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A religious philosopher of this ethnicity arranged 210 terms into the maze-like Ocean Seal diagram. A 16th-century philosopher of this ethnicity included “Admonition on Rising Early and Retiring Late” among the title Ten Diagrams he created for the education of a ruler. A thinker of this ethnicity argued that we are “achievement-subjects,” not “obedience-subjects,” governed by “Can” rather than “May Not,” (-5[1])in a 2010 book whose cover depicts a rope fraying in the middle over a black background. That thinker (10[1])of this ethnicity wrote The Burnout (10[1])Society (10[6])in his (10[1])adoptive (10[2])home (10[1])country, (10[1])Germany. (10[2]-5[1])A professor of this ethnicity, (10[1])who posed the “pairing (10[1])problem” objection to mind-body dualism and distinguished weak and strong supervenience, taught at Brown until his 2019 death. (10[1])For 10 points, name this ethnicity of Byung-Chul (10[1])Han (10[4])and Jaegwon Kim. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Korean [or Hanguk-in; or Joseon-in; accept Korean-German; accept Korean-American; prompt on East Asian] (The Ocean Seal diagram is by Ŭisang. Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning is by Toegye.)
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