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One picture book is more effective than a hundred nagging questions about spacing!
Most children who begin learning Korean are eager to write out words one by one.
For children who have just started learning Korean, they may wonder why spacing is necessary.
Even adults often make mistakes with spacing, so how much more difficult must it be for children? "Why Space?" is a book that teaches the importance of spacing through amusing anecdotes that arise from not spacing correctly.
You can clearly see how different the meaning of our language can be with just a single space between words, and how the other person feels when you use incorrect spacing.
Even if there is no grammatical explanation that particles are written together and words are spaced, you can naturally learn where to space in a sentence.
This book was first published in 2012, and a revised edition was published by Gilbut Children's Books in 2016 to match the latest spacing grammar.

Have you ever explained why it has to be spaced?
Don't you notice the odd spacing in the neighborhood signs at the beginning of the story? It's exactly like the protagonist's confusion about what spacing is and why it's necessary.
We teach children learning Korean to space their words, but we don't really explain why they should do it.
Korean grammar originally requires spacing, so if you just tell children to space words, they will have doubts.
I don't think there's a problem with pasting them.


① Mom goes into the bag.
② Mom enters the room

Sentence ② is much easier to understand than ①, isn't it? Sentence ①, without spaces, is difficult to grasp at first glance and can be interpreted in multiple ways, potentially creating communication problems.
So, please explain that it should be written with appropriate spacing like ②.
The most important thing is that if you make a mistake with spacing, the meaning of what you were trying to convey will completely change.
"Why do we have to space out words?" shows the absurd situation in which a child's words change due to incorrect spacing, and shows why spacing is important.

I've never seen such a funny picture book before!
The main character gets scolded by his teacher and parents because of spacing.
It's hard enough to write each letter properly, but to have to space it out too is no easy task.
I started writing in my notebook, thinking that it would be nice if spacing disappeared.
'It goes into Mom's bag,' he said, a little strangely.
No, but in an instant, Mom just disappeared into the bag.
What's going on? This time, when I wrote, "Dad, eat leather," my dad started eating strange foods.
Pizza made of leather, leather bag steak, and even a salad made of shoes.
My dad said, munching on spaghetti shaped like a belt.
“I heard you! Bali, don’t be so stupid!” The main character burst out laughing because it was so funny.
What will become of Mom and Dad, who have to climb into bags and force themselves to eat leather? I'll go to school tomorrow and write about my teacher, too.
Since its publication in 2012, this book has received praise from numerous readers, calling it a "fun book that will make you laugh out loud."
As children laugh happily and correct spacing mistakes following the main character, they will be able to realize the importance of spacing on their own.