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This is our opening slide
for all of the lectures.

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So what does it mean?

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It's called Incheon Bridge,

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and it's located
in South Korea, near Seoul.

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This bridge was finished in 2009,

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and now it connects
the airport serving Seoul

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to what's called Songdo Business District,

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which was built on reclaimed land.

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The private contract owner 
behind the bridge was Samsung.

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One reason we chose this particular image

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is simply that South Korea
has itself been successful

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in terms of economic development.

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When it comes to development,
Alex and I are very much optimists.

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But look more carefully at this picture,

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which was taken before
the bridge was finished.

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You can see the bridge is incomplete.

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We view economic development
as something which is always in process.

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Most importantly, this image reflects
an underlying philosophy of education,

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namely that we should always be trying
to bridge gaps in our knowledge.