Empathetic Dialogue as Embodied Pedagogy in an Era of Digital Reckoning ¹

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This study explores how Jeong’s ethics—rooted in sustained emotional presence and relational attunement—can inform empathetic dialogue as embodied pedagogy in the digital age. In response to the reactive moral climate of cancel culture, the article examines storytelling, imagination, and safe space practices as ethical interventions. Drawing from affect theory, moral psychology, and Korean emotional–relational ethics, it argues that Jeong enables a shift from punitive judgment toward ethical patience and relational restoration, offering educators tools to cultivate emotional reflexivity and moral complexity in classrooms and beyond.