Walking the Fields

WALKING THE FIELDS
A Boy Who Kept Walking-and What Time Taught Him

What if an ＂ordinary＂ life is the most honest kind of courage?

In Walking the Fields, Kim Giwon-who spent 30 years in local government administration-offers a quiet, clear-eyed memoir about endurance, responsibility, family, and lifelong learning. This is not a success story filled with trophies and turning points. It’s a record of a man who didn’t run: not from poverty, not from duty, not from the people he loved.

From a childhood shaped by unpaid school fees and silent walks along riverbanks and fields, to the pressure of marriage, debt, and raising children, Kim writes with steady restraint. At work, he stands at the front line of complaints and conflict, learning how to manage emotion, hold a boundary between office and home, and understand the true weight of a single sentence spoken in public. Later, hospital corridors force him to slow down and look directly at life-fear not as an ending, but as a turning toward what matters.