These four things are the key components to living with a long and happy life, according to an 89-year-old bestselling Korean author and a psychiatrist.
If you live to 100, you might as well be happy: what poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Korean literature is experiencing a surge in popularity across the United Kingdom, driven by a shift in literary preferences among a young and diverse readership.
People are now living longer, well up to the age of 100. Many things have changed compared to 100 years ago, but the pursuit of happiness remains a constant thread. Rhee Kun-hoo was in his 70s and retired from a prestigious career in psychiatry when he took up writing. Born in 1935, the 88-year-old lived in a pastoral society in his youth, survived the Korean War (1950-1953), witnessed turbulent events in Korean hist.
Korean literature began as little seeds blown by the wind and carried across the world by devoted literary agents, talented translators, editors and publishers, none of whom were familiar with Korean writing even a decade ago. They started to give platforms and opportunities to authors who grew steadily in popularity, and today, the hunger for Korean books in all genres is limitless. There is a universality to the best of Korean books, and that is what makes them so appealing to everyone in the world. They are exotic as well as familiar to us.