Ha Jeong-mi’s Dating Right Now

Love stories turn up in novels, television dramas and films, and they are everywhere in popular songs. The appetite for hearing how other people fall in love seems as strong as ever.

People used to call dating “the business of youth,” a Korean expression rarely heard today. Getting to know someone is an undertaking in its own right. Finding a person you might spend the rest of your life with is serious business indeed.

From a Tistory Blog to a Book

Ha Jeong-mi wrote on Tistory under the pen name Mushroom Princess. She covered a variety of subjects, including her relationship.

Dating Right Now gathers thoughts from the time she spent getting to know the man she was seeing. The episodes have the intimacy of everyday observations.

The book follows what she felt and thought as the relationship unfolded. Readers looking for a guide to dating or advice on finding a partner will find one person’s experience told in episodes.

Other People’s Love Stories

There was a time when readers regularly followed personal stories on blogs. Dating was a familiar subject among bloggers, and posts about relationships often found a large audience.

One blog specialized in bad dates and relationships gone wrong. Its format was simple and fresh. Readers sent in their stories, and the blogger chose which ones to publish.

Ha’s book offers the same small pleasure of looking in on another person’s relationship. It is an easy read for anyone curious about how someone else experiences dating.

Book Information

Dating Right Now

Author

Ha Jeong-mi

Publication date

9 January 2012

Mushroom Princess’s blog

http://mushroomprincess.tistory.com/

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