Shuffle Unnie, who has accumulated 100 million views on YouTube!
30 years of experience as a physical therapist
58-year-old dancer Dayeon
A life-changing story in progress!

“In ballet, there’s Kang Sue-jin, in figure skating, there’s Kim Yuna, and in shuffle, there’s dancing Dayeon.”

If you've worked at one job for more than 30 years, most people would expect to have a normal second half of their life, with a proper retirement and a proper retirement.
The author, who had lived a lukewarm life for 30 years as a physical therapist, also wondered if the rest of his life would end like that.
However, at the age of 55, he fell in love with shuffle dancing, which he discovered as if by fate, and danced every day. One day, when he came to his senses, he had become the protagonist of an extraordinary story of a thrilling life reversal that achieved 100 million views on YouTube.
This is the story of 'Dancing Dayeon', who started a shuffle craze among middle-aged women in Korea.


The author's passion created all of this.
The author is proving through his own life that the saying, “I create the miracles of my life” is not just a slogan.
The book contains the full life story of an ordinary middle-aged woman who becomes the influencer 'Dancing Dayeon' in just three years.
At the age of 55, an age that many might consider too late, the author taught herself shuffle dancing, took to the stage, founded the Korea Shuffle Dance Association, and now travels the globe as a dancing motivator, a beacon of hope for people of all ages.

"Hey, when did you wake up? What are you talking about working out abs at the crack of dawn?"
My husband woke up, rubbed his eyes, came into the living room and said something.
He looked at me with a look that said, "Here it goes again," and then passed by.
In the morning, the children would glance at their mother, who was panting alone with a face like the red sun, as if they were curious.
Then I got ready to go to school.
I thought it was nothing, thinking, "How long will this last? I'll probably give up."
At first, I felt embarrassed to reveal my gently protruding lower belly and sides to the online world, but that only lasted for a moment.
I took a picture of myself exercising and posted it on Instagram.
The morning I went to work, sweating profusely, was as ecstatic as the rising golden sun rushing into my arms.
It felt like the whole world was welcoming me with open arms. While working at the hospital, I was excited about exercising the next day.
As the abdominal photos piled up, people started coming to the online building.
The sound of the doorbell in a house where there were no visitors!
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A beach where blue waves roll in.
A foreign man with long, slender arms and legs was dancing.
Her blonde hair swayed in the sea breeze and her clothes fluttered.
What is this strange atmosphere?
The man's body was light, as if swaying in the wind.
Yet, I felt a light and powerful force in my feet as I ran and pushed forward.
I watched it again and again and was sucked into the video.
He was a shuffler, a person who danced the shuffle dance.
The shuffle dance seemed to be all about my feet.
I mostly moved my two feet in place.
It seemed like he was jumping up and down and dribbling with his feet like he was bouncing a basketball, and in some movements, he was rubbing his feet back and forth like a crab out to play.
Anyway, I was captivated by the dance that showed off all kinds of tricks that could be done with feet.
In the video, the general rhythm could be felt from the shuffler's movements of alternating his feet left and right.
At first glance, it looked similar to the motion of skating.
'Is this how it's supposed to be done? Is this it?' Without realizing it, my legs started to wiggle, and my body slowly started to move.
I suddenly jumped up from my seat.
“One, two, one, two.”
Although it was awkward, I followed the rhythm and moved along.
(To some, it might have been the moment when another Rudolph was born) The shuffle dance that I did without knowing anything was simple, repetitive, and above all, cheerful.
'Hey, I can do this too!'
The dormant excitement cells gradually woke up, and my limbs, shoulders, back, head, and entire body began to shake.
My whole body came to life.
When I saw a picture of abs, I exclaimed, "This is it!" from the bottom of my heart, but shuffle dancing was on a whole other level than ab exercises.
While thinking about how to build a cool online building and make money, I came across abs.
On the other hand, the shuffle dance was an uncalculated step.
'I want to do it.
'I can do it.' My heart pounded and I wanted to run like a child jumping into a stream.
Shuffle, shuffle, my head was spinning.

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Among the mountains, the most difficult one for me was the so-called 'Croak Cross Double Step'.
It was literally a movement that did both crochet and cross.
To my beginner's eyes, it looked more like a slow-motion stunt combining jumping rope and running.
I did the same thing, but something felt different. At some point, I realized I wasn't practicing dance, but playing a hidden picture game.
One day, when I was halfway through figuring out the answer, I found it.
A shout of 'Ah! This is it!' erupted as if a chestnut had fallen on my head.
I had to move my back foot twice, but because the foreign shuffler's steps were so fast, I mistook it for moving my front foot.
As soon as the twisted steps were released, he started moving as if he had an engine installed in his body.
As soon as the blockage was cleared, the dancing flowed smoothly and the number of video views also went up.
One day, I opened my eyes and saw that the video had 50,000 views.
Huh? I thought I was hallucinating because my eyes were blurry due to menopause.
5 with 4 zeros.
Just stay still.
It was one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, fifty thousand.
Fifty thousand people are watching my video? Why? At an age when I'm going through menopause, I wonder if running like that will put any strain on my joints or wear down my cartilage. It didn't seem like they were worried.
But it didn't seem like my dance moves were funny enough to make people burst out in laughter.

--- pp.76-77