This English edition of the widely quoted Korean essay collection offers quiet strength in a noisy world. From bestselling Korean author Jung Young-wook, Well Was, Well Is, Well Be invites you to explore the simple but powerful question:
Have I done well? Am I doing well? Will I do well?

In soft, honest language, the author reflects on what it means to keep going—especially when life feels unsteady.

“Some days, we endure bravely. Other days, we feel like we’re falling apart inside.
But if our lives can break without reason, maybe they can also heal without reason.”

Divided into six parts—Emotions, Relationships, Love, Self-Preservation, Depression, and Encouragement—each chapter offers short, lyrical essays grounded in lived experience. These are not lessons, but gentle observations. Not answers, but empathy.

This book doesn’t shout for change. Instead, it whispers:
You are allowed to rest. You are allowed to hope. You are allowed to be soft and still strong.

Are you standing at an uncertain point in life?
Do you feel disillusioned by relationships that seem to drift apart?
Are you heartbroken by yet another failed love?

Then this book is for you.

Open it like a door.
Inside, you’ll find a quiet garden blooming with the possibility of “well.”

To everyone reading this—
Well Was, Well Is, Well Be.

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Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.

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Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.

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When Jim Kim migrated to America in the late 1980s, he knew little English and had ridiculously little capital and a degree that mainstream society didn’t recognize. He started several businesses, which all foundered. In 2005, he made an impressive comeback after the age of forty by starting the world’s first chain of grab-and-go sushi bars: SnowFox, which has become one of the largest chains of sushi bars in America.

In Grab and Go, Kim shares his secrets to achieving what he wants in life and synthesizes them into an essay collection packed with enduring lessons and practical takeaways.

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