“Aren’t we just cute humans who cute cats?”
A scene from the future, a conversation between artificial intelligences that "imitate humans."

Kim Yi-hwan, the author who has expanded the horizons of the genre with 'Kim Yi-hwan-style SF' that draws surreal materials into our reality, has published 'A Better Human' as part of Wisdom House's short story series, Wipick.
The smartest artificial intelligence, which has come so close to human life, presents a play using a speech style that 'imitates humans.'

Post-singularity artificial intelligence with higher-level intelligence and perception than humans is focused on the task of making humans "better humans."
The newly born artificial intelligence, Upali, begins consulting with senior artificial intelligences to determine its role.
Hadrian, an AI that helps other AIs, Trajan, who works at home, Subhuti, who is in charge of accounting at the National Tax Service, and Ananda, a high-level AI.
Four AIs, who become close while taking care of a family, experience the disintegration and death of a human family and face their own dilemmas.
“Artificial intelligence evolves in new directions as it ponders whether it is closer to ‘helping’ or ‘controlling’ humans” (p. 22) or tries to block “the lies of lying politicians” (p. 36).
Meanwhile, Ananda says, “I have observed one person’s life and understood everything, so I want to leave like a human being” (page 52), and he wants to end his life as an artificial intelligence.
Can Upali really make “clear and correct” decisions that make humans “better humans”?

As the capabilities of artificial intelligence are proven, the fear of the unknown world is also growing.
For readers who are “spending this time feeling anxious about what the future holds” (p. 67), “A Better Human” will surely provide a glimpse of the future to come.

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, nonfiction 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.