Korea’s bestselling and relentlessly upbeat guide to getting old
Some people age well. Alan Bennett, for instance, has gradually but inexorably ascended to national treasure status. Others age badly. Take Rudy Giuliani, whose meltdown on live television a couple of years ago took on an unedifyingly literal form, as hair dye trickled down his face. Still others don’t age at all. Arnold Schwarzenegger still looks like, in the words of Clive James, “a brown condom full of walnuts”.
More generally, ageing clearly has its challenges. But now there is a Korean runaway bestseller, ably and idiomatically translated into English, to help us make sense of it all. Rhee Kun Hoo, 89 and battling seven different health conditions, evidently knows a thing or two about his subject. And he writes with considerable empathy. A psychiatrist, he is “considered a visionary” at home for introducing open wards, doing away with straitjackets and solitary confinement.
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