Tales of the Three Countries

       The 2012 Machael Sandel lecture at Yonsei University, Seoul. He later reminisced,"it was like the Athens gathering at the Pantheon."           Prof. Michael Sandel, the author of 'Justice', had “an unforgettable experience” when he made lecture in June 2012 of Seoul. The tickets had been sold out readily and the organizer had to turn back many young students, who couldn’t even get the ticket from the scalpers for the lecture-debate event held at the outdoor theater in Yonsei University. The heat of the debate with the mostly young audience of fifteen thousand didn’t show the sign of subsiding until it got completely dark in that balmy night early summer in Seoul.            The surge of public attention on the issue of justice could well be ascribed to the growing criticality of the “wealth redistribution” issue as their economy was bustling through the corridor of middle-income countries towar...