Baek Sehee

Baek Sehee is a South Korean author and editor whose candid memoir about depression became a publishing phenomenon across Asia and then the world. She works in publishing in Seoul. I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a memoir structured as a series of conversations between Baek and her psychiatrist, interspersed with her own reflections on living with dysthymia — a persistent, low-grade depression that never quite reaches crisis point but colours everything. The book became a massive bestseller in South Korea, sold millions of copies across Asia, and became an international sensation when translated into English. Its frank, understated tone resonated with readers who recognised their own quiet struggles in its pages. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a quietly revolutionary memoir about living with depression — a book that gave millions of people the language to describe what they had been feeling all along.