Seoul Average City

Korean Book [ Seoul Average City ]

■ Release Date : 2024-01-24
■ Page & Size : 264p | 5.7 x 6.1 in

■ Author(s) : Ha Sang -wook
■ Publisher : arte

■ Details

Korean Title : 서울 보통 시
English Title : Seoul Average City

This book is written in Korean.
This book is hardcover.

■ Details

In 2013, Ha Sang-wook's "<Seoul City>" was published, delivering entertainment and emotion that deeply resonated with tens of thousands of readers. Now, after 10 years, the sequel has returned. They say times change in a decade, and while the Facebook era that led the popularity of "<Seoul City>" has almost faded, two things remain unchanged: the challenging life in Seoul's high-cost era and Ha Sang-wook's witty poems. Now a writer who can skip detailed explanations, Ha Sang-wook once again sings the ordinary daily life of Seoul with a longing heart, waiting for the 'average' people living in the corners of the city.

With age catching up, stubbornly clinging weight, a job like a hamster wheel, the simple happiness of carrots in a market, my delivery box circling around Gwanggyo, a lost AirPod, friends who are now dads with their profile pictures on KakaoTalk, and the faces of aging parents... It's the everyday life of all ordinary people who seem to doze off with their own expressions every morning on the subway. In a perhaps lonely and mundane daily life where you may feel like you can't strike up a conversation with the person next to you, Ha Sang-wook casually extends his words to us, saying, "Hey, don't we all live thinking the same thoughts?"

A poet who brilliantly encapsulates the ordinary stories of ordinary people with wit and emotion, Ha Sang-wook's poetry always originates from the ordinary hearts of everyday people. In his poems, all ordinary hearts peer into each other and forget their loneliness. Through the short poems of the "poet" Ha Sang-wook, now even included in textbooks, I invite you to <Seoul Average City>, filled with "ordinary stories of Seoul people" lightly pressed on the book cover.