party System Change

Peter Mair [Party System Change]

12/26 The Appearance and Development of Mass Parties

Peter Mair [The West European Party System] Chapters 1~6

1/2 Stabilization and Freezing of Party Systems

Peter Mair [The West European Party System] Chapters 7~11

1/9 Transformation of Party Systems Peter Mair [The West European Party System] Chapters 12~19

1/16 A Typology of Party Systems Peter Mair [The West European Party System] Chapters 20~24

03. Milestones

Election Academy to Prepare Candidates and Advisers for the Local Election <Taking Down the Election>


Planned Courses

+ Date & Time : Saturday, May 25th & Saturday, June 1st @ 1PM (2 Sessions Total)

+ Location : Political Power Plant


Date Topic Lecturer

5/25 13:00 - 15:50 What candidates should know about local elections of all time and the outlook of the 2014 local election

Sungmin Park _ President of Min Consulting

Basics of planning for elections including election strategies, framework, and messages

16:00 - 17:20 Reality of local elections: looking at local governments and local elections through an eye of a current local district councilor

Jina Oh _ Mapo District Councilor

17:30 - 19:00 Mini-workshop and Q&A Sungmin Park _ President of Min Consulting Jina Oh _ Mapo District Councilor

6/1 13:00 - 14:30 Strategies on electoral communications (press release/public relations/eye contact)

Minyoung Yoo _ Communication Consultant

14:45 - 16:15 Election law and accounting for the candidates Jansik Shin _ Attorney at Jihyang Law

16:30 - 18:00 Policies, strategies, and how to politicize them Nansil Yoon _ Former Gwangju City Councilor

18:15 - 19:45 Throwing your hat into the ring: candidates’ speech and writing

Sanghoon Park _ Head of Humanitas Books

03. Milestones

Election Press Corps in a Weird Country


Action

This is a study group where the corps members study the Elections and Political Activities

Law which downsizes politics, revitalize the proper functions of politics, and think about ways

to revise the Elections and Political Activities Law so it can help citizens to encounter with

politics in their everyday lives.

Participants: Political Power Plant members, Young Green Party members, Labor Party

members, Move Politics members (Club association of departments of political science and

diplomacy at universities in Seoul)

Activities

- Wrote Pressian columns about “the Election Law in a Weird Country” for the June 4th Local Election (2014)

- Citizen Political Forum at the National Assembly – “the Election Law in a Weird Country” panel discussion

- Published an information package about “the Election Law in a Weird Country”

03. Milestones

2030 청년 100인 기초공천제 폐지 반대 공동성명

Photographer Sangyeop Lee’s <Politics in Photography>

Photography can play a role as a ‘silent accuser’ as it sometimes intensely and

sharply criticizes reality.

This makes photography one of the most political arts.

As digital cameras became common in the modern times, anybody can have political

communication through photography.

How can we see and communicate with the world through photos?

It’s a workshop where you can take photos and politically examine them with a

documentary photographer, Sangyeop Lee.


Small Groups

+ Lecturer : Sangyeop Lee _ Documentary Photographer

+ Date & Time : Every 4th Saturday of the Month 1PM~6PM


+ Schedule : Lecture > Practice Shooting Pictures > Review

and Evaluation on Photos

03. Milestones

Director Changyoung Jung’s <Night Theatre on “Fire Fridays” >

Thank God It’s Friday, “Fire Friday!” All the lonely singles, come to Political Power Plant! Couples?

Come together!

Political Power Plant has been preparing for “Night Theatre on ‘Fire Fridays’” day and night.

Come to Night Theatre on “Fire Fridays” where we can watch movies and talk about political

messages in the movies together!

You can catch political messages in films with Director Changyoung Jung at the Night Theatre.

+ Order of Events

May 3rd: Watch <I Am a Civil Servant> & Debate with current district councilors and civil servants

June 21st: Watch <Crossfire> & Talk with Director Young-joo Byun

August 23rd: Watch <Sisters on the Road> & Talk with Director Ji-young Boo

October 25th: Watch <The Navigators> & Talk with the locomotive engineer, Heung-soo Park


Small Groups 03. Milestones

Learning Chinese Politics with Chinese Newspapers A study group where participants can learn about Chinese politics by reading Chinese newspapers and books about China


Small Groups 03. Milestones

Ladies’ Chatter Session about Politics A small group for married women to think and discuss about everyday politics including parenting, education, and household accounts

A Study Group to Consider Alternative Resolutions to the North Korean Human Rights Problems THINK ‘Think Human Rights In North Korea’ It’s a small Political Power Plant group comprised of people who believe that it is problematic for South Korea to use North Korean human rights problems as its source of conflict, and people who think about ways to practically improve North Korean human rights problems.

Political Power Plant Season 2: The Beginning 04. Season 2

Political Power Plant Season 2 Schemes : Academy, Designed Projects, Political Forums, Small Gatherings for Members

04. Season 2


Academy

Political Forums

Small Gatherings

for Members

Designed Projects

Political Power Plant Season 2 Academy: Lectures in the Second Half of 2014 04.

Season 2

Political Power Plant Season 2 Scenes

04. Season 2

Political Power Plant Season 2 : Establishment of the Political Power Plant Scholarship Program

04. Season 2

◎ Political Power Plant Scholarship

Political Power Plant awards scholarships to applicants who make

genuine efforts in class

- Yong-joo Kang: Head of 5.18 Trauma Center, Sang-hyun Ahn: Owner

of Ahn’s Makgeolli

- The Plant plans to continuously increase the number of scholarship

recipients

Scholar

ship

Political Power Plant Season 2 : 2015 Course Schedules 04.

Season 2

◎ Academy

Term System(Regular Courses)/Special Lectures/Educational Programs for

Specialized Professions

Organized with regular courses that help students to understand the political

views of Political Power Plant such as <New Finding the Politics>, <Reading

Classical Political Philosophy>, <Theory of Parliamentary Politics>, and <Theory of

Political Parties> / Term 1(March~June), Term 2(September~December)

Lectures by prominent figures on what politicians, assistants, and citizens should

know such as <Reading the Constitution>, <Economics Lecture for Politicians>,

<Democracy and its Political Philosophy>, and <The Elections and Political

Activities Law for a Good Political Environment> / Each lecture opens twice a year

Lectures to cultivate expertise in specialized fields such as <Assistants Who

Change the World> and <Political Journalism> / Lectures open twice a year

Term

System

Special

Lectures

Specialized

Professions

Political Power Plant Season 2 : 2015 Course Schedules 04.

Season 2

Term 1

Regular

Courses

on Basics

3.11 ~ 7.1

16 Weeks

4 Subjects

Democracy after

Democratization

Sanghoon Park, Principal of


New Finding the Politics

Cheol-hee Lee, Head of the

Private Doomun Political

Strategy Institute

Reviewing the National

Assembly

Dr. Bok-kyung Seo

New Finding the Political

Parties

Sanghoon Park, Principal of


Political Power Plant Season 2 : Designed Projects 04.

Season 2

◎ Designed Projects

Programs that lead you to the actual sites where democracy exists and

allow you to have firsthand experience with democracy

ㆍ European Political Education/Travel to Party Politics

- ‘Sweden’s Almedalen Week – Forum for Party Politics’

- Two Major Pillars of Europe: Political Parties and Labor Unions

ㆍ ‘Traveling with Machiavelli’ with Principal Sanghoon Park

Trip to

Democracy

Political Power Plant Season 2 : Designed Projects 04.

Season 2 ◎ Political Forums

Meetings to prepare and participate in politics

ㆍ Study group for the theory of political parties

ㆍ Special lectures: special lectures by appropriate lecturers on important

current events and issues

◎ Gatherings for Members

Voluntary gatherings for Political Power Plant members to talk about the

subjects of their interests

ㆍ Meetings for all <Assistants Who Change the World> attendees

ㆍ Study groups to learn Chinese

ㆍ Meetings for participants of the Election Press Corps in a Weird Country,

and the revision of the Elections and Political Activities Law

ㆍ Broadcasting station of Political Power Plant

ㆍ Monitoring team on well-written political articles

Delegation, Principal, Executive Office 05. Our People

◎ Co-Heads

ㆍ Sunghee Kim

ㆍ Jina Oh

ㆍ Sungjoo Jo

◎ Principal

ㆍSanghoon Park

◎ Executive Office

ㆍKyungmee Kim, Project Manager

ㆍHyunggeun Kim, Executive Office Manager

Members of the Project Committee 05. Our People

Jiwoon Kwon Chairman of Min Snail Union

Minsoo Kim Chairman of Youth Union

Heeseo Kim Labor Party, Guro District Councilor

Byungun Park Attorney at JNC Law

Sunmin Park Author of <Going to Sweden: A Trip to a Welfare State>

Bok-kyung Seo Research Professor at the Modern Politics Research Center of

Sogang University, Former Legislative Information Research Officer at the National

Assembly

Nakgoo Son Assistant to Congressman Wonsik Choi, Author of <Political Social Map

of Korea>

Jungwook Son Chairman of Proportional Representation Youth Forum, Assistant to

Congressman Seungwoo Yoo

Yoonjung Shin Seoul Youth Hub Project Manager

Dongsoo Yang Dongchun Foundation Executive Lawyer

Euisun Yoo Chair of the Executive Committee at National Association for the Poor

Daegeun Lee Editorialist at the Kyunghyang Shinmun

Joonho Jung Author of <Parasites, Our Long-Time Companions>

Hyunyeon Jo Chair of the Progressive and Justice Research Center of Justice Party

Wonki Jo Member of the Board of Directors at JD Cook Corporation

Heejoon Joo Support Team Leader of Health Welfare Social Cooperative

Haesun Choi Researcher at the Institute of Better Democracy

Byungsun Han Head of Making Films

Members of the Executive Committee 05. Our People

Yeowon Kim Operations Committee Member of Young Green Party

Jiwon Seo College Student

Sukhyun Lee Assistant to Congresswoman Seunghee Yoo

Eunbin Lee College Student

Hyungwoo Jeon Former Operations Committee Member of Young Green Party

Inseon Chung Young Green Party Member

Minho Han Labor Party Delegate

Geumbyul Hwang Youth Union Member

Jongsup Hwang Former Organization Manager for Labor Party Seoul Office



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