It's OK Not to Be OK: Good Advice and Kind Words for Positive Mental Well-Being

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Fearing the worst and needing to protect him from the other villagers, she hid him away in her basement. She advised him to win over these inner battles and negative experiences, rather than merely forgetting about them. It's been a while since the series ended in Korea, but I’m surprised that people continue to express their interest in and love for it,” he said during an interview with The Korea Times. The mother realized soon, that her baby, was not human, but a zombie child that had no affection or emotion, only a desire for food. The episodes in the drama so far have been dedicated to specific books in Moon-young’s body of work, and act as mirrors to the lessons and values that can be learned from each.

Ko falls in love with Moon Gang-tae (played by Kim Soo-hyun), a caretaker who works in a psychiatric hospital and takes care of his older brother Sang-tae (Oh Jung-se). Anyone who has since found themselves immersed in the drama and dreams to have a copy of these books for their own can now actually do so! The Boy Who Fed on Nightmares is one of the books by Korean illustrator Jamsan that was used in the Korean drama It’s Okay to Not Be Okay. However, he grew tired of bright, mystical and fantasy-themed illustrations after experiencing a career slump.The Teenaged Boy Who Grew Up Eating Nightmares” Cover illustration as provided as a sample by Yes24. The witch comes back and tells him that one will learn and discover more about life when one experiences troubles and overcomes them. But for Sang-tae’s drawing, I wanted to create his world in watercolour to give a warm and friendly feel to it, just like The Little Prince and Alice in Wonderland,” he said. Compared with Encounter, in which he created a fairy tale-style rendering of the introduction and ending of the series, Jamsan had to build illustrations for each of the episode in It’s Okay to Not Be Okay. In that moment, the dog realized that he doesn’t know how to escape his leash because he’s been so used to being tied to the tree, and he simply does not know what to do anymore.

He worked as an animation and art director until he quit to pursue a career as an illustrator when he was in his late 20s. Perhaps, it was not a desire or greed to be fed with food that the boy had, but simply, to feel the warmth and love of someone instead, for he grew up repulsed and hidden away. I expressed my desire to join the project, sharing my personal interests in zombies and cruel fairy tales.He and Moon-young fall in love, slowly but very decidedly, and he begins to understand the meanings behind Moon-young’s harsh demeanor and actions in time and when he decides to leaf through one of her books, The Boy Who Fed on Nightmares. At the last moment, when she was only left with her torso, she crawled to her child and hugged him, letting him devour her whole.

However, arguably one of its most valuable qualities is the drama’s real and honest storytelling through animation and fairytales. The dog longed to frolic around freely by himself, but he was unable to, as he was tied firmly to the porch.

If you feel like reliving each of these stories before deciding on which book to get, here are the clips of its storytelling from the hit K-drama! Happiness is not about only good things but also how you fight your own battles and become stronger because of it.

In Ko’s early storybooks such as The Boy Who Fed on Nightmares and Zombie Kid, the artist used dark colours to express the emotional damage suffered by the character. The three covered stories so far include A Spring Day’s Dog, Zombie Child and The Teenaged Boy Who Grew Up Eating Nightmares. One day, there was an illness and famine in the village – everyone living left hurriedly, while the mother remained as she realized she could not bear to leave her child. The other main character in the drama is Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo Hyun) who is a guardian at a psychiatric hospital. In the drama, we initially see Moon-young as a bit cruel and cold, and we learn that this is because of her tough childhood which gives her such a unique standpoint to create such interesting books that are well-loved and very popular.The 47-year-old artist said he changed the overall feeling of the illustration styles to reflect how characters overcame their fears and bad memories. After going through a career slump, I found joy in drawing zombies and fairy tales with dark twists.