I am taking pictures before the interview with. Senior Reporter Kang Chang-gwang [email protected]” alt=”Artist Seul-ah Lee, on the afternoon of the 29th, at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul <한겨레>I am taking pictures before the interview with. Senior Reporter Kang Chang-Kwang [email protected]” />
Seulah Lee is taking a picture before an interview at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 29th. Senior Reporter Kang Chang-Kwang [email protected]
Seul-A Lee, a writer born in 1992, is one of the authors who are supported by the same generation of readers. Rather than following the path of authority and practice, such as the traditional way to go to school, it started a subscription-type series called’Daily Seulah’ in 2018, and received a great response with prose that directly visits readers at 0 o’clock every day. As Lee said, it was a solution to solve the given task of repaying student loans rather than resistance to authority, and it became the driving force that made him a’serial worker’ until now. After finishing the first season serialization of’Daily Seulah’, he added one more business card called’Swimming Publishing Company’, and the five books released there have sold nearly 100,000 copies so far. In addition, he has been expanding his field of activities to radio DJs and musicians, and this year he is busy working to expand his field of activities as an all-round artist. On the 29th of last month, I met the writer Seulah Lee, who resumed the series of the winter issue of’Daily Seulah’ from the 1st, at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Seoul on the 29th of last month to hear the story of’Living in Charge. ―After becoming an adult, he said he has always maintained’two-job’ or’three-job’, and has been working as a’serial worker’ with the start of’daily Seul-ah’, working as a radio DJ and music. What are you currently doing? “The main is a writing writer, and the second is the representative job of’Swim Publisher’. The third is a writing teacher’s job once a week. Now, it teaches middle and high school youth in an urban alternative school, and also teaches local elementary school children who are recruited directly. While teaching at home, I am taking a zoom class because of the corona spread. (EBS) Radio’Isradio’ recently finished with 100 episodes. Alone and with my younger brother Chan-hee Lee and a loose team, I work on music irregularly. One of the new year’s changes is entering the Duruduru Artist Company. This can also be said to be a’loose’ agency. As a writer, I have a team that supports everything I do as a writer and supports creative activities in other genres such as video, pictorial, and music.” ―After starting’Daily Seulah’ in 2018, the third season is in progress. What has changed as the seasons change? “In the first year, I continued serializing from spring to autumn, but after experiencing my body’slims’, I adjusted the pace by reducing the serialization cycle and taking a lot of rest from the following season. In terms of the content, the first season was a splendid fun party for a person named Seul-ah Lee, but the biggest change was the interview corner in the second season. It means that the subject of the article, such as me, my family, my friend, and my lover, that was within a kilometer radius has been extended to people farther away. Among the series of articles at this time, Jeong Hye-yoon, PD, Kim Han-min (sea Shepherd activist), poet Yu Jin-mok, and Kim Won-young attorney, etc. If these are the teachers they met with books, in the third season, they began to visit people who did not appear in the book and were not even on SNS. They are like cleaning workers who have worked in the emergency room of Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital for 27 years. ―It seems that the extent of interest in me and my surroundings has gradually expanded. “I wanted to meet a middle-aged worker who was silently doing an important job, but didn’t have a microphone, so it wasn’t obvious. In particular, during the corona crisis, I thought that I was living with the help of people who did things for me that I could not do myself. During the early days of the coronavirus epidemic, emergency rooms in large hospitals were in a riot, but in the midst of this, I was curious that there would be people who keep cleaning this place silently like a shadow. Afterwards, I visited people who had been doing one thing for a long time, such as a mushroom farmer, a print shop worker, and my maternal grandmother cleaning the stairs of an apartment to hear stories.” ―When you talked about the Sewol issue, animal rights, and factory farming issues during the first season serialization, you said that a lot of subscribers would drop out. What about now? “There are still readers who fall apart when they talk a little politically. I want to read light and interesting texts, but the reaction is why I talk about social and political stories. However, all writings must be social and political. It is also the practice I have been doing while doing’Daily Seul-ah’ not being struck by readers’ reactions. However, I am trying to kindly tell the stories that I think are important.” ―If you are doing a’direct deal’ with readers, it is an advantage to listen to various reactions without skipping, but there seems to be a difficulty in facing direct attacks or criticism. “There are so many responses in the mail, and I only answer the questions I think I should answer. From my experience so far, I think I have the power to filter out feedback. I’m not saying that you won’t get hurt or not noticed at all. However, it seems that I have heard a lot of things that you don’t need to hear unless you are a young female writer. It is natural for people in the popular art world to consume images in any way, but if possible, I want to be introduced and active in the way I want. It seems that they have refused to be introduced as a flat and easy image. I have embody an attitude of not being grateful or sorry to my readers more than necessary.”
I am interviewing with Senior Reporter Kang Chang-gwang [email protected]” alt=”Artist Seul-ah Lee, on the afternoon of the 29th, at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul <한겨레>I am interviewing with Senior Reporter Kang Chang-Kwang [email protected]” />
Seulah Lee is interviewing at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 29th. Senior Reporter Kang Chang-Kwang [email protected]
―To repay college student loans, I started’Daily Seulah’ and succeeded in the first season. The purpose of the serialization was achieved in the first season, and there are many places to visit the author Seul-ah Lee, so you might feel that you want to stop the serial labor, which is forced to close every day. “The biggest thing is that I can do whatever I want from start to finish. I think that I am the media’s planner and designer, not just writing, but planning to publicity. At the same time, the rate of return is high, and since it is a profit model that I have built, there is a great aspect that I continue to use. Requested writing is unstable, and at the beginning, I had a lot of experience in being modified in an unwanted direction. I can write as much as I want in the way I want to write, so I want to continue even if it is difficult.” ―Is the same reason for making a book by creating a publishing company? “One of the reasons was obviously that there is a yield aspect and that I can do it with my own hands from start to finish. After living as a freelancer for 7 to 8 years, I had more talents such as design, photography, and video. I ran into it without fear, thinking that I would be able to publish it myself with a little more effort. However, when I did it, there was a lot of work and it was hard. I also learned about how many workers are in the publishing world besides writers and publishers, and the topography of the distribution of profits, why the structure of paying only 10% for writers. Now, I am working directly at my publisher and collaborating with other publishers. I think I will keep the way I want to make the book I want to make without compromise, and the book I want to make while consulting with the editors with help from the expertise of an established publisher is done by other publishers.” ―After graduating from high school, I have been working tirelessly for my independent life from cafe Alba, the youngest reporter of a magazine company, webtoon writer, nude model, and writing instructor. “Since I was 19, I have been working randomly for independence because of practical reasons. When I entered college, it was difficult to commute to school for 4 hours at my parents’ house outside Gyeonggi-do, and there were many opportunities to enter the culture and art world. Living in Seoul is a life of having to pay the rent, so I earned it without stopping. It was nice though. Above all, it was nice to have my own space. Even if mice came out and lived in a leaky semi-basement, my space was always neatly packed. It was because I thought that all the power started there. I think I have made a strong living to keep my space.” ―Parents and family stories often appear in the text. A separate book was tied to the mother’s story. In some ways, you have taken a different path from the life that ordinary parents want, such as finding a job at a large company, and how was it affected? “Since I was young, there has been no such thing as what to do or do not do. It’s an unconditional support, maybe even if I didn’t achieve my achievements as a writer, my parents would support me. It seems that this is not the case. The biggest impact is that they are blue-collar workers. My mother worked as a restaurant, a mart employee, and my father continued to change difficult tasks such as construction site labor and industrial divers. Could it be said that I learned a heavy sense of responsibility for living? And I like to ask not only my mom and dad, but my grandmother and grandfather about old stories. The lives, jobs, and love that these people born in the early 20th century lived are not much of a direct encounter with modern and contemporary history. I also plan to collect only the stories of the grandmothers separately.” ―In the so-called’non-marriage wave’ of the younger generation, he wrote that there is a desire for childbirth or childrearing rarely. These things seem to be misunderstood by some feminists as different orientations. “I have a desire for childbirth and parenting, but most of my friends around me are nonmarried and non-fertility-oriented, and I understand their feelings of not wanting to give birth. When you are born and live as a female body, it seems that each person’s feminist perspective is naturally acquired, whether you like it or not. Feminism is also an important topic, but I want to study feminism that embraces as many different people as possible. Talking and persuading people like my mother or dad who haven’t studied academically. In addition to feminism, I want to expand the point of distress and writing with the expandability of the environment, animal rights, and rights of workers and persons with disabilities to prepare for decades on Earth.” ―What kind of scalability? “I think the disability, feminism, and animal rights issues are closely linked. In the method of exploiting animals, female animal rights exploitation is similar to the damage suffered by women, and factory farming is the work of disabling and disabling livestock. It is also in contact with concerns about the damaged body in that it disables the limbs of cows, pigs, and chickens that can walk safely and causes some organs to break down and cripple the body. The issue of disability and feminism cannot be considered separately. Since the artist is a person with a speaker, it seems to be important to listen and communicate with the voices of others.”
She is posing prior to the interview with Chang-Kwang Kang, Senior Reporter [email protected]” alt=”Artist Seul-ah Lee said at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 29th. <한겨레>He is posing before the interview with Chang-Kwang Kang, Senior Reporter [email protected]” />
Seulah Lee is posing before an interview at a cafe in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 29th. Senior reporter Kang Chang-gwang [email protected]
-He is also the chairman of the sponsorship of Rep. Jeong Eui-dang. How did you start, and what do you think of the recent Justice Party sexual assault case, where Rep. Jang Hye-young became a victim? “Before Congressman Hye-young Jang entered the National Assembly, he was a colleague of creators who liked and supported each other’s work. When I entered the National Assembly, I was more happy than anyone, so I readily accepted the request of the sponsoring chairman. I’m cautious about this issue in many ways, but I thought it was so perfect that I couldn’t say more when Senator Jang posted the statement, but unexpected things seem to be happening. I still think that our society has a long way to go, but I think the method that Rep. Hye-young Jang solved will be of great help in solving the next case.” ―From a generational perspective,’women born in the 90s’ seems to be the most prominent group in Korean society in recent years. In contrast to the liberality of established politics, it is the most progressive and strong in practice. Does the artist himself have a sense of belonging, such as’a woman born in the 90s’? “I have a lot of female friends my age who write, but since I interact a lot with senior female writers, there is no special inspiration for being tied up as a born in the 90s. Could these things be interpreted after we become middle-aged and pass some time? However, I think that the wave of non-marriage, the right to reproduce through remarks on abortion, and the right to refuse reproduction are actively discussed, and that the 90’s students are actively speaking out on important issues in our society.” ― Through the writing, he said,’I don’t want to teach or comfort someone,’ and he said it was uncomfortable to be bound by the word empathy. How do you want your writing to be read? “I didn’t think I could comfort the lives of readers I didn’t know. I just put the humor, beauty, and sadness that I think of in my writing. What I’m looking for is a slightly sitcom-like article. In the sitcom, the characters continue to recover with humor even in a desperate situation. I want to write such cheerful and resilient writing.”