Park Jeongmin Launches Audiobook Project Inspired by Blind Father
Jun 12, 2025
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Actor Park Jung-min, who became the CEO of the publishing company, appeared on tvN's entertainment show 「You Quiz on the Block」, which aired on the afternoon of the 11th.
Park Jung-min, who went from an actor who knows how to speak to a publisher who knows how to write, currently runs an independent publishing company Muje and has a year of recharging as an actor. In particular, on the same day that he declared that he would have a `snake year' last year, "I have never said anything like a pause or sabbatical in my mouth. I can tell you to come a little bit. I said 'I'm only going to take a year off', but then suddenly there were articles such as 'Retirement'Ansiknyeon'. He told a funny story, saying, "I won first place in the entertainment news that I watched a lot that day." Hwang Jung-min, the senior of the agency, also said "Don't rest! "Someone said, 'Who makes money?'" he said, making MC Yoo Jae-seok and Jo Se-ho laugh.
Overshadowing the Sabbath misunderstanding, Park Jung-min is spending busier days than his acting hours, he said. "I went to work at 6 a.m. and sat in front of the computer all day long. They continue to exchange work with companies, and now they are interviewing and promoting new books. I'm going to work even on holidays. I can't say it easily because I'm a newbie who just started a publishing business, but the publishing industry is not very good these days. Our company's director's annual salary is also tight."
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Park Jung-min "When I was young, I saw my mom keep cleaning things up on the floor. At first, I was annoyed by 'Do it later', but later I found out that my father had a blind disorder. When I was young, I thought my father had bad eyesight, but it turned out that he had a disability"My father had an accident when I opened a publisher and the first book came out. Of course, I hurt my eye and completely lost my eyesight. I was a person who had barely seen the world with a little sight for 60 years, but I was also heartbroken to see my father who lost his sight and was upset."
Then "On the other hand, I felt like I sympathized with myself that my father's eyes were hard to see. I think I had a very bad sympathy for myself: 'I'm the son of a disabled person. That feeling is so shameful and I don't want to look at it. If you think about it, it's my father, not me, who lived uncomfortable all his life. At that time, I thought for the first time that I should make something for my father. And when the first book came out, I was heartbroken that I couldn't give it to my father as a gift. I was thinking about how to present a book to my father, and I came to make an audiobook."
Finally, Park Jung-min "About 80,000 kinds of paper books come out a year. We can read all of those 80,000 books if we want, but not accessible to the blind. You have to keep waiting for the audiobook to come out, and there is a possibility that the wait will be in vain. The biggest reason I hope this audiobook works well was that the first book they enjoyed was not a book that no one was interested in. This project can be continued only when non-disabled readers feel proud that the blind first heard their favorite books. I think there should be more things for them to enjoy" added meaning.
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