Gyeonggi Library to Host 'Gyeonggi Humanities Salon' with Sustinvest CEO Ryu Youngjae on October 13

Gyeonggi Library will host “Gyeonggi Humanities Salon,” a humanities lecture program, at 7 p.m. on October 13 at Planet Gyeonggi Hall, featuring a talk by Ryu Youngjae, CEO of Sustinvest.

Gyeonggi Humanities Salon is an interactive humanities program run by Gyeonggi Library, where participants share their thoughts through lectures on a range of topics and question-and-answer sessions. It is held at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month at Planet Gyeonggi Hall in Gyeonggi Library. Anyone of high school age or older can register through the Gyeonggi Library website (library.kr) starting two weeks before each lecture.

In 2006, Ryu founded Sustinvest, an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings agency. He analyzes corporate sustainability through ESG assessments and investment advisory services.

Poster for the Gyeonggi Humanities Salon at Gyeonggi Library

The lecture will focus on “The Betrayal of Shareholder Capitalism: Who Owns the Excess Profits?” Drawing on Lynn Stout’s book “The Shareholder Value Myth,” it will examine how corporate management paradigms have changed over the past 100 years and explore alternatives for Korean corporate governance based on various theories and perspectives on corporate purpose and governance.

“I hope this lecture will offer an opportunity to reflect together on the role of businesses and sustainability from an ESG perspective,” said Yoon Myunghee, director of Gyeonggi Library. “We will continue to offer humanities lectures that examine key issues facing our society from a range of perspectives.”

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