“Merry” and “revolt,” two words rarely seen together in a single sentence, capture the essence of the spirit required to transform South Korea in the twenty-first century. In this lecture, Dong-yeon Kim, the former Minister of Economy and Finance, former Deputy Prime Minister, former presidential candidate, and the sitting governor of the largest province in South Korea, reflects on his life and public service in a society that discourages questioning, especially from its young people. In a merry revolt against this tendency, Governor Kim asks young people to ask three questions of themselves. What is the problem that others have framed for you? What is the problem that you have posed for yourself? Finally, what is the problem that society at large has raised? By addressing these three questions, Governor Kim proposes solutions to the structural problems affecting Korean society today while cheering for the courage of young people to “break with the familiar past.