1.

Expressions and words were playing separately.

I was saying that I was uneasy with my mouth, that the future was bleak and I was afraid of the coming future, but my face was peaceful.

Maybe it was because it was awkward for two people to face each other in a small conference room, sometimes avoiding people's attention.

Interviewing on the premise of news stories would have made this person nervous, but as time went on, he recovered his leisure and later enjoyed the attitude.

The longer the interview time was, the more this person had to say, and the person who asked was losing ground.



It was not easy to spot signs of anxiety anywhere other than words.

Even in his writings, there is no emotional anxiety or imbalance.

His writings are well-balanced, and he knows where to emphasize, where to relax, and where to joke.



During over five hours of conversation, the word he used the most was fear, anxiety.

He said he was afraid of being exposed to the fact that he was overpacked, and that he was afraid of the future.

I am still not happy, but I am afraid that there will be nothing to improve in the future.

If you can get a job or even if you get a job, the expected salary is about 2 million won per month, so you are not sure if you will be able to become completely independent with that money.




2. The

name of this person who lives with the word anxiety in his mouth is Yoo Chan-geun.

Born in 1996, 24 years old.

He is a public service agent and works in a public kindergarten.

Sogang University finished the first semester of the fourth year of the Department of Economics and majored in private studies.

His unique history is that he attended Yiwoo High School, an urban alternative school in Bundang, Gyeonggi-do.



He looks like an ordinary young man, but he is a young man whose name is well known on social media.

He introduces himself as an essayist, professional miscellaneous student, similar academic practitioner, and storyteller Wannabe.

He is very interested in the modern and contemporary history of East Asia, including Joseon and Japan, but it is difficult to find a place that his interest does not reach, such as politics, current affairs, K-pop, literature, and academics.

Until last May, he posted a total of 61 articles on social media, of which 50 were book reviews.

I've been taking a break since last May, but before that, I posted almost once a week, and each time this person's writing became a hot topic.



This man's writing is embarrassing to the reader.

Reading with this person in mind now is only 24 years old, that feels stronger.

It feels sharp, lively, and free from anywhere.

But that doesn't mean that you lean on a flashy resurgence and stick with your fingertips.

Just by reading a few lines of his writing, you can immediately see that his reading volume is vast and that he has been sitting with his ass on a desk for a long time.

He said he read 143 books last year, so he's a great reader.



Last year, I published a book related to the history of Catholicism in Joseon.

This man wrote a review for the book.

I was confident that I knew better than anyone else about the times and characters covered in the book, but I was surprised to see this person's book reviews.

I thought it would be better to read a few pages of this man's book review than my one.

After learning that this man hadn't even graduated from college, I even felt a little frustrated.

I wondered if this evaluation was my own opinion, so I asked for opinions from several experts.



"I haven't met, but I was often surprised to see this person's post on Facebook. There are a few young men who write history-related articles on social media well, but they are a little pedantic and self-proclaimed. I don't see this, so I want to appreciate it."

<Kim Hyung-min History Writer, SBS-CNBC PD>



"I once posted a book review for <Chosun, Kingdom of Philosophy> written by Yoo Chan

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geun on social media. Seeing that review, I read a lot and pointed out the core well. My book is specialized in content It is not the level of a professor who is studying the same field, but I think it is a level that can be used by readers with a high level of knowledge in the field and that of a young academic reporter. It is different, so I think that if I go to graduate school and receive proper training, it will be a good timber.” <Lee Kyung-koo, Director of Hallym University Science Institute>



When I asked what kind of writings I would like to show others, I hesitated for a moment and then picked up an article about Lee Young-hoon.

While maintaining a critical position on Lee Young-hoon, who was controversial in relation to the controversy over the modernization of the Japanese colonial period, it is a content that urges a comprehensive evaluation of him.

Yoo Chan-geun's article about Lee Young-hoon was quite a hot topic on social media.

When I sent Lee Young-hoon to Chan-geun Yoo's writing and asked his impressions, Lee Young-hoon sent a text with the following content.



“As someone who criticizes me, I don't think that few people have read my hesitation <Korean Economic History 1 and 2>. Even those who share my intentions. In such a climate, a young college essayist read my book and read my book quite a bit. You have approached the essence. I think it's encouraging."



There are passionate praise that this person is one of the leading roles in the future discourse of our society, but there are many views that it is too early to give a full evaluation.

First of all, it is true that his ability to summarize texts is excellent, but this is a technique, but it is difficult to say that he is creative.

Considering that he emphasizes writing education in college admissions, and that he is from Leewoo School, which emphasizes reading, experience, and discussion classes, other people can write this level of writing.



As Lee Gyeong-koo pointed out, he has not yet published his own writings, which is the reason for holding back his evaluation.

He, too, was well aware of the limitations of his writing.



-I have stopped writing book reviews since last May. What is the reason?


"It's because I'm lazy, but I feel like I'm harvesting the harvest by borrowing someone's reputation**. I hate the feeling that I'm leaning on the author's reputation. I've been working in the public service since last year and I couldn't read books densely. That's a reason."



There are a few rave reviews about this man's writing, and there are not a few who do not doubt his genius, but his writing does not have an explosive response from the general public.

Since the books this person makes for book review are not popular books, but academic writings that professional researchers may be interested in, the range of empathy may be narrow, but the reaction is not hot anyway.

To put it a bit stingy, it may be a learned genius specialized in a specific field.


*'Lee Younghun theory' is necessary.


**

This refers

to the act of seeking a response from others, such as likes.



I asked Yoo Chan-geun about his writing.

After hesitating, he replied:


"I think there is a skill that makes writing easier to read. There is a skill that tells a story by mixing a little bit of nursery and wit, and I don't think I can write it down compared to my peers. Sometimes I write it easily, but I do everything in order to write. There are times when it feels like it's pouring out. It's like using all the tricks you don't have."




I saw him twice at a gathering of four or five people from the publishing and academic circles.

It was a meeting with people who were less than 30 and 40 years old.

Yoo Chan-geun did not notice that he felt that such a place was very uncomfortable.

When I had to bake meat, I cooked it hard and didn't hesitate to do small errands.

It seemed to be observed quite interestingly.

Of course, there will be stories of listening and learning in such a place, but considering this person's age, it could be a bit boring.

There was little opportunity for this person to open up, and no matter what, he was quickly cut off by others.

However, if you listen carefully, this man's words were worth listening.

No, there weren't many words to listen to.

He spoke well when he was young, so he heard a lot of praise around him.

His mother said that he was as good as his writing skills.

I felt sorry for not being able to hear the story of this young intellectual for a long time, and I was sorry for him.

So, whenever I broke up with this person, he said that it would be nice to hear a lot about Mr. Chan-geun next time, and he also suggested that we only meet and talk.

This is the background of this interview.



I had no intention of taking a look at the youth in their twenties through this person.

For that reason, Yu Chan-geun was not like a young man in his 20s.

You don't need to say that you haven't played a game before, except for a brief moment in elementary school.

Netflix has also signed up to watch Jung Se-rang's favorite artist Jeong Se-rang's <Health Teacher Ahn Eun-young>, but he plans to withdraw soon.

This person is addicted to typeface as well as'reading' videos.

These days, people in their twenties use videos rather than text messages, but in that respect, this person is an exceptional twenties.

When I said that I had read about 1,000 books so far, I already recognized it, but I was surprised to hear that I had never played a game.

It may be a prejudice, but isn't it almost the level of a human cultural asset in the twenties who don't play games?

However, I didn't think that if I focused on this person, I would be able to understand the thoughts of the younger generation nowadays.



3.

He was polite and polite.

While speaking, I was worried that I would not be able to understand what I was saying.

Do you know this, have you ever heard of it?

He said that many times, and when using the most commonly used language in his 20s, he explained that this word means this without asking.

Park Hye-sook, the head of the blue history, who Yoo Chan-geun calls her aunt and follows, said that from Yu Chan-geun's appearance, the appearance of a neat Joseon scholar can be seen, and Lee Gyeong-gu, the head of Hallym University's Academy of Sciences, said that she was so greedy that Chan-geun Yoo, who met him in person, was so good and straight.



It couldn't be a lie, but it couldn't be his all.

His appearance on Facebook is quite different from what I see in reality.

He beats journalists, politicians, and celebrities refreshingly and violently.

And smirk and laugh.

Han Hye-jung Cho, an emeritus professor at Yonsei University, is a spiritual gift he was inexperienced with in high school.



"Like a simple linear function, Han Hye-jung Cho interprets any subject in his own way and always draws the same conclusion. Han Hye-jung Cho, a group of young people and the godmother of the civic movement, has now turned into a broken wall clock that is admired by everyone."



If Jo Han Hye-jeong had read this article, I wonder if his face would have been wide open.

He said that he had never done an anonymous job of smacking the hearts of others, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did that.



On the outside, he is a somewhat timid schoolboy, and when he was a college student, he was stuck only in the library, but he has a different face.

When I was in elementary and junior high school, I never missed the class student council chairman, and I saw that I was also the vice student council president and Pungmul-pae manager at Leewoo School.

In his high school days, he revealed himself as "a person who is filthy and grotesque, doesn't get along well with people, and gets angry."



Yoo Chan-geun entered the Nonsan Training Center last October.

When I talked about my days in the training camp, I said that I felt like I had multiple selves within myself.


"I really hated being controlled, so the army didn't seem to fit me at all, but the training camp was a good fit. At that time, I thought I wouldn't define me as someone."



-Is it excellent adaptability?


"I think I have multiple egos. I think I have a good ability to change masks, like having multiple social media accounts and choosing according to my needs. I think I can switch freely (depending on the situation)."



There are various aspects inside of a person. It cannot be a characteristic of a specific individual or a specific generation. However, Yoo Chan-geun and his generation do not feel uncomfortable and rather enjoy using multiple ego masks.

It will not be irrelevant to the fact that bonkae and bukkae are popular in entertainment these days.



4.

His mother, Kim Eun-sook, said that he had been so elaborate that he had hardly ever put him off his hand.

It has been clever since I was young.

He was quick to speak and he woke up early.

I drew well, but there was always a story in the picture.

I even took a gifted test at the recommendation of the people around me.

The child was greedy and full of motivation.

I thought about how to properly develop the child's overflowing talents.

Eun-suk Kim had great love for his son, but he did not lose his discernment because of that love.

He said properly when to speak from a distance and when to speak with affection.




“I was a child who wrote handwritten letters to my mother often and was compassionate to others, and I think I have the ability to do so. The ups and downs of my personality are similar to me. I think I was a little confused because of the attitude of my mom or dad to go back and forth), so there was a conflict and a backlash."



The parent letter written by Yoo Chan-geun's parents for admission to Leewoo School was impressive.

What is the child's strengths and potentials, what efforts as parents have been made to nurture the child's strengths, and what difficulties parents felt during the child's growth process and what the child's weaknesses are.

Just by looking at the parent letter, it was an article drawn in my mind about how Yoo Chan-geun grew up and how to educate him when he entered school.

Yoo Chan-geun said that there is a kind of vanity that parents and themselves want to be different from others and that they have to be different from others, but this article shows a typical example of the education of children of the middle class of our society.



Admission to Leewoo School, an urban alternative school in Bundang, Gyeonggi-do, is an important part of Yoo's life.

He said he chose this school because he wanted to meet a good school, a good teacher, and a good friend.

Among the motives for enrollment are Ahn Hee-jeong, former Chungnam governor and Kim Gyeong-soo, Gyeongnam governor.

He said he received the best education, the most aristocratic education.



“It was a school where the so-called 386 generations of children's educational romance and fantasy were properly embodied. Their children were not educated for entrance exams, and 386 generations wished to grow up in friendship with nature while watching books that they would like to play and see without going to academy. It was a school that tried to realize the romance of



He said that he received a free and creative education, and as a result, he has raised eyes to see what books to read and what classes are good.

When I was in the second year of high school, I worked hard on the pungmulpae activity.

The tutor who was a former Tongjin Party executive was a politician, and this caused conflict and discord between parents and tutors, students and tutors, and students and students.

Yoo Chan-geun was in the midst of a conflict as the leader of Pungmulpae, and the conflict was too great for an 18-year-old high school student to handle.

His grades at the top fell to the bottom, and he failed the entrance exam.

After a year of repetition, I entered Sogang University.



Since entering university, I have never worked on a job.

It can be said that he benefited from his parents, but he was in the library while others were working.

He was a library guy.

In time to open the door at 8 am, I went to the library and read all the books in the library with the momentum.

I went to the candlelight rally, but I was not active in other rally and protests.

I thought it wasn't necessary to be me, but it was probably because I wasn't so desperate.

I did not go to the exchange student.

It is said that few of the friends around him have not attended an exchange student.

Why didn't you go back?



"I was afraid to try something new. I couldn't imagine myself as an Asian in the headquarters of Anglo-American culture like New York or Boston. I wanted to go to Japan, but I gave up because I didn't have enough Japanese study at that time."




He may say that he has no spirit and spirit of challenge, but he said he hopes everything will be within the predictable range and has a great fear of strangers.

In that respect, he said he was a natural conservative.

Roh Moo-hyun is a politician who I remember faintly, and spent his teenage years in the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye regimes.

Rather than being angry with the conservative regime, he was afraid that such a regime would continue, and that he had given up on the current progressive regime.

However, people should construct the value of progress in a different way than that of the 386 generation, pointing out the hypocrisy of some progressives and saying that it is a pity that even morality and community orientation seem to be thrown into the trash.



When I asked if they were sensitive to the issue of fairness these days because of the sense of crisis that even if one stepped out, the young conservative responded that the older generation, especially conservatives, had a side of using the fair issue politically with the 20s leading the way.

It is understandable that at the alternative school where he came from, he had already benefited from his parents in internship activities a few years ago, and from a standpoint that already knew that, he was not aware of the story of the motherland and the children of Minister Chu Mi-ae in the past. It was a saying that it won't work.



5.

Anxiety cannot be the exclusive property of a particular generation.

Anyone living in this era is anxious.

So Yoo Chan-geun's'Anxiety Taryeong' looked somewhat unusual.

His anxiety complaints also sounded a bit addictive.

It was because he was vague about how the anxiety he spoke of as a habit affects his life in a specific way.



In 1996, when Chan-geun Yoo was born, Korea joined the OECD and crossed the threshold of developed countries.

His generation is a generation freed from economic scarcity.

With K-POP as the lead, the Korean Wave has spread all over the world.

His generation has never been politically repressed.

They don't look at others to claim their rights.

Chan-geun Yoo was confident that he had received the highest quality education and noble education.

It refers to the experience of an alternative school, and in fact, this may be true of all his generations.

It may be called entrance examination hell, but it must be the generation that received the most investment anyway.



Why did Yoo Chan-geun and his generation, who are rich, free and have no repressed memories, have anxiety in their mouths?

Whether it was a common anxiety in his twenties or Yu Chan-geun's own anxiety, I wanted to find out the reason for an uncommon anxiety.



He is holding 400,000 won per month in the military installment savings.

Military installment savings are said to have an annual interest rate of 6%, so there is no financial technology like this.

But he said he was thinking about investing in stocks for the first time this year.

Seeing the soaring real estate prices, he felt anxious about whether it should be the same.

Some of my friends are already investing in stocks.

He said that in the current situation, even if he is over 40, he may have to rely on his parents.

Thinking about investing in stocks was the most concrete expression of his anxiety.



The Sewol ferry incident in high school left a strong trauma to Yoo Chan-geun.

Rather than being angry with the regime's incompetence, he was afraid of the powerlessness of the country.

Those friends had almost the same idea.



"It's a generation that thinks that the state protects the people when they fall into a crisis. But it doesn't happen at all. I was wondering if we were in the modern era. It was also a visual shock. The boat was floating, but it wasn't able to save the children. … The anxiety was much greater than fear than sadness or anger. The country cannot protect us… Still, it was a great shock because I wanted to see that the country I used to believe was an advanced country was only at this level.”




Chan-geun Yoo affirmed that none of the friends around him think that the future to come will be better than now.

He is convinced that Korea has reached the peak of the achievements it can achieve and that it will be hard to find a better day in the future.

It is in all respects whether looking at the rate of economic growth or the composition of the population.

It means that if you think that there is only work left to go down from the peak, and the remaining days are much longer than the days you have lived, you will be depressed.

He is a firm pessimist.



He said he was suspicious of the ability of their generation to solve their own problems.

They don't know if they are the generation with the ability to work together.

It is true that there is an antipathy or hostility toward the so-called 386 generation, which can be said to be the parent generation, but that does not mean that there is no confidence to surpass this generation.



If I could cope with the change with someone, or it would be nice to endure it together, I am even more afraid because there is no group to endure and respond to.

It is a fear of anxiety about the future and distrust of one's generation.



"Professor Kim Hong-joong of Seoul National University said that these days are the era of self-sovereignty. It means that the level of divine sovereignty has gone down to the level of self. I do not want to be invaded by my ego and do not invade the ego of others. I take that as a principle. In such circumstances. Are they in their twenties who have the muscles to live with others? I am skeptical of whether they have the ability to do something together at the group, organization, or community level. It is difficult to form a student council even at the school I attend right now.”



Listening to Yoo Chan-geun's words, I thought that this generation would be willing to stand up for that person if someone said that they would get rid of this anxiety on their behalf.

In that sense, this generation is likely to be the target of populist politicians.



He said that feminism is the hottest topic of men in their twenties.

Yoo Chan-geun explained that although he had sympathized with feminism and presented as a male feminist at an academic conference, it is now in the step of putting it down.

In his twenties, the problem of men and women far exceeded the level of suturing, and his assertive expression that it was impossible to find a point where men and women could intersect sounded like his declaration of surrender, who steadily tried to follow the arguments of feminism. "There are a lot of worlds in feminism that I didn't know about," he explained for quite a long time.

He predicted that the younger generation would have more gender conflicts.

The story of the feminist debate of Yoo Chan-geun's generation is read as a major division in his twenties, and when he talked about it, his facial expression looked particularly dark and depressed.



There weren't a lot of things I heard from him for the first time, and one of them was the word'Korean nationalism'.

He explained that he feels a strong sense of pride and pride for the Republic of Korea, established in the south of the Korean Peninsula in 1948, and modern Korea, which has succeeded in democratization and industrialization.

The nationalism of the Republic of Korea is from 1948 on a periodic basis, to the south of the armistice line geographically, and ethnically to Koreans, so it excludes before 1948 and does not target people living in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

It means that it is not something to talk about on the same ship as there is no memory to share with the people in the north.

It seems unclear whether the rapidly increasing number of foreign immigrants will enjoy this glory together.

It looks more closed than open nationalism, but it is characterized by a strong sense of pride as the door is narrow and the fence is high.

It is true that since 1948, the Republic of Korea has tinkered with Japan and the United States, but the lack of roots of the Republic of Korea is to smile lightly and see the achievements positively, and Yu Chan-geun also said that he sympathized with this argument.

This is because'Korean people' can be more open than'Korean people', but in fact, there were many things that I did not understand well.

However, it sounded like a saying that he was going to take only good things and put them in a bag called Nation.



Even if the generation of Yoo Chan-geun seeks solidarity and is not happy with grouping, it is a huge loss for that generation to consider half of his generation as a rival full of hostility just because of gender differences-of course, feminism is not formed by generation. to be.

Wasn't that the reason why Chan-geun Yoo's expression was dark when talking about feminism?



6.

His words of wanting to become the 386th generation pure major were somewhat embarrassing.

It can be expressed that way of admiration for the times when texts, books, and writings enjoyed an overwhelmingly superior position, but it is a regression in any way.

It is a time when the illusion is relentlessly breaking down without believing in the ultimate superiority of print, but he asked whether the creation and transmission of knowledge through print would continue for the next 20 years.

That is why I want to join the destiny of that generation even now.

I understood it as saying that I wanted to make my job after reading books and writing.




Yoo Chan-geun is a young historian and writer who is making his own world.

The virtue of a historian is that he is good at keeping distance from events.

The attitude that history is a thing of the past and that it is not directly related to me helps to understand objective facts.

When I read Yoo Chan-geun's writing, I can feel that.

This is a virtue of the attitude of seeing facts purely with knowledge rather than recognizing matters with the body.

Feelings do not advance.

So no prejudice is seen.

Although affection is imbued, the affection does not distort or bend matters.



He said he was interested in organizing the past.

It is regrettable that the hot debate that occupied an era like the debate on social formation disappears without a trace.

According to the paradigm shift, it is a pity that many things are overturned and collapsed in an instant.

In that respect, the blood of a conservative is surely flowing in this person's body.

It seems to be meaningful for a person who composes history not as a heart but as a head to rewrite the past.



I called him'Mr. Chan-geun' during the conversation, but in fact, I wanted to call him'Sam Chan-geun' in my heart.

He was knowledgeable and thoughtful enough to want to.

I thought that if you were a young man like that, you would be able to handle anything.

The words were dark, but the expression was pleasant, and the conversation with him was pleasant and informative.

Just as there is'Youth Munsa Yoo Chan-geun' who posts on the Internet, there will be various'Yu Chan-geun' in each field of our society.

Yoo Chan-geun expressed doubts about whether his generation, including him, had the muscles to work together, but he did not give up his hopes and expectations for the community, saying that no matter how strong an individual could be stronger than the community.

I don't know if the community that Yoo Chan-geun and his peers will create will be a'Korean community', an'East Asian community', or a'Korean community', but the coming days are theirs anyway.