Founder & Project Creator
PAUL JOSPEH J. KANG
Project Creator. Global Connector. Conference builder.
Born in Korea and currently living in New York City, he works to bridge the gap between the United States and Afro-Eurasia, has been consulting individuals, companies, and public organizations around the world to solve intractable problems, and has been creatively designing and conceptualizing projects to solve them for over 20 years. He is working on his lifelong project, Project For Death And The City, organizing the annual conference Death and the City: It's Future now. He is preparing the Sing Again We're the World at 40th anniversary Project with partners in the US.
SOUTH KOREA
(Former) Editor-in-Chief, SK Mellon | Melon Juice (Former) Global Marketing Advisory Board Member, Seoul Metropolitan Government (Former) APEC Host City Selection TF (Former) Technical Director, UNEP Project Team (Former) Digital Project Director for the Cheong Wa Dae Presidential Inauguration Member of the Convergence Subcommittee of Korea's 6th Technology Innovation Plan
U.S.A AND GLOBAL
(Former) Seoul Industrial Promotion Agency | Official Representative in the U.S. (Former) Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce | International Industrial Cooperation Officer AR/XF Association | Member Brooklyn Healthcare / BioCommittee | Member NY Metropolitan Cemetery Association | Member Intercom Xesange Creative Lab | Chief Producer Project For Death And The City | Founder StepintoCity - Global Human Mobility Program | Co-Founder | https://stepinto.city
I was born for death brand | https://iwbfd.com
MAIN PARTS OF PAUL & JOSEPH
- Project for Death and the City
- StepintoCity | Global Human Mobility
Seoul Made Project with Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City and Randy Peers, CEO of Brooklyn chamber of Commerce
The representative in Asia & A panelist at Cities, Technology, and the future at Create the future summit 2024
Final Jury at ECA Innovation Awards in Sanghai
Lifetime Project
Project for Death and the City
Have you ever imagined a future City where the current and future generations dwell?
According to the WHO, climate change is the biggest challenge threatening humanity in the 21st century. Glaciers are melting in Antarctica, and sea levels are rising because fossil fuels and greenhouse gases have caused the global temperature to increase.
50% of the world's population lives in coastal areas.
90% of the world's largest cities will be exposed to rising sea levels by 2050,
which could submerge low-lying coastal cities and countries.
This is not the only environmental problem endangering humankind's survival.
Forests are disappearing, land is seeing desertification, and city populations are getting denser.
Places we can live in are disappearing.
As a countermeasure against this, UN-HABITAT launched the 'Marine City' project.
'Modular Marine City,' 'Undersea City,' and 'Migration to Mars,' many people worldwide actively discuss our next habitat.
Efforts to achieve a better human 'life' have been ongoing for a long time.
Our quality of life has improved, and life expectancy has increased.
Among all the concerns of this world, how often do we talk about 'death'?
For over a decade, as others have been working on the solution to 'life,' we have been thinking about 'death,' which people generally tend to ignore until it stares them in the face.
'Death' inevitably exists in life. It's not the end but rather another form of life that still affects the people who live past you. So, we wonder why attitudes toward death have not improved.
Since 'Death' is also a part of all our lives, we believe someone should design a better solution to what happens at that crucial point on everyone’s timeline.