Kim Yeon-su’s First Travel Essay Collection
Someday, Perhaps compiles essays that author Kim Yeon-su contributed to Lonely Planet Magazine Korea from 2013 to 2017, along with eight newly published pieces. It is neither a simple travelogue nor a collection of personal musings. Instead, Kim captures fleeting moments encountered on the road—whether during a journey or long after it ends—and distills them into thoughtful reflections. His writing revisits the emotions sparked by places, evoking the question, “Where am I, and who am I?”
The book traverses destinations from Mongolia, Russia, Spain, and the Silk Road to Busan, Daegu, and beyond. At times, the setting is a plane’s economy seat or a city bus; other times, a childhood memory resurfaces as a form of travel through time. Across these 58 stories, Kim repeatedly contemplates the essence of travel and, by extension, the meaning of life.
This collection offers more than travel anecdotes—it is a meditation on loneliness, wonder, nostalgia, comfort, and hope. What may seem like light-hearted stories—akin to a casual summer night’s conversation—reveal a lingering bittersweetness upon reflection. And, perhaps, they will stir the urge to journey again.
