A completely (ruined) trip
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Is this trip a 'failure' or a 'perfect trip'? "Our conversations never end all night long" - Heo Hwi-su X Seo Sol's travel essay Don't be afraid to mess up, just let's go for now That trip will somehow remain a perfect memory. “Our footsteps never end.” Heo Hwi-soo X Seo Sol's Complete Travel Collection Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol, who received much love for their story of solidarity between female creators through "Our Conversation Never Ends All Night," have now come together for a trip. Why did the authors, who had previously expressed their anguish toward art through dialogue, now present a completely (failure) journey? Is it really possible to have a trip that goes smoothly, with perfect weather and perfect scenery, with the perfect companion? Is it really possible to have a pre-planned itinerary go smoothly, and to fully experience the enlightenment you planned for before your trip? This book began with these questions. |
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index
prolog
A Totally (Foolish) Trip [Hwisu] 004
Betrayal of the World Map [Seolsol] 008
01 Reflections on Iced Americano [Republic of Korea + Hwisu] 018
My Name is Korean Woman [Trans-Siberian Railway + Seosol] 024
02 Transfer Farewell and Bicycle Trip 1 [Han River + Hwisu, South Korea] 034
Transfer Farewell and Bicycle Trip 2 [South Korea, Nakdong River + Hwisu] 044
03 For the catharsis of an 18-year-old [Tokyo, Japan 1+Seosol] 054
If You Lose Your Smartphone [Tokyo, Japan 2+Seosol] 058
04 "This house has the best water." Banned [Gangneung, South Korea + Hwisu] 068
[Cambodia Siem Reap + Seosol] 078, where I heard the news of your son's birth.
05 Traveler Without Taste [Tokyo, Japan 1+Hwisu] 090
Travel is Travel [Tokyo, Japan 2+Hwisu] 096
The Illusion of Youth [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam + Seosol] 108
06 Which country has the worst racism? [Paris, France + Huisu] 122
The Legacy of Racism [Prague, Czech Republic + Seosol] 128
07 I am almose Senegalese [Senegalese + Hwisu] 140
Hello, Stranger [Turkey Istanbul + Seosol] 150
08 Learning Capitalism Through Travel [Incheon Airport + Hwisu, South Korea] 160
The Class Society of Airplanes [German Airplane + Seosol] 166
09 Reading or Drinking Faust [Frankfurt, Germany + Huisu] 174
Lunch on the Grass [Frankfurt, Germany + Seosol] 184
10 So French [French Paris + Huisu] 194
I Hate Paris [France Paris + Seosol] 206
Epilogue
Do you know the taste of Tongyeong honey bread? [Seosol] 216
How to Deal with Failure with Generosity [Hwisu] 220
supplement
Top 3 Bad Travel Awards 228
238 Questions for a Perfect Trip
A Totally (Foolish) Trip [Hwisu] 004
Betrayal of the World Map [Seolsol] 008
01 Reflections on Iced Americano [Republic of Korea + Hwisu] 018
My Name is Korean Woman [Trans-Siberian Railway + Seosol] 024
02 Transfer Farewell and Bicycle Trip 1 [Han River + Hwisu, South Korea] 034
Transfer Farewell and Bicycle Trip 2 [South Korea, Nakdong River + Hwisu] 044
03 For the catharsis of an 18-year-old [Tokyo, Japan 1+Seosol] 054
If You Lose Your Smartphone [Tokyo, Japan 2+Seosol] 058
04 "This house has the best water." Banned [Gangneung, South Korea + Hwisu] 068
[Cambodia Siem Reap + Seosol] 078, where I heard the news of your son's birth.
05 Traveler Without Taste [Tokyo, Japan 1+Hwisu] 090
Travel is Travel [Tokyo, Japan 2+Hwisu] 096
The Illusion of Youth [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam + Seosol] 108
06 Which country has the worst racism? [Paris, France + Huisu] 122
The Legacy of Racism [Prague, Czech Republic + Seosol] 128
07 I am almose Senegalese [Senegalese + Hwisu] 140
Hello, Stranger [Turkey Istanbul + Seosol] 150
08 Learning Capitalism Through Travel [Incheon Airport + Hwisu, South Korea] 160
The Class Society of Airplanes [German Airplane + Seosol] 166
09 Reading or Drinking Faust [Frankfurt, Germany + Huisu] 174
Lunch on the Grass [Frankfurt, Germany + Seosol] 184
10 So French [French Paris + Huisu] 194
I Hate Paris [France Paris + Seosol] 206
Epilogue
Do you know the taste of Tongyeong honey bread? [Seosol] 216
How to Deal with Failure with Generosity [Hwisu] 220
supplement
Top 3 Bad Travel Awards 228
238 Questions for a Perfect Trip
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Into the book
A moment of conversation on the Trans-Siberian Railway with a woman born in Sakhalin, a region I had only seen in history books.
Even as I was writing this passage, I had to keep recalling my memories to see if the experience at that time was my own delusion or if I was creating a false anecdote.
But I still remember his voice clearly.
So this is something that 'really happened'.
--- p.26, from “My Name is Korean Woman”
My mom is originally that kind of person.
He's warm and humorous without seeming to care, but he's also funny and annoying at times.
That's my mom.
Maybe I didn't have the luxury.
I was worried about the uncertain future and wanted to feel some stability, so I planned a family trip.
Travel is inherently unstable, yet it is a wind full of contradictions.
--- p.76, from “This house has the best tasting water.” Prohibited
In conclusion, our trip was not a 'failure trip'.
That doesn't mean it was a perfect trip, but it did create memorable scenery and small turning points for each person.
Judging by these facts, I think this trip could be called a 'perfect trip'.
No matter how hard you go through, it returns by creating a small whirlpool within it.
That's the charm of travel.
--- p.85, from “When I Heard the News of Your Birth”
I was trying to get something great by flexing my muscles, but I ended up with only one trunk in each hand, with a broken button.
There are things that must be emptied before they can be filled.
There was no room to fill it up like a trunk that was full to the brim.
Gongsurae Mansugeo.
Isn't traveling about emptying yourself and then filling yourself up?
This is the only thing I learned from my trip to Japan, where I was a student for many years.
--- p.103, from “Travel is Travel”
The following year, Seosol and I become roommates.
When we were actually looking for a house, we were so anxious and pressed for time that we didn't even think about it, but looking back, maybe this conversation we had at Goethe's birthplace was what allowed us to find a bigger house and create a study where we could write together?
--- p.180, from “Reading or Drinking Faust”
Traveling is always like that, I guess.
Even if you are disappointed by what you expected, you are amazed and moved by something completely unexpected, and you store it in a corner of your memory, creating a good warehouse that you can take out at any time.
The fleeting realization I felt in Frankfurt will also be stored in that warehouse, ready to be retrieved again when the time is right.
--- p.188, from “Lunch on the Grass”
A journey into the past, created by the impulses and deviations of moments that can never be returned to.
Maybe there will never be a perfect journey, but if stumbling around allows me to learn about myself and the world I never knew, I'd be willing to take a failed journey any time.
Because a 'completely ruined trip' will somehow become a 'perfect trip'.
Even as I was writing this passage, I had to keep recalling my memories to see if the experience at that time was my own delusion or if I was creating a false anecdote.
But I still remember his voice clearly.
So this is something that 'really happened'.
--- p.26, from “My Name is Korean Woman”
My mom is originally that kind of person.
He's warm and humorous without seeming to care, but he's also funny and annoying at times.
That's my mom.
Maybe I didn't have the luxury.
I was worried about the uncertain future and wanted to feel some stability, so I planned a family trip.
Travel is inherently unstable, yet it is a wind full of contradictions.
--- p.76, from “This house has the best tasting water.” Prohibited
In conclusion, our trip was not a 'failure trip'.
That doesn't mean it was a perfect trip, but it did create memorable scenery and small turning points for each person.
Judging by these facts, I think this trip could be called a 'perfect trip'.
No matter how hard you go through, it returns by creating a small whirlpool within it.
That's the charm of travel.
--- p.85, from “When I Heard the News of Your Birth”
I was trying to get something great by flexing my muscles, but I ended up with only one trunk in each hand, with a broken button.
There are things that must be emptied before they can be filled.
There was no room to fill it up like a trunk that was full to the brim.
Gongsurae Mansugeo.
Isn't traveling about emptying yourself and then filling yourself up?
This is the only thing I learned from my trip to Japan, where I was a student for many years.
--- p.103, from “Travel is Travel”
The following year, Seosol and I become roommates.
When we were actually looking for a house, we were so anxious and pressed for time that we didn't even think about it, but looking back, maybe this conversation we had at Goethe's birthplace was what allowed us to find a bigger house and create a study where we could write together?
--- p.180, from “Reading or Drinking Faust”
Traveling is always like that, I guess.
Even if you are disappointed by what you expected, you are amazed and moved by something completely unexpected, and you store it in a corner of your memory, creating a good warehouse that you can take out at any time.
The fleeting realization I felt in Frankfurt will also be stored in that warehouse, ready to be retrieved again when the time is right.
--- p.188, from “Lunch on the Grass”
A journey into the past, created by the impulses and deviations of moments that can never be returned to.
Maybe there will never be a perfect journey, but if stumbling around allows me to learn about myself and the world I never knew, I'd be willing to take a failed journey any time.
Because a 'completely ruined trip' will somehow become a 'perfect trip'.
--- p.219, from “Do you know the taste of Tongyeong honey bread?” (Epilogue)
Publisher's Review
There is no such thing as a perfect trip!
The essence of travel realized through ruined memories
Was the failed trip really a trip with nothing left?
"A Completely Ruined Trip" is a study of Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol's 'ruined' trip.
It contains everything from each person's travel story to the record of the trip they took together.
From their first trip with friends over 10 years ago, to the memories of pedaling a bicycle across the country while trying to get over their ex-lover, to the behind-the-scenes story of their most recent trip together through Germany and France, it covers almost all of Heo Hwi-soo and Seo Sol's travels.
In fact, every day in an unfamiliar place cannot be perfect.
Rather than things going as expected, something keeps getting in the way, and you end up encountering scenes that are different from what you expected.
In such an unexpected situation, it is difficult to avoid friction with your companions.
However, that doesn't mean the trip will remain as just moments you want to erase from your memory.
Rather, when I look back, it somehow lingers for a long time and makes me smile every time I think about it, and after reflection and introspection, it makes me a stronger person.
Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol focused on that very moment.
A trip that started out as a simple desire to get away ended up being a complete failure, creating another meaning.
And paradoxically, in it you realize the real reason you left.
I ran away and vaguely wanted to heal everything through travel, but things didn't go as planned.
But sometimes I receive small comforts from people I meet unexpectedly while traveling, and sometimes I lie in a quiet room and take a good look at my own heart.
Sometimes I react sharply to the racial discrimination or pickpocketing I encounter while traveling abroad, but I also wonder if I harbor discriminatory thoughts within myself.
The authors also were not flexible at first.
Since I've set out on a trip, I feel a sense of pressure to see as much as possible and learn meaningful things, and sometimes I feel a little bit of despair when I realize that I can't live up to the image of a free-spirited backpacker I wanted to be.
But soon, as if crossing a vast road with motorcycles whizzing by, I take a deep breath and slowly walk forward to embrace the new world.
As I made my way through the frenzied motorbikes to the other side, I realized I had been holding my breath while crossing the crosswalk.
As I let out the breath I had been holding in due to extreme tension, blood flowed throughout my body.
―114p, “The Illusion of Youth,” from [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam + Seosol]
In that place, there will be a side of me that I had never discovered before.
So what if it fails?
Rather, the essence of travel may resemble life itself: encountering unplanned events and stepping into an unknown world.
And Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol show that very moment.
Even a completely ruined trip can be turned into a perfect trip.
The power within yourself to change
In "A Completely (Ruined) Journey," the authors share more intimate experiences.
He honestly shared his experiences, including a conflict with his mother during a year-end family trip, and an episode from a package tour where he was upset by a rude guide.
After returning from a trip, I look back on those memories and realize the true meaning of travel.
The conflict with my mother was resolved not when we came to understand each other perfectly, but when I looked inside myself.
The guide was rude until the last day, but the trip was a gift to my father.
So the authors think, 'That's enough.'
There were moments when I thought I had messed up, but in the end, it left an unforgettable memory.
So then, aren't all failed trips actually perfect trips?
There is no reason not to let go, but to empty out, to do your best in the present, but to be ready to get drenched at any moment, and to have the courage to open your arms to the unruly fate.
―224p, “How to Deal with Failure with Generosity,” from [Epilogue + Whisu]
If you don't leave because you're afraid of messing up, you'll gain nothing.
As the authors did, let's not be afraid of ruining our trip, but rather actively wait for the moments when we might ruin it.
Even if things go against your plans, you might find the reason you left in the process.
Now, I hope that you will find courage in the authors' stories and be willing to embark on a journey.
The essence of travel realized through ruined memories
Was the failed trip really a trip with nothing left?
"A Completely Ruined Trip" is a study of Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol's 'ruined' trip.
It contains everything from each person's travel story to the record of the trip they took together.
From their first trip with friends over 10 years ago, to the memories of pedaling a bicycle across the country while trying to get over their ex-lover, to the behind-the-scenes story of their most recent trip together through Germany and France, it covers almost all of Heo Hwi-soo and Seo Sol's travels.
In fact, every day in an unfamiliar place cannot be perfect.
Rather than things going as expected, something keeps getting in the way, and you end up encountering scenes that are different from what you expected.
In such an unexpected situation, it is difficult to avoid friction with your companions.
However, that doesn't mean the trip will remain as just moments you want to erase from your memory.
Rather, when I look back, it somehow lingers for a long time and makes me smile every time I think about it, and after reflection and introspection, it makes me a stronger person.
Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol focused on that very moment.
A trip that started out as a simple desire to get away ended up being a complete failure, creating another meaning.
And paradoxically, in it you realize the real reason you left.
I ran away and vaguely wanted to heal everything through travel, but things didn't go as planned.
But sometimes I receive small comforts from people I meet unexpectedly while traveling, and sometimes I lie in a quiet room and take a good look at my own heart.
Sometimes I react sharply to the racial discrimination or pickpocketing I encounter while traveling abroad, but I also wonder if I harbor discriminatory thoughts within myself.
The authors also were not flexible at first.
Since I've set out on a trip, I feel a sense of pressure to see as much as possible and learn meaningful things, and sometimes I feel a little bit of despair when I realize that I can't live up to the image of a free-spirited backpacker I wanted to be.
But soon, as if crossing a vast road with motorcycles whizzing by, I take a deep breath and slowly walk forward to embrace the new world.
As I made my way through the frenzied motorbikes to the other side, I realized I had been holding my breath while crossing the crosswalk.
As I let out the breath I had been holding in due to extreme tension, blood flowed throughout my body.
―114p, “The Illusion of Youth,” from [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam + Seosol]
In that place, there will be a side of me that I had never discovered before.
So what if it fails?
Rather, the essence of travel may resemble life itself: encountering unplanned events and stepping into an unknown world.
And Heo Hwi-su and Seo Sol show that very moment.
Even a completely ruined trip can be turned into a perfect trip.
The power within yourself to change
In "A Completely (Ruined) Journey," the authors share more intimate experiences.
He honestly shared his experiences, including a conflict with his mother during a year-end family trip, and an episode from a package tour where he was upset by a rude guide.
After returning from a trip, I look back on those memories and realize the true meaning of travel.
The conflict with my mother was resolved not when we came to understand each other perfectly, but when I looked inside myself.
The guide was rude until the last day, but the trip was a gift to my father.
So the authors think, 'That's enough.'
There were moments when I thought I had messed up, but in the end, it left an unforgettable memory.
So then, aren't all failed trips actually perfect trips?
There is no reason not to let go, but to empty out, to do your best in the present, but to be ready to get drenched at any moment, and to have the courage to open your arms to the unruly fate.
―224p, “How to Deal with Failure with Generosity,” from [Epilogue + Whisu]
If you don't leave because you're afraid of messing up, you'll gain nothing.
As the authors did, let's not be afraid of ruining our trip, but rather actively wait for the moments when we might ruin it.
Even if things go against your plans, you might find the reason you left in the process.
Now, I hope that you will find courage in the authors' stories and be willing to embark on a journey.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 25, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 240 pages | 360g | 138*200*15mm
- ISBN13: 9791167822048
- ISBN10: 1167822048
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