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! Updated: 2025-09-03

  • Posted by bokbokseoga on 2025-09-03
  • Updated by on 2026-01-20

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Description 작품 소개

Kim Young-ha has released his new essay collection, One and Only Life. This is his first collection of essays in six years since Reasons for Travel, which captivated more than 600,000 readers. The book brings together and extensively revises pieces first serialized in his 2024 paid email subscription service, Weather of Young-ha. The service, which gained attention for being invitation-only in its early days, garnered enthusiastic responses throughout its run. One and Only Life is more personal and intimate than his previous essays. Stepping away from the persona of “author Kim Young-ha,” he speaks quietly, simply as another person navigating his one and only life. Across fourteen essays, his candid family stories and reflections on pivotal moments invite readers to pause and contemplate. How little do we truly know of each other—and even of ourselves? These thoughts converge into a single, resonant question: How should I live the life before me? Rather than offering easy comfort or familiar platitudes, this book shares honest experiences and concerns, encouraging readers to reflect on their own journeys. With One and Only Life, you are invited to revisit the moments of your past and record the scenes that define your life. “I originally began this manuscript under the bold title The User Manual for Life. But I soon realized I had little to say about life with any certainty. What I do know is simply this: that I’ve been given just one and only life.”

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Kim Young-ha김영하

Kim Young-ha (b.1968) debuted in the quarterly magazine Review in 1995 with the short story “Reflections in the Mirror.” His short story collections include What Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator? and He’s Back, None the Wiser. His novels are I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Why Arang, Black Flower, Your Republic Is Calling You, Quiz Show, I Hear Your Voice, and How a Murderer Remembers. He is an op-ed writer for The New York Times and has won the Hyundae Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Yi Sang Literary Award.

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