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1_It started as a foolish attempt.

I was so diligent and busy that I thought it was a bit too much for January and January.

I haven’t decided on this year’s keywords yet,

The thing that suddenly came to mind was a rabbit, so let’s not just eat two rabbits this time.

Should I be more greedy and try to catch three or four rabbits?

I think I can do it. And what if you fail?

It’s a hundred times, a thousand times better than cowardly cowering without even trying.

The fortune teller said that February through April are the peak of busyness.

I believe that hunting can be more enjoyable when you are busy.

Come on, come on!


-. ‘Nanso-gong’ had its 300th printing and set a record of selling 1 million copies, but that made the teacher even more heartbroken. Even though the book was read from generation to generation, the difficult lives of the dwarfs did not change. The teacher waited for an era when there would be no need for ‘Nanso-gong’, but left without seeing that era coming.

You once said this. He said that the reason he used ‘dwarf’ in the title of the book instead of the standard word ‘dwarf’ was because of concerns and concerns. Even if it was a literary metaphor, I did not want the word to hurt people with disabilities. It was not the ‘dwarf’ who was responsible for his failure to grow up, but the world that stopped his growth at 117 cm in height and 32 kg in weight. Ahead of the deadline, the teacher pressed down those last sentences and engraved them in his heart, saying, “I had to write quickly and pass it over, but I couldn’t, so I stayed up all night for three days and wrote just a few lines.”

“Kill the villain who calls my father a dwarf.” “Okay, I’ll kill you.” “Be sure to kill me.” “Yes, definitely.” “please.”

I think the people who were unable to say goodbye to the teacher until the moment he passed away were the ‘dwarfs.’ They will be the ones who will be most saddened by the loss of their teacher.

My teacher was the one who taught me the rigor of speaking and writing. A long time ago, I first met the author as a reporter interviewing him, but as time went by, my teacher encouraged me to become a person who had something to write in my heart. Every time we met or talked on the phone, the teacher asked what I had in mind and who I was thinking about when I wrote. Don’t take writing seriously, but don’t take it lightly either. Instead of focusing on areas where there is too much text, I said to add sentences to areas where there is insufficient text. I thought those words were the teacher’s feelings toward writing.

by Hankyoreh Reporter Lee Moon-young

-.”But if I use the word ‘I love you’, it feels like it ends there, so let’s make a melodrama in which the word ‘I love you’ doesn’t appear. How can I say I love you without saying ‘I love you’? Can I make the word I love you through actions and movements in this story?”

I was impressed by the fact that writer Seo-kyung Jeong said that the movie is a movie that expresses love at length without saying the words “I love you.” Sometimes certain words and actions can be more powerful than saying I love you. There are moments when you don’t know unless you say it, but I think love is something that can be known even without saying anything.

by Writer Seo-kyung Jeong, Nana’s Viewing Record

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-.I need to create a financial safety zone to give myself a mental space to rest. Sit down and calculate how much money you need each month. (It’s surprisingly consistent.)

I always try to have six months’ worth of living expenses in the bank. Because I know that if something goes wrong, it will take at least a few months to figure out what else to do. It’s not easy. But I know that this buffer has a huge impact on the quality of my work. This is because two very important luxuries were enjoyed.

  1. I can refuse work that does not suit me.

  2. Although I have only experienced it once or twice in my life, I can afford to leave any workplace.

I try to take the time to check my accounts once a month. I’m trying to see if it’s okay or if I should be nervous.

Life is unpredictable. And you can’t always keep the status quo the same. Worrying about money creates stress, and what’s worse is that this fear and despair seeps into the work. This is why I think financial prudence is an important factor, even though it may not be formal.

-.Leaving the safe zone / Room to make Mistakes

-.In my experience, truly valuable new ideas come from the process of creating them. The process of making it: Take what you already know and reveal what you don’t know. And observe what happens.

-.Simplicity does not mean having no decoration. It’s about creating something incredibly complex and then cutting it down until the true core is revealed. When you’re done cutting, you realize it. You can clearly see the idea, but you don’t really like it.

Now it is time to divide the adult man from the young boy. It’s letting go of an idea you’ve fallen in love with after working on it for several nights with passion, blood, sweat, and tears. This process doesn’t get any easier even after you get used to it.

Although it is painful, there remains a struggle that must be endured. You create with a pure and open heart like a child, but you must be cold-hearted yet cruel when judging it.

-.In all my works, I play two different roles: artist and editor.

First, you have to be an artist. Trying new experiments and not caring whether the idea will actually work.

You cannot build a new path step by step. Because I’m trying to limit myself to things I already know. You have to be able to get your hands dirty to discover new things. You have to believe that you can twist or make mistakes in your subconscious and surprisingly transform them into something new.

Finally sharing my discoveries with the world. The reaction to new ideas is often an apologetic shake of the head. The problem isn’t that they don’t understand the idea. The problem lies in not even realizing that such an idea exists.

At this point, you should call in your ruthless editor. Take that idea and cut it down mercilessly.

-.If I think about the things I do now, I realize that most of the foundations of my skills started as foolish attempts on a weekend morning five years ago. Isn’t it incredibly difficult to find time to experiment with new things these days?

I don’t know what I’ll be doing in 5 years, but I know it will have to be different from what I’m doing now.

-.Great ideas cannot be created by force.

My job is to focus on my skills, create a good work environment, and have time to think and experiment.

The rest must be left to luck.

-.On a really nice day, this realization may even bring you a feeling very close to happiness.

by Christoph Nieman