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prolog

1 What did you do to spend these good days?
I'm past the age of being shaky
I feel intimidated by the shade of the brilliant spring flowers
A story that resonates with me again and again
Long-standing relationship
Preparing for old age among peers of the same age
What's with that schedule?
The aesthetics of idleness
Fifty-eight my prayer is
Could loneliness have caused dementia?
Courage needed before dying
What kind of funeral

2 Actually, I didn't risk my life for singing.
Comfort like a zelkova tree
Morning Dew and Kim Min-ki
There is no such thing as 'impossible love'
A long-lasting relationship with King Park
Youth may pass, but songs remain
“You’re not all about singing.”
Why Yang Hee-eun cried on stage
The "Unexpected Encounter" Project: Adapting to Change
A song like a light stew

3 How can life be easy?
Watching the refraction of autumn colors
The priest's interest game
I wanted to be thirty
We all have hidden wounds
Buying chrysanthemums means
I won't be sad anymore
People I met in the emergency room
Last Egg Bread Customer
Why read the story
My age stopped at twenty-seven
If you stand in front of the waves
To my past self

4 Do what you like and be with the people you like
A blessed midday
The public bathhouse at dawn at that time
The identity of home cooking
A person like cold noodles
The day I first met Sally
The instinct to want to go anywhere
Best walking course
Mimi and Bobo reunite after 20 years
My refreshing partner

5 Just live your own way
Is there a law that says women can't officiate?
My own farewell ceremony
Saying you don't have time
On a sick day
Me at work, me outside of work
Anyway, I'm alive
New Year, People Still Holding On
A person whose songs and life were no different

Epilogue

How can life be so easy?
Just do what you like and be with the people you like.
Just live your own way.

The flower of seventy years old.
Yang Hee-eun is a friendly radio DJ who has friendly conversations with listeners every morning on the radio show 'Women's Era' and a singer who has released numerous hit songs such as 'Morning Dew', 'Han Gye-ryeong', and 'Mom to Daughter'.

Even after 51 years since her debut, Yang Hee-eun, a singer who continues to stand in the same spot like a zelkova tree and sing with a voice that has deepened with time, has published an essay titled “That’s Right, That’s Right.”
The life, songs, and precious moments of daily life are warmly and affectionately recorded, as if reading the stories of an old friend.

“That’s right, that’s right,” “That’s possible,” just like Yang Hee-eun’s words that shake off any worries, this book contains ‘heartfelt encouragement that makes you want to live a difficult life with sincerity.’
It tells the story of Yang Hee-eun's life, living her life true to herself, doing what she loves and being with the people she loves.


“While reading the article, I felt like I was eating a warm meal.
After eating a meal while listening to the teacher's story in peace, I often find the strength to live a good life with sincerity.
“I hope that many ‘young Hee-euns’ in this world where life is not easy will find comfort in reading “That’s Right, That’s Right” just like I did.” _Kim Na-young (broadcaster)


Yang Hee-eun's 51st Debut Anniversary Essay in Progress
Recommended by IU, Lee Juck, and Kim Na-young!

Even after 51 years since her debut, Yang Hee-eun, a singer who continues to stand in the same spot like a zelkova tree and sing with a voice that has deepened with time, has published an essay titled “That’s Right, That’s Right.”
The life, songs, and precious moments of daily life are warmly and affectionately recorded, as if reading the stories of an old friend.

“That’s right, that’s right,” “That’s possible,” just like Hee-eun Yang’s words that shake off any worries, this book contains ‘heartfelt encouragement that makes you want to live a difficult life with sincerity.’
It tells the story of Yang Hee-eun's life, living her life true to herself, doing what she loves and being with the people she loves.



I just want to be me
The story of Yang Hee-eun, "A person whose songs and life were no different."

If we collect and write down the frequently repeated expressions in the book, such as 'without embellishment, as is, as much as one has lived', we can see what kind of words Yang Hee-eun keeps in mind and lives by.
A person who wishes to be “a person whose songs and life are no different” and who values ​​expressing honestly “just as much as I have lived, no more, no less” in any situation.
Even the words “That’s right, that’s right,” which have brought comfort to many, contain the meaning of respecting each person’s “life as it has been lived.”
If you follow the daily life of Yang Hee-eun, who listens to her heart and what she likes rather than being swayed by the world's standards, you will soon find yourself becoming comfortable with just being herself.

“I have gained the freedom to say, ‘Yes, that’s possible’ or ‘Yes, that’s right,’ and to ignore perspectives or standards that differ from mine.
I learned that I can't say something is 'right' or 'wrong' just because I don't like it.
Just as audience reviews for the same song are all different, there is no right answer.
So I decided to live without caring about others and just follow my heart.” _〈I’m past the age of wavering〉(p. 18)


Life is not easy
A heartfelt message of support for the 'young Hee-euns'

Even Yang Hee-eun, who always appears relaxed and solid, had a time when she “wavered at every moment because she didn’t know how to live properly or what it meant to live well.”
She calmly looks back on her life, saying that “I was just standing there in the bitter wind” and “time has passed so quickly” – from her twenties, when she stood on stage to pay off her family’s debt but had no one to protect her from the threats directed at her, to her thirties, when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was given three months to live.

Knowing the weight that rests on the shoulders of those enduring difficult times, the weight of the stories I encountered in 'Women's Era' rests squarely on my heart.
Rather than offering hasty consolation, he offers empathy, and when he cannot bring himself to say anything, he comforts with music. He earnestly hopes that his songs will be “just the weight of a warm palm placed on a tired shoulder, just that much comfort.”


“It’s so hard, how should I live?” I carefully choose my words to answer those who, having lived their lives, seem like “adults.”
I just want to live with the “small touch” someone gives me, and to pass the waves and meet the “lie-like sunlight and silence.”
We send our heartfelt support to the many 'young Hee-euns' in the world whose lives are not easy.

“It’s so hard, how should I live?” People sometimes ask me this.

What can I say to someone who is standing with their whole body being hit by the waves crashing down on them…?
You can't hope to live without any difficult days.
How can it be so easy?
Isn't the road of life full of twists and turns, waves crashing in, tsunamis bigger than houses crashing down, and then, after that, unbelievable sunshine and calm come?
Aren't there things in this world that I just can't solve on my own?
At times like that, you have to go all the way down to the bottom and look up at the sky.
_〈Standing Before the Waves〉(p. 163)


What have you been doing these good days?
A life of songs filled with consistent sincerity

“When my knees tell me where I am and tell me where I am,” and I start singing songs I used to sing standing up, I start to sit down. Yang Hee-eun has a premonition that she will have to let go of the work and songs that have been a part of her for a long time.
The day of my last performance, the day I say my final goodbyes to 'Women's Generation', which has opened every morning, the day I say goodbye to the people I love, or the last day of my life.
My body keeps slowing down, and the words of my friends of the same age preparing for old age keep piling up in my mind.
Many people can relate to the daily life and worries of Yang Hee-eun, who cares for her mother with dementia and worries about what will happen when she leaves, but then suddenly starts to tick away, and prepares for a "breakup without regrets" before the sudden separation.


When asked about her 51 years as a singer, Yang Hee-eun's answers are always straightforward.
“51 years doesn’t feel that long as ‘fifty-one years.’
Even though it's been 51 years, each day has piled up and accumulated." Yang Hee-eun's singing life, which she has lived each day with sincerity, like preparing a precious meal, is always 'in progress'.

“I am grateful for all the failures and difficulties life has given me, for all the mistakes and indiscretions I have made, and for all the foolish trials and errors I have made.
Thanks to that, my mind has become a little more open.
“Please stay strong until we meet again on stage.” _〈Epilogue〉(p. 243)