Busy 291: Breaking the illusion of travel... 'A trip without fantasy'
"Maybe you may be disappointed, too, but this is the best answer I've found while traveling so far. Traveling is a life that comes back to everyday life when the trip is over. Travel only becomes a reality under this premise."
'If memory is a gift, forgetting is a blessing', or'Forgetting is a blessing, but memory is a will'. It's hard not to say and do things that you'll regret in your own life, whether you're willing or willing to regret it. However, it means that time and time become medicine, that is, that the slow-forgetting ability of humans acts as a blessing. The phrase'do not forget what others have done and forget the resentment' has a similar meaning.
Would you like to talk about a book about travel? As I read this book, I thought about the memories and oblivion of my travels. There have been many trips (mainly business trips) that have suffered from sudden (all incidents are sudden) disasters that are close to disaster, but as time goes by, there are many things that have been colored only with good memories. This is why I have a certain illusion that'travel is always exciting, fun, and exciting'. The opposite of travel is also the meaning of'everyday'.
On the one hand, it's a bit like a trip that doesn't have such an illusion. I remember when I heard someone telling me that I was forced to go on a family trip, and that I didn't want to go, had a hard time, even when I went back, I was'bruising' in a word. No, what if you're going to do that?... There are many stories of experiences of rediscovering a good domestic travel destination in the coronavirus, and the desire to go abroad freely. How far should the fantasy of travel be? Today, the book I want to read together in the bustle is <Travel without Fantasy> by travel writer Fanta Myungyoon Jeon.
I've never seen that senior cry for the first time. He is like a sage to a traveler my age. He said he was curious about the path of cultural movement of the Korean people while living as a public servant, and has been wandering the road for tens of years
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I was amazed to hear these words come out of the mouth of the person who proved that there was no problem with living like this... I thought that the time of meeting and breaking up would be forever. But the senior was skeptical about whether that was possible. If you think about it now, it was a fear of aging.
Fanta is probably a familiar name for those who have traveled to various parts of Asia, such as India, Hong Kong, Okinawa, Japan, and Shanghai, China, and have searched for travel books. When I recalled my old memories, there were several occasions where I used Fanta's book as a guide. But this time I knew that the name was'fanta', which means to break fantasy.
The illusion of'becoming happy when you leave' sucks in people who are tired of everyday life, regardless of age or time. There are times when the me of the past, who was coolly beaten up and told to leave immediately, overlaps. But now I say to those who dream of traveling.
"It's a trip when you find a reason to return and set a date to return. If you burn your way back and leave, then you become an international beggar."
For someone, a guidebook may be a book that instills an illusion of travel destinations and makes them dream of a landscape beyond the horizon.
However, it is a survival kit or a universal first aid kit for me who need to accurately convey information and guide it properly.
Because of that responsibility, the guidebook I wrote is always overflowing with nagging.
It is a dangerous place outside the map.
What makes you special to the locals is that your wallet is full of bills from there.
That's why I'm telling you the reality, not the fantasy.
Many people will do that, but after I became a member of society, I went on many trips (including business trips) that couldn't be compared to when I was a student.
It was the first time I went abroad to work at a company.
While the funds increased to some extent, it was time and stamina that decreased.
As a result, I couldn't help but think about the'cost-performance ratio', and I decided to make a safe choice rather than trial and error, and a trip that I was busy chasing after someone... I put it down a bit from a few years ago.
If you don't see it this time, see you next time.
Let's leave it unfortunately.
Besides the vague fantasies of travel, there are also more specific fantasies.
In other words, may it be preconceived or thin knowledge (not updated)?
It seems like this was possible because he was a writer who has risen to the ranks of local experts to the extent that it is called Indian Fanta, Hong Kong Fanta, and Okinawa Fanta.
In June 2014, Prime Minister Modi of India made a somewhat unusual remark, "We will build toilets before Hindu temples." This was a response to the killing after being to the 14-year-old, 17-year-old cousin, sister raped between Bihar in northern India in May the same year to see the toilet in the middle of the night in a field event action ...
it is about the current therefrom India five years 90 million new toilets have been created... Anyway, there is no theory as to that the number of toilets has increased dramatically. The surprising fact is that the number of sexual offenses against women has declined over the same period...
Five years later, I was ashamed of the statistics I found. I've been talking about knowing quite a bit about India, but I couldn't help but admit that I saw their reality through the eyes of a third party.
There are also very important lines here. At the time of the death of a rape victim in New Delhi in December 2012, the remarkable activity of female reporters in each media is now being talked about. They were the ones who moved the Indian media, which was insensitive to the rape victims of women. As a result, the media awakened, the citizens revolted, and the government began to act... All of these efforts added to the silent sexual violence incidents were given the value of reporting.
The artist recently published a book titled <Remember Hong Kong>.
At first I thought it was a new version of the Hong Kong guidebook, but the subtitle was'Cities and People Stuck in Time'.
Since the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Act in July 2020, Hong Kong, which we have known, has disappeared, and is said to be the last book he writes about Hong Kong.
While reading <Fantasy-Free Travel>, I finally realized why the Fanta writer's travel book is remembered differently from other guidebooks, but I think <Remember Hong Kong> will save even more.
I hope that someday I can introduce this book in the crowd.
I am often asked why travel writers are so interested in local issues.
Each time I answer that it is because I believe that well-made travel books are local books and folklore journals that record the times and reality of the region as the subject of travel.
For some, it may be a collection of pieces of information scrambling to find a restaurant, but I want to capture the lives and concerns of people living together in modern times.
*Accepted reading permission from the four seasons publishing company.
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