For those who want to create content through interviews
The Only Guide [How to Interview]

A book filled with the experiences and know-how of author Jang Eun-kyo, who has been interviewing various people for 19 years as a newspaper reporter and interviewer.
We provide detailed guidance on everything from interview planning, recruiting, conducting, organizing content, writing the interview, and final review.
It's also packed with helpful hints for anyone looking to ask good questions, including how to craft "key questions" that will naturally open up the interviewee's mind.

Every time I interview someone, I think about it.
What kind of world does that person have in his heart?
--- p.10

I think an interview is a process of discovering a person's light and shadow.
Everyone lives with light and darkness.
--- p.11

Anyone can be an interviewer, and anyone can be an interviewee.
We need both loud and small voices.
We need big stories and small stories.
--- p.28

Now, would you like to plan an interview?
Write down one question (concern) that comes to mind.
And think of the one person closest to you (related to the topic) with whom you can share that question.
--- p.68

We don't necessarily have to be 'people people'.
We just need to have a 'heart that is curious about people'.
--- p.94

'What you're most curious about' may be an obvious and common question.
If there are 100 interviewers, this is a question that all 100 of them will ask.
This is also a question that you can expect the interviewer to ask, saying, "Yeah, I knew you'd ask that."
(...) The fact that it is a common question that everyone would expect means that it is basic and important.
--- p.128

When you're interviewing, you may feel pressured to ask special or unusual questions.
Like in movies or dramas, you might think that you have to surprise the other person or ask a surprising question to get an answer.
Such a mindset leads us to fall into the 'fallacy of specialness'.
--- p.129

Questions that reveal the interviewee's uniqueness are those that seek to reveal the person's unique qualities that cannot be captured in numbers or conditions.
You don't have to think that even the questions have to be special.
Rather, you can discover what makes someone special by asking ordinary questions.
--- p.135

Can you imagine a day in the life of the person you're interviewing? When I interview someone, I try to imagine their day.
What kind of morning did he have to come here today? Did he sleep well yesterday? What did he have for lunch? What is his workspace like? Where will he go back to after this interview? What kind of expression does he usually have on his face?
--- p.161

After an interview, I usually think, “What’s one sentence that can summarize today’s meeting?”
This one sentence is not a 'topic' or a 'summary of the story'.
This is a representative sentence that best describes today's interview and conveys the interview to those who weren't there.
--- p.241

From now on, we need to think about the 'purpose of the interview content' rather than the 'purpose of the interview'.
Is the purpose of the interview different from the purpose of the interview content? Yes, they are.
The perspective changes.


If the purpose of the interview begins with my own curiosity or inquisitiveness, the purpose of the interview we create should be tailored to the curiosity or inquisitiveness of the people being interviewed.
“I’m curious about ~, Mr. Donggeul.”

This is the purpose of the interview.
That's what I wanted to ask Dongguk, that's what I wanted to hear.
The purpose of interview content changes like this:
“What are people curious about Mr. Dong-geul?”

--- p.270