Elementary Composition – Night

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Waeran Jongyeolja

Lee Woo-Hyeok is an author who innovated a new kind of fantasy based on Korean history. He is the highest earning Internet author in Korea. For example, he earned more than two billion won from royalties. He is a famous writer, and successfully runs the IP company called Hyeok Net. He has published best-sellers such as Toemarok(The Soul Guardian), Waeran Jongyeolja(The Protector of Korea from Japanese Invasion), and Chiuchenwangi(King Chiuchenwang).

For readers who like both history and fantasy, the story of Waeran Jongyeolja would be fantastic. There have been western styled monsters like dragons, trolls, and ogres in fantasy novels so far, but Waeran Jongyeolja is totally different. We can find original Korean ghosts and monsters in this book. The plot is about finding the protector of Korea from Japanese invasion, and about covert fighting between good monsters and bad monsters in the spirit world.

This book is famous for several reasons. First, this book is a new approach to Korean fantasy, because the author based the fantasy world on real historical facts. Second, this book shows Korean ghosts and monsters for the first time in a fantasy novel, so it highlights those monsters in a modern literary world. Finally, because the author precisely based the plot and historical background on three years of study, this book is famous for having an enormous list of reference books.


I Hate Him Sooooooooo Much!!!

I live on the 6th floor, and my room has windows that connected to outside. Everynight there is a guy who smoking. I guess he lives 5th floor. The problem is when he smokes a cigarette, the smoke gets into my windows, and makes the air in my room thick and smell so bad. I really hate the smell of cigarette!!!! it’s driving me crazy!!!! What can I do with this!!! The weather is getting hot, and I need to open my windows. No matter what, I will do anythig to stop him tomorrow. I can’t live with this!!! I really really hate that guy!!!!!


Good idea can make big money

 Do you know more than 90% of twenties in Korea have their mini homepages on cyworld? Now, mini homepage is a big trend in Korea, and they are making a lot of money by offering mini homepage’s tool and selling acorns which means kind of e-money in cyworld. It’s just a simple idea that brings them tremendous money. I was very surprised to see how much they earn a day, and regretted why I couldn’t think out that earlier. I thought we can make lots of money through very trivial and single idea which people haven’t thought about. I want to find something like them to be rich.


I saw a good movie

 Some days ago I saw an English movie named trailspotting. It’ a story about youth who take drugs. There were several good points that make this movie wonderful. First, the background music was good. It matches very well with the each situation in the movie. I realized again how important music is in a movie. Second, actors’ acting was very nice. Actually It’s the movie that made Ewan McGregor famouse star. Third, almost every scene was very impressive and cool. For these reasons, I really want to recommend this movie to you guys!


English grammar is too hard

 English grammar is making me tired more and more. Especially when I study articles, I feel it drives me crazy. As I study more, I’m becoming confused. Sometimes I wish there was advisor robot by me to ask questions, while studying that. Of course, it’s impossible so I have to study hard and memorize many example sentences to understand. If it’s possible, I want to remove all articles in English. I don’t understand how to use a, an and the at all. It seems that my grammar professor explained about it so briefly. Maybe I have to visit him to ask many questions about it, but I’m not sure I would understand his explanation


He’s doing well!

 Lee, woon-jae is a goal keeper of Korean national soccer team. I like him, because he is a very good player. In these days many people criticize him, saying that he got too much weight. Some netizens blame him for he became too slow due to his fatness, and some others say his last league’s performance was poor. I disagree with these people. They seem to forget all thing about last world cup. He was as perfect as Oliver Kahn who was MVP of 2002 world cup! He gained weight a little, but it’s not that big problem. He’s still fast and stable. His last league’s score is also not too bad, and everyone can hit a slump. I hope people stop criticizing him, and he play conspicuous part on this world cup to make them quite.