Gomtang 2 (100,000 copies sold commemorative edition)
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A hot topic bestseller that readers are crazy about
100,000 copies sold commemorative edition published!
Recommended by Kang Full, Lee Jun-ik, and Jang Kang-myeong
The journey to the time you most want to return to has begun!
The first full-length novel by director Kim Young-tak, the author of the films "Hello Ghost" and "Slow Video."
To celebrate the sale of 100,000 copies of director Kim Young-tak's first full-length novel, "Gomtang," which opened a new horizon for Korean science fiction literature, Arte is releasing a special edition.
Director Kim Young-tak won the Best New Director Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2011 for the film “Hello Ghost,” and was nominated for the Best Screenplay and Best New Director awards at the Grand Bell Awards and the Best New Director award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, demonstrating his outstanding talents in both screenwriting and directing from his debut work.
He is also a true storyteller who has received much love up to his second work, "Slow Video," and has proven his outstanding imagination that unfolds in familiar daily life and his innate narrative ability that makes it impossible to put down once you start watching.
Director Kim Young-tak's writing of his first full-length novel, "Gomtang," which was "a comma-like forty days given to myself in the year I turned forty," cannot but be a fateful event.
This work, which began serialization on Kakao Page, became a hot topic that garnered 500,000 readers, and the book version published by Arte in 2018 became a bestseller with its original concept that crosses genres, mystery filled with a warm longing, and dense structure that is easy to read, and has been loved by 100,000 readers to date.
The 『Gomtang 100,000 Copies Sales Commemorative Edition』 is published simultaneously with the new work 『Youngsu and 0su』, which is being released after 7 years, and has been reborn with a sensational design through the illustrations of artist Kwon Seo-young, who expresses the narrative that crosses the past and future with science fiction imagination and colorful colors.
『Gomtang』, which received rave reviews from readers as "a mysterious and powerful novel that you can't put down once you pick it up," has become a truly authentic work boasting an even deeper flavor after seven years, just like gomtang that needs to be simmered for a long time over low heat to bring out its true flavor.
"Gomtang," a time-slip SF mystery that combines the thrilling suspense of a time-slip SF mystery with a yearning for family, delivers a heartwarming experience. Now is the time to savor it the most.
100,000 copies sold commemorative edition published!
Recommended by Kang Full, Lee Jun-ik, and Jang Kang-myeong
The journey to the time you most want to return to has begun!
The first full-length novel by director Kim Young-tak, the author of the films "Hello Ghost" and "Slow Video."
To celebrate the sale of 100,000 copies of director Kim Young-tak's first full-length novel, "Gomtang," which opened a new horizon for Korean science fiction literature, Arte is releasing a special edition.
Director Kim Young-tak won the Best New Director Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2011 for the film “Hello Ghost,” and was nominated for the Best Screenplay and Best New Director awards at the Grand Bell Awards and the Best New Director award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, demonstrating his outstanding talents in both screenwriting and directing from his debut work.
He is also a true storyteller who has received much love up to his second work, "Slow Video," and has proven his outstanding imagination that unfolds in familiar daily life and his innate narrative ability that makes it impossible to put down once you start watching.
Director Kim Young-tak's writing of his first full-length novel, "Gomtang," which was "a comma-like forty days given to myself in the year I turned forty," cannot but be a fateful event.
This work, which began serialization on Kakao Page, became a hot topic that garnered 500,000 readers, and the book version published by Arte in 2018 became a bestseller with its original concept that crosses genres, mystery filled with a warm longing, and dense structure that is easy to read, and has been loved by 100,000 readers to date.
The 『Gomtang 100,000 Copies Sales Commemorative Edition』 is published simultaneously with the new work 『Youngsu and 0su』, which is being released after 7 years, and has been reborn with a sensational design through the illustrations of artist Kwon Seo-young, who expresses the narrative that crosses the past and future with science fiction imagination and colorful colors.
『Gomtang』, which received rave reviews from readers as "a mysterious and powerful novel that you can't put down once you pick it up," has become a truly authentic work boasting an even deeper flavor after seven years, just like gomtang that needs to be simmered for a long time over low heat to bring out its true flavor.
"Gomtang," a time-slip SF mystery that combines the thrilling suspense of a time-slip SF mystery with a yearning for family, delivers a heartwarming experience. Now is the time to savor it the most.
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I lived in an orphanage for 18 years and in a kitchen for 26 years.
When everyone was trying to be happy, Woo-Hwan never had such greed.
All humans pursue their own happiness.
Everyone is like that.
Some people covet the happiness of others for their own happiness.
It's a difference in degree.
Everyone is like that.
You must be resolutely happy.
Even for their sacrifices, Woo-Hwan had to be happy.
--- p.19
“Why did you do that to your hand? You did it to get rid of your fingerprints.
You got facial surgery from a goblin too, right? You're not Park Jong-dae.
The Park Jong-dae on your ID isn't you. You were late because you were destroying your fingerprints because they'd all be discovered if you ran your fingerprints! Why are you suddenly writing a novel?
Who are you?
--- p.57
“I will live hard.
Shouldn't I work hard? If I, if I really work hard, then, then it won't work, right? It still won't work, right? Brother, no, even if I work hard, no matter how hard I work, then, it still won't work, right? Brother, no, ha, grandpa... ... I was wrong.
I was wrong.
I will really live hard.
I will really live here, really hard, really hard.
“Then, can’t we do that?”
--- p.237
There is no hope for the future.
In the future, only a small number of people will enjoy wealth.
For the vast majority, life is insignificant.
The only thing that costs money is your life.
People come here risking their lives, shouldn't they be happier here?
“Shouldn’t there be a country for people who have to risk their lives to survive?”
When everyone was trying to be happy, Woo-Hwan never had such greed.
All humans pursue their own happiness.
Everyone is like that.
Some people covet the happiness of others for their own happiness.
It's a difference in degree.
Everyone is like that.
You must be resolutely happy.
Even for their sacrifices, Woo-Hwan had to be happy.
--- p.19
“Why did you do that to your hand? You did it to get rid of your fingerprints.
You got facial surgery from a goblin too, right? You're not Park Jong-dae.
The Park Jong-dae on your ID isn't you. You were late because you were destroying your fingerprints because they'd all be discovered if you ran your fingerprints! Why are you suddenly writing a novel?
Who are you?
--- p.57
“I will live hard.
Shouldn't I work hard? If I, if I really work hard, then, then it won't work, right? It still won't work, right? Brother, no, even if I work hard, no matter how hard I work, then, it still won't work, right? Brother, no, ha, grandpa... ... I was wrong.
I was wrong.
I will really live hard.
I will really live here, really hard, really hard.
“Then, can’t we do that?”
--- p.237
There is no hope for the future.
In the future, only a small number of people will enjoy wealth.
For the vast majority, life is insignificant.
The only thing that costs money is your life.
People come here risking their lives, shouldn't they be happier here?
“Shouldn’t there be a country for people who have to risk their lives to survive?”
--- p.263
Publisher's Review
The Killer from the Future
─ Hey! You're talking about time travel. No one has ever gone there and come back.
2065, a not-so-distant future.
What will the world be like then, and how will families change? Perhaps those dear to us are no longer with us, and the void has long since subsided, to the point where even their faces can no longer be clearly recalled.
How would I feel if my future self, longing for the past, risked his life to travel back in time and ended up here now?
"Gomtang" begins with Woo-hwan, who was abandoned by his parents and grew up in an orphanage for 18 years and lived in a kitchen for 26 years, arriving in Busan in 2019 through time travel.
Instead of returning to Busan, a dystopian city where everything has turned gray, he returns to Busan, a city where all life is vibrant and alive, and meets his young and reckless parents, who he assumes are his family.
Woo-Hwan came to a world devastated by a tsunami to learn how to make real gomtang, not fake gomtang made with artificially processed meat instead of pigs that went extinct due to foot-and-mouth disease.
In the Busan of the past, there were real troubles, delinquent high school girls riding around in a poncho, and above all, there was a world that had not yet fallen into ruin.
But there's also an unidentified killer, a dangerous laser gun, and detectives doggedly pursuing him.
The night twelve people disappeared
─ We need to find the one survivor.
I have to kill him so I can go back!
Woo-hwan, who is not so afraid of death, risks his life by going on a time travel and finds himself in a dilemma.
The unfamiliar Busan of the past is awkward, but the familiar Busan of the future is a world that is always unhappy no matter how hard you try.
What kind of life will Woo-Hwan, who stands at a critical crossroads that could change his life, choose?
A thrilling tale of murder and time travel intertwines with the drama of the human mind in this astonishing novel, "Gomtang." The moment you open this book, you will embark on a journey to the time you most long to return to.
I think a writer's job is to constantly seek understanding, even when they know they will be misunderstood.
Nevertheless, I encountered many moments of understanding through 『Gomtang』.
It's all thanks to you all.
_From the preface to the 100,000-copy commemorative edition
─ Hey! You're talking about time travel. No one has ever gone there and come back.
2065, a not-so-distant future.
What will the world be like then, and how will families change? Perhaps those dear to us are no longer with us, and the void has long since subsided, to the point where even their faces can no longer be clearly recalled.
How would I feel if my future self, longing for the past, risked his life to travel back in time and ended up here now?
"Gomtang" begins with Woo-hwan, who was abandoned by his parents and grew up in an orphanage for 18 years and lived in a kitchen for 26 years, arriving in Busan in 2019 through time travel.
Instead of returning to Busan, a dystopian city where everything has turned gray, he returns to Busan, a city where all life is vibrant and alive, and meets his young and reckless parents, who he assumes are his family.
Woo-Hwan came to a world devastated by a tsunami to learn how to make real gomtang, not fake gomtang made with artificially processed meat instead of pigs that went extinct due to foot-and-mouth disease.
In the Busan of the past, there were real troubles, delinquent high school girls riding around in a poncho, and above all, there was a world that had not yet fallen into ruin.
But there's also an unidentified killer, a dangerous laser gun, and detectives doggedly pursuing him.
The night twelve people disappeared
─ We need to find the one survivor.
I have to kill him so I can go back!
Woo-hwan, who is not so afraid of death, risks his life by going on a time travel and finds himself in a dilemma.
The unfamiliar Busan of the past is awkward, but the familiar Busan of the future is a world that is always unhappy no matter how hard you try.
What kind of life will Woo-Hwan, who stands at a critical crossroads that could change his life, choose?
A thrilling tale of murder and time travel intertwines with the drama of the human mind in this astonishing novel, "Gomtang." The moment you open this book, you will embark on a journey to the time you most long to return to.
I think a writer's job is to constantly seek understanding, even when they know they will be misunderstood.
Nevertheless, I encountered many moments of understanding through 『Gomtang』.
It's all thanks to you all.
_From the preface to the 100,000-copy commemorative edition
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: September 17, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 336 pages | 128*188*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791173575044
- ISBN10: 1173575049
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