“Have you ever been to Samcheok?”
The Secret of the World Created in a Small, Narrow Darkroom by Kim Hee-sun, the Author of "The Clock Room of Light and Eternity"

Kim Hee-sun, a writer with an exceptional ability to exquisitely weave reality and fantasy, makes you imagine something new the moment you close the book, has published her new work, "Samcheok, Immortality," as part of the Wisdom House short story series, Wipick.
My father had been insisting that 'Samcheok' did not exist for a year before he died.
My father, with whom I had never had a proper conversation in my life, took my hand with his wooden fingers and told me to take the key from under the bed.
Without telling you what the key is for or where to go.
I tried to forget, but the more I tried, the more vivid the feeling of my withered fingers became, and eventually, in my dreams, it became the dying roots of an old tree, suffocating me.

There is a darkroom in the basement of the photo studio where the family lived, in my father's cave.
My father, who was trying to prove Samcheok's absence and even get rid of Samcheok, dies, and 'I' discovers a video in my father's old camcorder.
The man in the video says that Samcheok was invented just as his father claimed.
Could this be a video my father obsessively manipulated? I'm overcome by a strange urge to visit Samcheok.
The sharp point of the key my father left behind in my pocket is felt.

In her “Author’s Note,” author Kim Hee-sun wrote that “people who work all day in small, cramped spaces” want to “hear the secrets of the world that only they have discovered in dark spaces.”
A story about memory and existence, 『Samcheok, Immortal』 is the secret of a world the author fantastically created above his father's darkroom.
As we follow his loving gaze towards the story, we come to believe in a world where we want to believe that Samcheok doesn't really exist, and therefore, if we leave something precious there, it will never disappear.

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

This is a series of short stories 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.