Recommendation: I would like to be called 'Hansol' itself, not 'Hansol the visually impaired'.
Prologue: If the inevitable darkness has come

1.
One day, I suddenly became visually impaired.

Darkness comes silently
I will become an adult who never discriminates.
Fear of becoming a burden
In a reality that we don't want to acknowledge
The twist brought about by learning Braille
What the School for the Blind Taught Me
The last faces I saw

2.
Step by step towards light

Meeting someone who recognizes me
Why can't visually impaired people go to business school?
My Strange and Bitter Interview
The chaotic and disorienting adjustment period of college life
The Birth of the Disability Rights Club "Ganaljigi"
Another miracle, our first dance performance
A Long Journey to Find Jobs for People with Disabilities: A Trip to New York
Becoming a Braille Teacher

3.
Open your eyes to an invisible world

Start YouTube
After three attempts, I received the Braille Silver Button.
The first time I rode public transportation alone
Your shortcut and my minefield
Guide dogs are not that kind of dog.
Everyone is ordinary and just that special
To those who despair because they can't see ahead

420,000 subscribers in just 2 years and 11 months since the channel was launched.
Cumulative views surpass 230 million!
The first essay by Wonshot Hansol, a young mentor you can't help but love.

In October 2019, a young man with a blue color, a chatterbox, and a pretty smile appeared on YouTube.
A complicated family history, blatant discrimination on campus, the death of her father, blindness at an early age, and a disability registration card obtained before an ID card…
His face is free of wrinkles as he calmly tells stories that immediately bring to mind the word 'unhappiness'.
People were quickly captivated by the innocence of a young man who would suddenly sing his favorite song loudly, shout “Excuse me!” without hesitation when he needed help and grab a passerby, and laugh heartily “Hahahahaha!” about once a minute.
His channel, "One Shot Hansol," which conveys bright energy just by looking at it, is actively talked about among netizens and achieved the feat of reaching 100,000 subscribers in just 1 year and 2 months, and he was awarded the world's first silver button with all text written in Braille.

His channel, which was created to show the 'real reality' of people with disabilities as it is, is only just entering its fourth year, but its impact is unmatched by any other channel.
His "social experiment" content, which unvarnishedly shows the difficulties faced by visually impaired people in Korean society, has been widely reported in numerous media outlets, and he has been invited to various disability awareness lectures and disability media festivals, consistently raising his voice for the improvement of disabled people's rights even outside of the channel.

For nearly three years, he has received countless support and strength from his subscribers, but among them, there is one voice that has particularly remained deep in his heart.
A letter from a young couple, who were in deep sorrow after their newborn baby was diagnosed with visual impairment, told the story of how seeing the brightly smiling face of 'human Kim Han-sol' in a video gave them the courage to think, 'I can raise my child well too.'
After feeling the joy of 'my story providing comfort and strength to someone' several times, he developed a desire to communicate more deeply with more people.
Born as the first step forward as 'writer Kim Han-sol' rather than 'YouTuber One-Shot Han-sol', the essay 'Sadness is One-Shot, Every Day is Clear' is a beautiful coming-of-age story that thoroughly illuminates the flow of Kim Han-sol's life from the moment he lost his sight until now.
The behind-the-scenes story, which could not be conveyed through video, was honestly and completely captured, including how his once dark-clouded life became clear, what he realized throughout the process, and what kind of future he dreamed of.

“Our daily lives are enriched every day,
“I see more than what is in front of me!”

His channel name, 'One Shot', contains two wishes that writer Kim Han-sol has long harbored.
The desire to swallow all the darkness in the world, the desire to break down uncomfortable walls and communicate with subscribers, like having an open conversation after a drink.
As he wished, countless people gather in the circle he draws every day to listen to his stories.
We laugh together, swallow our sorrows together, and think together about how to break down the walls between people with and without disabilities.
The Braille Cup Ramen, born from a collaboration with Samyang Ramen in 2021, is the first result of this movement.

People ask him.
“How can I live alone when I can’t see ahead?”
“How can you be so bright when you have a disability?”
This book is the answer to those questions.

He too had his dark times.
He was so shocked by the sudden loss of his sight that he didn't step out of the house for a while.
Although I wanted to interact with people more than anyone else, I was too embarrassed to look at them awkwardly, and I couldn't even raise my head properly. I was afraid to ask for help, so I stood in front of the crosswalk and hesitated while the signal changed a dozen times.
'My life is ruined.
'I can't do anything anymore.' As much as I was curious and had many things I wanted to do, my despair was deep and profound.
However, he did not miss the warm hands extended by those around him and the ray of hope called Braille.
I decided to focus on what I already had rather than what I couldn't have, and the dim light gradually became clearer.
He would be happy if he could see ahead again, of course, but even if he couldn't, he said without hesitation that there was plenty of joy to be had now.

“Now, when someone asks me to describe a place, I can picture and tell more than I could when I was just looking.
“Isn’t it true that we live in a world of truly interesting sensations?”

After overcoming a long period of darkness and going through many twists and turns to enter university, he created a disability rights club called 'Ganaljigi', and he consistently spoke out for the rights of people with disabilities to move, and also helped install Braille blocks on campus.
By tirelessly building a richer life than anyone else, he proved through his life that his disability does not prevent him from dreaming of something.
He sincerely hopes that his story will become a spark of hope for someone else who is going through another pain, as the despair of 'Why did this have to happen to me?' turns into anticipation of 'What kind of fun will happen tomorrow?'

Hansol Kim, a visually impaired person and human
A letter envisioning a society where everyone is happy.

There is a line like this in the drama "The Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo," which depicts the life of an autistic person.
“When I walk with Lee Jun-ho, people think that Lee Jun-ho is doing volunteer work for the disabled.” This is a scene where the main character, Woo Young-woo, who has an autism spectrum disorder, calmly talks about the unchanging gaze he has received from people throughout his life.
In Woo Young-woo's world, there are colleagues he works with, concerns he has as a lawyer, and clients he is responsible for and protects, but in the eyes of passersby in the play, Woo Young-woo is simply seen as a disabled person in need of help.
Author Kim Han-sol was also not free from such perspectives.

“Sudden visual impairment at the age of eighteen, and the change in how people looked at me.
I am still me, but by the world's standards, I seem to be very different from others.
“The gap between the life I experienced as a disabled person and the life people thought disabled people lived seemed to remain unbridged for ten years.”

He says that the world he encountered after becoming blind was completely different from the world he knew before.
He constantly sought change in order to adapt to the new world and live a happier life, but this book clearly shows that society in his world was lazy about changing for over a decade.
Rather than viewing people with disabilities as needy beings in need of protection, we must focus on what needs to be improved so that they can live as independent beings who do not need protection.
The editor who created this book also realized that he had been blind to the lives of others for a long time after hearing author Kim Han-sol's story.
It was because I first opened my eyes to the pain and inconvenience that some people have to endure every day in the midst of extremely ordinary daily scenes, such as how a station without screen doors causes fear to some, how an electric kickboard parked in the middle of the street poses a threat to some, and how the increasing number of kiosks in restaurants causes a sense of alienation to some.

Producer Kim So-hee, a friend of author Kim Han-sol and co-founder of the “One Shot Han-sol” channel, wrote in the book’s recommendation, “I hope that Han-sol will be called ‘Han-sol’ itself, not ‘Han-sol the visually impaired.’”
As he said, through this book, we can meet Hansol, who struggled with the pain of blindness, Hansol who enjoys life as a visually impaired person, Hansol who has many dreams, laughter, and friends, Hansol who does not give up, Hansol who loves challenges and jokes, and Hansol who loves more than anyone else.
He, who had never been able to make eye contact with people, now reaches out to more people through this book.
I hope that you too will join me in walking towards a brighter tomorrow, holding his courageous hand as he dreams of creating a world where everyone is happy together.