Preface: Dreaming of a world overflowing with 'bright news'

Emotion, reflection, contemplation, solitude
Design or quit.
The death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of a million is a statistical problem.
Please put a picture of me crying in the commercial, even if it's just for a second.
I'm sorry for being so nosy.
The act of reading seems to have the power to elicit reflection.
Generals who save their countries usually have big, sharp eyes, while traitors have small eyes.
As with reading, mere experience is not very conducive to reflection.
The relationship between simple experience and reflection can be likened to the relationship between the mouth that eats food and the stomach that digests it.
People tend to be overconfident in their ability to tolerate loneliness.
I think a lot of our social ills stem from our inability to enjoy being alone.
Nowadays we are forgetting the value of people.
Efficiency is an ideology.
Carpe diem!
I'm afraid of Korea.
First of all, I would like nothing more than to practice listening to each other.
Even if the car in front doesn't move, wait for 3 seconds. Even if you're angry, wait for 3 seconds.
Conservatives are happier than liberals.
“None of Buddhism, Confucianism, or Christianity, once they enter Joseon, try to become Joseon’s Buddhism, Confucianism, or Christianity. Instead, they become Joseon of Buddhism, Joseon of Confucianism, and Joseon of Christianity.”

Power, Trust, Leadership
Even a good person changes once he or she enters that place (the Blue House).
It is a common human tendency to pursue power without ceasing, and this lust for power only ceases with death.
We only recognize hierarchy, not authority.
The reason politicians look and act younger than their age is because political power prevents them from experiencing the finiteness of life.
Power is sugar.
The purity of a revolution cannot last more than two weeks.
Trust is everywhere the parent of tyranny, and free government is founded on vigilance, not trust.
After leaving office, the leader's so-called 'social rights' are suddenly reduced to hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times their original size.
Do you trust the central government? Yes! (12.9%) No! (87.1%)
Extremely high or low self-esteem can lead us into the wilderness of leadership.
For an organization to become healthy, the leader must first let go of the illusion of being a perfect leader.
Here lies a man who knows how to deal with those who are superior to himself.
Dare you, the one who poured the wine?
The daughter has no mother.
We must correct the self-deprecating view that Korea's democratization over the past 50 years is a "deviation," a "disorganization," or a "distortion."
Our country's National Assembly members are the only ones in the world who wear gold badges.
What is love? Is it something you receive or something you give?
Korean politics is a roller coaster.
Authority makes people grow.
Leadership can emerge naturally when you think positively and acknowledge that everything is your responsibility and put this into practice.

memory, age
Give up on 'psychological memory' which is different from 'factual memory'!
Those who forget the past will be condemned to repeat it.
Memory succumbs to pride.
After forty you are responsible for your own face?
Please don't ask for my night price.
Even if you see the back of an ugly person, you can forgive them.
I think they say 'youth is beautiful', but I don't think so.
Just as there is no life before old age, there is no life after old age.
Loss of curiosity is a hallmark of old age.
Youth is business.
Youth is not a time in life.

Love, philanthropy
The moment you stood next to me, I loved the look in your eyes... I can't do anything without you anymore. I don't know anything but love.
I need you because I love you.
Men love the one they desire, and women desire the one they love.
Love is the most selfish of all emotions.
I love you, my customer.
How can I help you?
It takes courage to love and be loved.
Men are 'confessional animals'.
Live each day as if it were your lifetime.
When paying a large sum of money, always drink alcohol and call the relevant institution to make an appointment first.
Then, you will have no choice but to pay money later.
Love is communism within capitalism.
How can we talk about democracy without listening to the problems of our neighbors who are mired in a swamp where if they try to pull one foot out, the other one sinks in, and if they try to pull another foot out, yet another one sinks in?
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
Where are you going?

Success, relationships, character
To succeed, practice the 'four principles (氣基技記)'.
First impressions determine success.
There are many people who are good at dancing and singing.
But the reason I picked rain was because of his eyes.
Those eyes were filled with a strong will to stick together.
Creativity is something that everyone is born with.
We can all naturally unleash the creativity within us by using the tools of thought.
The best way to touch someone's heart is to talk about what they value most.
Even after stripping away all the titles, is 'I' really 'me'?
Even among the left, there are people I absolutely do not want to associate with, and there are also right-wingers whose thoughts are conservative but whose unwavering character I can't help but bow my head to.
When I meet the capitalists and the privileged class, who were once considered evil, in person, I get so angry that I go crazy because they are actually quite gentle and kind people.
Recognizing the truth is not a matter of intelligence, but of character.
If you haven't said it ten times, it's like you've never said it.
Couples where the woman is more attractive than the man tend to respect each other's decisions.

Stress, anxiety, pain, perfectionism
The biggest cause of stress has to do with space.
The saying that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body is only half true.
In modern society, it would be more reasonable to say that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body.
I just ate, so please eat slowly.
A person who cannot live a hundred years lives with a thousand years of worry.
Don't think that your suffering is the greatest in the world.
Until the day I die, I hope to look up at the sky without a single ounce of shame. Even the wind blowing through the leaves was painful.
May is a bright month, but for salarymen, May is a nightmare.
Would it really be a happy thing for me to be remembered as someone's 'person of a lifetime'?
Let's stop trying to prove that we are good people.
Work as poorly as possible.

Empathy and humility
Untrained imagination is being used to destroy others.
It's just that I don't work hard, so I look good.
Even a watch left without batteries is accurate twice a day.
A great leader must have contextual intelligence.
I've been thinking about why young people turn away from serious literature.
But I think writers don't know much about the younger generation.
When my mother is sick, my heart aches, and when my mother-in-law is sick, my head hurts.
He loves the countryside very much.
But in fact, it is when he is learning about the countryside in the city that he likes it the most.
Face is important to women, and shame is important to men.
I think we'll be able to live a little better now that the enlightenment sentiment that we must unconditionally enlighten our people has disappeared.
My late father and mother told me to be humble, to be humble, but there is only one thing that I can't do until now, and that is humility.
Every citizen is a media.
When we point our finger at someone, we should know that our index finger is pointing toward the other person, while the other three fingers are pointing toward ourselves.

desire, vanity
Is a revolution not based on asceticism, or rather on desire, impossible?
Satisfaction is the misfortune of desire, and desire does not desire satisfaction, but desires desire.
We do not have our own natural desires, but rather desire what we see others desire.
Ah, I want to live in the land of advertising. A land of advertising where despair blossoms, filled with happiness and hope, with the woman I love.
It is not speculation, it is just love for the land, which is part of nature.
Small is beautiful.
Saying "I'm having brunch" sounds country, but saying "I'm having brunch" makes you sound like a New Yorker.
The objective truth of a proposition and its validity as recognized by the arguer and those listening to the argument are two separate things.
Mom! Should I sleep on your right or left?

Truth, knowledge, and self-righteousness
Even if liars tell the truth, people won't believe them.
The truth is meaningless.
What matters is the awareness that exists in the mind.
Be true to yourself.
When we know the ins and outs of the world, we always feel lonely.
It is the calling of our scholarship to tell people what they don't want to hear.
The more you know, the less you know.
Knowledge should be regarded not as 'thoughts that are completely correct' but as 'opinions that seem to be correct'.
I hate utopians.
Utopia is impossible, and in the process of trying to make it happen, they hurt too many people.
There are also thoughtless people who never doubt.
The digestive power of such people is amazing, and they do not know that their judgment can be wrong.
My will is strong.
You are stubborn.
He is stubborn to the point of being foolish.
What I really can't reconcile with are people who are convinced that they are good and moral.
Japan is the country closest to socialism on this planet.
It is people with beliefs who ruin the world.
Passion never lives alone.
Are intellectuals 'disposable tissues'?

Responsibility, indifference, harmony
When walking on snow, don't walk in a disheveled manner.
The footsteps I walk will become a guide for those who follow.
Can't civil servants eat, poop, and love without a reason?
The Korean middle class lives on the right and thinks on the left.
If there is a large amount of anonymity, one day anonymity will poison the system.
We are a people no different from livestock.
If a public official sleeps one hour less, the public sleeps one hour more.
He who sleeps on his rights is not protected.
People are insensitive to 'cold evil'.
If you multiply 0.5 by 0.5, you get 0.25.
Bibimbap is changing Web 2.0.
I denounced injustice.
But the real opponent in the fight was an ingratiating society.
Don't let children read biographies.

Hope, despair, disillusionment, happiness
I really want to cross that bridge once.
Only despair can save us.
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
It is very difficult to meet people who are living in this world.
Most people are just surviving and that's all.
Hurt is the price we pay for the pleasure of enlightenment and learning, and to know must be to be hurt.
Happiness is an emotion that is very difficult for people to feel.
Half of the happiness you feel is determined by your genes.
Moderate your happiness.
The word filial piety (孝) is derived from the character 老 (老) meaning old, and means that a child (子) supports one instead of a cane (匕).
80% of what raised me was 'wounds'.
There is no disillusionment in fantasy, but there is a cost to fantasy called disillusionment.
Roses have no reason.
It just blooms because it blooms.
The energy that is leading Korea now is evil.
A rich person is someone who earns more money than his brother-in-law (his wife's sister's husband).
The Korean word 'eotbissimhada' cannot be translated into any language in the world.
Your 40s are a time when you realize that you must suppress unattainable aspirations.

"Give up 'psychological memory' which is different from 'factual memory'!"
These are the words of the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti.
Memory is composed of ‘facts’ and ‘psychology’.
Do you remember being insulted? Think carefully.
Which comes first: "facts" or "psychology"? Probably psychology.
Our memories are mostly influenced by subjective psychology rather than objective facts.
It is also psychological to perpetuate and nurture unpleasant memories.
In fact, the mind gradually expands through the process of repeated recall while the facts become increasingly blurred.
Krishnamurti said to give up psychological memory to avoid crowding out new experiences and retaining only old ones, but this is also essential for a happy life.
Separating 'facts' from 'psychology' is difficult, but let's try.

"To succeed, practice the 'four qi (氣基技記)'."
These are the words of journalist Ko Seung-cheol.
While reading the recently published 'Korean Journalist' series, 'Food and Writing' (Communication Books, 2008), I underlined some points.

"Whenever a reef appears, overcome it with youthful spirit.
Keep your energy alive.
You need to learn the basics of organization.
The more you build a foundation, the wider and stronger it becomes.
You need to increase your skills and abilities for the tasks you are assigned.
The more you practice a skill, the more it stands out.
Carry a personal digital assistant (PDA) or notebook with you to jot down your boss's instructions or work ideas.
"Records are the source of knowledge."
This is not a vague guess, but rather a common characteristic of successful people.
When this content was published as a newspaper column, the response was so enthusiastic that emails from job seekers and office workers flooded in, and there were even several requests for him to give lectures to new employees.
It may seem easy when you know it, but it seems like the secret to success lies in things that we usually overlook or don't put into practice.
Let us strive to cultivate the spirit, build our foundation, hone our skills, and cultivate the habit of being faithful to our writings.

"Recognizing the truth is not a matter of intelligence, but of character."
Erich Fromm said:
He said so, asserting that "our dilemma is not between capitalism and communism, but between bureaucracy and humanism."
His argument is seen as overly fundamentalist, and it is difficult to readily agree that bureaucracy and humanism are truly a realistic choice.

However, we need to consider whether the shackles we keep calling and emphasizing 'reality' are actually binding us to a bureaucratic system of life.
Aren't we so in love with the organizations and groups we belong to that we've already become, to a certain extent, "gangsters"? While we all love and respect the organizations we belong to, is it truly impossible to expect to never become enslaved to them, even to the point of submitting to their corruption and injustice? It seems to me this is a matter of character, not intelligence.

"Let's stop trying to prove that we're good people."
These are the words of Professor Kim Min-jeon of Kyunghee University.
It is said that this was a promise he made to himself while undergoing brain tumor surgery in 2004.

"Let's not live our lives trying to prove ourselves to people who make us uncomfortable or dislike us.
If only I could be given a chance to live a little longer."
This is a story from a uniquely formatted interview article published in the March 19, 2008 edition of [JoongAng Ilbo].
The article is titled 'Sneakers and Pants in 'Neat Mode': "I have an obsession with not standing out"', and the main point is that Professor Kim is a female political scientist who is popular in newspapers and broadcasting, but she is always cautious.
Reporter Lee Yeo-young, who wrote the article, said, "His style is to always try to hide.
I asked, "Is it perhaps related to the social environment where women are said to die if they jump out?"

This is really unexpected.
I never thought of that when I saw Professor Kim in the television debate.
I got the feeling he was being cautious with his words, but I didn't expect it to be that extreme! Oh, and I thought he was in his late 30s, but it was surprising to see he was 43, with a youngest son in fifth grade.
The world is so unfair.
Some people, regardless of gender, try too hard to prove that they are good people, while others act as if they are trying to show off that they are bad people.
I wish people like Professor Kim would stop trying so hard to prove they're good people and instead be bad people sometimes.

"My will is strong.
You are stubborn.
He is stubborn to the point of being foolish."
These are the words of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970).
He said that the same content can be expressed differently depending on the change in person, and gave the above as an example.
A London magazine held a contest to collect such types of expressions that changed depending on the subject, and among the winning entries was "I am angry according to justice."
You get angry.
He's making a fuss over nothing" "I thought about it again.
You changed your mind.
It is said that he said two things with one mouth.

Poet Kwon Hyuk-woong also said, "I am brave, pure, meticulous, passionate, restrained, and cannot tolerate injustice.
But when this virtue is transferred to another person, he becomes reckless, simple-minded, timid, lustful, repressed, and prone to anger. "What matters is not the virtue, but who is the master.
“It is time to choose virtues from the other person’s perspective,” he said.

Can you guarantee that you won't resort to such tricks based on personal preference? What's the difference between conviction, stubbornness, and self-will? None.
They are all just words referring to 'belief'.
The only difference is from whose perspective you look at it.
My beautiful convictions may seem like a 'fool's rant' to someone else.