Mina (Choi Kang-hee), the protagonist of the film Sweet Sweet Lover, is embarrassed while greeting friends of his lover Daewoo (Park Yong-woo). This is because I couldn't catch up with the story of the book in the middle of the meal. An acquaintance notices Mina, who is awkward and smiles. "Dostoevsky's <Sin and Punishment> Do you not know?" The tone is full of surprise and contempt. The attitude of an acquaintance who ignores and crushes the opponent is not very good, but the meaning of this scene is clear. Mina is a very uneducated character who doesn't normally read books.

In fact, even in 2006, when the film was released, the status of reading was still going downhill. With the spread of TV and the Internet, the masses, accustomed to the visual media, gradually became far from books. But up to this point, reading was at least part of the essential culture. There was a limit to the amount of information that could be conveyed over airwaves and a few cable channels, and the book was still a major channel of knowledge. Moreover, no matter how fun it is, you can't carry a TV or computer with you, so the book played a large part in freeing up time on the train. The dialogue scene of Sweet Bloody Lover, who judges the other's intelligence by the amount of reading, could gain sympathy from the audience.

But a year later, the book's fate is once again in a turning point, as a CEO in the United States, dressed in black polarity and jeans, presents a revolutionary invention called a smartphone. People were swept away by the colorful audio-visual material that spreads across the palm of their screen. With a smartphone and Wi-Fi, you could find the entertainment you need to get the knowledge you need anywhere and anytime. If you're curious about Sin and Punishment, search Wikipedia. If you access the streaming application, you can watch the whole movie of the same name released in each era, and if you go to YouTube, you can find a video that summarizes the plot. Do we need to find and read the original novel of 1,000 pages?

In conclusion, I'm in a position to see that there is no need. The reason why people of previous ages were reading for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and culture was because there was no alternative, not because they were smarter than people these days. If smartphones were used in the Joseon Dynasty, would our ancestors stay away from the stream beside YouTube and Netflix? Wouldn't Sungkyunkwan larvae listen to video lectures by other instructors instead of memorizing the three Chinese Libraries and Gyeongguk War?

It's no surprise that book growth is shrinking as technology advances, and it's not a worrying phenomenon. In the 80's and 90's, the voices of adults worried that TV made them fools sounded boring, but now they have grown up looking at the stupid box that made 4D movies, AI and autonomous cars.

But the reality of not having to read a book does not necessarily mean the end of the book. Even if it plays the role of knowledge transfer in video lectures and distributes the functions of entertainment in games and streaming services, books still have a charm that cannot be replaced by any other medium. The fun of reconstructing two-dimensional characters into three-dimensional scenes, the excitement of finding subtle double-leafed leaves in a dense print forest, these are the pleasures that video content can never give. The paper's crunchy feeling as the page turns and the feel of the pencil's slipping under the sentences in itself 'healing' the seismic heart. In addition, reading is one of the few games you can enjoy freely from the restraint of Wi-Fi, battery, and katok notifications that bind us all day. Although it may not appeal to everyone in the world as it used to be, some people, including myself, are deadly enough to ask themselves to be `` virtues of the book, '' and to read and write as a profession while taking hunger and hunger. It is attractive.

Apart from technological changes such as e-books and audio books, reading is moving from duty to taste in itself. But the future of reading I see is never dark. If a book lays down its overpowering position as the monopoly supplier of knowledge and becomes one of the finest tastes of good music or movies, "I don't know <sin and punishment>?" If I do not need to be compelled to hear the same disdain, I think that more people will feel comfortable reading and reading. Hobbies that have been loved by the public throughout history have been far from their painful duties.

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