prolog
Small, gentle, burning in my place

1.
I wish you would show up, a connection that gives me what I have.
Hello, Mr. Heo Sam-gwan
Donating blood? That's a good fortune.
Become cosmic dust
I don't know why you do that.
I really hope he shows up
Once every two weeks, a good body and mind
Girl group that helped pay tuition
Sprouting Wings and Bad Society
Something only someone who has gone through a period of weakness can do

2.
Finding People Who Look Like Me: Finding Kim Min-seop Project
A human who does not travel
To do something that people have never done before
Looking for Mr. Kim Min-seop
I am Kim Min-seop
We will support the expenses of Kim Min-seop's graduation exhibition.
I hope you are doing well.
Connection and solidarity
After the Kim Min-seop Project

3.
I'm suing you to protect someone who looks like me.
traffic accident
A fight for adults who don't want to participate
Collect evidence of insult
Sir, no, sir, please speak sense.
The average in our society should be the average of you and me.
I shouldn't believe I'm doing the right thing.
Definition of insult in our society
May we reach each other without getting hurt

4.
Meeting you loosely, Moltjakdang Project
2020 Welcomed by Wonderkid Kids
This year's goal is the body challenge
The gym is left with people who have more time to take care of themselves.
I can, are you watching?
I will save my body and mind
The project to find Mr. Kim Min-seop once again
Together, secretly, in our own places, we run
If you eat this rice cake, everything will be fine.
No one was running alone on this track.
This is also a meeting

Epilogue
To you who remembers the days of weakness

Mr. Kim Min-seop is looking for Mr. Kim Min-seop!
A small and kind piece of wit to comfort you when you're tired of the world.

Author Kim Min-seop, who possesses the sincerity that comes from experience, the warmth of his writing style, and the enlightenment that comes from social reflection, has published a new book, “I hope you are doing well.”
It contains a small but powerful episode that was done for someone in a similar situation.
In particular, the 'Project to Find Mr. Kim Min-seop', which involved finding a college student with the same name and transferring a plane ticket to Fukuoka, is included along with a follow-up story, which will be a welcome respite for those who remember it and a refreshing experience for readers who are unfamiliar with it.
This book will be a great gift for readers who are waiting for Kim Min-seop's warm comfort and good humor.
This book contains Kim Min-seop's attempts to find social self-esteem.
The author confesses that while donating blood, he felt a sense of satisfaction that he could not feel while studying at university, knowing that his blood would be of help to others.
In addition, the author's unique writing style satisfies both fun and meaning, including the project of running and communicating with each other by running enough to run in each other's places without having to meet each other during the pandemic, and the experience of suing a person who was responsible for a traffic accident due to their rude words and actions.
A small and meaningful essay of comfort by Kim Min-seop that will make you smile at the wit and tear at the warmth.

Kim Min-seop.
A writer who thinks about connections at the border

Kim Min-seop's writing is Kim Min-seop himself.
The author has been receiving attention for his candid portrayal of cross-sections of society captured through his own experiences.
In "I am a part-time lecturer at a local university," he exposes the absurdities of universities that he realized while working as a part-time lecturer during the day and a McDonald's part-timer at dawn.
From 『Surrogate Society』, where he confessed that he had no choice but to exist as a mere 'eul' sitting in someone else's driver's seat, to 『Anyway, Mangwon-dong』, where he recalls his experience of crossing the implicit boundary that divided Mapo into rich and poor areas, the author has steadily expanded his concentric circles by standing on the boundary and throwing himself into it and creating waves.
In this new book, Kim Min-seop includes a story about his experiences with 'you (us).'
Four episodes filled with Kim Min-seop's wit are compiled into one volume.
This is a book that lets you feel the sincere and warm side of Kim Min-seop.
Author Kim Min-seop, who does not have the temperament to be a so-called 'popular kid', but wishes to become a bonfire that emits calm warmth from one side.
It contains the image of a writer who exists with a clear meaning even though it is small and tries to help someone.
This book makes us think again about the word 'goodness,' which we rarely use these days because it feels old-fashioned.

I just hoped you were doing well.
Project to Find Mr. Kim Min-seop

The author books a flight to Fukuoka to go on his first overseas trip.
However, when his son's sudden surgery forces him to cancel his trip and he is unable to get a refund for his airfare, he looks for a way to give his ticket to someone else.
The travel agency responded that he should find someone with the same name as him, so the author posted on social media that he was looking for Kim Min-seop, who was leaving for Fukuoka.
It started with half anticipation and half fun.
Kim Min-seop, a college student studying design, appears, saying he is willing to give in to anyone who wants to go more than he does.
As if they had been waiting for his appearance, people started appearing here and there, wanting to give him gifts like accommodations and transportation passes to Fukuoka.
On the day he leaves for Fukuoka, college student Kim Min-seop asks why people he has never met help him, and the author answers on behalf of everyone else, "I just want you to do well."
The title and message of this book, "I hope you do well," originated from the "Find Mr. Kim Min-seop Project," which warmed people's hearts with fairytale-like episodes.
I aim to reach out to readers with words of encouragement that encompass the full sense of pride felt by each person sending that encouragement to young people who are about to begin their careers.
I hope that every single reader of this book will do well.
Then, I hope that both writer Kim Min-seop and we can all do well.

To feel connected and social, to sense oneself as a being

As he confessed in his previous work, the author quit his university studies because he was not sure if it was meaningful for society.
In "I hope you do well," the author's thoughts that led up to that decision are gradually unraveled, allowing readers to follow the author's thoughts as they read.

Kim Min-seop recalls his graduate school days as floating like dust in an authoritarian and stifling atmosphere, trying to establish himself in the university ecosystem.
While writing a thesis that is entirely for the readers, including himself, the examiners, and the professor, and spending time in despair not knowing when he will become a professor, the author realizes that donating blood, which he started to get movie tickets, may be more useful to others than the writing he himself is writing, and for the first time, he feels self-esteem as a human being.
The feeling of 'helping others' is more than just a good thing.
This may be a necessary sensation for those who feel helpless or lonely from feeling alienated from society due to not being able to pass the hurdles set by society, such as graduation or employment.
The author realizes through the small experience of donating blood that being recognized as a member of society and contributing to it can make our lives more meaningful.

As a weakling, we have endured as good citizens with common sense.
Goodness, the solid ordinariness we possess

This is an era where ‘common sense’ is collapsing.
We live in an age where common courtesy is crumbling and words like truth and abuse are frequently encountered.
Kim Min-seop also experiences the collapse of common sense he knew.
A minor traffic accident that anyone who drives can experience.
In a car accident where no one was injured but part of the other party's body was damaged, the author was humiliated to the point of shaking in his legs.
If you talk things through while observing common sense, this is something that can be resolved amicably through the insurance company.
The writer sues the perpetrator who bombarded her with a barrage of insults and is sentenced to a fine of 700,000 won.
People who read the author's calm account of the traffic accident posted on social media talk about the things they had to endure as underdogs and good citizens with common sense.
The author said that while reading the comments, he thought of 'us'.
The author sued the other driver for defamation, thinking about the insults he would have suffered if he had been a woman, elderly, or young.

As he proceeds with his lawsuit, Kim Min-seop finds strength in the support of ordinary people who support him.
Good people who have experienced their own downfall because of others but do not resolve it through revenge.
With the strong support they send, they find their self-esteem in a legitimate and decisive way.

Sharing blood, giving favors to college students, filing lawsuits, and running in the sports park
Our connection is ongoing

Kim Min-seop has compiled the episodes of this book by condensing the goodwill of strangers and sending it out into the world.
He's currently running at a sports park in Mapo. He formed a group through social media, running at his own pace. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, he's been cautiously pursuing his own personal race.
The wall that separates us, called Corona, is slowly turning around in its own way to connect us and share warmth.
A book was created from a collection of trivial and inconsequential events: sharing blood, doing favors for college students, filing lawsuits, and running in the sports park.
This is possible because there is Kim Min-seop, who knows how to instill goodwill by saying, “I hope you do well,” even in small things.
Kim Min-seop, who has completed a book that is warm and enjoyable to read until the last page, still runs somewhere, still donates blood, and dreams of another connection with you.
This is a book that makes you look forward to Kim Min-seop's next steps for me, us, and you.