Doh has also written about the importance of South Korea’s educational reform to cultivate responsible citizens of a democratic society.
In 2011, he helped found the Humanitas College (후마니타스칼리지) at Kyung Hee University, where he advocated the necessity of humanities education in training students to become responsible members of the civil society.
Doh admitted that he does not have a degree in English received from the university, but explained that this was due to his failure to submit the final copy of his dissertation after passing the PhD defense.
[3] In 1961, he enrolled in the English department of Kyung Hee University, where he acquired an interest in the philosophies of existentialism and world literature such as Camus, Dostoevsky.
In his position as the Executive Director, he has constantly emphasized the importance of reading for sustaining a healthy civil society.