Honjok

Honjok: The Art of Living Alone, co-authored with American psychotherapist Francie Healey, explores South Korea’s rise of solo living and the wider cultural shift towards more independent ways of life.

The Korean term honjok loosely translates as “tribe of one” — from honja (“solo”) and jok (“tribe”). It emerged alongside a generation of young Koreans questioning traditional expectations around marriage, family and work, and embracing life on their own terms.

But Honjok is about more than living alone. As single-person households, women’s independence and solo lifestyles grow around the world, the book explores the cultural forces behind these changes — and asks what it means to distinguish being alone from being lonely. Drawing on cultural analysis alongside insights into wellbeing and solitude, it considers how time alone can become a source of independence, self-knowledge and fulfilment.

Published by Welbeck Publishing under Hachette Group, with international distribution through HarperCollins and other publishing houses, Honjok has launched in different languages across the U.K., France, Canada, China, Germany, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

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