Scholars have pointed out that nationalism is a double-edge sword (Samuel Kim and Shin Gi-wook). Why is it double-edged? What validity does it have in the era of globalization when the significance of the nation-state seems to be increasingly shrinking? What problems are immanent to nationalism? When/how does national consciousness becomes “repressive” or “valid”? Is the global necessarily contradictory to the local? If not (as Shin Gi-wook argues), what is your take on the dynamic of global and local?