Mгјdigkeitsgesellschaft - Byung-chul Han In Seou... -

In this film, the Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han traverses both Seoul and Berlin, acting as a "guide" to the themes of his best-selling book, The Burnout Society .

The guide you are referring to is most likely the titled Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin (2015), directed by Isabella Gresser.

: The documentary uses the backdrop of Seoul’s hyper-modernity to visualize "positive violence"—a form of exhaustion not caused by outside force, but by the internal drive to always do more.

: Han suggests "deep boredom" and "non-doing" as remedies for the digital anxiety found in cities like Seoul. Müdigkeitsgesellschaft–Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin

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