Watching Park Jung-min lose his sight, I felt sympathy, shame, and shame on my disabled son's own (Yuquiz)
Jun 11, 2025
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In tvN's entertainment show `You Quiz on the Block" aired on the 11th, Park Jung-min, who founded an independent publishing company "題", appeared to talk candidly and honestly.
He said of the publisher's name '題'"It has nothing to do with G-Dragon at all"It was rather awkward and itchy as I kept trying to put meaning into it. So I decided to just 'No title'", he explained.
He also spoke candidly about the reality of the publishing industry. Park Jung-min said that a book published by his publisher was a bestseller. He "How many copies were sold a day? I did it, but 300 copies were sold nationwide. I sold 300 copies, but when I saw it as a bestseller, I felt that the book market was really not easy. I hope a lot of people get closer to the book," he said frankly.
Park Jung-min, who has only two employees, including himself, said "Originally a one-person publishing company, but now there is a director who is working with me " Yoo Jae-seok "Since he is a director who has no experience working at a publishing company, I heard that he/she will do it on his/her own, but he/she misses his/her work."When asked ", Park Jung-min said "I've never worked for a publishing company either. There are a lot of things that are really missing. Not long ago, the director even got angry, saying, `Why don't you talk about it?' which drew laughter.
Kim Ah-young, director of the publishing house 'Untitled', said "I came to collaborate with the CEO by chance at my previous job, and that's when I felt it. I thought, "You're not trying to make a publisher look like an intellectual."," he said, expressing his trust in Park Jung-min.
When Park Jung-min asked "What time does the director leave work?", Park Jung-min asked "I should go to work at 10 o'clock and leave at 5 o'clock, but he didn't leave work." 'Go home!If I say ', I have something to do, too'I'm going to do it'," he said to laughter.
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On this day's broadcast, the reason why Park Jung-min produced an audiobook was also revealed.
He "When I was in middle and high school, my mom kept cleaning up what was on the floor. 'Do it later!I said ', but my mother got angry. It turned out that he had a disability that could only see his father's vision. So I couldn't see the floor, so he wore what was on the floor. "That's when I first knew. I thought my father had bad eyesight, but it wasn't that he had a disability," he recalled.
Then "My eyes have been bad since I was young. So he couldn't drive, so he said, 'Why can't my dad drive?I was annoyed with him", he confessed.
Park Jung-min "My father had an accident by the time I opened a publishing house and came out with my first book. My father's eyes are bad, but he lost his sight because he hurt his eyes.'"I was about to film a movie called '1 Win', but my mom kept calling me, so I hung up on him. But I kept getting calls, so it felt weird, so I answered the phone and he said 'Hurry up and come to the hospital' Since that day, I've been heartbroken to see my father who lost his sight and was upset."
"Even though he was originally an eye-impaired person, he lived for 60 years, and seeing that he completely lost his sight, I felt like I sympathized with myself that my father's eyes were hard to see."There were very bad sympathies to myself, saying "'I'm the son of a disabled person. The feelings I felt for me at that time were so shameful and I didn't want to look at them"He confessed.
Then "Isn't it your father who lived uncomfortable all his life?" At that time, I thought for the first time that I should make something for my father and for my family"The moment I remember being toxic, my father didn't throw away the book. You're a public servant, working for a company, and your eyes are not good, so you don't have time to read. Still, when I went home, the bookshelf was full of yellow books because my father had read them for a long time. I learned from my father that I don't throw away books since I was young, so I don't throw away books either."
Park Jung-min, who later started a publishing house, said, `The first book came out, and I was heartbroken because it was ambiguous to give it to my father as a gift. Whether you read it or not, it's right to give it to you, but isn't it another problem that you can't read it at all. So 'How can I give the book to my father?'I came to think of an audiobook while I was thinking about it,' he explained.
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Park Jung-min said "Making paper books does not make all paper books into audiobooks, nor does making them into audiobooks mean that they are all in the library for the disabled. Blind people have too little access to reading. "So I wanted to make an audio book and give it to them as a gift. In fact, I met with visually impaired readers and had a book talk, and fortunately, they liked it."
"80,000 kinds of paper books come out a year. We have a choice of all 80,000 of them, and blind people cannot access them unless they make them (audio books). You have to keep waiting and it's likely that the wait will be in vain. "The biggest reason I hope this audiobook will go well was that the first book they enjoyed was not one that no one was interested in. Even non-disabled readers can continue this project only when they feel proud that they have heard their favorite books first. I think there should be more things for these people to enjoy."
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