If You Live To One Hundred, You Might As Well Be Happy (Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life: The Korean Bestseller)
Rhee Kun Hoo | Ebury Publishing
23,380원 | 20240516 | 9781846047794
As an old Korean saying goes...
‘You learn to use gums in place of teeth.’
Rhee Kun Hoo was in his seventies and retired from a prestigious career in psychiatry when he took up writing. In his youth Professor Rhee lived an extraordinary life, filled with action and purpose. He served time in prison for opposing his country’s totalitarian government. He led the efforts to fix South Korea’s fledgling mental health system. He built a family and raised four kids.
Now in his twilight years, having, much to his surprise, become a bestselling, beloved writer in South Korea, Rhee turns his pen to the often-overlooked value of ageing. Here he shares his wisdom and philosophy for finding a life well-lived, exploring forgiveness, how to persevere (but also know when to quit), facing your insecurities and opening yourself to the simple joys available to you every day.
This comforting Korean bestseller offers guidance for attaining ordinary happiness at any age and shows us that life is a story worth reading until the very last page.
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THE AUTHOR
Rhee Kun Hoo (Author)
Rhee Kun Hoo was born in 1935, during imperial Japan's occupation of Korea.
Having worked as a psychiatrist and taught at Ewha Womans University his entire career of over fifty years, Rhee made indispensable contributions in the
field of mental health care in South Korea and is considered a visionary.
the first to introduce an open-ward system and psychodrama as a therapy method in psychiatric facilities in the country, and also served as the president
of KNPA (Korean Neuropsychiatric Association). After retirement, Rhee and his wife have dedicated themselves to providing postwar Korean generations with guidance in life such as parenting, counseling, relationship advice, and post-retirement life coaching. Rhee has written over ten books in Korean to date, including his bestselling debut essay collection, I Want to Have Fun Till the Day I Die (Galleon, 2013), which has sold around half a million copies in Korea.
