A Hole Gets Bigger Whenever You Work on It

by Moo Cho

BOOK DESCRIPTIONThe beauty of a proverb rests in its simplicity. Anyone of any age can use them as they see fit and refine them as they grow older with newer wisdom. A collection of essays, “A Hole Gets Bigger Whenever You Work on It,” introduces 100 Korean proverbs and their meanings, placing an emphasis on how universal these messages are in both Eastern and Western culture. Though gentle and often humorous, these proverbs, derived from the everyday experience and lives of Korean ancestors, offer the time-tested wisdom that crosses continents as well as generations. This book is a sequel to the first two volumes, “The Tongue Can Break Bones,” and Easier to See Jeong (Love) Leaving than Arriving.” Each essay is just two-page long and starts on an even-numbered page. Since all essays are independent each other, one can read any entries, at any time and any place.The author was born and had lived in Korea till 1967. After successive post-baccalaureate MS and PhD degrees from Canada and the United States, respectively, he spent forty years working as a pharmaceutical chemist in industry and as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After retiring in 2013, he began writing essays on Korean proverbs in English to promote Korean culture and disseminate the wisdom therein to a wider audience. Future volumes in the series will appear one title a year, Volume IV targeted to early 2022.

Since May 2018, he has resided in Las Vegas with his wife June. She is a faculty member at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His wife, June Cho, is currently a faculty member at the UNLV (University of Nevada at Las Vegas).

329 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 4, 2021