What is your reason?
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Book Introduction
It drew rave reviews and sympathy.
7th Brunch Book Publishing Project Grand Prize Winner
An engineer at an American software company and a broadcaster who appears on TV and hosts a computer education program.
At first glance, he appears to be a promising career man, but he becomes a scholarship student from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and goes abroad to study.
The first day I arrived in Tokyo with my wife and newborn daughter.
He was excited as he envisioned the future of returning to Korea after receiving his doctorate.
Little did he know that two years later, in the bitter cold of Seoul, he would be losing his mind.
Why did he have to walk the line between life and death in the middle of Seoul, not in a lab?
"What's Your Reason?" is author Jo Tae-ho's first personal storytelling, and it unfolds dramatically as personal and social history closely intersect against the backdrop of Korea, Japan, and the United States.
The early days of Korea's computer industry, unemployment, the boom and bust of the Japanese economy, historical issues in Korea-Japan relations, hierarchical conflicts within graduate schools, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the fierce competition in artificial intelligence and machine learning are vividly depicted as issues and events that contemporary readers would have encountered at least once.
In the midst of this, psychological and philosophical questions that we become preoccupied with when we reach a dead end, such as an obsession with a glorious past, an ego trapped by social gaze, the relationship between facts and feelings, and the meaning of time and space, are constantly raised.
And beyond this fascinating storytelling, what readers arrive at is the true nature of this thing we call life.
Life is full of unknown things.
But how often do we hear the words “I didn’t know”?
"What's Your Why" tells the story of your life, something everyone knows but no one can truly know.
After reading this book, you will leave with a stronger sense of self.
Even if I sigh sometimes, even if I cry sometimes, even if I still can't see an inch ahead.
7th Brunch Book Publishing Project Grand Prize Winner
An engineer at an American software company and a broadcaster who appears on TV and hosts a computer education program.
At first glance, he appears to be a promising career man, but he becomes a scholarship student from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and goes abroad to study.
The first day I arrived in Tokyo with my wife and newborn daughter.
He was excited as he envisioned the future of returning to Korea after receiving his doctorate.
Little did he know that two years later, in the bitter cold of Seoul, he would be losing his mind.
Why did he have to walk the line between life and death in the middle of Seoul, not in a lab?
"What's Your Reason?" is author Jo Tae-ho's first personal storytelling, and it unfolds dramatically as personal and social history closely intersect against the backdrop of Korea, Japan, and the United States.
The early days of Korea's computer industry, unemployment, the boom and bust of the Japanese economy, historical issues in Korea-Japan relations, hierarchical conflicts within graduate schools, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the fierce competition in artificial intelligence and machine learning are vividly depicted as issues and events that contemporary readers would have encountered at least once.
In the midst of this, psychological and philosophical questions that we become preoccupied with when we reach a dead end, such as an obsession with a glorious past, an ego trapped by social gaze, the relationship between facts and feelings, and the meaning of time and space, are constantly raised.
And beyond this fascinating storytelling, what readers arrive at is the true nature of this thing we call life.
Life is full of unknown things.
But how often do we hear the words “I didn’t know”?
"What's Your Why" tells the story of your life, something everyone knows but no one can truly know.
After reading this book, you will leave with a stronger sense of self.
Even if I sigh sometimes, even if I cry sometimes, even if I still can't see an inch ahead.
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Chapter 1: A Story I Want to Share with You
1 Maybe you will encounter it in your life
2 Death is light
3 A completely different world
4 single lines
5 Things I Believed I Was
6 Death is heavy
7 It was there for me from the beginning
Chapter 2 Waiting Step by Step
8 Where I Should Be
9 If you don't try, you can't do it.
10 Only Competitors
11 A better me than yesterday
12 That day will surely come
Chapter 3: People Who Are Willing to Leave
13 Is there a difference between now and before?
14 Just because you can't see it doesn't mean the road is over.
15 Always right and then you don't know
16 The world is already happy
17 Responses that Call for Growth
18 The place I found again
19 Things You Know After You Pass
Chapter 4 Everything Happens
20 The meaning of what has been achieved
21 Things that fill our lives
22 The present time
23 Space here
24 There is something unknown
25 A world bigger than me
26 There is a reason why it happened that way
27 Rain-soaked paper dolls
Chapter 5 Final Exam
28 Ask Us
29 Nevertheless
30 Not the best, but the only
31 A long-time dreamer
32 Prepared Steps
33 If everything is joy
Backstory
Author's Note
Chapter 1: A Story I Want to Share with You
1 Maybe you will encounter it in your life
2 Death is light
3 A completely different world
4 single lines
5 Things I Believed I Was
6 Death is heavy
7 It was there for me from the beginning
Chapter 2 Waiting Step by Step
8 Where I Should Be
9 If you don't try, you can't do it.
10 Only Competitors
11 A better me than yesterday
12 That day will surely come
Chapter 3: People Who Are Willing to Leave
13 Is there a difference between now and before?
14 Just because you can't see it doesn't mean the road is over.
15 Always right and then you don't know
16 The world is already happy
17 Responses that Call for Growth
18 The place I found again
19 Things You Know After You Pass
Chapter 4 Everything Happens
20 The meaning of what has been achieved
21 Things that fill our lives
22 The present time
23 Space here
24 There is something unknown
25 A world bigger than me
26 There is a reason why it happened that way
27 Rain-soaked paper dolls
Chapter 5 Final Exam
28 Ask Us
29 Nevertheless
30 Not the best, but the only
31 A long-time dreamer
32 Prepared Steps
33 If everything is joy
Backstory
Author's Note
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Into the book
My first day of studying abroad in Japan began in October 2003, with my wife and I carrying enough luggage to fill a cart, including a suitcase, a backpack, and a diaper bag, and even carrying our child.
Perhaps the story you will encounter in your life should start on this very day.
--- p.19, from “Perhaps You Will Encounter in Your Life”
There is a word called 'KY' used among Japanese people.
Kukiyomenai is an abbreviation for kukiyomenai.
A direct translation would be someone who can't read the air, or someone who can't read the atmosphere.
If you become KY in this lab, you will fail.
Since there are no specific verbal instructions, you must be sensitive to all of your seniors' actions.
If someone falls behind, a signal comes.
There is a peculiar air about it that requires constant vigilance to hear its signals.
--- p.37, from “A Completely Different World”
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Bible signifies ‘choice.’
Why did God, who can create and destroy everything in the world, give Adam and Eve the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which they could eat or not?
I am a scientist studying deep learning.
However, no matter how amazing a program you create using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence, it is not life.
Because it moves only according to my intentions, out of necessity.
In order to be a living being and not a robot, one must be given 'free will'.
And there's one thing you have to remember.
That your life is not something you created on your own.
If the only good line given by God, who created life, was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then Adam crossed the line too hastily.
--- p.45, from “A Single Line”
There are things you know after it's over.
For example, what influenced my early study abroad life was people, but in reality, it had to be academics.
When what I've experienced doesn't leave me with hardships and wounds, it's when I accept that it's a process that makes me stronger.
--- p.169, from “Things You Know After They Pass”
“So, what did you study?”
“Yes, we predicted the three-dimensional structure of the sodium-potassium pump and figured out the ion transport pathways...”
“No, I already heard that.
“What did you do?”
“So, we use Modeler, a protein structure prediction tool, to create a protein structure and….”
"Is the model yours? What else have you done besides take someone else's work and try it out?"
--- p.215, from “A World Bigger Than Me”
“Because we pursue uniqueness, not first place.”
Nobel Prize winner and director of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Ryoji Noyori clearly summarized it.
“Researchers don’t have to be number one.
Don't worry about who is number one or how they got there.
You just need to focus on whether what you are doing is something that only you can do.
“That’s all I did, and the Nobel Prize and the honors came as a side effect.”
Perhaps the story you will encounter in your life should start on this very day.
--- p.19, from “Perhaps You Will Encounter in Your Life”
There is a word called 'KY' used among Japanese people.
Kukiyomenai is an abbreviation for kukiyomenai.
A direct translation would be someone who can't read the air, or someone who can't read the atmosphere.
If you become KY in this lab, you will fail.
Since there are no specific verbal instructions, you must be sensitive to all of your seniors' actions.
If someone falls behind, a signal comes.
There is a peculiar air about it that requires constant vigilance to hear its signals.
--- p.37, from “A Completely Different World”
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Bible signifies ‘choice.’
Why did God, who can create and destroy everything in the world, give Adam and Eve the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which they could eat or not?
I am a scientist studying deep learning.
However, no matter how amazing a program you create using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence, it is not life.
Because it moves only according to my intentions, out of necessity.
In order to be a living being and not a robot, one must be given 'free will'.
And there's one thing you have to remember.
That your life is not something you created on your own.
If the only good line given by God, who created life, was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then Adam crossed the line too hastily.
--- p.45, from “A Single Line”
There are things you know after it's over.
For example, what influenced my early study abroad life was people, but in reality, it had to be academics.
When what I've experienced doesn't leave me with hardships and wounds, it's when I accept that it's a process that makes me stronger.
--- p.169, from “Things You Know After They Pass”
“So, what did you study?”
“Yes, we predicted the three-dimensional structure of the sodium-potassium pump and figured out the ion transport pathways...”
“No, I already heard that.
“What did you do?”
“So, we use Modeler, a protein structure prediction tool, to create a protein structure and….”
"Is the model yours? What else have you done besides take someone else's work and try it out?"
--- p.215, from “A World Bigger Than Me”
“Because we pursue uniqueness, not first place.”
Nobel Prize winner and director of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Ryoji Noyori clearly summarized it.
“Researchers don’t have to be number one.
Don't worry about who is number one or how they got there.
You just need to focus on whether what you are doing is something that only you can do.
“That’s all I did, and the Nobel Prize and the honors came as a side effect.”
--- p.253, from “Not the First, but the Only”
Publisher's Review
“I never dreamed of it.
A man who dies without anyone knowing
“I thought I would be like this in two years”
A life story more novel than a novel
The choices, growth, and meaning of existence found within it
The winner of the 7th Brunch Book Publishing Project Grand Prize was published as a book titled “What is Your Reason?”
Chapters 1-3, which unfold the story of Japan's extreme right-wing view of history toward Korea, bullying on campus through power, and unemployment and job search, have already been recognized for their dramatic story development and captivating power with comments from Brunch readers such as "I read it in one sitting," "It's an amazing story," and "I thought it was a novel."
I couldn't get out of this post all day.
― Brunch ID 'Thunder'
This is truly the best article I've ever read.
Of all the articles I've read on my phone, I don't think I've ever seen anything so captivating, so alive, and so profound.
(Deleted user)
Thanks to the vivid story, I decided to make a resolution to 'do my best' in the new year.
― Brunch ID 'Beneric Kim'
I felt deeply that good writing comes from life.
― Naver ID 'For Diego'
Chapters 4 and 5, newly written for the book, are even more powerful.
He is faced with an unprecedented natural disaster that has become a global issue, a desperate question that renders all his efforts to date in vain.
The tension and immersion are heightened, and the story approaches one ultimate question.
“Even so, what is your reason for taking a step towards living, towards not giving up?”
A scientist who uses artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct predictive research
The unpredictability of life depicted
Still, always in the direction of living, in the direction of not giving up
The story of all of us moving forward
Author Taeho Cho is a scientist who applies deep learning to predict dementia and is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at Indiana University in the United States.
He began his career as a scientist in 2003 when he began his graduate studies at the Biomedical Engineering Systems Laboratory at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
As an engineer working with computer software Flash, he has completed projects for remote medical treatment across cities and countries, virtual reality treatment for dementia patients, and conducted research on predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins.
After studying in the US, he joined the lab of Professor Jialin Chang, a leading computer science expert at the University of Missouri. The research he conducted there was featured in the British magazine The Economist as the first case of applying deep learning to protein structure prediction.
He is also a science author, having written the best-selling and best-selling book, Deep Learning for Everyone.
"What's Your Reason?" is author Jo Tae-ho's first personal storytelling, and it unfolds dramatically as personal and social history closely intersect against the backdrop of Korea, Japan, and the United States.
The early days of Korea's computer industry, unemployment, the boom and bust of the Japanese economy, historical issues in Korea-Japan relations, hierarchical conflicts within graduate schools, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the fierce competition in artificial intelligence and machine learning are vividly depicted as issues and events that contemporary readers would have encountered at least once.
In the midst of this, psychological and philosophical questions that we become preoccupied with when we reach a dead end, such as an obsession with a glorious past, an ego trapped by social gaze, the relationship between facts and feelings, and the meaning of time and space, are constantly raised.
And beyond this fascinating storytelling, what readers arrive at is the true nature of this thing we call life.
Life is full of unknown things.
But how often do we hear the words “I didn’t know”?
"What's Your Why" tells the story of your life, something everyone knows but no one can truly know.
After reading this book, you will leave with a stronger sense of self.
Even if I sigh sometimes, even if I cry sometimes, even if I still can't see an inch ahead.
The small choices we make toward living, even when it is difficult and overwhelming
Always been great.
(_p.70, "It Was There for Me from the Beginning")
Brunch Reader Recommendations
The mere fact that I had the opportunity to read this article makes me think that Brunch has served its purpose.
― Brunch ID 'Silpa'
I couldn't get out of this post all day.
― Brunch ID 'Thunder'
This is truly the best article I've ever read.
Of all the articles I've read on my phone, I don't think I've ever seen anything so captivating, so alive, and so profound.
― Brunch (deleted user)
I felt deeply that good writing comes from life.
His writing was merely a reflection of the life he had lived to the fullest and the agonizing thoughts he had experienced within it, expressed through language.
So it was solid and left me mulling over it for hours.
― Naver ID 'For Diego'
In today's world where "work-life balance" is the keyword, and at a time when books that say, "If it doesn't work out, just give up" are trending, the author's vivid story of overcoming hardships and adversity has made me resolve to "do my best in the new year."
― Brunch ID 'Beneric Kim'
These were writings that made me think about the things that are given to me if I persevere, the gifts that I can receive if I persevere, and the things that I cannot discover by simply enduring those times.
― Brunch ID: 'A person with a momentary fetish'
This is a recommended article for those who compete in a capitalist society of unlimited competition and for all those who suffer because of it.
― Brunch ID 'Strong Man of the Abyss'
I read it all in one sitting on my military bed.
In the society that lies ahead, I will do my best with hope, and then wait with joy!
― Brunch ID 'Kim Yun-ho'
I came across this article by chance and couldn't stop reading it.
I always read each one with a 'thump' in my heart at the end.
Asking myself with ‘sadness’ who I am.
― Brunch ID 'Cotton Candy'
I felt like the author's writing might be a lifeline for people like me, struggling to overcome hardships and persevere.
― Brunch ID 'Jeong Hee-jeong'
Someday, I too hope to write powerful and resonant stories like you.
― Brunch ID 'Essayist Gwanghyuk's Daily Life'
It ain't over till it's over, and winning now doesn't mean you've won.
I learn a lot.
― Brunch ID 'Chris'
This morning, I started reading without thinking much because the title caught my eye the most.
I read it all in three hours without even eating dinner.
You have lived and overcome such a dramatic life that I thought it was a novel.
It's a story you'll want to read twice, three times.
― Brunch ID: 'Mother of the Sun and Jewels'
A man who dies without anyone knowing
“I thought I would be like this in two years”
A life story more novel than a novel
The choices, growth, and meaning of existence found within it
The winner of the 7th Brunch Book Publishing Project Grand Prize was published as a book titled “What is Your Reason?”
Chapters 1-3, which unfold the story of Japan's extreme right-wing view of history toward Korea, bullying on campus through power, and unemployment and job search, have already been recognized for their dramatic story development and captivating power with comments from Brunch readers such as "I read it in one sitting," "It's an amazing story," and "I thought it was a novel."
I couldn't get out of this post all day.
― Brunch ID 'Thunder'
This is truly the best article I've ever read.
Of all the articles I've read on my phone, I don't think I've ever seen anything so captivating, so alive, and so profound.
(Deleted user)
Thanks to the vivid story, I decided to make a resolution to 'do my best' in the new year.
― Brunch ID 'Beneric Kim'
I felt deeply that good writing comes from life.
― Naver ID 'For Diego'
Chapters 4 and 5, newly written for the book, are even more powerful.
He is faced with an unprecedented natural disaster that has become a global issue, a desperate question that renders all his efforts to date in vain.
The tension and immersion are heightened, and the story approaches one ultimate question.
“Even so, what is your reason for taking a step towards living, towards not giving up?”
A scientist who uses artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct predictive research
The unpredictability of life depicted
Still, always in the direction of living, in the direction of not giving up
The story of all of us moving forward
Author Taeho Cho is a scientist who applies deep learning to predict dementia and is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at Indiana University in the United States.
He began his career as a scientist in 2003 when he began his graduate studies at the Biomedical Engineering Systems Laboratory at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
As an engineer working with computer software Flash, he has completed projects for remote medical treatment across cities and countries, virtual reality treatment for dementia patients, and conducted research on predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins.
After studying in the US, he joined the lab of Professor Jialin Chang, a leading computer science expert at the University of Missouri. The research he conducted there was featured in the British magazine The Economist as the first case of applying deep learning to protein structure prediction.
He is also a science author, having written the best-selling and best-selling book, Deep Learning for Everyone.
"What's Your Reason?" is author Jo Tae-ho's first personal storytelling, and it unfolds dramatically as personal and social history closely intersect against the backdrop of Korea, Japan, and the United States.
The early days of Korea's computer industry, unemployment, the boom and bust of the Japanese economy, historical issues in Korea-Japan relations, hierarchical conflicts within graduate schools, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the fierce competition in artificial intelligence and machine learning are vividly depicted as issues and events that contemporary readers would have encountered at least once.
In the midst of this, psychological and philosophical questions that we become preoccupied with when we reach a dead end, such as an obsession with a glorious past, an ego trapped by social gaze, the relationship between facts and feelings, and the meaning of time and space, are constantly raised.
And beyond this fascinating storytelling, what readers arrive at is the true nature of this thing we call life.
Life is full of unknown things.
But how often do we hear the words “I didn’t know”?
"What's Your Why" tells the story of your life, something everyone knows but no one can truly know.
After reading this book, you will leave with a stronger sense of self.
Even if I sigh sometimes, even if I cry sometimes, even if I still can't see an inch ahead.
The small choices we make toward living, even when it is difficult and overwhelming
Always been great.
(_p.70, "It Was There for Me from the Beginning")
Brunch Reader Recommendations
The mere fact that I had the opportunity to read this article makes me think that Brunch has served its purpose.
― Brunch ID 'Silpa'
I couldn't get out of this post all day.
― Brunch ID 'Thunder'
This is truly the best article I've ever read.
Of all the articles I've read on my phone, I don't think I've ever seen anything so captivating, so alive, and so profound.
― Brunch (deleted user)
I felt deeply that good writing comes from life.
His writing was merely a reflection of the life he had lived to the fullest and the agonizing thoughts he had experienced within it, expressed through language.
So it was solid and left me mulling over it for hours.
― Naver ID 'For Diego'
In today's world where "work-life balance" is the keyword, and at a time when books that say, "If it doesn't work out, just give up" are trending, the author's vivid story of overcoming hardships and adversity has made me resolve to "do my best in the new year."
― Brunch ID 'Beneric Kim'
These were writings that made me think about the things that are given to me if I persevere, the gifts that I can receive if I persevere, and the things that I cannot discover by simply enduring those times.
― Brunch ID: 'A person with a momentary fetish'
This is a recommended article for those who compete in a capitalist society of unlimited competition and for all those who suffer because of it.
― Brunch ID 'Strong Man of the Abyss'
I read it all in one sitting on my military bed.
In the society that lies ahead, I will do my best with hope, and then wait with joy!
― Brunch ID 'Kim Yun-ho'
I came across this article by chance and couldn't stop reading it.
I always read each one with a 'thump' in my heart at the end.
Asking myself with ‘sadness’ who I am.
― Brunch ID 'Cotton Candy'
I felt like the author's writing might be a lifeline for people like me, struggling to overcome hardships and persevere.
― Brunch ID 'Jeong Hee-jeong'
Someday, I too hope to write powerful and resonant stories like you.
― Brunch ID 'Essayist Gwanghyuk's Daily Life'
It ain't over till it's over, and winning now doesn't mean you've won.
I learn a lot.
― Brunch ID 'Chris'
This morning, I started reading without thinking much because the title caught my eye the most.
I read it all in three hours without even eating dinner.
You have lived and overcome such a dramatic life that I thought it was a novel.
It's a story you'll want to read twice, three times.
― Brunch ID: 'Mother of the Sun and Jewels'
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 10, 2020
- Page count, weight, size: 288 pages | 438g | 135*205*16mm
- ISBN13: 9791189385149
- ISBN10: 1189385147
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