Written by Shim Yong Hwan


Whenever we learn our history or the history of other regions, whenever we read so many characters and cases throughout quite a long period of times, we cannot help being stuck by all these thick books of history. ‘How can I memorize all these things…..?’ Likewise, the history became quite annoying subject for students with less importance than major subjects like Korean, English, and Math. Sometimes, we tend to regret not studying our history when we hear the saying, “There is no future for the peoples who have forgotten history.” However, what if we can easily understand the history without memorizing chronological chart?
History is a quite useful tool to live today. However, we just forget that while focusing on other subjects for exams. The writer, Shim Yong Hwan, who was seen various media such as broadcasting, publishing business, lectures, and You-tube to resolve current affairs with historical imagination, became a Korean history teacher for teenagers. In his new book title, ‘Kind History’, he suggests to change the way to study history in an active and experimental way. Not being stuck by cliché and typical characters and cases, he leads us to start history study from data research to interpretation from our point of views and makes us realize special sense about forgotten history. Of course, we do not have to be sharp and nervous. This is a kind history class where we can slowly begin our study. Let’s ease ourselves and follow a kind teacher, Shim.