Bestselling essay series "Record of Every Day of the Week" and "Travel of Every Day of the Week"
Recover edition published to commemorate sales of 100,000 copies!

『Record of Every Day of the Week』, which has been consistently loved by readers since its publication in 2015 and has become a steady seller, and 『Travel of Every Day of the Week』, which was published in 2016, have been reborn as a recovered edition to commemorate exceeding 100,000 copies sold.
If author Kim Min-cheol's first essay, "Record of Every Day of the Week," shows the perspective of a copywriter who nurtures the seeds of ideas in everyday life in simple and truthful sentences, then his subsequent essay, "Travel of Every Day of the Week," is a book that allows one to fully experience the heart of a traveler who searches for "myself" in the cracks of an unfamiliar life.
The cover of the Recover Edition features a drawing by illustrator etoffe, adding wit and a comfortable sensibility reminiscent of the image of 'curly-haired author' Kim Min-cheol.


Even now, five years after its publication, 『Travel Every Day』 continues to receive rave reviews from readers. It is the story of author Kim Min-cheol becoming a "recording traveler" and weaving his own unique journey.
Is there anything that reveals oneself as fully as travel?
Under the light of 'travel', aspects of 'me' that I didn't even know existed are revealed: 'the laziness that I tried hard to ignore, the irritability that explodes at unexpected things, and even the model student habits that I can't shake off'.
So, how about breaking away from the things you believed were 'me'?
If you have only been doing familiar thoughts and familiar actions in a familiar space and time.

On a trip I set out on to escape the obsession with daily life, I found myself obsessed with the idea that I had to do something, that I had to go somewhere.
I shook my head from side to side to shake the thought away.
And I said to myself.
It's okay.
It's okay if you don't do anything.
This is not Seoul.
It's your time, all yours.
--- p.24, from “A Journey Leaving the Everyday and Arriving at the Everyday”

I wrote in an old book, 'You will be happy here,' and someone told me.
The abbreviation for ‘be happy here’ is ‘travel.’
I nodded vigorously.
--- p.27, from “A Journey Leaving the Everyday and Arriving at the Everyday”

Good accommodation is important.
A good meal is as important as a good trip.
However, good accommodations are not necessarily expensive.
A good space for me right now.
A space where I feel comfortable.
Even if the shower was a bit uncomfortable, the bathroom was a bit small, the cups didn't match, the wooden floor creaked, and the mattress was a bit hard, a good place to stay for me was a place that felt like my daily life.
It may not look perfect, but it's a place where I feel at ease the moment I put my body in.
Although I just arrived, I quickly became accustomed to the accommodation as if I had lived there for a few days.
A place where you can breathe a sigh of relief when you return home after a long day.
Even if it's not perfect, it's the perfect place for me.
A lot of houses come to mind.
I often think that maybe I'll have to travel again to get to those houses.
--- p.30, from “Accommodation and Travel”

I passed the stars and entered a back alley.
I went into Silvi's house in a neighborhood where tourists would never visit.
I sighed deeply after ordering, feeling like I was gambling in a place where there wasn't even an English menu.
Finally, we escaped the black hole.
What I needed was not someone else's Milky Way.
It was my one and only solid star.
--- p.137, from “A Journey Full of Lovely Flaws”

There was an old man sitting in the middle of them.
I was watching that old man.
I was watching time pass by.
It was a time without purpose or direction.
It was an empty time.
Suddenly I realized.
Oh, I'm really going to miss this moment.
(…) There will come a time when I will miss this cafe, which is nothing, this feeling right now, this languor, this speed, that blank stare, all this useless time that I can’t even name more than anything else.
--- p.164, from “Useful Travel, Useless Travel”

Wait a long time and eat slowly.
They talk and laugh with each other.
It's a delicious time going down your throat.
Suddenly, I think I should live like this.
slowly.
Savoring it.
together.
Even if you're not traveling, take your time and savor each moment.
Savoring it.
together.
Travel teaches me the rhythm of daily life.
--- p.187, from “My Incompetent Travel Companion”

I was surprised to see her face flushed red as she recalled our story.
It was an expression of someone who really didn't know what a jewel he had.
The expression we all had in our twenties.
He is startled by even the smallest compliment, and his expression shows that he lacks confidence more than anything else in the world.
An expression that said there was no way I could have that kind of talent.
An expression that seemed to be at a loss as to what to do with the jewels that were in her arms.
She had that look on her face.

--- p.216, from “A Journey to Reply to Youth”