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In 2010 Gong published a collection of essays on the environment titled Gong Hyo-jin's Notebook (also known as 공책 Gong Chek, which is a play on her surname and the Korean word for "notebook"). In it Gong gives a look inside her personal lifestyle habits, and offers practical and simple tips on going green such as using shower gels and shampoo sparingly, driving a small car, shopping at flea markets, reusing plastic bags, unplugging electronics, using rechargeable batteries, growing plants, riding bikes, and adopting abandoned pets. The book has sold over 40,000 copies and is on its fourth printing.
She recorded the duet "I Think I Love You" for K-pop singer MY Q's 2011 album Ready for the World.
Gong, along with fellow actresses Kim Min-hee and Choi Kang-hee, is considered an influential fashion icon by Korean women in their 20s and 30s. In 2010 she collaborated with shoe brand pushBUTTON to produce the capsule collection "Excuse Me + pushBUTTON." Two years later, Suecomma Bonnie, another shoe brand, released her "Excuse Me x Suecomma Bonnie" line. In 2012 she designed a selected line of apparel for the fashion shop Los Angeles Project, a brand located inside Shinsegae Department Stores. Her neon-colored and patterned items were sold under the name "LAP by Kong Hyo-jin."
She was named jury president for the 2009 International Women's Film Festival in Seoul. Gong was also a jury member for the 2011 Asiana International Short Film Festival, and the 2006 Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival.
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“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
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