The three above (Pastor Choi Wan-taek, Father

慈恩 편지
(Wisdom to see the world, episode 1439)
2024.07.10 (Wednesday)

what a beautiful person leaves in the world

"The three above (Pastor Choi Wan-taek, Father Chung Ho-kyung, and Attorney Park Yeon-chul) want me to manage all my works well together. All the books I have written are mainly bought and read by children, so it would be appropriate to return the royalties from this to children."

It is part of Kwon Jeong-saeng's will to write a best-selling book and children's literature representing Korea, such as dog poop and Mongsil sister.

The teacher was born in a slum in Tokyo in 1937 and returned with his family for the liberation of his country, but he still had to live a poor life.

At the age of 19, I had pleurisy and pulmonary tuberculosis, but I didn't want to cause any more trouble in the house, so I left the house and lived with my devastated body. Sometimes an old lady who pressed rice into a can brought water when she was lying on the street.

He was only thinking about dying, but they urged him to live somehow. He was a writer who wrote a warm and heartbreaking miracle-like fairy tale despite suffering from poverty and illness all his life.

In particular, among his fairy tales, "Puppy Poop" was about something that others didn't look at, frowned on for being smelly, something that seemed useless for nothing, and the poop that a white dog without a name had left behind.

However, what I was going to say in "Puppy Dung" was about a poor person, a weak person, a little person, an abandoned person, a person living in pain and solitude.

People in one village thought that the teacher was a very poor person. He lived his whole life as a danbeol gentleman in a dan-bang dirt house in a mountain valley, and lived frugally throughout his life.

Kwon Jeong-saeng passed away in May 2007, and the villagers who were watching his funeral were surprised. He thought he was an old man living alone, but he was surprised to see so many people crying while paying their respects, and was also surprised to see that he was a writer with more than 1 billion won in wealth and tens of millions of won in royalties every year.

The teacher's legacy is currently managed by the Kwon Jeong-saeng Children's Cultural Foundation according to the will and is used to help children in conflict areas between the two Koreas.

There is beautiful love in the heart of those who think of the pain of others before their own suffering and the hunger of children before their own poverty.

So even what he leaves behind seems beautiful.

# Today's quote
How can you hit the early morning bell with warm hands when you hear the poor, the marginalized, and the sick, the bugs, and the stones rolling along the road.
– Mr. Kwon Jung-saeng –

Source: - Among "Warm Day" warm letters (No. 2697)-