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Book Introduction
“Looking back, I think I grew up in winter.”
The scenes of life we encounter when memories become seasons
Eight essays that confront the present me through the past winter.
The first book by Bookpol, an English adult publishing company that publishes books that both teenagers and adults can read and relate to, is "I Couldn't Say I Like You," an anthology essay that contains, as the subtitle suggests, "what happened during winter vacation."
The adolescence of eight writers who actively work and live in different fields, including a film director, human rights lawyer, novelist, brand marketer, bookseller, illustrator, and banker, unfolds in colorful colors, blending with the warm illustrations of illustrator Yang Yang.
The world defines a period of life under the broad category of 'adolescence,' but within it, we each create our own story.
Even though our daily lives flow regularly according to the daily schedule, what remains as unforgettable memories and records are the scenes that you and I secretly encountered through the gaps.
As time passes, we call them ‘memories’ and keep them as ‘our own (dark) history.’
The planning of this book began with the idea that, even if times and generations change, the texture of the time we have lived through will not differ much.
Just as not all adults live the same lives, the passage of time is no different, so I think we need a variety of examples from life rather than one perfect answer.
It was a season when I couldn't honestly confess my feelings and I felt lost because I wasn't sure about my dreams or tastes, but it was enough to love.
After so many winters, the girls and boys have grown up and now tell their untold stories here.
While reading these eight stories, which accurately reflect the past for some, the future for others, and the here and now for others, readers will feel a warmth that will make them forget the cold.
The warmth of this winter, just the right amount of warmth.
The scenes of life we encounter when memories become seasons
Eight essays that confront the present me through the past winter.
The first book by Bookpol, an English adult publishing company that publishes books that both teenagers and adults can read and relate to, is "I Couldn't Say I Like You," an anthology essay that contains, as the subtitle suggests, "what happened during winter vacation."
The adolescence of eight writers who actively work and live in different fields, including a film director, human rights lawyer, novelist, brand marketer, bookseller, illustrator, and banker, unfolds in colorful colors, blending with the warm illustrations of illustrator Yang Yang.
The world defines a period of life under the broad category of 'adolescence,' but within it, we each create our own story.
Even though our daily lives flow regularly according to the daily schedule, what remains as unforgettable memories and records are the scenes that you and I secretly encountered through the gaps.
As time passes, we call them ‘memories’ and keep them as ‘our own (dark) history.’
The planning of this book began with the idea that, even if times and generations change, the texture of the time we have lived through will not differ much.
Just as not all adults live the same lives, the passage of time is no different, so I think we need a variety of examples from life rather than one perfect answer.
It was a season when I couldn't honestly confess my feelings and I felt lost because I wasn't sure about my dreams or tastes, but it was enough to love.
After so many winters, the girls and boys have grown up and now tell their untold stories here.
While reading these eight stories, which accurately reflect the past for some, the future for others, and the here and now for others, readers will feel a warmth that will make them forget the cold.
The warmth of this winter, just the right amount of warmth.
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index
Yoon Dan-bi│Winter taken out of the pocket
Me at that time, nineteen, to Yoon Dan-bi
Kim Ye-won│A Secret Between Two People, Not Just Theirs
To the Miyoungs who passed by me and us at that time
Yoon Chi-gyu│Circle of Despair and Salvation
To me, Chigyu, who was fifteen at the time
Kim Sung-kwang│I couldn't say I liked him
To me, seventeen-year-old Seong-gwang at that time
Park Seo-ryeon│19 years
To me, Seo-ryeon of Cheorwon at that time
Bong Hyun│My Last Winter Vacation
To me at that time, Bong-Hyeon at the age of nineteen
Yoo Ji-hyun│The default is always fangirling
To me at that time, to Yoo Ji-hyun who wandered around Yeouido in the middle of winter
Kim Sang-min│A fortune teller named Bungeoppang
To me, ten-year-old Sangmin at that time
Artist's Note
Yangyang│About some photos we couldn't take
Me at that time, nineteen, to Yoon Dan-bi
Kim Ye-won│A Secret Between Two People, Not Just Theirs
To the Miyoungs who passed by me and us at that time
Yoon Chi-gyu│Circle of Despair and Salvation
To me, Chigyu, who was fifteen at the time
Kim Sung-kwang│I couldn't say I liked him
To me, seventeen-year-old Seong-gwang at that time
Park Seo-ryeon│19 years
To me, Seo-ryeon of Cheorwon at that time
Bong Hyun│My Last Winter Vacation
To me at that time, Bong-Hyeon at the age of nineteen
Yoo Ji-hyun│The default is always fangirling
To me at that time, to Yoo Ji-hyun who wandered around Yeouido in the middle of winter
Kim Sang-min│A fortune teller named Bungeoppang
To me, ten-year-old Sangmin at that time
Artist's Note
Yangyang│About some photos we couldn't take
Detailed image
Into the book
You suddenly want to go to Seoul?
My father told me, “You have no talent.”
To be exact, he said that he was not without talent, but that it was just the same level of talent that other people have, so it was “nothing special.”
I replied that my academy teacher told me I had talent, but my father said that was just a sales pitch.
My father never placed me anywhere.
Classified as a person who cannot write.
I felt like I was lucky if I could do as much as an ordinary person.
--- p.14~15, from Yun Dan-bi's "Winter Taken Out of the Pocket"
As the bus stopped at a traffic light, my eyes widened at the sight that came into view.
Familiar faces were seen under the newly opened 'Twinkle Twinkle Song Practice Room' sign.
A child of the same age who goes to the same academy was walking out of the basement stairs of the singing practice room, holding hands with Goguma Sam and laughing.
'He's the kind of kid who can smile like that.
But why is the sweet potato over there like that?' --- pp.39~41, from Kim Ye-won's "A Secret of Two People, Not Just for Two"
I was tired of the sun rising and setting.
When I was in middle school, I found each day so boring and the repetition of the same routine was painful.
Going to school was boring, and hanging out with friends at the PC room after school was just boring.
I thought that if yesterday was similar, today was similar, and similar days would repeat themselves countless times in the future, then it would be better if everything were to fall apart.
--- p.57, from Yun Chi-gyu's "Circle of Despair and Salvation"
Throughout my teenage years, winter was always a season I dreaded.
It was the time of year when I would soon be parting ways with the few friends who could share my tastes and would have to find new friends among new people.
Finding friends who understand me is always a challenge, so March was the hardest month of the year.
--- p.99, from Kim Seong-gwang's "I Couldn't Say I Like You"
The winter break for Cheorwon schools was usually around December 20th, but sometimes it was declared after Christmas.
At times like those, just before the start of the holidays, I felt like I was the busiest person in the world.
As soon as I put my school bag down at home, I had to go to church, and an hour or two later I had to go to piano academy, so I took my piano academy bag to church.
--- p.110, from Park Seo-ryeon's "19 Years"
Beautifully falling snow.
A warm winter song resonates inside the bus.
The sound of happy laughter from people.
In the meantime, at the age of nineteen, I cried for the first time, chewing over the bitterness of life.
The effort was so arduous and difficult.
The more desperate I was for something, the more I felt the pain of losing and giving up, and I cried.
--- p.146, from Bong-Hyeon's "My Last Winter Vacation"
Idols who practice and work hard for a 4-minute stage, and I, who stand in line in front of the broadcasting station for days, enduring the cold and hunger, to cheer them on.
The moment our hearts and minds connected toward something we loved, the butterfly effect occurred.
Rather than just chasing someone else's dream, I want to become someone who dreams of what I like, just like that person.
--- p.166, from Yoo Ji-hyeon's "The default is always fandom"
Puberty is the stage where choices begin to be made.
If our lives are a sum total of countless dots we've made since the past, then adolescence is the first moment when we make dots of our own free will, not someone else's.
We continue to make seemingly precarious choices based on immature intuition, unrefined beliefs, and insufficient experience.
Of course, it is the beginning of a dangerous but also great journey.
My father told me, “You have no talent.”
To be exact, he said that he was not without talent, but that it was just the same level of talent that other people have, so it was “nothing special.”
I replied that my academy teacher told me I had talent, but my father said that was just a sales pitch.
My father never placed me anywhere.
Classified as a person who cannot write.
I felt like I was lucky if I could do as much as an ordinary person.
--- p.14~15, from Yun Dan-bi's "Winter Taken Out of the Pocket"
As the bus stopped at a traffic light, my eyes widened at the sight that came into view.
Familiar faces were seen under the newly opened 'Twinkle Twinkle Song Practice Room' sign.
A child of the same age who goes to the same academy was walking out of the basement stairs of the singing practice room, holding hands with Goguma Sam and laughing.
'He's the kind of kid who can smile like that.
But why is the sweet potato over there like that?' --- pp.39~41, from Kim Ye-won's "A Secret of Two People, Not Just for Two"
I was tired of the sun rising and setting.
When I was in middle school, I found each day so boring and the repetition of the same routine was painful.
Going to school was boring, and hanging out with friends at the PC room after school was just boring.
I thought that if yesterday was similar, today was similar, and similar days would repeat themselves countless times in the future, then it would be better if everything were to fall apart.
--- p.57, from Yun Chi-gyu's "Circle of Despair and Salvation"
Throughout my teenage years, winter was always a season I dreaded.
It was the time of year when I would soon be parting ways with the few friends who could share my tastes and would have to find new friends among new people.
Finding friends who understand me is always a challenge, so March was the hardest month of the year.
--- p.99, from Kim Seong-gwang's "I Couldn't Say I Like You"
The winter break for Cheorwon schools was usually around December 20th, but sometimes it was declared after Christmas.
At times like those, just before the start of the holidays, I felt like I was the busiest person in the world.
As soon as I put my school bag down at home, I had to go to church, and an hour or two later I had to go to piano academy, so I took my piano academy bag to church.
--- p.110, from Park Seo-ryeon's "19 Years"
Beautifully falling snow.
A warm winter song resonates inside the bus.
The sound of happy laughter from people.
In the meantime, at the age of nineteen, I cried for the first time, chewing over the bitterness of life.
The effort was so arduous and difficult.
The more desperate I was for something, the more I felt the pain of losing and giving up, and I cried.
--- p.146, from Bong-Hyeon's "My Last Winter Vacation"
Idols who practice and work hard for a 4-minute stage, and I, who stand in line in front of the broadcasting station for days, enduring the cold and hunger, to cheer them on.
The moment our hearts and minds connected toward something we loved, the butterfly effect occurred.
Rather than just chasing someone else's dream, I want to become someone who dreams of what I like, just like that person.
--- p.166, from Yoo Ji-hyeon's "The default is always fandom"
Puberty is the stage where choices begin to be made.
If our lives are a sum total of countless dots we've made since the past, then adolescence is the first moment when we make dots of our own free will, not someone else's.
We continue to make seemingly precarious choices based on immature intuition, unrefined beliefs, and insufficient experience.
Of course, it is the beginning of a dangerous but also great journey.
--- p.186~187, from Kim Sang-min's "A Fortune Teller Called Bungeoppang"
Publisher's Review
A New Prism for Adult Narratives: Bookpol Publishing's "We Are Young" Series 01
Anthology Essays by Eight People, Eight Colors, Connecting Time
As the days get colder, we find ourselves reaching for warm and cozy things.
When you stay by his side, you tend to wish that time would pass slowly.
Putting his hands in and out of his pockets.
While touching both cheeks for no reason.
Thinking about sharing more tangerines.
The first book from Bookpol, an English adult publishing company that publishes books that both teenagers and adults can read and relate to, has been published, "I Couldn't Say I Like You."
This is also the first volume in the 'We are young' series, which collects life's sparkling moments through genres such as essays, illustrated comics, and graphic novels.
As the subtitle suggests, this book is an anthology of essays about 'what happened during winter vacation' during school days.
Eight writers from different fields, all connected to the world of books, gather together to share their stories of the winters they have experienced.
One of the big changes we face as adults is that we no longer have vacations that are given to everyone on a regular basis.
Unless you decide to quit something or take a break from what you've been doing, your daily life will be hectic.
The vacation life I experience at university is definitely different from the past.
So, just thinking about the two words 'vacation' might make your heart soften and suddenly bring back old memories.
There were times when it was a very cold and scary time before spring came, times when I quietly watched the snow fall late at night with friends, and days when it was like a hot festival where I could enjoy everything I liked.
How did the eight writers spend their cold winter vacation?
Yoon Dan-bi, director of “Summer Night of the Siblings,” Park Seo-ryeon, a novelist who has earned the thick trust of critics and readers, Kim Ye-won, a human rights lawyer who published “I Didn’t Know It Would Hurt,” etc., Yoo Ji-hyeon, who runs the children’s and young adult literature bookstore “Bookstore Puberty,” Bong Hyeon, an illustrator and author of four books, Kim Sang-min, author of “Anyway, Running” and a brand marketer, Kim Seong-gwang, a writer who publishes “I Have No Time, But I Want to Do Well,” a daily essay series in which he reads and writes consistently while living as a bookseller, and Yoon Chi-gyu, a new novelist who won two awards at the New Year’s Literary Contest and lives as a banker during the week and a novelist on the weekends.
The winter landscapes of eight artists of different ages, places of residence, tastes, and dreams, combined with the sensitive illustrations of painter Yang Yang, capture the warmth most appropriate for us now.
How did that girl and boy go through that time to become who we are today?
Laughing, crying, being lonely, and loving so much… …what happened during winter vacation
Director Danbi Yoon of the film “A Summer Night of Siblings” used to intuitively sense the change of seasons by looking at fruits.
My parents ran a fruit shop, and strawberries and tangerines in particular were so prone to spoiling and molding.
Unlike fruits, countless novels and movies have provided a breath of fresh air in my slow-moving daily life.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon Dan-bi makes a pledge in the midst of the gaze that thinks it is fortunate to have “just the share of an ordinary person” because it is “talent that other people have.”
He said that he would show that “the person who knows me best is me.”
A sense of emotion is conveyed by that quiet and strong confession.
Kim Ye-won, author and human rights lawyer who published "I Didn't Know It Would Hurt," explores "certain incidents" that still persist today, based on the story of a child who attended the same academy as her during middle school.
The story of a girl who begins to face the world's unsolved problems with a sharp gaze clearly digs into reality.
For writer Kim Ye-won, who never slackens in sharing courage with clear convictions, time always moves forward in a 'progressive' manner, without distinction between past, present, and future.
Yun Chi-gyu, a new novelist who won two awards at the New Year's Literary Contest and works as a banker during the week and a novelist on the weekends, looks back 20 years to his second year of middle school.
It was hip-hop music that saved fourteen-year-old Yoon Chi-gyu, who wished “everything would just fall apart.”
At that time, hip-hop was an unpopular genre, so the writer would rap alone and move his body to the beat.
At the recommendation of his music teacher, he participates in a school festival, but everything goes awry, and fourteen-year-old Yun Chi-gyu is sent to Gangneung, where his father lives, as if in exile during winter break.
It is the story of a boy who wanders in search of a ray of light in his boring, repetitive daily life.
Kim Seong-gwang, author of "I Don't Have Time, But I Want to Do It Well" and an online bookstore employee, writes in detail about "the joys and difficulties of sharing one's heart."
In a time when letters were the best way to communicate with those who were far away, author Kim Seong-gwang started writing pen pals for his friends thanks to his appealing handwriting, and then started a pen pal relationship with J, a high school girl of the same age from a neighboring school.
The author, who had been "almost always at odds with men's tastes" and "alone because of the things she liked," began exchanging letters with J and opened up her heart... ...! The winter vacation she had at the age of seventeen, which brought her a single, unwavering joy, is deeply poignant.
Park Seo-ryeon, author of novels such as “The Girl Who Worked at the Gym” and “The Shirley Club,” remembers all of her memories of her hometown, Cheorwon, as winter.
A village where most children went to the same school, the same academy, and the same church.
Every year during winter break, everyone would come together to prepare for Christmas.
Author Park Seo-ryeon, who desperately wanted to escape the suffocating, stifling place, said, "I suddenly but finally had to say goodbye to the long winter of 19 years," but she never fails to write, "I was born in Cheorwon" in the first sentence of her self-introduction.
What is the reason?
Today, let's walk with the author and listen to his story of 19 years in Cheorwon, where he spent long nights.
Bong-Hyeon, a freelance writer with eight years of experience, has been writing and drawing consistently, publishing four volumes of essays.
Recently, he has been communicating closely with his readers by publishing a mailing newsletter, “Reading Bong-Hyeon.”
Could even the diligent writer Bong Hyeon have ever experienced a slump? The author recalls the harshest winter of his life, when he was nineteen and a senior in high school.
The effort to expand the boundaries of life is not easy for anyone.
The author, too, has gone through countless efforts, frustrations, failures, and successes to move forward into a new world after a period of confidence.
And at the end, the writer dreams of the last winter vacation that 'maybe hasn't even started yet'.
For author Yoo Ji-hyun, who runs the children's and young adult literature bookstore 'Bookstore Puberty,' winter vacation can be summed up as a 'festival.'
The passion and energy that allowed the author to lively enjoy Yeouido without being swayed by the cold winter winds seems to come from the author's positivity toward life.
The writer developed a close and cozy bond with his fan club friends through their shared love for the same singer, and as he closely observed the efforts of his peers, he resolved to “become someone who dreams of what he likes, just like that person.”
The beginning of a bookstore “filled with things I like to share my love for” may have been planned early on.
Kim Sang-min, a brand marketer and author of “Anyway, Running,” decides to restore the past, which he believes is “the nourishment of personality and the root of taste.”
The place the writer arrives at after turning back time is the neighborhood where ten-year-old Kim Sang-min lived.
Kim Sang-min, a ten-year-old who started puberty earlier than his peers, enjoyed walking home alone after school.
At the end of an adventure filled with complete freedom and happiness, a "snack" awaits ten-year-old Kim Sang-min, who begins his "first conflict of his life" between bungeoppang (fish-shaped bread) and roasted sweet potatoes... ...! Today, too, the story of author Kim Sang-min, who quietly waits for someone while diligently kneading words in a tent, is as heartwarming as sweet red bean paste.
Winter break, summer break, palm time, lunch time, picnics and trips… …
The story of our time together will continue.
The link between ‘me then’ and ‘me in the future’ is like a round yarn that firmly supports ‘me today’.
Here, eight writers unravel the yarns of time they have each embraced and reach out to you.
Even if you are struggling with your current worries and concerns, don't be entangled in your tangled thoughts because a different landscape awaits you in a little while.
As you live, things will get better.
In winter, it's easy to fall and the wind is strong, so it's not good to rush.
Let's spend this season with that kind of heart, like a snow-covered field stepping on snowflakes.
Let's endure the cold together.
Because spring will come again soon.
The 'We are young' series plans to continuously publish anthology essays with themes such as 'Summer Vacation Stories', 'After Palm Tree Time', 'Lunchtime Stories', and 'Picnics and Travels', and aims to gradually collect life's sparkling moments through genres such as illustrated comics, essays, and graphic novels.
Anthology Essays by Eight People, Eight Colors, Connecting Time
As the days get colder, we find ourselves reaching for warm and cozy things.
When you stay by his side, you tend to wish that time would pass slowly.
Putting his hands in and out of his pockets.
While touching both cheeks for no reason.
Thinking about sharing more tangerines.
The first book from Bookpol, an English adult publishing company that publishes books that both teenagers and adults can read and relate to, has been published, "I Couldn't Say I Like You."
This is also the first volume in the 'We are young' series, which collects life's sparkling moments through genres such as essays, illustrated comics, and graphic novels.
As the subtitle suggests, this book is an anthology of essays about 'what happened during winter vacation' during school days.
Eight writers from different fields, all connected to the world of books, gather together to share their stories of the winters they have experienced.
One of the big changes we face as adults is that we no longer have vacations that are given to everyone on a regular basis.
Unless you decide to quit something or take a break from what you've been doing, your daily life will be hectic.
The vacation life I experience at university is definitely different from the past.
So, just thinking about the two words 'vacation' might make your heart soften and suddenly bring back old memories.
There were times when it was a very cold and scary time before spring came, times when I quietly watched the snow fall late at night with friends, and days when it was like a hot festival where I could enjoy everything I liked.
How did the eight writers spend their cold winter vacation?
Yoon Dan-bi, director of “Summer Night of the Siblings,” Park Seo-ryeon, a novelist who has earned the thick trust of critics and readers, Kim Ye-won, a human rights lawyer who published “I Didn’t Know It Would Hurt,” etc., Yoo Ji-hyeon, who runs the children’s and young adult literature bookstore “Bookstore Puberty,” Bong Hyeon, an illustrator and author of four books, Kim Sang-min, author of “Anyway, Running” and a brand marketer, Kim Seong-gwang, a writer who publishes “I Have No Time, But I Want to Do Well,” a daily essay series in which he reads and writes consistently while living as a bookseller, and Yoon Chi-gyu, a new novelist who won two awards at the New Year’s Literary Contest and lives as a banker during the week and a novelist on the weekends.
The winter landscapes of eight artists of different ages, places of residence, tastes, and dreams, combined with the sensitive illustrations of painter Yang Yang, capture the warmth most appropriate for us now.
How did that girl and boy go through that time to become who we are today?
Laughing, crying, being lonely, and loving so much… …what happened during winter vacation
Director Danbi Yoon of the film “A Summer Night of Siblings” used to intuitively sense the change of seasons by looking at fruits.
My parents ran a fruit shop, and strawberries and tangerines in particular were so prone to spoiling and molding.
Unlike fruits, countless novels and movies have provided a breath of fresh air in my slow-moving daily life.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon Dan-bi makes a pledge in the midst of the gaze that thinks it is fortunate to have “just the share of an ordinary person” because it is “talent that other people have.”
He said that he would show that “the person who knows me best is me.”
A sense of emotion is conveyed by that quiet and strong confession.
Kim Ye-won, author and human rights lawyer who published "I Didn't Know It Would Hurt," explores "certain incidents" that still persist today, based on the story of a child who attended the same academy as her during middle school.
The story of a girl who begins to face the world's unsolved problems with a sharp gaze clearly digs into reality.
For writer Kim Ye-won, who never slackens in sharing courage with clear convictions, time always moves forward in a 'progressive' manner, without distinction between past, present, and future.
Yun Chi-gyu, a new novelist who won two awards at the New Year's Literary Contest and works as a banker during the week and a novelist on the weekends, looks back 20 years to his second year of middle school.
It was hip-hop music that saved fourteen-year-old Yoon Chi-gyu, who wished “everything would just fall apart.”
At that time, hip-hop was an unpopular genre, so the writer would rap alone and move his body to the beat.
At the recommendation of his music teacher, he participates in a school festival, but everything goes awry, and fourteen-year-old Yun Chi-gyu is sent to Gangneung, where his father lives, as if in exile during winter break.
It is the story of a boy who wanders in search of a ray of light in his boring, repetitive daily life.
Kim Seong-gwang, author of "I Don't Have Time, But I Want to Do It Well" and an online bookstore employee, writes in detail about "the joys and difficulties of sharing one's heart."
In a time when letters were the best way to communicate with those who were far away, author Kim Seong-gwang started writing pen pals for his friends thanks to his appealing handwriting, and then started a pen pal relationship with J, a high school girl of the same age from a neighboring school.
The author, who had been "almost always at odds with men's tastes" and "alone because of the things she liked," began exchanging letters with J and opened up her heart... ...! The winter vacation she had at the age of seventeen, which brought her a single, unwavering joy, is deeply poignant.
Park Seo-ryeon, author of novels such as “The Girl Who Worked at the Gym” and “The Shirley Club,” remembers all of her memories of her hometown, Cheorwon, as winter.
A village where most children went to the same school, the same academy, and the same church.
Every year during winter break, everyone would come together to prepare for Christmas.
Author Park Seo-ryeon, who desperately wanted to escape the suffocating, stifling place, said, "I suddenly but finally had to say goodbye to the long winter of 19 years," but she never fails to write, "I was born in Cheorwon" in the first sentence of her self-introduction.
What is the reason?
Today, let's walk with the author and listen to his story of 19 years in Cheorwon, where he spent long nights.
Bong-Hyeon, a freelance writer with eight years of experience, has been writing and drawing consistently, publishing four volumes of essays.
Recently, he has been communicating closely with his readers by publishing a mailing newsletter, “Reading Bong-Hyeon.”
Could even the diligent writer Bong Hyeon have ever experienced a slump? The author recalls the harshest winter of his life, when he was nineteen and a senior in high school.
The effort to expand the boundaries of life is not easy for anyone.
The author, too, has gone through countless efforts, frustrations, failures, and successes to move forward into a new world after a period of confidence.
And at the end, the writer dreams of the last winter vacation that 'maybe hasn't even started yet'.
For author Yoo Ji-hyun, who runs the children's and young adult literature bookstore 'Bookstore Puberty,' winter vacation can be summed up as a 'festival.'
The passion and energy that allowed the author to lively enjoy Yeouido without being swayed by the cold winter winds seems to come from the author's positivity toward life.
The writer developed a close and cozy bond with his fan club friends through their shared love for the same singer, and as he closely observed the efforts of his peers, he resolved to “become someone who dreams of what he likes, just like that person.”
The beginning of a bookstore “filled with things I like to share my love for” may have been planned early on.
Kim Sang-min, a brand marketer and author of “Anyway, Running,” decides to restore the past, which he believes is “the nourishment of personality and the root of taste.”
The place the writer arrives at after turning back time is the neighborhood where ten-year-old Kim Sang-min lived.
Kim Sang-min, a ten-year-old who started puberty earlier than his peers, enjoyed walking home alone after school.
At the end of an adventure filled with complete freedom and happiness, a "snack" awaits ten-year-old Kim Sang-min, who begins his "first conflict of his life" between bungeoppang (fish-shaped bread) and roasted sweet potatoes... ...! Today, too, the story of author Kim Sang-min, who quietly waits for someone while diligently kneading words in a tent, is as heartwarming as sweet red bean paste.
Winter break, summer break, palm time, lunch time, picnics and trips… …
The story of our time together will continue.
The link between ‘me then’ and ‘me in the future’ is like a round yarn that firmly supports ‘me today’.
Here, eight writers unravel the yarns of time they have each embraced and reach out to you.
Even if you are struggling with your current worries and concerns, don't be entangled in your tangled thoughts because a different landscape awaits you in a little while.
As you live, things will get better.
In winter, it's easy to fall and the wind is strong, so it's not good to rush.
Let's spend this season with that kind of heart, like a snow-covered field stepping on snowflakes.
Let's endure the cold together.
Because spring will come again soon.
The 'We are young' series plans to continuously publish anthology essays with themes such as 'Summer Vacation Stories', 'After Palm Tree Time', 'Lunchtime Stories', and 'Picnics and Travels', and aims to gradually collect life's sparkling moments through genres such as illustrated comics, essays, and graphic novels.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: December 1, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 196 pages | 250g | 135*195*12mm
- ISBN13: 9791197626708
- ISBN10: 1197626700
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