{"product_id":"129184","title":"Happy words in a sad world ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtgp14F8VfwvpKAVpJz6t.png?v=1764862222\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Happy words in a sad world \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/160082123\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe most brilliant voice in Korean essays,\u003cbr\u003e The culmination of Jeong Hye-yoon's essays, \"Happy Words in a Sad World,\" has been published in a revised edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I believe that language can save us.\u003cbr\u003e Where there are new thoughts, new words, and new stories\u003cbr\u003e I believe that a new person is born\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The revised edition of 『Happy Words in a Sad World』 by author Hye-yoon Jeong, which was published in 2021 and has been consistently loved, and was selected as a 'Book to Read Now' by 〈Book! Book! Book! Let's Read Books〉 (Kyobo Bookstore × MBC) in 2025, has been published. \u003cbr\u003eDesigner Oh Hye-jin, who won the Seoul International Book Fair's \"Most Beautiful Book in Korea\" award in 2023 and 2024, has redesigned the cover and text.\u003cbr\u003e The design stands out for its restrained beauty in strong complementary color contrast, boldly yet delicately expressing the joyful words that rise like light in a sad world.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Prologue: Speaking of Yourself… 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My words, my story\u003cbr\u003e Freedom, promise, dignity… 31\u003cbr\u003e Getting fatter… 55\u003cbr\u003e Eye candy, zero weight… 73\u003cbr\u003e Hakuna Matata… 99\u003cbr\u003e Diary, storybook, cup… 119\u003cbr\u003e The flowers have bloomed… 143\u003cbr\u003e Moon, B95 … 161\u003cbr\u003e Glass window… 183\u003cbr\u003e Voices, names, us, experts in life… 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My Words, Poetry and Destiny\u003cbr\u003e Dolphin, Other Side, Still Beautiful… 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: For Our Good Ending… 275\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate6193\/MidCate001\/619200724.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eI often asked myself this question.\u003cbr\u003e \"I'm alive, but what should I do with this life? What should I say?\" Around that question, various thoughts rippled out like ripples.\u003cbr\u003e At that time, Calvino's story also came to mind.\u003cbr\u003e What makes an ordinary corner of the market special is that we meet someone other than ourselves, and if there is a place I haven't been yet, it means there is a story I haven't heard yet.\u003cbr\u003e I believe that language can save us.\u003cbr\u003e I believe that new people are born where there are new thoughts, new words, and new stories.\u003cbr\u003e Human life has changed like that for thousands of years.\u003cbr\u003e So, the fact that nothing new comes out of me, that's what I'm most sad about today.\u003cbr\u003e So what should we do now?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.11\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe mystery of a story is that one story leads to another.\u003cbr\u003e The mystery of the story becomes the mystery of life.\u003cbr\u003e The opposite is also true.\u003cbr\u003e Without the mystery of life, there is no story.\u003cbr\u003e In a good story, there are always parts that cannot be explained by rigid cause and effect theories or even numbers.\u003cbr\u003e This is the 'unique joy' that exists in every good story, and this is what Borges meant when he said that our duty in a language community is to find our words, that finding words gives us a talismanic power, and that finding words is healing.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.18-19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's amazing that we could all be different people—divers, amateur ornithologists, bathhouse owners, ginseng merchants, cloud researchers—and yet we live as we are. \u003cbr\u003eIt's amazing that I exist, even though I might not exist.\u003cbr\u003e We use the word 'reality' so easily, but the heaviest and most surprising 'reality' for each of us is that I am not someone else but 'me'.\u003cbr\u003e The more I think about it, the more I realize that life is a series of surprises, yet our uniqueness continues to be erased into a single category, a single number.\u003cbr\u003e But as the world erases our uniqueness, we must learn to listen to our own uniqueness, to something that 'lives' within us, perhaps still 'nameless'.\u003cbr\u003e In this social climate, believing that others also have something unique, something we can be curious about, is almost a form of resistance and the highest form of respect.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.16-17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'They say that as time passes, sadness fades?'\u003cbr\u003e No.\u003cbr\u003e Sadness wasn't like that. \u003cbr\u003eSadness is not a word that disappears.\u003cbr\u003e Sadness comes at any time, without warning, as it pleases.\u003cbr\u003e It comes even if you close your eyes.\u003cbr\u003e There are no eyelids that can stop sadness from coming.\u003cbr\u003e Grief makes one go through rough nights exhausted.\u003cbr\u003e Grief is a guest that demands that you take yourself seriously.\u003cbr\u003e But what can I do? This sadness is the legacy I received from my daughter.\u003cbr\u003e If sadness doesn't disappear on its own, it has to flow away somewhere like tears.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life must go on, the world must change, and we must learn to love.\u003cbr\u003e We will continue to talk.\u003cbr\u003e About lives at risk.\u003cbr\u003e About the world that makes you want to live and love.\u003cbr\u003e Breaking through the darkness that each of us wanted to hide.\u003cbr\u003e And if we listen better, speak better, and understand each other better, there will surely be comfort and beauty in this world.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.247\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMost of us are tossed about alone on the dark waves, not knowing what we want.\u003cbr\u003e So 'Other Side' can be a word for all of us.\u003cbr\u003e Because you don't know what you want, you have to see other aspects of reality, see other people, and hear other stories to be able to live a different life than the one you have now.\u003cbr\u003e It is a powerfully liberating moment in a person's life to realize, 'Ah, this is what I want!'\u003cbr\u003e --- p.267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although we often don't take it seriously, the world is made of stories.\u003cbr\u003e I would be happy if I could always be empowered by the best stories, and if I could live warmly, deeply, boldly, and delicately, while fighting against various pressures with the best stories.\u003cbr\u003e I would be happy if I could live in reality, but keep something in my heart and change part of reality. \u003cbr\u003eI would be happy if each of us could become the 'voice of the problem solver' in this problematic reality.\u003cbr\u003e It would be wonderful if the best of our many selves became our future.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.279\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe miracle of joyful words that rise like light in a sad world\u003cbr\u003e - What are the words that keep you alive?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Writer Jeong Hye-yoon has been listening to other people's voices for a long time, having worked as a radio producer for several decades.\u003cbr\u003e I believe that discovering human language is the same as discovering human destiny, and I have recorded the words of those who, in the midst of a rough life, did not give up hope and joy and created their own life stories.\u003cbr\u003e \"Joyful Words in a Sad World\" is a story in which these words quietly shine. \u003cbr\u003eA fisherman who takes the promise he made to himself as a lifelong friend, a grandmother who listens to his stories with such enthusiasm that her ears “get hungry” in her later years, a fisherman with a keen eye for detail, a vegetable vendor who mentors the rice cake shop owner, a father who lost his son in the Sewol ferry disaster, a younger brother who lost his older brother in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, a survivor of the Columbine shootings… … .\u003cbr\u003e Their lives are not the same.\u003cbr\u003e The trajectory of your life, your current position, and the trials that lie ahead.\u003cbr\u003e But they are in the same world.\u003cbr\u003e They knew what was important to them and enjoyed the pleasure of saying exactly what they wanted to say.\u003cbr\u003e \"Joyful Words in a Sad World\" is a story about words that keep people alive in poverty, depression, sorrow, and terrible disasters, a story about recovery and rebirth, a story about the moment when one's life takes shape.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne person's good story becomes the story of us all.\u003cbr\u003e - The moment life takes shape\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Several years ago, writer Jeong Hye-yoon planned a radio program.\u003cbr\u003e Speaking about yourself.\u003cbr\u003e Anyone can appear, but there is one strict rule that all participants must follow.\u003cbr\u003e The rule is that you can only speak about yourself using certain words.\u003cbr\u003e For example, you should not say the name of the person who is most important in your life, your loved one.\u003cbr\u003e And vegetarians cannot use the word 'vegetarian', and bookstore owners cannot use the word 'bookstore'.\u003cbr\u003e That is, words without which one cannot express oneself are forbidden.\u003cbr\u003e So why did the writer plan this program?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Finding the words to describe yourself may seem easy, but it is never easy.\u003cbr\u003e Finding your own words requires a change of heart. \u003cbr\u003eIf you see yourself the way you always do and talk the way you always do, it's hard to find the words, and even if you do, it's hard to figure out how to say them.\u003cbr\u003e A change of heart takes time, and speaking properly takes practice.\u003cbr\u003e But once we look for it, we can each find our own unique joy within the story.\u003cbr\u003e If Borges said, “Our duty in a linguistic community is to find our words,” the author says:\u003cbr\u003e Finding words gives you a talismanic power, and finding words is the way to recovery.\u003cbr\u003e “Language and stories have always preceded the creation of new worlds.\u003cbr\u003e So, living stories from the hearts of the living are essential to keeping us all alive.\u003cbr\u003e One person's good story becomes the story of us all. \u003cbr\u003eA good story is 'gently' imprinted and remains deep within us, changing our self.\u003cbr\u003e “Of all the softnesses in the world, the most incredibly soft is human change.” \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - 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