The first meeting was probably a trembling new semester, a high school textbook.

If you have gone through the 7th education course, it will be vaguely on the other side of your memory.

This article has been published in Unit 1 of the high school Korean textbook since 2002.

We compared the situation of the Korean language, lost due to the overflow of foreign languages ​​and foreign languages, to the ecosystem of native frogs attacked by exotic frogs.



Even the author's name written at the bottom right of the title has a strangely ecological (?) feeling for some reason.

Jae-Chun Choi.

It is said that heaven and heaven are used in the ashes that will exist.

President of the National Institute of Ecology, Chair Professor of Eco Science at Ewha Womans University, Co-Chairman of the Corona 19 Daily Recovery Support Committee.

CEO of the Biodiversity Foundation, etc.

There are only a few job titles.



This 'Somehow News' delivers the news that the YouTube channel <Choi Jae-chun's Amazon>, which was started a year ago by Professor Jae-cheon Choi, an 'elder' of Korean society in name and reality, is 'reversing the charts' among young people.

How did an evolutionary biologist who has been knocking on the public for 30 years dreaming of 'scientizing the masses' and became an icon of 'these days'?



The prelude to 'Tteok-Sang' begins with a remark on the birth rate in Korean society. In a video uploaded on the 23rd of last month, remarks such as "A person who gives birth to a child in Korea now is an idiot" and "Isn't it because IQ doesn't fit in double digits?" got a lot of attention. Considering the harsh environment for childbirth and parenting, the low birthrate, which has recently emerged as a social problem from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist, is a natural evolutionary adaptation phenomenon.



"It is difficult for animals to survive in the evolutionary process because there is no place to eat and hide, and there is no place to hide, and it is difficult for animals to survive in the evolutionary process," he said. Unfortunately,” he added. Prof. Choi's conclusion is that the person who makes the decision to give birth after going through such cold calculations is either an 'idiot' or a 'patriot'.



'Coordinates' were stamped on the shocking remarks. I uploaded several videos starting with the first video in October 2020, but the number of channel subscribers, which was only 10,000 to 20,000 for nearly a year, has grown to 90,000 in less than a month. As the number of subscribers gradually increased, watching past videos 'reversed', remarks from the past are being talked about again.



“If there is no monogamy (as in nature), we do not have a turn because Won Bin and Hyun Bin take thousands of people”, “Humanity’s history is the history of women’s exploitation”, “Encouraging women to give birth is not a matter of opinion for men. Things to close", "Gender remarks based on evolutionary biology, such as "homosexuality is a natural phenomenon in the animal world," are receiving particular attention.



In fact, at the time of the Constitutional Court's decision to abolish the Australian system in 2004, 17 years ago, Professor Choi Jae-cheon submitted a written opinion stating, "Biologically, females contribute more to evolution than males, so there is no scientific basis for the Australian system." He is a scholar who has consistently spoken and practiced about the kidneys.



In recognition of her achievements, she was awarded the Women's Movement of the Year Award in 2004. In her acceptance speech at the time, Professor Choi said, "If you remove the false patriarchal class, it is men who become more comfortable." Since then, the benefits of gender equality have been returned to both men and women. They consistently claim to go.



Did the sincerity of the 68-year-old professor properly hit the hearts of the younger generation, who shudder at the 'nae-nambul' of the older generation? Instead of saying 'Don't look at others and achieve your dreams,' instead of saying, "I live in a world I live in, but I hate people who don't notice", "I didn't know that I would die of starvation if I was in a hurry. They are also gaining sympathy.



On the 16th (Thursday), when the policy to strengthen social distancing was announced, Professor Choi Jae-cheon, who had a wire meeting with Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom late the night before, continued the story without showing any signs of exhaustion despite the hours-long interview.



The reason I started YouTube was to raise the operating expenses of the Life Diversity Foundation, a public interest foundation founded with Dr. Jane Goodall, a 'chimpanzee scholar'. I wanted to play a role in supporting basic science and developing measures to preserve diversity, but collecting donations was not easy. The YouTube channel, which started with advice from people around me while thinking about it, spreads word of mouth after a year, and now the support for the foundation is increasing little by little.



Why are tropical bugs so large, and what happens when animals wake up from hibernation? At first, it started as educational content that the grandfather scientist explained in an easy-to-understand manner. Then I changed the content concept once. In the Naver intellectual service, he answers questions directly with his real name 'recruitment', and in return builds 'inner-gong' to become 'excellent'.It has been transformed into a new concept that challenges the rank (the service is designed so that the higher the answer adoption rate, the higher the rank).



There were embarrassing requests, such as asking me to explain what insects I accidentally took with my smartphone while walking down the street, what the professor’s salary was, and to tell me the story of my first love. there was also Although he gradually built up his skills, he did not reach the level of 'supreme', which was the original goal, but he reached the rank of 'hero' with the same name as 'Young-woong Lim', a trot singer he liked, and the season ended.



To the question of how he came up with the concept of 'Speaking of Mind', a 68-year-old senior professor gave the same answer as 'YouTube these days'. "The number of views didn't increase from 15,000 for a while. Then, among the scientists around, Dr. Jang Dong-sun (brain scientist) who runs a YouTube channel said this once. It's like the death that a scientist saw. He also increased suddenly."



He said he was surprised by the enthusiastic response to the remarks about the birth rate. The gist of the book is what I already mentioned in the book <Reproduce Your Life (2005)>, written 16 years ago. In this book, Professor Choi argued that when a woman's oocytes are depleted and she cannot become pregnant, she wants to live a different life than before. Although it is a well-known expression now, it was first proposed to call 'menopause' as 'menopause' at the time.



"I guess it's because I wasn't the only one who thought of that (reaction to remarks on the birth rate IQ), right? I'm a person who studies the ecology of nature, so the basics of ecology are population fluctuations. I thought that the low birthrate and aging population would be a serious problem facing Korean society, but I wrote a book because it seemed like too many people didn't know, but there was no response at the time."



In the third quarter of 2021, the total fertility rate was 0.82. While the prophecy of 'Chest Stradamus (?)' 16 years ago has become a reality in Korean society, which is facing a population cliff, evolutionary biology terms such as 'reproduction' and 'culling' have become a world in which ordinary people frequently appear. "Because I'm a zoologist, I used to say 'after breeding' in the past, but people were very uncomfortable back then. The undisputed number one book bestseller is Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and I think many of you have read this book."



The reason that the subscribers who received high-level remarks (usually called 'aggro') continue to stay on <Choi Jae-chun's Amazon> is partly because of Professor Choi's 'harmless' image, which has been consistent for 10 or 20 years. On SNS and in various communities, there are many impressions that Professor Jae-Chun Choi's contents are consumed as 'healing water'. I usually watch it before going to bed.



There are few so-called 'evil comments' on YouTube by Professor Jae-Chun Choi, who speaks in a calm tone of clues found in the ecology of animals and nature, which he has studied throughout his life, which is difficult to find political bias. To subscribers who started 'backward running' as they were consumed as a familiar image to the public, small remarks from past videos and attitudes toward joint childcare and writing practiced in their own lives are also being talked about.



During the interview, there was a lot of talk about 'wife'. While studying at Harvard, I met my wife, who majored in musicology, and had a son in the 9th year of our honeymoon. From the time we got married until now, he says it is his responsibility to wash the dishes in the housework. Professor Jae-Chun Choi, who had more free time than his wife because he finished his degree course relatively early, often took charge of raising his young son. In the United States, I even gave a lecture while wearing a baby harness.



“In the US, when they tried to put a child in the basket, they volunteered to put the child in front of them and look after them. With that thought in mind, after arriving at Seoul National University, I took the child to the classroom a couple of times and sat them down to teach. I thought, 6-7 people in the lecture evaluation said 'Go home and watch your baby',There was a time when I was greatly disappointed by writing ‘Isn’t there a wife?’”



Professor Choi, who said on YouTube, "There is no reason why a man can't do all the childcare except for having a child," he also grew up in a patriarchal family. It is said that a 'boy' was punished by kneeling for two hours for stepping into the kitchen once. There is an anecdote about a father who has mixed feelings of respect and resentment.



“My father is a person with many small teeth, but he always picks out stones that others don’t know about. In that case, my mother always had to cook again. I still remember that sound. My trembling hands made the dishes on the table slam against each other, making a rattling sound. From then on, I decided to become a father like 'Malang patjuk.' At my son's wedding, he proudly said, "I raised him like an emperor. said."



Professor Choi said that he predicted about 10 years ago about hate and conflict centered on the younger generation. "At the time, I didn't use the abbreviation, so I didn't use the word 'misogyny' myself, but I thought a similar phenomenon would occur. Until now, men have been holding the pendulum forcibly. The moment came when I had to put the weight down. But when I release this weight, it doesn't stop at the center of 'gender equality.' The weight goes that way. He said that for a while men could complain and feel resentful. I think the time has come. "



I don't think this conflict will last long. Rather, he points out that intergenerational conflict is the most difficult part to fill in the gap. "The gender conflict will be resolved someday. Men and women have no choice but to meet. 'Lee Dae-nam' and 'Lee Dae-nyeo' look serious, but looking at all men and women as a whole, men can become more welcoming. Men's point of view Esau is an opportunity to become the center of the family in a traditional money making machine. Instead of feeling 'my job is being taken away' by women at work, I like to think of it as securing my wife's and my daughter's jobs."



“These days, there is a lot of talk about a four-day work week, but I have been advocating for a three-day work week. It’s like this. If you take one day off a week, men work three days a week and women work three days. Sit down, chat and take care of the children. How good is that?"



In the lab with hundreds of books, there are post-it notes stating that you are borrowing books. I asked Professor Choi, who is also a passionate writer, a bookkeeper and a collection book reader, for year-end recommendations for readers.



"I never believe that cooperation is more important than competition. Competition is inevitable. However, if you look closely at nature, those who join hands can survive the competition together by cooperating with each other. In the meantime, we have referred to the process of natural selection as 'survival of the fittest'. It's called 'Survival of the Fittest' and the superlative is wrong here. Our society has an obsessive compulsive idea that everyone will be destroyed if they don't take first place, but nature never does. We strangely view nature that way. I see. When resources run out, someone with no competitiveness down there is dying, and not everyone who is left with the first place dies. Let's work together and do well and survive together. If we take a closer look, we find that nature is such a place. The book I wrote is <No Life Survives Without Hands (2014)>. Biologists have started talking about it a lot recently. I recommend the three books <Human Kind>, <Kindness Survive>, and <Science of Friendship>. You will feel warm at the end of the year."



After graduating from the Department of Zoology at Seoul National University, he studied in the United States in 1979 and received a master's degree in ecology from Pennsylvania State University and a master's and doctorate in biology from Harvard University.

He was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in 1992, and after returning to Korea in 1994, he served as a professor at Seoul National University until 2006.

Since 2007, he has been working as a chair professor in the Department of Eco Science at Ewha Womans University.

I have been doing magpie research for over 25 years.



They have 1 son, 1 dog, and 2 myo.

Since the beginning of marriage in 1981, I have been doing the dishes in the housework for 30 years.

MBTI is an ENFJ 'just social activist' type (Professor Jae-Chun Choi's ultra-simple MBTI test can be found in the interview video to be uploaded later).



For over 20 years, he has been writing named columns for the comprehensive daily newspapers <The Hankyoreh> and <The Chosun Ilbo>.

I have a strong passion for writing, so I send the manuscript two days in advance.

I think it takes a lot of time to change even one survey.

I am strictly a 'J' type when it comes to time management.

As of December 2021, he has published 95 books.

I am running a YouTube channel <Choi Jae-chun's Amazon>.