10 seconds is forever
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Book Introduction
A classroom revolution so special that even ordinary children dream of it, as depicted by science fiction writer Hwang Mo-gwa!
Hwang Mo-gwa, who debuted with the 2019 Korea Science Literature Award short story grand prize winner “Moment Arcade,” and wrote the short story “Augmented Bean Pod” that was produced into MBC’s “Cinematic Drama SF8,” and the full-length novel “The World We Will Meet Again,” which remembers women who disappeared due to female-selective abortion, has published her new work “10 Seconds Forever” as part of Wisdom House’s short story series, Wipick.
In a boring and dull school, with a pretentious teacher and a classroom full of strange and suspicious friends, 'I' always fall asleep with my head down on my desk.
But one day, a new kid named 'Ryubi', who is just as quirky as 'I' and my friends, transfers to our school.
Ryubi, who has poor dynamic vision, cannot see moving objects or people, but can spot things that are still for more than 10 seconds.
A person like me who sleeps face down all day.
Hwang Mo-gwa, who debuted with the 2019 Korea Science Literature Award short story grand prize winner “Moment Arcade,” and wrote the short story “Augmented Bean Pod” that was produced into MBC’s “Cinematic Drama SF8,” and the full-length novel “The World We Will Meet Again,” which remembers women who disappeared due to female-selective abortion, has published her new work “10 Seconds Forever” as part of Wisdom House’s short story series, Wipick.
In a boring and dull school, with a pretentious teacher and a classroom full of strange and suspicious friends, 'I' always fall asleep with my head down on my desk.
But one day, a new kid named 'Ryubi', who is just as quirky as 'I' and my friends, transfers to our school.
Ryubi, who has poor dynamic vision, cannot see moving objects or people, but can spot things that are still for more than 10 seconds.
A person like me who sleeps face down all day.
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What did I do so wrong that I deserve to be in this prison? Of course, going outside of school isn't like being in prison.
So, I can't guarantee that he will change his ways after graduation.
I'm not the only crooked prisoner.
Teachers are also really pitiful.
I thought about the hypocritical teachers who act as model students instead of us.
Aren't they also acting as teachers?
--- pp.5~6
Ryu Bi can only see a world that has stopped moving.
In an empty space, Ryubi stops moving and waits quietly.
Then, people surrounded by silence appear one by one.
People quietly concentrating on a book, or resting, or unable to move their bodies vigorously pause for a moment and enter Ryubi's field of vision.
Liu Bei, who has always lived in an uninhabited world, welcomes someone at that moment.
As the world becomes quiet, Ryubi's world begins to bustle.
--- p.21
“But did you know that if you stare into someone’s eyes for 10 seconds, the chances of falling in love greatly increase.
So, if there is someone who wants to make their face look right in my eyes, and so they look into my eyes without moving, then they will fall in love with me.”
--- p.22
There wasn't a single moment when I wasn't nervous.
But the world always told me.
That's because I'm lazy.
No, I'm not. I just look like I'm lazy because of this! I've heard that no matter how much you yell at someone, they're still shameless.
The world has always insulted me with words that contradict cause and effect.
--- p.32
I breathed as slowly and deeply as possible.
His eyes also blinked slowly.
The noise in the classroom remained the same, but time seemed to have stopped.
He stood before Liu Bi as an object, as an old cat, as a stone that could not move.
Now I could ignore anyone who called me lazy.
I stopped.
It was the best 10 seconds I could do while I was awake and not asleep.
It was a ten seconds spent diligently and fiercely.
Ten seconds passed, almost like an eternity.
--- pp.36~37
Thinking about it that way, it seemed like a good thing that I sleep a lot.
Because I can stay in Ryubi's world for a long time.
I felt like I was hearing that the pace of someone like me living slowly could be useful to someone.
I used to think it was inevitable that I would get scolded for being sleepy, sluggish, and a bit slow at work, but now I even feel proud of it.
I wanted to grab the hand of someone else who was moving busily and tell them.
If you rush like that, you won't even exist in Ryubi's world.
So, I can't guarantee that he will change his ways after graduation.
I'm not the only crooked prisoner.
Teachers are also really pitiful.
I thought about the hypocritical teachers who act as model students instead of us.
Aren't they also acting as teachers?
--- pp.5~6
Ryu Bi can only see a world that has stopped moving.
In an empty space, Ryubi stops moving and waits quietly.
Then, people surrounded by silence appear one by one.
People quietly concentrating on a book, or resting, or unable to move their bodies vigorously pause for a moment and enter Ryubi's field of vision.
Liu Bei, who has always lived in an uninhabited world, welcomes someone at that moment.
As the world becomes quiet, Ryubi's world begins to bustle.
--- p.21
“But did you know that if you stare into someone’s eyes for 10 seconds, the chances of falling in love greatly increase.
So, if there is someone who wants to make their face look right in my eyes, and so they look into my eyes without moving, then they will fall in love with me.”
--- p.22
There wasn't a single moment when I wasn't nervous.
But the world always told me.
That's because I'm lazy.
No, I'm not. I just look like I'm lazy because of this! I've heard that no matter how much you yell at someone, they're still shameless.
The world has always insulted me with words that contradict cause and effect.
--- p.32
I breathed as slowly and deeply as possible.
His eyes also blinked slowly.
The noise in the classroom remained the same, but time seemed to have stopped.
He stood before Liu Bi as an object, as an old cat, as a stone that could not move.
Now I could ignore anyone who called me lazy.
I stopped.
It was the best 10 seconds I could do while I was awake and not asleep.
It was a ten seconds spent diligently and fiercely.
Ten seconds passed, almost like an eternity.
--- pp.36~37
Thinking about it that way, it seemed like a good thing that I sleep a lot.
Because I can stay in Ryubi's world for a long time.
I felt like I was hearing that the pace of someone like me living slowly could be useful to someone.
I used to think it was inevitable that I would get scolded for being sleepy, sluggish, and a bit slow at work, but now I even feel proud of it.
I wanted to grab the hand of someone else who was moving busily and tell them.
If you rush like that, you won't even exist in Ryubi's world.
--- p.47
Publisher's Review
It only takes 10 seconds to fall in love
A time that feels like eternity, a brief but perfect moment
A classroom revolution so special that even ordinary children dream of it!
Hwang Mo-gwa, who debuted with the 2019 Korea Science Literature Award short story grand prize winner “Moment Arcade,” and wrote the short story “Augmented Bean Pod” that was produced into MBC’s “Cinematic Drama SF8,” and the full-length novel “The World We Will Meet Again,” which remembers women who disappeared due to female-selective abortion, has published her new work “10 Seconds Forever” as part of Wisdom House’s short story series, Wipick.
In a boring and dull school, with a pretentious teacher and a classroom full of strange and suspicious friends, 'I' always fall asleep with my head down on my desk.
But one day, a new kid named 'Ryubi', who is just as quirky as 'I' and my friends, transfers to our school.
Ryubi, who has poor dynamic vision, cannot see moving objects or people, but can spot things that are still for more than 10 seconds.
A person like me who sleeps face down all day.
As the author said, he conceived his work while walking down a wrong path, Hwang Mo-gwa's novels always start from reality and take just one more step forward.
The boring classroom scene, which seems familiar, is filled with unique children.
These 'special' children, who speak too slowly or too quickly, scratch their backs with their filial hands, and sleep face down all day or never move, are a metaphor for the weak and helpless.
The fiercely competitive society that demands each person to survive is reborn as a classroom where everyone must desperately survive.
When the hospitality and solidarity of those who have ended a fight as long as '10 seconds that felt like an eternity' is depicted as a fantasy, the author returns to reality.
I suggest that we follow the children and create a miracle by giving our precious time to others.
This miracle is not accomplished by the efforts of one person alone.
It comes to us helplessly the moment we lock eyes and gaze into each other's eyes.
‘Miracle’ is rewritten as ‘love’ that we fall into again and again.
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, for a total of 50 story festivals 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 time that feels like eternity, a brief but perfect moment
A classroom revolution so special that even ordinary children dream of it!
Hwang Mo-gwa, who debuted with the 2019 Korea Science Literature Award short story grand prize winner “Moment Arcade,” and wrote the short story “Augmented Bean Pod” that was produced into MBC’s “Cinematic Drama SF8,” and the full-length novel “The World We Will Meet Again,” which remembers women who disappeared due to female-selective abortion, has published her new work “10 Seconds Forever” as part of Wisdom House’s short story series, Wipick.
In a boring and dull school, with a pretentious teacher and a classroom full of strange and suspicious friends, 'I' always fall asleep with my head down on my desk.
But one day, a new kid named 'Ryubi', who is just as quirky as 'I' and my friends, transfers to our school.
Ryubi, who has poor dynamic vision, cannot see moving objects or people, but can spot things that are still for more than 10 seconds.
A person like me who sleeps face down all day.
As the author said, he conceived his work while walking down a wrong path, Hwang Mo-gwa's novels always start from reality and take just one more step forward.
The boring classroom scene, which seems familiar, is filled with unique children.
These 'special' children, who speak too slowly or too quickly, scratch their backs with their filial hands, and sleep face down all day or never move, are a metaphor for the weak and helpless.
The fiercely competitive society that demands each person to survive is reborn as a classroom where everyone must desperately survive.
When the hospitality and solidarity of those who have ended a fight as long as '10 seconds that felt like an eternity' is depicted as a fantasy, the author returns to reality.
I suggest that we follow the children and create a miracle by giving our precious time to others.
This miracle is not accomplished by the efforts of one person alone.
It comes to us helplessly the moment we lock eyes and gaze into each other's eyes.
‘Miracle’ is rewritten as ‘love’ that we fall into again and again.
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, for a total of 50 story festivals 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: June 14, 2023
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 92 pages | 184g | 100*180*15mm
- ISBN13: 9791168127166
- ISBN10: 1168127165
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