GQ director pens bold Perfectly Imperfect words

By Chung Ah-young

Aristotle once put it: “Dramas should be complete and whole in themselves, with a beginning, a middle and an end ... with all the organic unity of a living creature.”

The key to creating a story is to build it logically with each scene crafted and connected and thus each progression shapes it naturally.

However, “Perfectly Imperfect” (Tree of Thoughts: 292 pp., 12,000 won) by Lee Choong-keol, the director of GQ Korea, one of the most popular magazines in the country, dismantles the conventional structure of the story by focusing more on the language elements to display the modern emotions through feeble, vulnerable characters.