You're pretty too.
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- Types of genre
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Cartoon
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- Year of Production
- 2025
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- Content Type
- Publication (Magazine/Book/Newspaper)
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- Target Age
- Kids
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- Quantity
- 192
Summary
Na Tae-ju's Coming-of-Age Manga ― ‘You Are Beautiful Too’ is a heartwarming coming-of-age manga that tenderly traces the journey of our era's most beloved poet, Na Tae-ju, from childhood to becoming a poet.
Readers can follow the sequential journey: from the wildflowers seen by eight-year-old Tae-ju, through his teenage years nurturing his dreams of writing, to finally becoming a teacher who opens the path to poetry while teaching children.
This book explains, at a child reader's level, where the ‘beauty of small things’ and ‘love for people’—frequently expressed in Na Tae-ju's works—originated.
Stories of nurturing imagination beneath a rice cake tree, the first innocent love letters sent with heartfelt emotion—each episode mirrors our own childhoods, leaving a deep resonance and lingering impression.
Episode 1: Soon-deok and Tae-ju _Eight-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 2: The Rice Cake Tree and the Honey Puppy _ Nine-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 3: The Granddaughter of the Old Village Chief _ Eleven-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 4: Love Letters _ Fifteen-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 5: Beneath the Bamboo Grove _ Tae-ju, Now a Teacher
Episode 6: The Poet's Bicycle
These stories are brought to life with warm illustrations by cartoonist Ryu Seung-hee.
Readers can follow the sequential journey: from the wildflowers seen by eight-year-old Tae-ju, through his teenage years nurturing his dreams of writing, to finally becoming a teacher who opens the path to poetry while teaching children.
This book explains, at a child reader's level, where the ‘beauty of small things’ and ‘love for people’—frequently expressed in Na Tae-ju's works—originated.
Stories of nurturing imagination beneath a rice cake tree, the first innocent love letters sent with heartfelt emotion—each episode mirrors our own childhoods, leaving a deep resonance and lingering impression.
Episode 1: Soon-deok and Tae-ju _Eight-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 2: The Rice Cake Tree and the Honey Puppy _ Nine-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 3: The Granddaughter of the Old Village Chief _ Eleven-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 4: Love Letters _ Fifteen-Year-Old Tae-ju
Episode 5: Beneath the Bamboo Grove _ Tae-ju, Now a Teacher
Episode 6: The Poet's Bicycle
These stories are brought to life with warm illustrations by cartoonist Ryu Seung-hee.
Company Profile
Cartoon
Blue_Sky began in 2017 as <Dohun>, expanding its business into exhibitions and convention events before changing its name in 2023. Blue_Sky is a literature-based publishing primarily releasing poetry collections, novel, and essay. We publishes the quarterly <Literary Magazine Sima>. In 2019, We published a commemorative anthology for the 100th anniversary of the 3.1 Movement (8 hardcover volumes, approximately 4,000 pages). In 2022, marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, it interviewed 140 Korean War veterans (primarily US soldiers and enlisted personnel) and published 7 sets of 14 volumes in Korean and English (Young Heroes). Recently, we published “You're Pretty Too” (B5, comic, color), documenting the growth journey of poet Na Tae-ju.