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Book Introduction
"A once-in-a-lifetime special! Emergency! Event! Want to refresh your life?"
Kim Hyo-in, the writer whose debut work, "Astronaut Joan," won the Safe House Story Contest and was later adapted into the MBC cinematic drama SF8, has now published "Refresh" as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.
The protagonist, Lee Tae-yi, was born on a dock where illegal activities are rampant, and his parents did not even register his birth, so he barely makes ends meet. One day, a refresh button appears before his eyes.
Itae-i, who thinks that there is nothing worse than this life where she is being chased by human traffickers because she cannot pay off her father's debts that abandoned her, decides to press the button.
Meanwhile, at the same time that Lee Tae-yi pressed the button, there were people in different places who were tempted by the 'refresh' button.
The three 'worst lives' of people who pressed the button at the same time are mixed up.
Kim Hyo-in, the writer whose debut work, "Astronaut Joan," won the Safe House Story Contest and was later adapted into the MBC cinematic drama SF8, has now published "Refresh" as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.
The protagonist, Lee Tae-yi, was born on a dock where illegal activities are rampant, and his parents did not even register his birth, so he barely makes ends meet. One day, a refresh button appears before his eyes.
Itae-i, who thinks that there is nothing worse than this life where she is being chased by human traffickers because she cannot pay off her father's debts that abandoned her, decides to press the button.
Meanwhile, at the same time that Lee Tae-yi pressed the button, there were people in different places who were tempted by the 'refresh' button.
The three 'worst lives' of people who pressed the button at the same time are mixed up.
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Preview
Into the book
Leaflets often use exclamation marks after each letter.
'Special! Urgent! Sale! In!' 'Oh! Always! Only!' Like this.
Itaewon's favorite thing was the star.
An asterisk is placed above important content.
--- p.7
Itaewon just turned twenty.
I thought that in a few years, I would be able to pay off my father's debt, and then I would be able to leave this city, establish myself, and live together like the people on TV, smiling and even saying the word "happiness."
But for humans who were born with the wrong answer, perhaps the end was decided from the beginning.
--- p.12~13
If it was a sin that changed his life, Itaewon was paying the price.
Still, wouldn't there be a way to save this person in his position? Shouldn't we do something about it?
But the opinions on the songs coming out of the market were different.
'Forget everything and start anew.' 'Leave.
The you of yesterday was just someone who had nothing to do with you.'
--- p.27
“But why did you help me earlier? How could you trust me?”
Eunhee Yoo thought for a moment to Lee Tae-yi's question and then answered.
"well.
“Just, just wanted to help?”
I guess I could just, just do it.
Until he finished eating and left Eunhee Yoo's house, Lee Tae-yi repeated those words to himself.
Not because I had to, or because someone told me to, but because I just wanted to.
--- p.35~36
I thought that if I were given just one day, I would want to cook.
The only way I could treat myself was by cooking.
Eating a meal in the kitchen of the house that my own hands had touched and meeting my husband properly.
That was enough.
'Special! Urgent! Sale! In!' 'Oh! Always! Only!' Like this.
Itaewon's favorite thing was the star.
An asterisk is placed above important content.
--- p.7
Itaewon just turned twenty.
I thought that in a few years, I would be able to pay off my father's debt, and then I would be able to leave this city, establish myself, and live together like the people on TV, smiling and even saying the word "happiness."
But for humans who were born with the wrong answer, perhaps the end was decided from the beginning.
--- p.12~13
If it was a sin that changed his life, Itaewon was paying the price.
Still, wouldn't there be a way to save this person in his position? Shouldn't we do something about it?
But the opinions on the songs coming out of the market were different.
'Forget everything and start anew.' 'Leave.
The you of yesterday was just someone who had nothing to do with you.'
--- p.27
“But why did you help me earlier? How could you trust me?”
Eunhee Yoo thought for a moment to Lee Tae-yi's question and then answered.
"well.
“Just, just wanted to help?”
I guess I could just, just do it.
Until he finished eating and left Eunhee Yoo's house, Lee Tae-yi repeated those words to himself.
Not because I had to, or because someone told me to, but because I just wanted to.
--- p.35~36
I thought that if I were given just one day, I would want to cook.
The only way I could treat myself was by cooking.
Eating a meal in the kitchen of the house that my own hands had touched and meeting my husband properly.
That was enough.
--- p.41
Publisher's Review
"A once-in-a-lifetime special! Emergency! Event! Want to refresh your life?"
A single night of refreshing, rushing across the gloomy, gray docks to the new beginning!
Kim Hyo-in, the writer whose debut work, "Astronaut Joan," won the Safe House Story Contest and was later produced into the MBC cinematic drama SF8, has garnered much attention with her novel "Refresh," which has been published as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.
What if one day a button appeared that allowed you to "refresh" your life? If you pressed it, you would assume someone else's body and life.
You never know whose life you'll end up living, and you could end up with a worse life than your current one.
The protagonist, Lee Tae-yi, was born on a dock where illegal activities are rampant, and his parents did not even register his birth, so he barely makes ends meet. One day, a refresh button appears before his eyes.
"Perhaps this is the 'special, once-in-a-lifetime event!' Isn't this what they call a 'big chance?'" (p. 14) Itaewon, who believes there's nothing worse than this life, where she's being chased by human traffickers, unable to pay off her father's debt after abandoning her, decides to press the button.
Meanwhile, at the same time that Lee Tae-yi pressed the button, there were people in different places who were tempted by the 'refresh' button.
Eun-hee Yoo, who is lying in a vegetative state in the hospital, and Jin-no Pyo, a corrupt detective who turns a blind eye to all the illegal activities of the docks in return for bribes.
The three 'worst lives' of people who pressed the button at the same time are mixed up.
Lee Tae-yi, who enters the body of a strange man, becomes a murder suspect overnight, and Yoo Eun-hee regains consciousness in the body of her husband, Pyo Jin-no.
Lee Tae-yi and Yoo Eun-hee, who meet by chance, have a warm meal together and go on to 'refresh' each other.
Itaewon, who had never had a goal before but finally found “something I just wanted to do now” (page 36), runs to the end of the pier.
“If this life were given only one day” (page 58), Eun-hee Yoo, who had a wish she absolutely wanted to fulfill, waits for someone at home.
Where did the real Pyo Jin-no go? Will the future of Lee Tae-yi and Yoo Eun-hee, who have lived the worst lives, unfold with a once-in-a-lifetime, special, happy ending?
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'.
Beginning with author Koo Byeong-mo's "Shred," 50 stories will be released to readers over the course of a year.
The Wepick series publishes novels that have finished serialization in this way sequentially.
The first five stories will be released on March 8th, and four stories will be published every second Wednesday of the month thereafter, creating a festival of 50 stories throughout the 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 supplementary poster titled '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
Wepick 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.
A single night of refreshing, rushing across the gloomy, gray docks to the new beginning!
Kim Hyo-in, the writer whose debut work, "Astronaut Joan," won the Safe House Story Contest and was later produced into the MBC cinematic drama SF8, has garnered much attention with her novel "Refresh," which has been published as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.
What if one day a button appeared that allowed you to "refresh" your life? If you pressed it, you would assume someone else's body and life.
You never know whose life you'll end up living, and you could end up with a worse life than your current one.
The protagonist, Lee Tae-yi, was born on a dock where illegal activities are rampant, and his parents did not even register his birth, so he barely makes ends meet. One day, a refresh button appears before his eyes.
"Perhaps this is the 'special, once-in-a-lifetime event!' Isn't this what they call a 'big chance?'" (p. 14) Itaewon, who believes there's nothing worse than this life, where she's being chased by human traffickers, unable to pay off her father's debt after abandoning her, decides to press the button.
Meanwhile, at the same time that Lee Tae-yi pressed the button, there were people in different places who were tempted by the 'refresh' button.
Eun-hee Yoo, who is lying in a vegetative state in the hospital, and Jin-no Pyo, a corrupt detective who turns a blind eye to all the illegal activities of the docks in return for bribes.
The three 'worst lives' of people who pressed the button at the same time are mixed up.
Lee Tae-yi, who enters the body of a strange man, becomes a murder suspect overnight, and Yoo Eun-hee regains consciousness in the body of her husband, Pyo Jin-no.
Lee Tae-yi and Yoo Eun-hee, who meet by chance, have a warm meal together and go on to 'refresh' each other.
Itaewon, who had never had a goal before but finally found “something I just wanted to do now” (page 36), runs to the end of the pier.
“If this life were given only one day” (page 58), Eun-hee Yoo, who had a wish she absolutely wanted to fulfill, waits for someone at home.
Where did the real Pyo Jin-no go? Will the future of Lee Tae-yi and Yoo Eun-hee, who have lived the worst lives, unfold with a once-in-a-lifetime, special, happy ending?
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'.
Beginning with author Koo Byeong-mo's "Shred," 50 stories will be released to readers over the course of a year.
The Wepick series publishes novels that have finished serialization in this way sequentially.
The first five stories will be released on March 8th, and four stories will be published every second Wednesday of the month thereafter, creating a festival of 50 stories throughout the 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 supplementary poster titled '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
Wepick 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.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: January 10, 2024
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 92 pages | 168g | 100*180*13mm
- ISBN13: 9791168127449
- ISBN10: 1168127440
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