preface

Mom's Youth
The philosophy of self-internalization
Become a businessman
Founding the Danji Ilbo
Turn away from Christianity
Get divorced
Becoming a broadcast MC
Fall in love again
Fair bias, biased fairness
Meet Jeong Bong-ju
Kim Eo-jun's testimony interview; editor-in-chief of the Ddanzi Ilbo
Nakkomsu is born
Joo Jin-woo's story
Jin Jung-kwon and Kim Eo-jun comment
Park Won-soon elected mayor of Seoul
Jeong Bong-ju goes to prison
Bikini scandal
Kim Eo-jun's B-level language theory
Kim Yong-min, a foul-mouthed man, is running for office.
A battle of truth with Park Ji-man
Falling in love with Moon Jae-in
Caught up in the National Intelligence Service's election interference
Nakkomsu final episode
Ah! December 19th

Postscript: 2016 Coordinates

A biography of Kim Eo-jun written secretly by Kim Eo-jun

Kim Eo-jun.
I don't think there's anyone who doesn't know this name.
When we think of the <Ttangji Ilbo>, which gave readers a refreshing catharsis with its humorous writing style as if mocking the solemnity of the established media, and the craze of the podcast 'Nakkomsu' (I am a kkomsu) that swept through this country a few years ago, Kim Eo-jun's presence becomes infinitely greater.
Still, do we know what made Kim Eo-jun Kim Eo-jun?
『The Biography of Kim Eo-jun, the First Bastard in the Galaxy』 started from this curiosity.
But why did Kim Yong-min, who could be called a ‘special relationship’ with Kim Eo-jun, who calls him ‘hyung’ in private, and who is a member of Nakkomsu, do this work?

“I am not only Kim Eo-jun’s comrade, but I have also been an observer who has been looking at him through a microscope from a close distance for the past nine years.
“Just for this reason, wouldn’t I be the right person to write a biography of Kim Eo-jun?”
However, Kim Yong-min wrote this book without Kim Eo-jun's knowledge.
It is said that if he had said from the beginning that he would write a biography, Kim Eo-jun would not have stayed still, so he had a bigger intention to do it first and see what happens.
However, it was impossible to keep it a secret until the end, and Kim Yong-min said that he told Kim Eo-jun about this fact when he was proofreading the book for the final time before its publication.
At that time, Kim Eo-jun's reaction was like this.
“What the hell is this biography about when he’s alive!”
But Kim Yong-min says he will definitely publish a book.
“To achieve a self that no one in this world can imitate, and to create a world filled with people who are as different as their DNA.
If you read this book and thought, "I should be like Kim Eo-jun," you've misread it.
You are like no one else.
“This is what I mean: ‘Make you one of a kind in the world.’”

Don't take entertainment as a documentary.

This book is a biography that looks back on the 47 years of life of Kim Eo-jun, the 'first bastard in the galaxy.'
The expression 'bastard' in the book title 'The First Bastard in the Galaxy' captures Kim Eo-jun's character so aptly that it makes you wonder if there is any expression more Kim Eo-jun-like.

If we were to speak in a sophisticated way about a 'bastard', we could say he is a 'Renaissance type person'.
Whether it's writing or broadcasting... he's an omnivorous intellectual who can handle anything, and he's a 'man of all trades' in the sense that he can digest any topic from all angles.
The exaggerated expression 'the first in the galaxy' is also something that can hardly be compared to anyone on this earth, no matter how hard you look.
In conclusion, he is the owner of a very unique character.
Just looking at this, Kim Eo-jun is a person worthy of being investigated.
Kim Yong-min suggests that we laugh at the title of this book.
He whines, saying that this is because it is a biography of the 'most trivial great man' who is completely different from the protagonists of the biographies we have read so far.

“Unlike Kim Gu, a figure in the history of the Korean independence movement, unlike Hitler, who slaughtered Europe with his mad will to power, unlike Jeon Tae-il, who lived the life of a young Jesus, perishing along with the useless labor code, he is a great man who indulges in excessive meat consumption, smoking, and women’s fishnet stockings.
If we can agree that 'dissonance' can create humor, then what other code can induce more laughter than the awkward meeting of the two words 'Kim Eo-jun' and 'Biography'?
“Don’t take ‘entertainment’ as ‘documentary.’”

You grow as much as you experience

An unprecedented world dominated by greedy capital, vested interests, and opportunism.
Evil does not call itself evil; it paints its ugly nature with capital and power.
Kim Eo-jun proactively anticipates various planned and intended events that occur in this situation.
Where did his insight come from?
Kim Yong-min says that Kim Eo-jun's ability has nothing to do with "standardized elite education."
He also asserts that “the insight gained as a global citizen through backpacking” is an absolute factor.
Kim Yong-min describes him with what Kim Eo-jun said.

“Everyone grows only to the extent that they experience.”
Kim Yong-min says that he cannot be explained by his formal academic background, such as '4 years of study in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Hongik University', and that while Kim Eo-jun as an individual is important, the environment and structure that created that individual are also subjects of study.
It was like my parents who raised me in a laissez-faire way, it was like the world I encountered while backpacking that reminded me that 'after all, all places where humans live are the same,' it was like that, it was like that with the Korean right wing that constantly pursues desire and the Korean left wing that constantly seeks confirmation of sincerity, and it was like that with my journey as a 'businessman, divorcee, journalist, and digital civilization expert' in a land where patriarchal Confucian culture and American-style pariah capitalism are integrated.


Empathy for humanity

Kim Eo-jun, who said he would make a living as a fashion designer after the 2012 presidential election, says he is "not very good" these days.
Could it be because Kim Eo-jun told Kim Yong-min in late January 2015, “I’m going to rest this year,” and kept quiet?
Perhaps his lack of presence is more noticeable because there are no activities with a strong presence like 'Nakkomsu' that came rushing in like a whirlwind.
Until recently, Kim Eo-jun would routinely decline any calls for lectures or other opportunities, saying, “No, I don’t want to, haha.”
Kim Eo-jun's recent news is that he is happy when he gets a call these days, perhaps because he doesn't call often.
He currently has nothing special to do other than hosting 'Kim Eo-jun's Popeyes' on Hankyoreh TV.
But Kim Eo-jun is Kim Eo-jun.
Maybe he's recharging for another task.
Kim Eo-jun knows that many fans are looking forward to season 2 of 'Nakkomsu'.
I wonder if he will do a season 2 of Nakkomsu.
Kim Eo-jun probably doesn't know either.
It must be because Nakkomsu is something that was created by the times.

Anyway, Kim Eo-jun is an icon of the 'bad guy' with a unique character of our time.
Isn't this the message that this bastard's life is giving us?

“It is empathy that makes you happy when you are happy and sad when you are sad.
It is different from riding on emotions and mood.
It's humanity.
What should be pursued before the victory of any political party or any politician?
“It is humanity.”