Asia philosophy acknowledged as the departments. Symposium of ‘Philosophy in Korea’ was added too

 5 years ago, Greece took humiliation in Istanbul, Turkey where the last WCP was held. They missed an opportunity to hold the next congress to Korea even Greece has been the original country of Occidental philosophy, being true to the name. ‘The ⅩⅩⅡ World Congress of Philosophy (WCP)’ is the official title. It was held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, from July 30 to August 5, 2008. The Economist also forecasted that Korea need to rethink of philosophy in Korea, on this occasion. According to the report, WCP has great influence which could be expected to join about 3 thousand philosophers from over 150 nations.
 WCP has been holding under the auspices of International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) every 5 years. So it has another name, ‘Olympics of philosophers’. And actually, it has been always held in the west, thus there was an inclination of being not for the global philosophy but for Occidental one. However this year, as being held in Asia for the first time, some sections of Asia philosophy such as Confucian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy and Taoist philosophy acknowledged as the departments and a symposium of ‘Philosophy in Korea’ was added too. These changes showed that WCP 2008 was a prepared form for global philosophy. The atmosphere of this event was also well matched with its theme, “Rethinking philosophy today.”
 Philosophy in Korea has been alienated to people because it did not try to adapt foreign philosophy to their society. Although foreign society accepted their philosophy to their real life, korean philosophy kept remained only in books, not in the korean society. In 2008, Korea philosophy just stepped on start-line in independence through WCP.

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