Yang Sung-hee
The author is a cultural columnist.
“People of 100 years from now, are you still eating tuna sashimi rolls? Are you still drinking local craft beer? Do you still read scraps of poetry? I regret that I will not live for 100 more years and so cannot hear your answer. Are you happy now?”
Those lines — rendered from the original Japanese text — are from a short poem, the title of which translates to “A Message to the World 100 Years from Now,” by Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa.
Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa in a photograph taken in 2015 [WIKIPEDIA]
