Dalgona on TV
Dalgona flavor
Kidney bean pot
Rows of kidney beans
Mom's Picture Diary
Hello? Hello!
Author's Note

If you sprinkle some magic powder, it becomes the sweetest thing in the world!
Saebom, who achieved her dream of eating school lunches, and grandmother Gab-bun, who achieved her dream of going to school.
A sweet and special school life!

For adults, Dalgona is most often remembered as a sweet treat that they secretly made and ate without their mother's knowledge.
Pour sugar into a ladle, place it on a gas stove, and when it melts, sprinkle baking soda on it.
Then, as the sugar water turns caramel-colored, a sweet smell spreads.
And the sweet taste that spreads in your mouth when you put the puffy dalgona in your mouth! I remember emptying a ladleful, making more, and burning the ladle while eating more, and getting scolded by my mom.
Dalgona, the snack of our memories, has been transformed into various things for children these days, such as dalgona candies.
However, it was Dalgona that made the dreams of the main characters of this book, Saebom, her mother, and her grandmother, Gab-bun, come true.
Saebom's dream is to go to school, eat school lunch, and make friends.
Mom's dream is for the newly opened art academy to do well, and Saebom's grandmother's dream is for her to go to school.
However, the dreams of all three people were put on hold due to the aftereffects of COVID-19, which has spread across the world this year.
Fortunately, Saebom went to school, but she hasn't made any friends yet, and her mother is worried because no students are coming to the newly opened art academy.
Also, Grandma Gap-bun has just started studying to achieve her dream of becoming a college student and getting her driver's license.
Saebom carries around the shell of the 'World's Best Dalgona Candy' that a child gave her while she was out for a bit on a rainy day and stopped by a stationery store.
I wait with excitement, wondering if the empty desk in the classroom might be that child.
Saebom and the other children in the class cannot sit close to their friends or brainstorm.
But little by little, they get to know each other's names, and sometimes they even get to know each other's faces when they take off their masks.
Also, my mother put her dream of running her own art academy on hold for a while, but for a better tomorrow, she got a job at a cafe because she liked the taste of the dalgona coffee she made.
Grandma Gap-bun, who runs a coffee shop, opened a cafe to fulfill her dream, and makes and sells Dalgona coffee there.
And Saebom became a student in his class.
These three people are of different ages and have different dreams, but they are moving forward to achieve 'the sweetest dream in the world.'

As the author said, "It is natural for children to go to school, for adults to work, and for the streets and markets to be overflowing with people," I look forward to the day when we can naturally do the things that should have been done naturally every day.