The Practice of Drawing Apart

The Practice of Drawing Apart

Retirement, and the Life That Follows

김인구 | 리브레토

“Who am I?” The moment I peeled off the name tag I had worn for thirty years, my true story finally began. When we leave the company we spent thirty years with and have to live as ‘me’ rather than ‘the department head,’ what do we come face to face with? This book, The Practice of Drawing Apart (멀어지기 연습), is an essay in which the author—who spent thirty years at a large corporation—unfolds, calmly and candidly, the enormous life transition he goes through after retirement. The author consciously begins ‘practicing drawing apart’ from everything he had striven all his life to ‘grow closer’ to—the company, his job title, the eyes of others. In the emptiness left when the place he went to every day disappeared, and the bewilderment of a life with no business card, he creates a new rhythm out of small daily things like cleaning, cooking, and early-morning Mass. Reflecting on a past in which he failed to stay by his family’s side, he forms a new bond with his wife through clumsy dishwashing, and through playing with his grandson he learns the wisdom of living in the ‘now.’ More than simply depicting life after retirement, this book warmly portrays how one man reclaims the self he had lost and—as a descendant of his clan’s head family who bridges past and future—is reborn as a ‘public historian’ and a ‘calli-designer.’ For everyone wrestling with which way to turn at a crossroads in life, it will be a kind, gentle guide showing that ‘drawing apart’ is not severance but the start of a deeper connection.

16,500 KRW
Voice Change (Out of Print)

Voice Change (Out of Print)

The Magic 10 Minutes to Find Your Good Voice

김도헌 | 리브레토

Voice Change (보이스 체인지) introduces practical, down-to-earth voice training methods that can make readers' lives better. In this book, the author shares the voice and speech know-how acquired over three years of teaching more than 5,000 online and offline students. 

17,000 KRW
Likes Become Money!

Likes Become Money!

Cryptocurrency Steem Coin Investment Know-How

스팀잇 부부 | 성신미디어

A simple yet powerful investment secret! The A to Z of social media-based Steem coin mining know-how. Write posts every day, press 'like,' and coin rewards roll in! We reveal the Steem coin investment secrets of a couple in their 30s on Steemit who achieved an annual coin interest yield of 30%.

14,000 KRW
Adrift in the Fourth Revolution

Adrift in the Fourth Revolution

Surviving the Smart Age

민연기 | 성신미디어

The new technologies that appear every day can make us feel as though we have left the dry land of the analog world and been cast out onto the vast open sea of the digital one. Yet when we look at how humanity has dealt with the events brought about by technological progress, both yesterday and today, we can guess at what tomorrow may hold. After all, no matter how marvelous and unprecedented a technology may be, it is still we who handle it. With this book (4차혁명 표류기), I hope we can begin an enjoyable conversation, predicting where the Fourth Industrial Revolution will steer the direction of our lives. -- We are told this is the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but it does not quite sink in. It feels somehow insufficient to grandly invoke the word 'revolution' for terms and technologies we have already grown familiar with through TV and the internet. After all, we use 'smartphones' as a matter of course, and we ride Ttareungi (Seoul's public bike-share) to practice the 'sharing economy,' where things belong neither to you nor to me. We own little 'drones' that we fly when we are bored, but we doubt whether such crude drones can do anything more than serve as toys. We buy and sell cryptocurrency on exchanges as a form of investment, yet we have no idea what value the technology called 'blockchain' actually holds, or how much it might add to our bank accounts. But how did these technologies and devices of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—the ones we experience only in fragments in our daily lives—come to be in the first place? And we grow curious about how these everyday experiences, as they accumulate, will shape our future lives. After all, we have only used these things as consumers of finished products and services; we have never really thought about how, specifically, these developments came about. That is why, somewhere in the back of everyone's mind, there has probably always lurked an anxiety—that I, unable to understand these technologies, might someday be left behind. This book washes away the anxiety we have all carried. Rather than explaining the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in difficult, pedantic terms, it sheds light on the circumstances that gave rise to each one and on where they stand today, showing us what sense of direction we should adopt as we look ahead. The author—who develops home appliances rather than robots in order to keep the peace at home—offers a log of drifting through future technology that will serve as a fine guidebook for those of us floating aimlessly on the vast open sea of the Fourth Revolution.

15,000 KRW
I Can Be Good at My Job Too

I Can Be Good at My Job Too

기토 마사토 | 리브레토

To successfully discover our own happiness, we must first become a "person who is good at their job" in the workplace. This does not mean blindly becoming a "yes-man" just to win praise. It means living your work life wisely while protecting your work-life balance and self-esteem. 《I Can Be Good at My Job Too》 (나도 일 잘할 수 있다) introduces 50 realistic, practical work tips that anyone can put into practice. The knowledge gained through this book will help everyone who dreams of happiness in both work and life.

14,000 KRW