English Education Department

2000067022 Lee, Jaewoo

The Korean morning is getting busier and busier. As the books the have a message about morning people become the bestsellers, more and more people get up in the early morning and prepare their day and give themselves some leeway.

Park, Hyesun, working for Epson Company, said that her life has changed since she started waking up 4 a.m. Taking a walk with her father around her house, she leaves for the office at 5:30 a.m. by subway. She can afford to read a book on her way since she starts so early and she can take a seat.  Before business hours starting, she studies English and prepares for each day calmly.  "My life came to be regular and I got healthier than before," said she. And she said proudly, "It used to be hard for me to read 10 books in a year, however, I have read more than 10 books in the subway for last 2 months."

In the case of Woolim Constuction Com., 60 employees among 180 working in the headquarter of the company get up 4 to 5 a.m. Some of them are at the office around 6 a.m. and study foreign languages or read books. All of them agree that their life patterns have changed and they spend a day more efficiently and fruitfully, comparing before.

Such a boom can be seen in cyber space, too. On Daum, the Internet portal site, the number of the Internet communities related to the morning people reaches 10. Members of "Coming into the world again as a morning person", a community in Freechal, serve a wake-up calls in turn. These days, foreign language institutes, fitness centers and swimming pools are prosperous due to increasing appearance of morning people.

Cha, Dongwook, a professor of business administration in Sung Kyun Kwan University, said, "When the circumstances change too fast, people tend to desire to reflect their inner side and develop themselves. In this context, recent morning people are considered positive.

Saishow Hirosh is the author who made nocturnal people the morning people as he suggested.

Saishow Hiroshi, a Japanese doctor, is the author of these two books.

He suggests the way to use a day efficiently by fully using the morning and starting a day earlier. These books show many examples of successful people who usually were awake in the early morning. And he proposes changing into the morning person.

If you believe the maxim that the person who governs the morning can govern a day and the person who governs a day can govern his or her whole life, how about being the morning people?