- Lived:
- Born 1959, Seoul, South Korea · lives and works in Berlin, Germany
- Tradition:
- Contemporary Continental philosophy; cultural criticism of the digital age
- The Big Idea:
- Nobody has to force us to work anymore — we exploit ourselves voluntarily and call it freedom, until we burn out. Recovery begins with rest, ritual, and deep attention.
- In their words:
- He calls our frictionless digital world "the hell of the same."
- If you remember one thing:
- The exhaustion you feel is not a personal failure. For Han it is the signature of a whole society that has confused endless achievement with freedom.