[This Week's Books] 'You Too Can Go to Prison Without Guilt' and More

You Too Can Be Imprisoned Without Guilt

The author has worked as an innocent defense attorney helping wrongfully accused victims for 30 years. In 1999, he co-founded the “Innocence Project,” an organization of innocent defense attorneys in California, USA. So far, 35 innocent people have been exonerated from wrongful accusations with the author’s help. While working as an innocence lawyer, he exposed the flaws and defects of the American criminal justice system and proposed improvements to ensure that the U.S. criminal justice system operates justly and fairly. (Written by Justin Brooks / Translated by Kim Hee-gyun / Banni)

Han and Mono no Aware

Professor Park Gyu-tae, an emeritus professor of Japanese Studies at Hanyang University who has long studied Japanese culture and thought centered on Shinto and Shintoism, compiled the aesthetic concepts of Korea and Japan. With the single-minded goal of comparing the aesthetics of the two countries, he visited every corner of traditional Korean and Japanese beauty sites. Mono no Aware is a compound word of ‘Mono,’ meaning all existing things, and ‘Aware,’ meaning emotion or pathos, representing a Japanese feeling of sorrow comparable to Korea’s Han. It is an aesthetic consciousness centered on a sense of elegant sentiment and the beauty of impermanence accompanied by pathos. (Written by Park Gyu-tae / Ihaksa)

Conditions of Being First-Class

This is a self-development book reissued 18 years after its initial publication in Korea in 2006. The author is a professor at Meiji University in Japan and has sold over 10 million copies cumulatively through various works in Korea. He emphasizes that to become first-class, one must possess the ‘power to steal,’ the ‘power to summarize,’ and the ‘power to push forward.’ By analyzing the behaviors of figures who have excelled in various fields such as Haruki Murakami, Goethe, John McEnroe, Ichiro Suzuki, and Shoichiro Honda, he presents solutions to becoming first-class. (Written by Takashi Saito / Translated by Jung Hyun / Film)

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