● Every day is filled with exciting and fun adventures!

『Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble』 features six puppies of various colors, sizes, and personalities.
Every day, the six puppies visit their neighbors' houses to call out to their friends, run around the alley together, and roll around freely in the grass.
Sometimes I sneak out in the middle of the night and go on adventures.
Puppies who gather every day and have a noisy day.
It's an exciting life that makes me want to hang out and play with them.


If you go there, you'll be able to eat a lot of watermelon.
This will be fun, yahoo!

These days, with communication with neighbors decreasing and the outside world filled with dangerous environments, it's difficult for children to go out and play on their own.
But that doesn't mean you can just stay home and do nothing.
Join Donggu and his friends on a free-spirited and exciting adventure with A Midsummer Night's Trouble.
Your heart will be filled with joy.


A world where people and animals live together

"Dong-gu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble" is set in a rural setting.
We gather together to work, eat fresh food, rest, and have fun together.
Dogs are also let loose and have fun running around the neighborhood like children.
A warm and affectionate scene unfolds where people and people, and people and animals, live together in harmony.
What did author Kim Go-un want to say through this rural landscape?

“What did the grandmothers leave behind?”
“How much did my grandfathers leave behind?”

Puppies always think that their grandparents left them some snacks.
And that thought is soon confirmed by watermelon.
In "Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble," watermelon is not just a "tasty fruit" for the dogs.
It is a food that expresses gratitude to the people who work together, and it is also a consideration and love that is given to the dogs by leaving it behind.


In "Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble," people and dogs gather together to create stories.
When we are considerate of each other and work together, everyone shows a warm and affectionate appearance.
In an age where it is difficult to make friends or neighbors, we convey what is needed in a community through "Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Uproar."


● A strong and courageous mind that decides the name by which I call myself

In "Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble," there are country dogs who call themselves "shigorjabjong" rather than "mutt dogs."
In fact, the word Sigorjabjong is a word that has only recently come into use, with the widespread use of cell phones and social media.
It is not known exactly who started it and when, but it has come to be used to refer to healthy and pretty country dogs, breaking away from the distinction between mixed breed and pure breed, and to more refined the term 'mutt dog', which is used to disparage mixed breed dogs.

People call us 'shit dogs' even though we don't smell like shit.

But we decided to call ourselves 'Shigorjabjong'.


As young readers spend time with friends, they often get nicknames.
When you are called by a nickname you don't want, you feel upset and embarrassed.
In severe cases, self-esteem may drop and you may become discouraged.
"Donggu and Friends: A Midsummer Night's Trouble" shows readers the strong-willed and courageous country dogs.
Dong-gu and his friends only listen to the names that sound good to them from people and protect their own hearts.
I hope my young readers will learn to be brave and positive, like the country dogs who protect me.