Lang Lee, a Seoul native who displays his versatility as a singer-songwriter, filmmaker, comic artist, and essayist, has released a collection of essays titled "Sad and Cool People."
Not only his music, but also his lyrics and essays have captured people's hearts, and Lee Lang has been inundated with offers from the Japanese cultural scene. In 2017, he won the Best Folk Award at the Korean Popular Music Awards, known as the Korean equivalent of the Grammys. This book, which was released in Korea in the winter of 2016 and has since gone into its seventh printing, is the long-awaited Japanese edition.
The struggles and questions of everyday life that are difficult to manage. The struggles with work, loneliness, love, boredom, and self-consciousness that are inherent to life... Through her creative endeavors as an artist and her interactions with society, Lee Rang reflects on herself, asking herself, "Who am I?" This essay is a witty, humorous monologue, as she laments her everyday life and then laughs it off.
Photography: Naoko KumagaiWill you finally cry after everything has passed?
Lee Rang asks this question again today, yearning for a world without borders or pyramids.
"Should I really do that?"
"What would be fun to do?"
"What can I become?"
"What would be fun to do?"
"What can I become?"
【Profile】
Lee Lang (이랑 Lang Lee)
Born in Seoul in 1986. Singer-songwriter, filmmaker, comic artist, and essayist. She dropped out of high school at age 16, ran away from home, and became independent, starting her career as an illustrator and cartoonist. She then entered a national arts university and majored in film directing. Her self-composed songs, which she recorded as a diary, became a hot topic, leading to her debut as a singer. She has released short films "We Must Change" and "Yutori," comics "Lee Lang: Four-Panel Comics" and "Now I'm in My Thirties," and albums "Yeonyeonseung" and "Playing God" (released in Japan in 2016 by Sweet Dreams Press). In 2017, she won the Best Folk Song Award at the 14th Korean Popular Music Awards for "God Play." During the awards ceremony, she made headlines by auctioning off the trophy during her speech and selling it for 500,000 won (she wrote about the incident in the "Waseda Literature Women's Issue").
[Book Information]
"Sad and Cool People"
Author: Lee Rang
Publisher: Little More
Softcover/280 pages/A4 size
Translator: Oh Young-Ah
Design: Naku Naoko
Price: ¥1,800
Lee Lang (이랑 Lang Lee)
Born in Seoul in 1986. Singer-songwriter, filmmaker, comic artist, and essayist. She dropped out of high school at age 16, ran away from home, and became independent, starting her career as an illustrator and cartoonist. She then entered a national arts university and majored in film directing. Her self-composed songs, which she recorded as a diary, became a hot topic, leading to her debut as a singer. She has released short films "We Must Change" and "Yutori," comics "Lee Lang: Four-Panel Comics" and "Now I'm in My Thirties," and albums "Yeonyeonseung" and "Playing God" (released in Japan in 2016 by Sweet Dreams Press). In 2017, she won the Best Folk Song Award at the 14th Korean Popular Music Awards for "God Play." During the awards ceremony, she made headlines by auctioning off the trophy during her speech and selling it for 500,000 won (she wrote about the incident in the "Waseda Literature Women's Issue").
[Book Information]
"Sad and Cool People"
Author: Lee Rang
Publisher: Little More
Softcover/280 pages/A4 size
Translator: Oh Young-Ah
Design: Naku Naoko
Price: ¥1,800
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