“When someone succeeds, someone else must fail.”
Kim Dong-sik, "Gray Man," presses the button of human's dark desires!

Kim Dong-sik, who has been creating short ghost stories on online community horror bulletin boards since 2016, and has established a new genre of "ultra-short ghost stories" with works such as "Gray Man," "The Weakest Monster in the World," and "Kim Nam-woo on the 13th" in 2017, has published his new work, "100 Buttons," as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.


A demon who suddenly appears in the human world creates and sells a '100-person button' that, when pressed by 100 people, causes one of them to succeed and two to perish.
Those who were skeptical about this questionable button soon witnessed both unimaginable success and unexpected ruin.
The world where anyone can get a '100-person button' for just 10,000 won is gradually turning into hell.
People who are willing to trample on others for the sake of success and those who know how to shed tears for the unfortunate.
Either way, you can't avoid the '100 people button' right in front of you.
There is only one choice.
If I don't press the button, I die.

Storyteller Kim Dong-sik, who has built a fan base in online communities with short but powerful and flawless narratives, takes readers through scenes of misfortune, despair, greed, and fear brought about by "The Hundred Buttons."
Unrestrained imagination creates unpredictable developments, seemingly testing the limits of how far humans can fall.
But where the sand has been cleared away to the point where the flag is precariously torn, a solid cornerstone of hope and solidarity remains, a pillar that traverses Kim Dong-sik's world.
There is no room for the devil in Kim Dong-sik's world, where he hopes not to be carelessly overcome by misfortune or succumb to greed, and where he frequently looks back to see if there are people he has let slip away.

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'.
Starting with author Koo Byeong-mo's "Shred," 50 stories are scheduled to meet readers over the course of a year.
The Wepick series publishes novels that have finished serialization in this way sequentially.
Starting with the first five stories on March 8th, four stories will be published every second Wednesday of the month, bringing the festival of 50 stories to a 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 supplement called '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

WEFIC 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.