‘Nunchi’, the Korean Secret to a Happier Life

Alan Trapulionis
4 min readMar 15, 2022
Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash

When I first heard about the mysterious concept of ‘nunchi’, I immediately discarded it as self-help brain sugar.

It sounded like one of those catchy ideas people abuse to justify writing a book. We all love our oriental promises of eternal youth and peace of mind, don’t we?

As promises go, ‘nunchi’ is an absolute all-star.

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