 “Copenhagen’s Bicycle” Choi Yearn-hong; Worin: 283 pp., 14,000 won |
“Copenhagen’s Bicycle” is a book composed of splendid travel essays written by Choi Yearn-hong, who has been a professional traveler, poet, writer and scholar all his life.
During his long active academic life, he delivered many scholarly papers in his field of environmental policy and management in major cities in the United States and European nations. Choi has also been subscribing to and contributing articles to The Korea Times since 1963.
While teaching at the University of Seoul, he traveled to China, Japan and many Southeast Asian nations with his graduate students and throughout Korea, including mountains and temples. After retirement, he traveled to Scandinavian countries, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Even after retirement, he delivered his scholarly papers in international conferences on seas and oceans.
His travel essays cover Korean cities such as Gyeongju, Gongju, Jeju Island, Chungmu, Haenam and other parts of the world.
The author has lived in the United States and Korea, and writes from an international perspective.
This book is unique, because the author is a poet, writer and scholar. His prose is very poetic. Many of his travel pieces in the English version have appeared in The Korea Times. He defined travel as poetry and daily life as prose.
He also sees the world as one good Earth as an environmentalist, seeking nature conservation and environmental protection and international cooperation.
He was impressed with Denmark’s politicians riding bicycles to Congress in Copenhagen. How many Korean national assemblymen can ride his or her bicycle to their work in the National Assembly in Yeouido?
The author offers a basic geographic introduction on the people, places, history, arts and literature of the nations he visited, with a message to the readers that life is traveling, and traveling is renewing and refreshing life.
He speaks out clearly in his beautiful essays: life is beautiful, the world is beautiful. Through traveling, we can learn again the history and culture of what we once learned in our high school geography and history classes.
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