The topic of 'vocabulary' was thrown to 500,000 readers.
『Adult Vocabulary』, 『One Page a Day, My Vocabulary Note』, a new work by author Yoo Seon-gyeong!

“Now is the time when the ability to ask questions is more important than finding answers!”
The power of questions to develop vocabulary, literacy, language skills, and thinking skills.

★ 6 Ways to Form Question Sentences the Right Way
★ Questioning techniques that change perspectives and broaden thinking
★ New questioning methods and prompt writing methods needed in the AI ​​era
★ Great questions that shifted the paradigm

If you haven't found the answer yet, it's because you're not asking the right question!
“Don’t look for answers, look for questions.”

“Asking questions the right way can open up new perspectives, which can broaden your thinking, change your perspective, and spark creative thinking.
It is the beginning of a self-directed life.
As you ask yourself questions and find answers, you become an independent human being.
“The vitality that arises when you ask yourself questions and look at the world is something that does not exist when you passively accept the answers given by others.” _ From “Author’s Note”

Author Yoo Seon-gyeong, who provided new humanistic insights to 500,000 readers by raising the topics of 'vocabulary' and 'writing', now talks about 'questions'.
We were raised to be answerers, not questioners.
If you get the answer right, you will be praised and promoted.
But now, they say, we've entered a world where questions matter. With the advent of the AI ​​era, the importance of questions is only growing.
But unfortunately, until now, no one has taught us how to 'ask questions'.
The author says that adding 'why' to a sentence or adding a question mark at the end of a sentence does not necessarily make it a question.
Although it is said that 'there are no wrong questions in the world', it is emphasized that there are clearly right and wrong ways to ask questions.
Many people wander and waste their lives asking the wrong questions.
If you haven't found the answer yet, it's because you haven't asked the right question.
"Questioning" explores the various social contexts that lead us to be unable to ask questions, and reveals five benefits that can be gained through questions, thereby reaffirming the importance of questions.


During her 30-plus years as a broadcast writer, including 10 years in charge of current affairs and social programs, writer Yoo Seon-gyeong wrote questionnaires for at least one interview every day.
Through this, I learned how to create questions that clarify intention and purpose and emphasize key vocabulary.
Also, for 5 years and 4 months, I wrote articles directly posing and answering approximately 1,400 questions in the corner “Suddenly Ask” on KBS Classic FM’s “Let’s Go with FM.”
He has shown examples of how simple curiosity or inquisitiveness can expand into questions that broaden one's knowledge from a new perspective, drawing enthusiastic responses from listeners.
You could call him a so-called 'questioning expert'.
Asking yourself the 'right' questions leads to a self-directed life.
The 'right' questions asked to the world change paradigms.
A question is also the power to summarize the content and use it in concise sentences.
Therefore, improving vocabulary, literacy, language comprehension, and thinking skills are a bonus.
In 『Questioning Style』, author Yoo Seon-gyeong shares her own questioning know-how and offers specific suggestions on 'how to create question sentences in the right way.'
In addition, we introduce various questioning methods, such as questioning methods that change perspectives and broaden thinking, and new questioning methods that are essential in the AI ​​era.

It never occurred to me before that the question could be wrong.
I thought any question was good.
It's not a problem if you don't do it, so what's the problem if you do it?
But you only get answers as many times as you ask.
Until now, we have only considered questions as questions because we do not know the answer to them.
This can be said to be the level of staying on an island on the Korean Peninsula of the Earth in the galaxy in the universe called Question.
Questions are asked not only to find out what we don't know, but also to get better answers and prevent accidents and mistakes.

--- From the author's note

The right questions make people want to talk.
It opens the mind of the person asking the question and cultivates an attitude that allows them to listen to what the other person has to say.
This difference determines the level of the question.
So, can't we change the questions (or non-questions) that contained complaints, grievances, and accusations above into the right ones and turn them into conversations?
You can get out of the position of trying to evaluate or control the other person's thoughts based on your own thoughts and change the question to a 'neutral' one.

--- p.23~24

The level of questioning depends on 'knowledge'.
Questions reveal not how much you don't know, but how much you know.
If you don't have any questions, it may not be because you know, but because you don't know, or because you don't want to know.
Where does ‘knowledge’ begin?
It is the point where you realize that you don't know.
Knowledge begins the moment you realize how much you lack, what you know wrong, and how you know it wrong.
The tool here that deflects, diverts, expands, and delves is the question.

--- p.29

I repeat, a thoughtless person never asks questions.
In other words, if you strive to speak and think correctly, that in itself is a heroic act of resisting evil.
He will ask himself questions at every moment to speak correctly, to think correctly, to think correctly from the other person's perspective, to see from a different perspective.

--- p.61

If you can find, understand, interpret, and communicate information through language—that is, if you have verbal literacy—you can ask appropriate questions.
Otherwise, it's easy to ask irrelevant questions that are out of context and out of focus.
Of course, there are cases where a question that others would consider odd can open up new avenues in a field, but this is an exception here because it may be proven in the distant future.
Find key words in what the other person says and ask questions based on your choice of words within the context.
Establishing key vocabulary before asking a question will help clarify the purpose and intent of the question and what you want to know through it.

--- p.117

Most questions start like that.
It's still just a question.
If you stop at that point, you won't be able to find the answer.
We need to go one step further and make it a question.
From broad to narrow categories, from vague to concrete, from unreal to real, from shadow to substance.
To do that, you have to ask yourself countless questions.
This is the ability to think.
So the process of finding the right question is also a thinking process.

--- p.130~131

Even if the subject is the same, if the situation changes, the question must be changed.
The old answers no longer work.
If you change the question, the answer will change.
Do you feel like the answers you were once sure of no longer hold true?
The question needs to be changed.
If you insist on asking the same question, you will end up with a series of wrong answers.
In doing so, I may fall into conflict or frustration, thinking that I am right but the world and people are wrong.
Let's change the question.
Changing the question can lead to a shift in thinking and a new perspective, like finally finding the right pair of glasses for your vision.

--- p.173

When I hear stories like this, I think that the truth that science, researched and developed by humans, is continuously proving is that 'this world is not centered around humans and the Earth.'
This is the expansion of perspective.
Those who have experienced a broadening of perspective while looking at the same thing create new paths by asking different questions with different frameworks, while those who have not experienced this remain stuck in the old ways by repeating the same questions with old frameworks.

--- p.183