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Man of Facts and Woman of Feelings
: An Opposite Couple’s One-Month Travel in South Korea

Author

Hakgu Jeong

Sukyeong Lee

Publisher

Happybookmedia

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Travel
  • #Essay
  • #Domestic Travel
  • #History
  • #Couple
  • #Vacation
  • #History Tour

Copyright Contact

Kwon Kyoungok

  • Publication Date

    2021-12-13
  • No. of pages

    304
  • ISBN

    9788998079451
  • Dimensions

    150 * 220
Overview

This book is about two people: a man who always plans everything and does things exactly as planned, and a woman who is just happy to go anywhere, and their journey of traveling together as they rediscover their differences, only to reaffirm that they are each other’s perfect life companions.

Book Intro

(English) Man of Facts and Woman of Feelings

 

Since meeting at a newspaper company and getting married, this agile couple have been busy going on road trips - even after their children were born. Always with an excuse of having to see the world, they are travel enthusiasts who have been all over the country and even all the way to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Then their dream opportunity comes along – domestic travel for a whole month - not too long and not too short. The husband was planning a trip for his sabbatical before retiring, and the wife took a month from work due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A man who always plans everything and does things exactly as planned, and a woman who is just happy to go anywhere. They chronicle their journey of traveling together and rediscovering their differences, only to reaffirm that they are each other’s perfect life companions.

Starting from Jeju Island, they travel around the country from the West Coast, the Armistice Line, and the East Coast to Busan. It is true that this trip reflects the husband's tastes and is a bit of a history tour, but it doesn't stop there. They visit the wounds of modern history that cannot be seen in famous tourist attractions and  observe ordinary people's way of life as well as the other side of a glamorous city. The book makes us look into the heartbreaking fragments that we're not aware of, or perhaps we want to look away from, in many corners of the country. Furthermore, you will see with fresh eyes the beautiful nature admired by a sentimental lady as well as charms in arboretums, museums, art galleries, and parks that have been well maintained. All this, and the couple's love for each other.

 

Their one-month travel starts in Jeju Island. The scenery around the island is enchanting, but the tour starts off in a "dark" way. Part 1 depicts the couple’s week in Jeju. From the airport, they head to Hangpaduri Castle in Aewol for the first stop on their itinerary, and look back at the history of Anti-Mongol struggle. The Sambyeolcho resistance is well known, but the Mokho who settled down after defeating the Sambyeolcho is unfamiliar to us. When the man accidentally discovers the word “extermination of the Mongols” on a stone monument on the shore, his guts are activated. He pauses and searches the Jeju Provincial Office website to find relevant historical facts. After suppressing Sambyeolcho as members of the Goryeo-Mongol Allied Forces, some Mongolian soldiers who remained in Jeju lived with the native people for 100 years. The word “extermination” refers to the annihilation of Mokho, or former Mongolian soldiers, by General Choi Young during the reign of King Gongmin at the end of the Goryeo period. Yet, there is a view held by some Jeju people that Sambyeolcho, the Mongolian army, or the Goryeo army were all foreign powers after all. The man is lost in thought. Is it appropriate that General Choi Young is accepted as a guardian deity by the Jeju people? Is the history we know true?

Such questions arise not only on Jeju, but also at various other destinations, and the man does not hesitate to pause and investigate. At night, he goes back to his room and scours the internet and belatedly studies history. When still not resolved, he tries to find data and even go on a follow-up trip after completing the one-month trip. The Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion is another historical scene that he digs into.

About the Author

Hakgu Jeong



(English) Hakgu Jeong was born in 1960. After graduating from college, he worked for a company in Seoul for two years before joining a local magazine in his hometown Masan in October 1988. Six years later, he moved to Yonhap News, covering major news in the Gyeongnam area, and after working at the headquarters, served as the head of the Gyeongnam Reporting Division for four years before retiring in August 2020. Since September 2021, he has been a member of the Gyeongnam Committee of the Media Arbitration Committee. He received his PhD in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Dong-A University. His works include Escape the City: How to Make a Six-Figure Income Through Farming published by Yonhap News in 2001 and Relationship Between the Spread of Fake News in the Post-Truth Era and Media Credibility, a PhD thesis, in 2019.

Sukyeong Lee



(English) Born in 1967, Sukyeong Lee joined Masan Namdo News in 1990, which was renamed Gyeongnam News in 1992, and moved to Gyeongnam Provincial Daily News in May 1999, where she continues to work to this day. From June 2014, she served as the editor-in-chief for two years.

She is curious, likes to travel, and wants to live an always changing life. An office worker who sometimes dreams of escaping the ordinary, she hopes that her life after 50 will be a life of travel, well-being, and new challenges during this second phase. Writing a book on traveling across the country was one of her projects. She also wrote A Mom Journalist Walks the South-Nakdong Mountain Range published by Sanjini in 2006.

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