Family Love & Communication
When we understand and consider each other, family love gets stronger. Learn the way of communication to add more happiness to your family.
Misunderstanding Is Bitter, and Understanding Is Sweet
In The Little Prince, a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the fox says to the little prince, “You will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstanding,” and the fox continues to talk. This scene is very contradictory, but it shows that words are a very important means to communicate…
Families of Great Men
There are people who inspire many people of the world: Those who left great achievements, those who realized their dreams after overcoming difficulties, and those who constantly researched and became successful in their fields. Their words and life stories about overcoming trials are passed down from generation to generation and…
What Facial Expression Will You Make?
The face is the most visible part of the body. There are four of five sense organs on the face, which are responsible for sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Not only do these sense organs accept external stimuli, they also perform the basic functions necessary for a person to live,…
“It’s Okay Because We Are Family”?
A family is the first group that a person belongs to after he was born, where the members’ gender and age are different. If the members don’t make efforts to take care of each other with sincerity, their relationship faces difficulty. Most people have a wrong idea about their family…
Protect Your Family from Smartphones!
Mr. Kim wakes up at the sound of the alarm on his smartphone in the morning, reads articles on his smartphone, searches good restaurants at his lunch break on the smartphone, and buys things he needs, using his smartphone whenever he has time. He often asks after his acquaintances, using…
A Family That Can Communicate Is a Happy Family!
Many people say that they are afraid to go abroad or to meet foreigners because they cannot communicate with them. Probably, there is nothing as frustrating as being unable to communicate. Sometimes, people feel distressed from failing to communicate even with someone who speaks the same language. If that person…
Apology Brings Home Peace
Everyone makes big and small mistakes. We sometimes step on another person’s foot in a crowded bus, spill water on someone and get their clothes wet, hurt someone’s feelings with too much joke, or make someone angry with actions that lack consideration. Not only the immature children but also the…
Overprotection Makes Children Weak
A young man who had graduated from college visited a psychological counseling center. He was brought by his parents who could no longer stand watching their son sleep during the day and play computer games all night. Their son was old enough to become independent and plan his life, but…
Empathy, the Capacity to Put Oneself in Another’s Position
In Korea, once the phrase, “Are you hurt? It hurts me, too,” was the talk of the town. This heartwarming phrase of a character in a soap opera, who didn’t just understand the pain of the other person but shared it with her, gave a big resonance to the viewers.…
Positive Words Design Happiness
In 2016, at the 31st Rio de Janeiro Olympics, a men’s fencing individual épée match was being played. South Korea’s Park Sang-young who was competing with Hungary’s Géza Imre was losing 13 to 9 in the final third round. He got a point, but soon lost another point, leaving Imre…
Happy Family Does Not Say, “It’s Your Fault!”
While two people were walking in the street, one of them found a wallet on the ground. “Wow, I’m lucky today. I got free money!” said the person who found the wallet. Then the man who was accompanying him flew into a rage and said, “Well, I suggested that we…
What Will You Pass Down?
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Looks, intelligence, body constitution . . . children resemble their father and mother because they inherit biological genes, DNA, from their parents. When people see a child look just like his parents, they say that he is the miniature or spitting image…
Happiness Comes When You Leave Your Worries Behind
Deep in the past, there was a person who was full of worries. He could not even sleep, eat, or go outside the house, worrying that the sky might collapse and the land might fall. Everyone dreams of a worry-free life, but actually lives in many needless worries and fears.…
Different Personalities? No Problem!
“Whose personality did she get?” “I can’t understand my co-worker,” “He must be from a different dimensional world,” “We’ve decided to split because of our too different personalities,” . . . The most common and prominent cause that damages the relationship between people is the difference in personality. Some students…
Love Is Love When Expressed
Love takes the most important part of our life. It is not too much to say that love is the essence of life. However, love cannot be seen, smelled, or touched. Therefore, you cannot physically take your love out of your heart and show it to your loved one, or…
Eyes, Where Heart to Heart Connections Are Made
“The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” Audrey Hepburn “The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the…
Think Before You Speak
There is a saying, “Pay more attention to the words coming out of your own mouth, than to the words coming out of others’ mouths.” Like this, there are many quotes about the importance of words in every country where language is used as a means of communication. Words are…
How to Negotiate for a Good Relationship
“Almost everything is negotiable.” This is a quote from Herb Cohen, an American negotiation expert. When it comes to a negotiation, most people would imagine an intense and close match for important issues such as an international negotiation and a salary negotiation. However, negotiation is not a special mission just…
About What We See and Hear
A mother happened to see her child imitating a mourner. Being shocked, the mother moved from near a graveyard to a house next to a market. Then, her child started imitating a merchant. So the mother packed up their stuff again and moved to a house near a school. From…
Neither Hurt Nor Be Hurt
A wound is an injury or a damaged area of the body. Not only the body but also the mind has wounds. Unlike wounds on the body, wounds in the mind are invisible, so they are likely to be overlooked. Visible wounds can be treated with medication, but it is…