Chi-hoon could be an 8-year-old girl almost anywhere--she is playful, imaginative, has an occasional disagreement with her older sister, and loves to visit her grandparents. The charm of this book is that we see Seoul, Korea through a young girl's eyes. This book is filled with snippets of Korean history and culture. We see Chi-hoon struggle to pay attention at a piano lesson, go to market with her mother, try to win a school prize, and play yut, a traditional Korean game, with her grandparents. In a particularly amusing scene, we see Chi-hoon persuade her grandfather to buy her cold noodle soup (a Korean specialty) against her parents' wishes. How many children and parents can identify with that scenario! :) This is a fantastic book for any age. Even the youngest children will enjoy the lovely photographs, and older children and adults will enjoy re-reading the text which contains gentle references to issues such as tremendous academic pressure (Chi-hoon's cousin will remain at home for an entire year to prepare for college entrance exams), the older generation's bias toward male children, and the age hierarchy (Chi-hoon wishes that she didn't have to call her older sister Oni, a title of respect). A must read!

I Needed to read this book. It is basically about the process of freeing yourself from your Mother to become your own person. I never realized the depth of the connection most of us have to Mother. The book makes a compelling argument on change and self-love. The appendix is a handy guide as well. This is not your typical self-help book. The answers are not obvious and they are rooted in real spiritual and psychological insight. If you like Carl ROgers, Thomas Moore and M. Scott Peck you will appreciate this.

It is quite easy to see that this book was created with only one purpose in mind and that is to take people's money! 3/4 of the websites listed in the book are completely useless, they are either totally outdated or simply give you error messages; there are only about 50 names of people in the entire book and they mostly relate to CEO's and not HR managers; The information indicating how to prepare a job hunting campaing extends to only about 5 pages of completely general and useless information that can be found in any other job hunting book. To make the story short, do not waist your money purchasing this book, it is useless!!!