His insight doesn’t care time, place, and culture. Never stopping effort made him a prominent culture icon. He has been writing for almost 50 years since he started writing in 1956. He became an editor of The Korea Times in his twenties and still writes a lot of articles for several different journals. His book made a lot of Koreans feel proud of being Korean, and < Smaller is Better: Japan"s Mastery of the Miniature> became sensational in Japan. Being over 70 years old, he’s creative enough to speak hours and hours and being invited to the various lecture activities.