The stories behind their books

“The book I wrote, ‘Girl Group Yoga,’ is a book that even beginners can easily follow.”

“Because I'm an introvert.”

“I thought it was art that I, as a Korean Confucian girl, couldn't understand. Maybe it was because some parts were difficult, or because the characters were hard to remember. Let's try reading it again in about six months.”

“I got interested while reading Small Things Like These, so I finished Foster and am drinking coffee now.”

“The book I recently enjoyed reading was Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.”

“"The Little Prince feels different every time I read it—now, five years from now, or ten years from now."”

“Watching this, I thought, “The mystery novels I’ve read up to now were only fragments. The real roots were here.””

“As I felt changes in my vocal production while taking lessons from Director Lee Yun-seok and reading the book alongside them, I kept thinking that I had understood vocal production in an overly complicated and difficult way all this time. “Use your abdominal muscles,” “sing as if sending the sound backward,” “lift the sound,” and so on—one of the things that confused me most when learning vocal production was these abstract expressions. I was the same way. They are not incorrect expressions, but when you are encountering vocal production for the first time, it seems inevitable that you’ll feel confused and wonder, “What does that mean?” After taking the director’s lessons, what struck me most was singing in the most natural state. Don’t try to embellish your sound too much; make sound as comfortably as possible, without tension. Since everyone’s appearance is different, the sounds and pronunciations that feel comfortable to produce may differ, but ultimately the path the sound takes is the same for everyone, and I think a person’s own color emerges from how they sing along that path. This is the point most emphasized in the book, too, so I hope you’ll remember to make sound in the most comfortable state. This book helped me realize that sound isn’t something I create, but something that comes naturally when I’m most comfortable, and I think it explains that in the simplest way. If your work involves using your voice, I hope you’ll read it at least once and find a more comfortable sound. I hope everyone who reads this book finds a sound that is not the best, but their only one!”

“But this year, I gained a lot of strength from reading the book I Love My Imperfect Self.”

“I’m especially enjoying the webtoon <The Return of the Mount Hua Sect>.”

“I want to share the happiness of cooking for yourself through this book.”

“Recently, I read José Saramago's *Blindness* and *Seeing*.”