At Harvard, it’s easy to lose track of the rest of the world. When your entire existence here is regimented into eight semesters, 128 credits, and a minimum GPA of 3.0, you sometimes forget that this isn’t the only – or even the best – way to do things. And it wasn’t until last week, when I heard the Korean artist Park Dae Sung speak on campus, that I personally got a wake-up call.

Since September 19, the Korea Institute at Harvard University has been displaying the ‘Park Dae Sung: Ink and Soul’ exhibition on the Councourse floor of the Center for...