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45 representative prose pieces commemorating Kim Young-ha's 30th anniversary

Kim Young-ha is a writer who has been loved by the public since the 1990s, showing remarkable achievements in both long and short stories and prose, a rare feat in Korean literary history.

Since his literary debut in 1995, he has been actively working as a central figure in the literary world, garnering critical attention and reader response with his narrative skills and weighty thematic awareness through short stories and novels, while also consistently publishing prose.
Since the 2010s, Kim Young-ha has shifted away from publishing prose in media outlets and then publishing them in books, and instead has shifted to writing a complete work of prose on a single topic, the length of a single volume.
『The Reason for Travel』 『One Life』 『The Long-Prepared Answer』 『Reading』 were the products of that method of work.

This 30th anniversary prose collection was planned to allow readers to fully appreciate the true face of essayist Kim Young-ha in one volume.
The essays, discovered in a collection of prose that is long out of print and unavailable on the market, showcase the sharp side of avant-garde writers from the 1990s, and the prose from the period after the 2000s, when the author was establishing his or her own identity, contains artistic reflections on "how to write" and "how to live."


『Prose Selection』 is a compilation of 45 essays personally selected by the author, divided into three parts: ‘Morning Thoughts,’ ‘Afternoon Mind,’ and ‘Night Memories,’ without following the order of publication.
Books, movies, and writings about daily life are connected to the flow of the mind over a day that changes over time, regardless of the subject matter, so that they can be read as if they were originally one book.

This commemorative prose collection, which fully embodies the distinctive characteristics of Kim Young-ha's prose, such as subversive thinking that overturns traditional notions, humorous insight, and sharp wit, can be said to be a window that reveals the thoughts and life of Kim Young-ha, not just as the writer, but as the person.