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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One of the monsters is me.

Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and content life. Their little home above his mother’s used bookstore is decorated with colorful Post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say “thank you,” and when to laugh.

Then on Christmas Eve—Yunjae’s sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him alone and on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school, and they develop a surprising bond.

As Yunjae begins to open his life to new people—including a girl at school—something slowly changes inside him. And when Gon suddenly finds his life at risk, Yunjae will have the chance to step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become the hero he never thought he would be.

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<블로노트>는 타블로가 세상에 던지는 짧지만 강렬한 메시지이다. 때로는 주변의 인간관계, 가족, 친구에 관한 냉철한 시각에서부터 나아가 다양하고 복잡해진 사회에 시원하게 내지르는, 타블로의 일관된 가치관이 고스란히 들어 있다. 래퍼 타블로가 평소 주로 해오던 서사적이고 문학적인 음악 작업과 같지만 또 다르게 특유의 감수성을 그대로 담아내면서도 정곡을 찌르는 함축적 문장들이 책 위를 흐른다.

책으로 묶여진 <블로노트>에는 배우 공효진, 영화감독 박찬욱, 버스커 버스커 장범준, 빅뱅 권지용, 라디오 작가 김재연, 개그맨 양세형, 뮤지션 유희열, 꽃봄 크리에이티브 디렉터 김혜진, 모델이자 배우 이성경, 검정치마 조휴일, 만화가 이말년, 디자이너 김기조, 라디오 DJ 배철수 등 좀처럼 한자리에 모이기 어려운 유명인사들이 저마다의 개성적인 손글씨로 표현한 블로노트 문장을 수록하였다.

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시리즈 12권 신경숙의 <풍금이 있던 자리>는 여성 화자 ‘나’가 이 년간 지속해 온 불륜의 사랑을 끝내기로 결심하기까지, 마음의 바닥에서 일어나는 하염없는 상념을 상대방 남자에게 보내는 편지 형식으로 고백하고 있는 작품이다.

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Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, kind farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a passing magazine photographer.

In Violets, best-selling author Kyung-Sook Shin explores misogyny, erasure, and repressed desire, as San desperately searches for both autonomy and attachment in the unforgiving reality of contemporary Korean society.

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Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

“A suspenseful, haunting, achingly lovely novel about the hidden lives, wishes, struggles and dreams of those we think we know best.” —Seattle Times

“Intimate and hauntingly spare…. A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood.” —The New York Times Book Review

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특히 이번 시집 『호랑나비』에는 부서진 세계를 살아가는 우리의 영혼을 어떻게 가꾸고 보존해나갈 것인지를 고민하는 시인의 목소리가 실려 있다. “어떻게 하면 시가 현실 세계를 바꿀 수 있을까”를 탐구하는 시인의 에세이도 만나볼 수 있다.

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