Well Was Well Is Well Be: From a Beloved Korean Essayist - Paperback

by Young-Wook Jeong (Author)

Just reading the title feels like a deep breath.

This English edition of the widely quoted Korean essay collection offers quiet strength in a noisy world. From bestselling Korean author Jung Young-wook, Well Was, Well Is, Well Be invites you to explore the simple but powerful question:
Have I done well? Am I doing well? Will I do well?

In soft, honest language, the author reflects on what it means to keep going-especially when life feels unsteady.

"Some days, we endure bravely. Other days, we feel like we're falling apart inside.
But if our lives can break without reason, maybe they can also heal without reason."

Divided into six parts-Emotions, Relationships, Love, Self-Preservation, Depression, and Encouragement-each chapter offers short, lyrical essays grounded in lived experience. These are not lessons, but gentle observations. Not answers, but empathy.

This book doesn't shout for change. Instead, it whispers:
You are allowed to rest. You are allowed to hope. You are allowed to be soft and still strong.

Are you standing at an uncertain point in life?
Do you feel disillusioned by relationships that seem to drift apart?
Are you heartbroken by yet another failed love?

This book doesn't shout for change. Instead, it whispers:
You are allowed to rest. You are allowed to hope. You are allowed to be soft and still strong.

This book is for you if you are someone who...

• quietly wonders whether you're really living well
• finds relationships especially hard and struggles to steady your own emotions
• lies awake at night, worn thin by worry and anxiety
• wants to stop running from sadness and instead grow by accepting it
• hopes to offer a warm word of comfort to someone you love
• longs to believe, once again, that life is beautiful

Then this book is for you.

Open it like a door.
Inside, you'll find a quiet garden blooming with the possibility of "well."

To everyone reading this-
Well Was, Well Is, Well Be.