8 My summer, my youth
11 Winter's rhododendron
13 Do you still love Jeju sea the most?
14 Memoirs of Youth
16 Living in a time of floating memories
18 brown eyes
20 Summer Greetings
22 The sound of falling snow
24 This heart that will never die
26 I thought I had somehow seeped into your life, but I guess not.
28 If we're going to be like this, let's just sit facing each other.
30 Fever of Youth
31 A letter written in sleeplessness
33 If I'm honest, I wonder if it's true love
34 Old marks found in coat pockets
36 The reason I often recommit to life is love.
38 You were only affectionate for a moment
40 If I were a person living at the end of summer
41 Even in the middle of summer, I take out my out-of-season padding and wear it.
43 Could the different pronunciations of love have been contradictory?
44 Just like a summer night when I miss your perfume
46 A boy who blooms in the summer and drowns in shallow love
48 Outside the window, there are still things that resemble summer.
49 Perhaps it was our hearts that were not eternal.
50 It's summer again
52 Now I won't tell you to go see the winter sea together.
54 Things That Make Up My Summer
56 I promised myself that if it wasn't inevitable, I would make it happen.
57 Twenty-five, that year
59 My youth, my summer, that will never return
60 To recipient J
62 Pure Confession of That Summer
64 I also want to be your youth
65 Summer Sleep
67 In a city that resembles summer
69 After writing twenty-three more letters
71 Let's run away
73 How many times must summer pass by my fingers before I forget you?
74 The shadows of summer are not blue
76 As if toothpaste was squeezed out from the bottom
78 Summer exists for everyone
79 Winter monsoon
81 If you translate it, it would be Youth of a Summer Night
83 Summer of Dreams
85 I only want to live in the summer
86 You must be summer
88 Love Summer Love Summer Love Summer
90 Did you also love that moment in the summer of your twenties?
92 Upper limit conversation
94 Summer Video
96 Summer Without You
97 Reincarnation of That Summer
99 My Only Deficiency
101 August Fireplace
103 I thought it would be okay once summer passed
105 Your Meaning
107 Twenty has no intention of growing up for the time being
109 Things I Loved
111 You are my only salvation
Before turning the 113 October calendar
115 That summer, I cried just thinking about you leaving
117 Moist Love
119 Summer's Will, To Those Who Loved Me
121 To my blue,
124 In closing the book,

What prompted you to publish this book? I'm also curious about when you first realized you wanted to become a writer.


Actually, I don't have a big reason for publishing a book.
I just like being able to hold my writings in my hands.
So, whenever I accumulate writings, I publish them as a book.
I was 16 when I first started writing.
It's a time when you have many dreams.

Actually, there was never a moment when I decided that I wanted to become a writer.
When I was young, writing was just fun for me.
When I was writing, I had no thoughts or worries, and I could only focus on that moment.
For me, who just writes for fun, being a writer felt like a very vague concept.
I didn't even have the desire to do that.

But at some point, my writing started to get a lot of attention from people.
My social media followers have grown rapidly, and I've been receiving messages of thanks for offering comfort and empathy.
Some people called me author, and I felt so awkward saying that.
I thought, "I'm only 16 years old."
But after I published my first book at 17, I started thinking to myself:
At this level, you are a writer, you say!

Writing was and still is just a hobby of mine, but since that day I've become a little greedy.
I want to become a really great writer, and I want to be perfect even if it's just a hobby.

How long did it take from conception to final completion of the book, and what was the most enjoyable or most challenging part of the process?

It usually takes me an average of 3-5 months to complete a project.
When I was writing the book [Italia, the place where the journey ends is full of affectionate afterimages], it took me a whole 10 months.
Except for that book, most books can be finished in 3-5 months without any problems.

It may sound obvious, but I always have fun working on a manuscript.

I like analog, I like things that I can hold in my hands and see vividly with my eyes.
For me, it means a lot that my writings come together to form a book.
It can't help but be fun.
The moments when I stayed up all night working on something, and the moments when I had to revise something I thought was finished because it seemed inadequate, were all such joyful moments for me.
I've published a total of seven books so far, and I've never had a difficult time.

The author's poetry collection is written in long, flowing sentences, so it feels like I'm secretly reading the author's diary.
I wonder if that was intentional

you're right.
Thank you for your understanding.

The keywords of my writing style are monologue, diary, and letter.
I often write in my diary to look back on my day.
Rather than writing down my emotions of the moment and fleeting moments, I look back and organize the emotions I felt over the course of a day or several days.
So it's plain and simple.
I write like that.
True to one's feelings and honest, but not swayed.
Gentle and plain.

I've been writing for nine years now, and my writing style has changed a lot.
I have the greatest affection for this established style.

What's the most important message you want to convey to readers in this book? And which part do you think readers will find most engaging?

I don't have any specific message for my readers.
I just want it to be a book that makes the reader think a lot.
I hope you'll guess what kind of love I've had, look back on your own past loves, sympathize, or simply admire my writing skills and underline them.
I hope that it won't be a book that you just read without thinking, a book that you don't underline, a book that doesn't have its corners folded, a book that's left on a bookshelf collecting dust.
If my book has any meaning to anyone in any way, I am satisfied with that.

I think the articles that will pique readers' interest are those that include the words "twenty" and "summer."
I think those two words are a bit nostalgic, they're words that beautify memories.
It also makes me feel a bit hazy.
I think not only me, but many people think that way too.

The pure youth of the twenties, the passionate sun rising in summer, and the occasional depression caused by the rainy season.
I think those two things alone are enough to get people interested.

Please tell us your favorite passage from the book.
I would appreciate it if you could also tell me the reason.

As you know, my sentences are made up of long breaths.
So it's too long to be called a phrase...
Let me introduce you to my favorite sentence!
'I just want to go live somewhere where it snows in the summer.
In a place where you can't tell if it's summer or winter.
But when it snows, I'll realize it's summer.'

'There are often things that cannot be done by will alone.
Sometimes, there are things that are difficult even with love, and there are things that even summer cannot embrace.
I don't know how blue your summer is, and you don't know how much youth is spread out in my summer.'

The reason I chose these sentences is because I think they really show my honest, plain, and straightforward writing style.
Among them, I love these sentences the most because they clearly express what I want to express.