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The Humanities City Project, launched by the National Research Foundation of Korea as part of its Humanities Popularization Project, is now in its 11th year. The Humanities City Project aims to explore humanities assets of the region and thereby implement the value of the humanities to be shared and spread throughout society. This paper intends to examine the significance and challenges of regional humanities on the basis of the Humanities City Project conducted by Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities from 2017 to 2020 and the Regional Humanities Project within the Humanities-Korea-Plus Project, which is currently in its fifth year after being selected in 2020. The term “Humanities in Action,” which reflects the question of what the humanities can actually do for the world, encompasses the attempts of humanities to engage with society outside the university, or more specifically, with people in the region and beyond. First, this paper will introduce the ‘Humanities City Yongsan’ Project carried out by Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities and the Regional Humanities Project that the Center for Empathetic Humanities has been conducting under the Sookmyung Humanities-Korea-Plus Project of ‘The Age of Disgust and Hate: How the Humanities Respond to.’ Then, it will consider what efforts and improvements are needed to make Humanities City Projects more sustainable for the next ten or twenty years.

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