“Is love possible without faith?
What does faith without love look like?
“That… …can’t it be completely non-existent?”
Thoughts on faith and love floating on Jeju's winter winds
Jinyoung Choi's new works, "Proof of the Sphere" and "Only One Person"

Choi Jin-young, who has rediscovered the diverse facets of love by writing “Proof of the Sphere,” “Only One Person,” and “Where the Sun Sets,” and winning the Yi Sang Literary Award for “Home Sweet Home” in 2023, has published a new novel, “Aurora,” as part of Wisdom House’s short story series, Wipick.
This is also the first work set in Jeju Island, which the author, who started living in Jeju in 2022, had promised to “save as a joker card.”

Jeju is a place where you don't know anyone, a place where you can feel free, a place where you can break free from the rules that bind you.
Unable to betray someone's trust, 'You' stayed in Jeju for two months and was reborn as 'Aurora', light and free like a bird.
However, unlike the name of the accommodation, ‘Sunshineville’, which shows ‘black stones and white waves’ beyond the balcony window, what greets ‘you’ is a strong winter wind, dark clouds, snow covering Mt. Halla in white, and a dead bird.

A dead bird is found on the balcony, mocking you for choosing freedom over guilt, lies over truth, and vowing to live as the Aurora.
It is legal to dispose of an animal carcass in a garbage bag, but illegal to bury it in the ground.
'You' decide to commit an illegal act once again.
Once again, we plan to create a “secret between just the two of us.”
Even though I know that it will melt and disappear when spring comes, I hold his hand with the intention of making a snowman.
Love, as unpredictable as the winter weather of Jeju, spreads its wings and takes flight.

《Aurora》 is a collection of Choi Jin-young's long-standing thoughts on faith and love, layered like stones.
“Is love possible without faith?
What does faith without love look like?
“That… …can it be completely non-existent?” It is the reader’s turn to answer the question in 《Aurora》.

50 stories in 50 books in one year
A special experience that allows you to breathe deeply into 'a single story'

Beginning in November 2022, Wisdom House will be introducing the most diverse and newest stories of Korean literature, one per week, through its short story serial project, "Weekly Fiction."
The series is released every Wednesday through the Wisdom House website and newsletter 'We Pick'.
Beginning with author Koo Byeong-mo's "Shred," 50 stories will be released to readers over the course of a year.
The Wepick series publishes novels that have finished serialization in this way sequentially.
The first five stories will be released on March 8th, and four stories will be published every second Wednesday of the month thereafter, creating a festival of 50 stories throughout the year.


This time, rather than the conventional method of binding together several short stories, the book is composed of only one short story, an unusual attempt that provides readers with a special experience of breathing deeply into each story.
Wepick is not bound by any criteria or distinctions such as material or format, and focuses solely on the completeness of a single story.
Through novels by a variety of authors, including novelists, non-fiction writers, poets, and youth literature writers, we break down genres and boundaries, expanding the possibilities and enjoyment of stories.

There is also a special gift inside the book.
This is a supplementary poster titled 'One Novel', which contains an entire novel on one poster.
A single novel offers readers the special experience of encountering a story in a new way.

Introducing the Wepick Series

Wepick is a short story series from Wisdom House.
It offers a special experience of breathing deeply into ‘one story’.
I dream that this small piece will become a new piece that expands your world, that each small piece will come together to become your story, and that it will become a piece of literature that will be deeply engraved in your heart.