New Member Registration and Membership Upgrades

By Kim Dong-ryul · Original publication: May 6, 2020

English translation of the Korean site's membership notice. The categories and procedures below describe that original site.

Original: https://gujoron.com/xe/notice/1198841

Membership has three levels: Associate Member, Full Member, and Research Member.

Associate Members

Applicants who complete their registration information conscientiously are upgraded to Associate Member. Associate Members can use private messages. Accounts with carelessly completed information will be deleted. Please send simple inquiries by private message.

Full Members

If you provide your website, Facebook page, or blog in the registration form's section for online activity to support a membership upgrade, we will review it and upgrade you to Full Member. Full Members can use the community board and comment on articles in the Reading section. Accounts will be deleted if their holders show far-right or antisocial tendencies, or if their direction is incompatible with that of the Gujoron Institute.

Research Members

Submit an essay on Gujoron in the registration form's Research Member essay section to be upgraded to Research Member. Research Members can use the Discussion and Research sections and attend the regular Thursday meetings.

The essay should be about the length of a newspaper column and demonstrate a sincere interest in the Institute's activities. You may describe an experience applying Gujoron in practice, your own research findings, what you have studied, or your impressions of the Institute. Longer essays may be sent by email to a11111a@hanmail.net (written in the original as a11111a@한메일넷).

Existing Academy Members do not need an upgrade.

Other Applicants for an Upgrade

If you have no online activity to show or cannot write an essay because you are a minor, live overseas, or have another reason, explain your circumstances in a private message. We will take this into account. Existing Full Members who wish to become Research Members should email their essays to a11111a@hanmail.net.

Applicants Who May Be Refused Membership

People with the latter tendency in the contrasts below are not aligned with the Institute's direction and may be refused membership or removed:

• Pragmatists rather than rationalists.

• Relativists rather than absolutists.

• Dualists or pluralists rather than monists.

• Conservatives rather than progressives.

• Followers of Laozi rather than students of Confucius.

• Those who refuse to listen rather than those who listen.

• Those who follow instinct rather than reason.

• Followers rather than leaders of a group.

• A narrow, self-regarding outlook rather than a broad, collective outlook.

• Toegye's fixation on individual morality rather than Yulgok's commitment to collective deliberation.

• Provincial pedants rather than people with a world-embracing perspective.

• Those who wish to remain solitary wanderers rather than members of a team.

• A tribal outlook rather than a civilizational one.

• Petty people who secure their own share first rather than people of conviction who sacrifice for the group and remain loyal to it.

• Those who want to defeat others rather than learn.

• Those who seek personal peace rather than follow the Dharma.

We also do not accept people impaired in mind or body, religious fanatics, or people who cause trouble.

We welcome those who wish to develop the mind of a leader who will guide humanity.