ALOR: A Man Who Found a Different Life at Sea
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- ALOR: A Man Who Found a Different Life at Sea
- Author
- Kwon, Soon Buhm (Pen Name: Iruda)
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798178812877
What if the life you dreamed of finally became possible - only to take everything from you?
Taehoon is a Korean marketing executive in his forties. He has a stable career, a family, and a life that looks successful from the outside. But somewhere between endless meetings, business trips, and responsibilities, he has forgotten what it feels like to be truly alive.
Then he discovers scuba diving.
Beneath the surface, the noise disappears. There are no emails, no meetings, no expectations - only his breathing and the endless blue.
What begins as an escape gradually becomes an obsession, and eventually a question he can no longer ignore:
What if this could be his life?
When an opportunity arises to invest in a small dive resort in Indonesia, Taehoon must choose between the security of the life he knows and the possibility of something entirely different.
He chooses the sea.
But dreams have consequences.
After a devastating fire destroys what he has built, Taehoon returns to Korea carrying debt, failure, and the responsibility of rebuilding his family's future. Then an unexpected opportunity takes him back to the waters of Eastern Indonesia - this time aboard a liveaboard vessel, working for an international company operating in a world where business, technology, and legality do not always have clear boundaries.
What begins as a second chance slowly draws him into something far more dangerous.
ALOR was inspired in part by an extraordinary event in the author's own life. A scuba diving instructor himself, Soon Buhm Kwon was diving on a remote Indonesian island when the resort where he was staying was destroyed by a catastrophic fire. After escaping the fire and later returning to the island, the experience remained with him - and eventually became one of the inspirations for this novel.
Drawing on nearly two decades of scuba diving, international business, and travel across Asia, Kwon brings a lived authenticity to the underwater world, island communities, liveaboards, and uncertain spaces through which Taehoon travels.
ALOR is a story about dreams and responsibility, loss and reinvention, and a man searching for another way to live.
Because sometimes losing the life you planned is how another life begins.
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