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(Seo Kang-jun here with a book pick)
I'd recommend this one to

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anyone feeling a bit lost

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(But..)
The chapter I’d recommend the most is...

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(I might not remember..)
wait, is it this one? I don’t even remember the chapter

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I read it, but I forgot everything

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I always forget everything when I read books

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(Kicking off my book rec at 16:19 in the morning)
It's 4:19 PM now,

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and my day’s just getting started

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Good morning

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(K.R; Kang-jun Recommends
#2, Book)

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My second must-recommend is

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 a book

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(Human Acts, Three Stories sand a Reflection)
Since you guys

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asked me to recommend

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books and movies,

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 my second pick’s a book

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This time,

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 it’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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I mentioned this once before

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It's a book I read a long time ago

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It remained in my heart, so I brought it up again

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It's a work by Milan Kundera

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set in Czechoslovakia

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It shows the ugly aspects of our lives

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and at the same time, beautiful

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It’s a work that reveals very detailed aspects

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Some people look for

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hope, dreams,

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 something bright that gives them energy

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Some people want such hopeful works

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But others find comfort in works

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that show life just as it is,

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 the way we all live

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In that sense, this work corresponds to the latter

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It’s about lightness and heaviness in life

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It talks about people who live lightly

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 and those who live heavily

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It really makes you ask

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what kind of life you’ll choose,

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 and which one truly has value for you

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In this book, those who live freely

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mean endless lightness

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while those who live responsibly

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live feeling endless heaviness

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It’s a book that makes me

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reflect on what it really means

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So the people I want to recommend this book to are

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rather than those who have many worries

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those who have lost their way

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If you’re wandering,

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thinking nothing’s really wrong with my life

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but is this the right way?

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Am I okay living like this?

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 Even in my relationships?

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This book will give you

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 a lot to think about

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That’s all for my take on this book

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I’m sure many of you

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(Please leave a review in the fan cafe)
Let me know, and I'll learn anew

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The next book is

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Human Acts

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It’s by an author we’re so proud of in Korea,

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Han Kang

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I read it this year,

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(A story about the May 18 Gwangju Uprising)
and it’s about the Gwangju Uprising

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It's the story of the people who were there at that moment

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A story drawn from various perspectives

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This work makes your heart feel heavy

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It feels like carrying

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 a heavy stone in your chest

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It’s filled with the raw voices

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 and testimonies of those who suffered

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I hope you definitely read it

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After reading the book and a few days pass

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you actually forget a lot about the book

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Oh, I read that, was the plot roughly like this?

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The story starts to fade

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But this book stayed vividly for a long time

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A book whose impact lasted a long time

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It’s not rated like a movie,

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but for very young readers,

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since it has some violent scenes

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But I think high schoolers could handle it and really get a lot from it

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Because it's a book that contains our history

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And this is a book called, "Three Stories and a Reflection"

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The title is a bit unique, right?

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It's a book by Patrick Süskind

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It's a very humorous book

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I’d only read Patrick Süskind’s "Perfume"

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So I didn’t know he had a sense of humor

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I got that feeling

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It’s got like three

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Some chapters are full of social satire

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And one even flips how you think about winning and losing

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The chapter I’d recommend the most is...

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See? I can’t even remember the chapter now

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I already forgot

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Whenever I read a book, I just forget it all

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Doesn’t that happen to you?

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But the answer is here

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The last chapter’s called “The Amnesia of Literature”

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Is it the last chapter?

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(Final chapter: Literary Amnesia)
There’s a chapter called “Literary Amnesia”

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It’s about how you finish a book

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 and right after, the plot slips away

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A week later, you can’t even remember the main character’s name

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Why we, as modern people, should keep reading?

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This book contains reflections on that question

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It's not about remembering and memorizing the letters in the book,

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that gives meaning to reading

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the insights and feelings stay

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 and build up inside you

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So when you look back,

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you might forget the plot or the characters

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But what it left in you stays,

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 and that’s what makes it valuable

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That's what the book is saying

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I was actually curious too

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I'm not someone who reads a lot of books,

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but sometimes when I read a book like this,

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I forget everything after a week

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After two weeks,

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we're all like, 'What was the protagonist's name again?'

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Then, is there any meaning in reading this?

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I was thinking a lot about that,

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but after reading that chapter of the book, I changed my mind

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It's a good book, give it a read

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It's good for light reading and I recommend it

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(Recommended for everyone)
I hope everyone, regardless of age or gender, reads it

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It's not a book that you have to read with difficulty,

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Let me ask a few questions related to the book

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(Q. What kind of books do you read most?)
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(Novel reading)
99% of the time, I read novels

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When I used to read novels in the past,

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Is it thrilling?

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Is there a twist?

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I used to focus on things like this

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Novels let me experience

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 other people’s lives indirectly

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And honestly, they help me a lot with my acting too

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In a well-written novel, the narration

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lays out the character’s thoughts and emotions so delicately,

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 just like an actor would feel on stage

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For an actor, novels are also like

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They’re also a window

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 into learning about life

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Because the more we learn about life,

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the better we can

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 understand the emotions in a script

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(For Kang-jun, novels are life’s teacher)
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(Q. When do you usually read?)
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(Day starts at 5:30 PM)
And that’s when my day really begins

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It's funny even as I say it,

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(Everything before that’s just an appetizer...)
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maybe even a book

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and then start their day, right?

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For me, that all starts in the afternoon

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So my real day begins around 5:30 PM

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(Starting the day early today)
Yeah, I’ve been with you guys since the morning

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What time did we meet?

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 Right, 3 o’clock

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And now it’s just before my day really starts

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4:19 PM right now

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My schedule is about to start

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Good morning

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(Q. Parallel reading vs. one book at a time?)
I usually read in parallel

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I only read one chapter at a time

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you know, just one chapter from each book

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I only read one chapter at a time,\

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One chapter a day

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(Kang-jun’s style: slow and thorough)
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Finishing the book isn’t the goal for me

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What matters is what I’m thinking as I read,

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That’s why I read super slowly

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I can read quickly if I want, but I don't

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I go back again

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Hmm... and I think again

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Ah, this is what it means

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Ah, this is what the author wanted to say

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Ah, these are the feelings I'm getting

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This phrase is so pretty

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This sentence is so beautiful

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There are books like that

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I am a person who reads deeply and slowly

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to finish the book

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(Q. Do you underline lines like that?)
No, I don’t

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it’s not the story

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 but the sentences themselves that are beautiful

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There are lines that make me go,

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 “Wow, you can describe it like that?”

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I read those a few times, take it in,

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(Q. Any book you’d want to star in if it became a drama?)
Honestly, none of the books I recommended

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(Novels far from drama)

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It's not that kind of content

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What could there be?

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Ah! Almond

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That could possibly be dramatized

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But it doesn't match the age range

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But with slight adaptation, wouldn't it be possible?

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If it were made well,

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 it’d be a work that keeps giving off a quiet resonance

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Yes, everyone!

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How was today's highly recommended content?

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Were you highly... recommended?

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That’s it for today’s content

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Next time, I’ll share

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 some lighter, everyday picks

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Today’s picks were on the deeper side

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with book and work

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Next time, I’ll be back with something lighter

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Actually, I’m filming that today,

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 just showing it to you later

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See you in the next video

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(Next week: Kang-jun’s recs
across different categories...!)

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(Kangjun who came with notes full of recommendations)