Lee Juck poses at a press event for his essay book in Seoul on Wednesday.

Singer-songwriter Lee Juck has published a collection of essays. The book contains 101 short pieces of writing about the origins of his lyrics and other imaginative ideas.

"At first, I wrote five or six pages at a time, but I compressed them. I hope my book will fill a void in people's lives and ignite their imagination," Lee said.

Lee is widely admired for his poetic song lyrics.

The book is a collection of pieces he has posted on social media since 2020 which became hugely popular. It has 10,000 pre-orders and already began the fifth print run.

Highlights include a piece titled "Success" which classifies it as "a state in which a person can afford not to work with people they don't like." Another piece titled "Snowman" tells the story of a woman who breaks up with her boyfriend after he destroys a snowman someone built by the roadside.

One of his most-popular pieces "Banknote," where he writes, "I met my nephew for the first time in a while and cheerfully gave him a W50,000 note, because I didn't want him to see me pathetically counting W10,000 bills (US$=W1,327). I think we should come up with a W30,000 bill so we won't do something stupid like that again." Some lawmakers missed the satirical note and even proposed passing a law to create a W30,000 bill.

"I heard the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation got a lot of phone calls inquiring about that," Lee joked.