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Aram Hur in China
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| Born | 4 March 1971 Miryang |
| Residence | Busan |
| Nationality | South-Korea |
| Fields | Literature Education Humanities Global justice |
| Institutions | Indigo Book Company |
Aram Hur is a South Korean teacher, educator, publisher, lecturer, and social activist.
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Aram Hur was born in Miryang, South Korea on March 4, 1971, and grew up in Busan. She received her BA and MA from Pusan National University and has lectured on literature, philosophy, art, linguistics and educational studies.[1][2][3][4]
She is the chairperson of Indigo Book Company which is located in Busan, South Korea (인디고 서원).[5] Opened on 28 August 2004, it is a humanities bookstore for young people which also hosts public events, educational movements, and social activities;[6] it is a combination of nonprofit book publisher, magazine (Humanities Magazine for Youths "INDIGO+ing"),[7] bookstore, after-school course program, and community center. She is a founding member and chief director of Indigo Youth Book Fair. And she recently opened a vegetarian restaurant, Ecotopia[8] - the combination of the words: ‘ecology’ and ‘utopia’, which has became a favorite cafe of many young idealists in the environmental and global-justice movements.[9]