
Writing Life-Changing Emails
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Book Introduction
- A word from MD
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Isul-ah's work and life skillsA new work by author Isul-ah.
The project of 'Writing Emails that Change Your Life', which received acclaim in the 'Daily Dew' series, is now presented in book form.
I share the skills I've gained through exchanging thousands of emails, along with my experiences, connections, and life's opportunities.
It's time to discover Isul-Ah's secret recipe that will make your work and life practical and beautiful.
June 17, 2025. Essay PD Lee Ju-eun
The return of the legend, "Daily Dew"'s trade secrets revealed!
“Does it sound like an exaggeration to say that you can fix it by email?”
Pay off your thousand-dollar debt by email,
The landscape of Korean literature has changed with email.
The secrets of casting, coordination, and persuasion revealed by author Isul-ah herself.
Here is a writer who, without any institutional requests or invitations, has carved out his own territory and engaged in direct dealings with readers through nothing more than 'email'.
He didn't need a debut, no critical acclaim, no praise, no hefty salary.
All that was needed was 'email', a medium that allowed him to directly send his endlessly polished sentences and thoughts to 'one person'.
Author Lee Seul-ah, who revolutionized the Korean literary landscape with "Daily Isul-ah," which delivers daily articles directly to readers for a monthly subscription fee of 10,000 won, and established a "direct writer-reader transaction service" system, talks about how to change your life through email.
“My recruiting has never ended in failure.”
“When it comes to making money, you always try to get the maximum amount.”
“You must know how to deliver a clear, hot punch to the heart of a lukewarm opponent.”
“There is only one way to escape the pain of not being able to work.”
For Those Who Want to Publish a Book: Winning Submission Email Strategies
This declaration of such a confident creator and proud worker encompasses the work and life skills of Isul-ah: accepting and rejecting assignments, maximizing the stakes appropriate to her worth, sometimes kneeling artistically and apologizing for her mistakes, and ultimately winning the hearts of countless others to her side, creating a "new world."
In March 2025, she returned to her hometown, "Daily Isul-a", and was praised by numerous subscribers as "the best and legendary of all the "Daily Isul-a" serials so far." In the project "Writing Emails That Change Your Life," there is the "best Isul-a" who works, lives, loves, and constantly renews her life.
Author Lee Seul-ah, who made commuters excited by an email every morning at 7:30 and made every workplace, workplace, and restaurant bustle during lunchtime, finally makes a declaration in this new book, revealing eighteen secrets one by one along with unpublished manuscripts that were not revealed during the serialization of "Daily Lee Seul-ah."
“Does it sound like an exaggeration to say that you can fix it by email?”
Pay off your thousand-dollar debt by email,
The landscape of Korean literature has changed with email.
The secrets of casting, coordination, and persuasion revealed by author Isul-ah herself.
Here is a writer who, without any institutional requests or invitations, has carved out his own territory and engaged in direct dealings with readers through nothing more than 'email'.
He didn't need a debut, no critical acclaim, no praise, no hefty salary.
All that was needed was 'email', a medium that allowed him to directly send his endlessly polished sentences and thoughts to 'one person'.
Author Lee Seul-ah, who revolutionized the Korean literary landscape with "Daily Isul-ah," which delivers daily articles directly to readers for a monthly subscription fee of 10,000 won, and established a "direct writer-reader transaction service" system, talks about how to change your life through email.
“My recruiting has never ended in failure.”
“When it comes to making money, you always try to get the maximum amount.”
“You must know how to deliver a clear, hot punch to the heart of a lukewarm opponent.”
“There is only one way to escape the pain of not being able to work.”
For Those Who Want to Publish a Book: Winning Submission Email Strategies
This declaration of such a confident creator and proud worker encompasses the work and life skills of Isul-ah: accepting and rejecting assignments, maximizing the stakes appropriate to her worth, sometimes kneeling artistically and apologizing for her mistakes, and ultimately winning the hearts of countless others to her side, creating a "new world."
In March 2025, she returned to her hometown, "Daily Isul-a", and was praised by numerous subscribers as "the best and legendary of all the "Daily Isul-a" serials so far." In the project "Writing Emails That Change Your Life," there is the "best Isul-a" who works, lives, loves, and constantly renews her life.
Author Lee Seul-ah, who made commuters excited by an email every morning at 7:30 and made every workplace, workplace, and restaurant bustle during lunchtime, finally makes a declaration in this new book, revealing eighteen secrets one by one along with unpublished manuscripts that were not revealed during the serialization of "Daily Lee Seul-ah."
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index
Prologue_ Does it sound like an exaggeration to say you can fix your email?_10
First Secret_ “The best thing about email is that it saves the other person time.”
You don't even know the E in email... _16
Second Secret_ “This is the power of calling.”
If you get the name wrong, everything goes wrong_32
Third Secret_ “My recruitment has never ended in failure.”
How to Recruit Popular People_42
The Fourth Secret: "Email from a Person with Little"
My life changed because I liked you_54
Fifth Secret_ “You must know how to deliver a transparent yet hot punch to the chest of a lukewarm opponent.”
A slightly different title for the secret_72
The sixth secret_ “Naema Geumji (內磨金支)”
When to Talk About Money_86
Seventh Secret_ “When it comes to making money, you always get the maximum amount.”
Get more money beautifully and cool_98
Eighth Secret_ “I feel the heat in the email.”
The Pros of Email Are the Pros of Love_110
The ninth secret_ “Will it be successful if I propose like a piece of shit?”
For Those Who Want to Publish a Book - Winning Submission Email Strategy_124
The Tenth Secret_ “There is only one way to escape the pain of not being able to do anything.”
To the re-doer - How to accept revision request emails_138
Eleventh Secret_ “Pagonodeo”
Refusing is Cool and Warm - The Art of Writing Refusal Emails_154
The Twelfth Secret_ “There are only a few opponents who are so formidable as to make me nervous.”
I can't refuse him unless it's absolutely necessary_168
The thirteenth secret_ “Neither of us was weak in our resistance to life.”
Email from a Shy Person_178
Fourteenth Secret_ "A Beautiful and Affectionate Fist"
Flower Cart Kung Fu - Techniques for Improving Without Fighting_194
Fifteenth Secret_ “The key is the speed, direction, and angle of the kneeling.”
If you kneel artistically, it becomes a dance.
Writing an Apology Email That Will Never Be Easy_214
Sixteenth Secret_ “Sometimes I use KakaoTalk like a dog left on an open beach.”
Life-Changing KakaoTalk Writing - Email Application Part 224
Seventeenth Secret_ “If someone is kind to you every day, it means they are really deep-rooted and strong.”
Husband appears in mailbox_238
The Eighteenth Secret_ “Even if you leave the veil, there is nothing to lose.”
When to Stop Emailing_254
Epilogue_Love Again_272
First Secret_ “The best thing about email is that it saves the other person time.”
You don't even know the E in email... _16
Second Secret_ “This is the power of calling.”
If you get the name wrong, everything goes wrong_32
Third Secret_ “My recruitment has never ended in failure.”
How to Recruit Popular People_42
The Fourth Secret: "Email from a Person with Little"
My life changed because I liked you_54
Fifth Secret_ “You must know how to deliver a transparent yet hot punch to the chest of a lukewarm opponent.”
A slightly different title for the secret_72
The sixth secret_ “Naema Geumji (內磨金支)”
When to Talk About Money_86
Seventh Secret_ “When it comes to making money, you always get the maximum amount.”
Get more money beautifully and cool_98
Eighth Secret_ “I feel the heat in the email.”
The Pros of Email Are the Pros of Love_110
The ninth secret_ “Will it be successful if I propose like a piece of shit?”
For Those Who Want to Publish a Book - Winning Submission Email Strategy_124
The Tenth Secret_ “There is only one way to escape the pain of not being able to do anything.”
To the re-doer - How to accept revision request emails_138
Eleventh Secret_ “Pagonodeo”
Refusing is Cool and Warm - The Art of Writing Refusal Emails_154
The Twelfth Secret_ “There are only a few opponents who are so formidable as to make me nervous.”
I can't refuse him unless it's absolutely necessary_168
The thirteenth secret_ “Neither of us was weak in our resistance to life.”
Email from a Shy Person_178
Fourteenth Secret_ "A Beautiful and Affectionate Fist"
Flower Cart Kung Fu - Techniques for Improving Without Fighting_194
Fifteenth Secret_ “The key is the speed, direction, and angle of the kneeling.”
If you kneel artistically, it becomes a dance.
Writing an Apology Email That Will Never Be Easy_214
Sixteenth Secret_ “Sometimes I use KakaoTalk like a dog left on an open beach.”
Life-Changing KakaoTalk Writing - Email Application Part 224
Seventeenth Secret_ “If someone is kind to you every day, it means they are really deep-rooted and strong.”
Husband appears in mailbox_238
The Eighteenth Secret_ “Even if you leave the veil, there is nothing to lose.”
When to Stop Emailing_254
Epilogue_Love Again_272
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Publisher's Review
“Even if you leave the house, there is nothing to lose!”
This book is a useful essential reading for freelancers, office workers, creators, and aspiring artists alike, and is a literary work that contains the world's most beautiful letters and everyday writings left behind by author Isul-ah as she communicates with others.
This is the story of aspiring writer Lee Seul-ah, who struggled to pay off her student debt, and her journey to becoming a top writer through the diligent efforts of inviting others to her email window and rigorous self-discipline, ultimately receiving the absolute support of countless readers and the publishing industry. It is also an amazing testimony to the process by which a person with little achieved the ultimate level in work and life.
This is a story about nuance.
It's a story about the power of sentences that can make a big difference with a small amount.
I work in an industry where emails are written with the utmost beauty.
The daily lives of people who exchange well-written emails are somewhat different.
The depth of the water is shallow, the joy is doubled, and you don't have to fight with your colleagues unless it's really necessary.
Misunderstandings are reduced, hearts are won, and sometimes even money is gained.
You can start to like yourself quite a bit while working.
Even in this age where all the latest technologies are prevalent,
We still use the old medium of email to exchange intimate business and make important decisions.
Even in a world where email has been replaced by something else, the skills we've honed will still be relevant.
Writing a good email means reading my desires and the desires of the other person.
Because it is a matter of moving between them in a fluent language.
I find it difficult to imagine a world where this technology is not needed._From the text
I get excited by an email on my way to work, and then I cry on the subway.
Lunchtime has made all the workplaces, restaurants and restaurants in Korea bustle.
The bible for freelancers, office workers, and creators!
People were surprised when the brilliant essayist Lee Seul-ah returned to [Daily Lee Seul-ah] with the bold topic of "Writing Life-Changing Emails," along with a cartoonish poster of Lee Seul-ah, wearing strange glasses and typing on a keyboard amidst all sorts of practical equipment.
What kind of grand story of 'life' is author Lee Seul-ah, who delves into the trivialities of daily life with delicate and specific sentences, trying to tell?
The response was unprecedentedly hot in the history of [Daily Dew].
People were excited about Isul-ah's 'life-changing email' that arrived every morning at 7:30.
Additional subscription fees were quietly transferred from those who shared emails with friends and read articles without paying the subscription fee, just like sharing a Netflix ID.
It is said that 'it is a text that should not be read secretly without paying.'
There were many reports that people who were exhausted from receiving complaints mixed with irritation and anger when they came to work were able to calm down their customers and superiors and solve their problems with the 'special calling technique' taught by author Isul-ah.
People cried and laughed at Isul-ah's life email, which made them look back on their lazy hands and hearts that had only written invitation and proposal emails based on their own earnestness and needs and just grumbled when the other person rejected them.
'Naemageumji' 'Pagonodeo' - Isul-ah's ghostly secret technique of protecting my time and mind from being hurt while ensuring that I get what I want has become the bible for freelancers, office workers, and creators who are stressed out from sitting in front of the monitor every day and fighting a lonely battle.
Over the past 15 years, I've exchanged thousands of emails with many different people in various professions.
I've always wondered about this.
How can I take care of my own interests without being rude? How can I be kind without seeming condescending? How can I ask for more money without being mean? How can I refuse without hurting others? Can I get what I want without fighting?
I learned this through regret, suffering, and rewriting.
The more you use it, the better it gets.
That you are embodying in your eyes, your heart, and your fingers the wisdom that is so personal yet so incredibly helpful.
In the world of email, there are tons of tips that are definitely useful to know.
I will gradually reveal the big and small skills I have learned through trial and error with others.
_In the prologue
It breaks my heart to think of someone who is tolerating themselves for their mistakes, knowing full well that they are wrong.
If today you made a terrible mistake, wrote an apology email, and spent a day exhausted trying to clean up the mess, you'd want someone by your side in the evening to listen to your struggles.
I hope you remember that while you're painfully reliving the mistakes you never want to make again, right next to him.
That there is a next, and a next.
_In the text
The genius who wins people's hearts - Author Lee Seul-ah's eighteen secrets revealed!
Pay off your student loans, buy a house, and become a successful writer through email.
The life-changing email writing of writer Lee Seul-ah, who is now married.
This book contains real examples and quotes from emails actually exchanged by author Isul-ah.
Some might say, 'Isul-ah, the author, must be Isul-ah, so she gets such beautiful and wonderful emails, but my email inbox is full of trashy spam.'
But even when she wasn't 'the current Isul-ah', Isul-ah was writing special emails and inviting special people into her world.
Writer Lee Seul-ah, who is currently taking on a new challenge as a drama screenwriter, confesses that she met writer Noh Hee-kyung through email when she was a high school student attending an alternative school.
Because I wanted to be a writer so badly and because I really liked Noh Hee-kyung's dramas, I immediately emailed her and asked to meet.
Surprisingly, writer Noh Hee-kyung responds to an unexpected request from a high school girl she has never met before through an email.
Meanwhile, writer Lee Seul-ah also reveals the email she used to recruit musician Jang Ki-ha, whom she had no connection with, for the interview corner of [Daily Lee Seul-ah].
Of course, writer Isul-ah succeeds in recruiting Jang Ki-ha with a heartfelt email, and later throws the bouquet at her wedding to Jang Ki-ha, who became her close friend through the email and interview.
The book also includes beautiful and surprising life emails that Isul-ah received as a recipient.
What kind of interviews and projects does author Isul-ah accept, and what kind of proposals does she respond to? With countless interviews, testimonials, and requests from the publishing and media industries, what criteria does she use to select and vet the interviewers, writers, and editors she works with?
Isul-ah's inbox is filled with the fervent passion of those who, like experts playing ping-pong, bring out all their inner strength and life skills to work and serve others with understanding.
And finally, author Isul-ah receives the best proposal of her life via email and even finds her husband in her email inbox.
It was truly ‘writing a life-changing email.’
Author Lee Seul-ah, a genius at winning people's hearts.
This book contains Isul-ah's secrets and techniques for turning fleeting relationships into life's opportunities.
This book, written with great skill, was about to go to the self-help book section, which had been treated with contempt.
I often get tired of those stands that don't even try to hide capitalism, neoliberalism, and infinite growth.
I wanted to make a terrible mockery of the market, which boils down to how to have more than others, no matter what the book.
This is because self-help books have received dozens of times the love that literature has received.
As a consumer and producer of literature, I think I had some grudges.
Perhaps he wanted to sneak into the self-help book section and drop a powerful literary bomb.
But the more I wandered around self-help books, the more I couldn't help but read people's minds.
I was not unaware of the desire to simply follow someone else's instructions, the feeling that my life was not going to go this way.
It became difficult to keep a straight face any longer.
Now I think it doesn't matter what genre these writings are called.
If this isn't self-improvement, then what is? And if this isn't literature, then what is? I believe I've written something I wouldn't be ashamed of, regardless of how it's marketed.
_In the epilogue
This book is a useful essential reading for freelancers, office workers, creators, and aspiring artists alike, and is a literary work that contains the world's most beautiful letters and everyday writings left behind by author Isul-ah as she communicates with others.
This is the story of aspiring writer Lee Seul-ah, who struggled to pay off her student debt, and her journey to becoming a top writer through the diligent efforts of inviting others to her email window and rigorous self-discipline, ultimately receiving the absolute support of countless readers and the publishing industry. It is also an amazing testimony to the process by which a person with little achieved the ultimate level in work and life.
This is a story about nuance.
It's a story about the power of sentences that can make a big difference with a small amount.
I work in an industry where emails are written with the utmost beauty.
The daily lives of people who exchange well-written emails are somewhat different.
The depth of the water is shallow, the joy is doubled, and you don't have to fight with your colleagues unless it's really necessary.
Misunderstandings are reduced, hearts are won, and sometimes even money is gained.
You can start to like yourself quite a bit while working.
Even in this age where all the latest technologies are prevalent,
We still use the old medium of email to exchange intimate business and make important decisions.
Even in a world where email has been replaced by something else, the skills we've honed will still be relevant.
Writing a good email means reading my desires and the desires of the other person.
Because it is a matter of moving between them in a fluent language.
I find it difficult to imagine a world where this technology is not needed._From the text
I get excited by an email on my way to work, and then I cry on the subway.
Lunchtime has made all the workplaces, restaurants and restaurants in Korea bustle.
The bible for freelancers, office workers, and creators!
People were surprised when the brilliant essayist Lee Seul-ah returned to [Daily Lee Seul-ah] with the bold topic of "Writing Life-Changing Emails," along with a cartoonish poster of Lee Seul-ah, wearing strange glasses and typing on a keyboard amidst all sorts of practical equipment.
What kind of grand story of 'life' is author Lee Seul-ah, who delves into the trivialities of daily life with delicate and specific sentences, trying to tell?
The response was unprecedentedly hot in the history of [Daily Dew].
People were excited about Isul-ah's 'life-changing email' that arrived every morning at 7:30.
Additional subscription fees were quietly transferred from those who shared emails with friends and read articles without paying the subscription fee, just like sharing a Netflix ID.
It is said that 'it is a text that should not be read secretly without paying.'
There were many reports that people who were exhausted from receiving complaints mixed with irritation and anger when they came to work were able to calm down their customers and superiors and solve their problems with the 'special calling technique' taught by author Isul-ah.
People cried and laughed at Isul-ah's life email, which made them look back on their lazy hands and hearts that had only written invitation and proposal emails based on their own earnestness and needs and just grumbled when the other person rejected them.
'Naemageumji' 'Pagonodeo' - Isul-ah's ghostly secret technique of protecting my time and mind from being hurt while ensuring that I get what I want has become the bible for freelancers, office workers, and creators who are stressed out from sitting in front of the monitor every day and fighting a lonely battle.
Over the past 15 years, I've exchanged thousands of emails with many different people in various professions.
I've always wondered about this.
How can I take care of my own interests without being rude? How can I be kind without seeming condescending? How can I ask for more money without being mean? How can I refuse without hurting others? Can I get what I want without fighting?
I learned this through regret, suffering, and rewriting.
The more you use it, the better it gets.
That you are embodying in your eyes, your heart, and your fingers the wisdom that is so personal yet so incredibly helpful.
In the world of email, there are tons of tips that are definitely useful to know.
I will gradually reveal the big and small skills I have learned through trial and error with others.
_In the prologue
It breaks my heart to think of someone who is tolerating themselves for their mistakes, knowing full well that they are wrong.
If today you made a terrible mistake, wrote an apology email, and spent a day exhausted trying to clean up the mess, you'd want someone by your side in the evening to listen to your struggles.
I hope you remember that while you're painfully reliving the mistakes you never want to make again, right next to him.
That there is a next, and a next.
_In the text
The genius who wins people's hearts - Author Lee Seul-ah's eighteen secrets revealed!
Pay off your student loans, buy a house, and become a successful writer through email.
The life-changing email writing of writer Lee Seul-ah, who is now married.
This book contains real examples and quotes from emails actually exchanged by author Isul-ah.
Some might say, 'Isul-ah, the author, must be Isul-ah, so she gets such beautiful and wonderful emails, but my email inbox is full of trashy spam.'
But even when she wasn't 'the current Isul-ah', Isul-ah was writing special emails and inviting special people into her world.
Writer Lee Seul-ah, who is currently taking on a new challenge as a drama screenwriter, confesses that she met writer Noh Hee-kyung through email when she was a high school student attending an alternative school.
Because I wanted to be a writer so badly and because I really liked Noh Hee-kyung's dramas, I immediately emailed her and asked to meet.
Surprisingly, writer Noh Hee-kyung responds to an unexpected request from a high school girl she has never met before through an email.
Meanwhile, writer Lee Seul-ah also reveals the email she used to recruit musician Jang Ki-ha, whom she had no connection with, for the interview corner of [Daily Lee Seul-ah].
Of course, writer Isul-ah succeeds in recruiting Jang Ki-ha with a heartfelt email, and later throws the bouquet at her wedding to Jang Ki-ha, who became her close friend through the email and interview.
The book also includes beautiful and surprising life emails that Isul-ah received as a recipient.
What kind of interviews and projects does author Isul-ah accept, and what kind of proposals does she respond to? With countless interviews, testimonials, and requests from the publishing and media industries, what criteria does she use to select and vet the interviewers, writers, and editors she works with?
Isul-ah's inbox is filled with the fervent passion of those who, like experts playing ping-pong, bring out all their inner strength and life skills to work and serve others with understanding.
And finally, author Isul-ah receives the best proposal of her life via email and even finds her husband in her email inbox.
It was truly ‘writing a life-changing email.’
Author Lee Seul-ah, a genius at winning people's hearts.
This book contains Isul-ah's secrets and techniques for turning fleeting relationships into life's opportunities.
This book, written with great skill, was about to go to the self-help book section, which had been treated with contempt.
I often get tired of those stands that don't even try to hide capitalism, neoliberalism, and infinite growth.
I wanted to make a terrible mockery of the market, which boils down to how to have more than others, no matter what the book.
This is because self-help books have received dozens of times the love that literature has received.
As a consumer and producer of literature, I think I had some grudges.
Perhaps he wanted to sneak into the self-help book section and drop a powerful literary bomb.
But the more I wandered around self-help books, the more I couldn't help but read people's minds.
I was not unaware of the desire to simply follow someone else's instructions, the feeling that my life was not going to go this way.
It became difficult to keep a straight face any longer.
Now I think it doesn't matter what genre these writings are called.
If this isn't self-improvement, then what is? And if this isn't literature, then what is? I believe I've written something I wouldn't be ashamed of, regardless of how it's marketed.
_In the epilogue
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 12, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 280 pages | 356g | 133*200*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791194184331
- ISBN10: 1194184332
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