Taewoong turned into a bear
Pigeon Girl Sehee
Yuja Pigeon Jihoon
Classroom of Half-Human, Half-Beast
Is it a bear or a person?
Bear and Hyena
Seo Woo, the short giraffe
Stray dogs and street children
Mysterious Animal, Ratel
Ratel, wild dog, and hyena

Epilogue_Taewoong's Bear Diary

The child who is an athlete becomes a racehorse,
The top student in the entire school turned into a lion.
How did I become a bear?

After winning the Changbi Youth Literature Award for “My Name is Mango,” author Chu Jeong-gyeong, who has pioneered uncharted territory in youth literature with works such as “Bunker” and “The Strange Money of a Dead Economist and Three Young Sisters,” has returned with a lively novel.
"A Bear at Fifteen" is a story about teenage children who are suddenly transformed into animals and experience twists and turns as they grow up.
Characters with their own unique concerns, unique settings, a brisk writing style, and a smooth plot make the story even more exciting and enjoyable to read.

A mysterious phenomenon called 'animalization' is occurring among teenagers across the country.
The children each turn into different animals, such as a bear, a lion, and a hyena.
Children who have been turned into beasts are quarantined in a separate facility, but as children who have been turned into animals start to appear all over the country, the quarantine is lifted and they are allowed to go to school.
As a result, the school becomes very chaotic as children who have become animals and children who are still humans are mixed together, and a series of big and small incidents occur in the 'half-human, half-beast classroom'.
As time passes, the animal children begin to gradually return to being human, and it is said that they have something special in common… … .

There are reasons why each person turns into an animal.
There is only one way to return to being human!

"A Bear at Fifteen" is a story about the events that unfold as the main character Tae-woong and other characters face unprecedented changes in their bodies and minds.
As children cope with and adapt to the sudden transformation into animals, they change into something different from before.
Through experiencing various things in the body of an animal, they learn to express themselves, awaken new emotions, and sometimes cause trouble to those around them through their misbehavior.

Tae-woong, who had always endured unreasonable things, learns that he must speak up when necessary after becoming a bear.
Se-hee and Ji-hoon, who have become pigeons, each have their own worries, but they grow further as feelings for each other begin to sprout by chance.
Seo-woo, who has a complex about his short stature, overcomes it by becoming a giraffe and going through a certain incident.


While some children realize something through animalization, others cause problems.
Sang-wook, who has become a hyena, threatens children with a threatening appearance and extorts money from them.
A family of wild dogs living in the mountains commit vicious acts, such as stealing valuables from nearby villages and biting pets to death.
Gook-young, who ran away from home and became a stray dog ​​while wandering the streets, unexpectedly joins a stray dog ​​family. The story reaches its climax when a mysterious animal appears and confronts them.

In this way, this work presents a variety of colors through the combination of three-dimensional characters and their individual stories.
In addition to the cheerful and solid writing, we added elements that will catch the readers' attention. The illustrations by author Jeng-Ji, who also presented cute and affectionate illustrations in 『Peanut Diary』, can be seen throughout the cover and text.
This work, which cleverly depicts the turbulent period of adolescence through the witty setting of "animalization," will provide unique fun and warm comfort to teenagers suffering from growing pains.