Let's do a stupid dance
Author's Note
Interview with author Seo Yi-je

"Those who know each other will know each other." A new short story by Seo Yi-je, "Towards 0%."
About the empty sincerity of souls who want to meet across time and space, and people who were and are not.

Seo I-je, winner of the Young Writer Award, Today's Writer Award, Kim Man-jung Literary Award, and Yi Sang Literary Award, and who received critical acclaim for her self-portraits of contemporary youth in her short story collections "From Low Resolution" and "Towards 0%," has her new work "Let's Dance Like a Fool" published in the Wisdom House Wepick series.
At the time of serialization, readers commented that the novel was “a story filled with both irony and hope,” “a successful romantic fantasy between a reader and an author who seemed destined to have only one-sided love,” and “their strange but ultimately successful encounter brought tears to their eyes.”

'Haedam' goes to a poetry reading to commemorate the publication of her second collection of poems and sees a shadow wriggling under an empty chair.
And from that day on, he also notices that shadows are hovering around him.
Haedam, who has not seen any effect from the medication prescribed by a psychiatrist, goes to a shaman to get rid of 'it', but hears from the shaman that 'it' is not a dead person, but a 'living person'.

Another protagonist, 'It', accidentally drinks alcohol in the vicinity of the poet he admires, and unintentionally discovers the poet's true identity.
'It', who felt empty inside and had been abandoned, began to gradually disappear from that day on, and in an instant, it became invisible even in front of the mirror.
I followed the poet around for a few days, hoping to find a clue to the problem.
On a bench by the Han River where he went out to get some fresh air, 'It' meets a crazy old man with long hair, a skullcap, and tight leather pants.
A basement pub in Hongdae where I followed the old man who said he was a stranger but could see 'it' and was in the same situation as me, as if I was possessed.
In that place where the non-suspicious is suspicious enough to be suspicious, 'it' is a group of old rockers with mohawks and red faux leather pants, a jazz singer with bold eyeliner and flashy stage costumes, and a cinephile writing alone in a pitch-black corner.
You come across crazy people who make you doubt your eyes, people who are treated as if they don't exist outside the world, that is... ...beings that only those who recognize them will recognize.

Meanwhile, Haedam, who has been unable to see 'it' since writing a 200,000 won talisman at a shaman, visits the shaman again to write a new talisman to bring 'it' back... ... Will the two beings be able to recognize each other?

The author, who “succeeded in finding a form suitable for a story that is partly cheesy, partly sublime, and partly humorous” with “Towards 0%,” faces even more clearly the empty sincerity of tastes that cannot rise to the surface and disappear, of beings who do not know each other’s true value, and of relationships that existed but never existed, as literary critic Park Hye-jin said, “even the reality of love and possibility now exists in ‘disappearance. ’”
So now, we are finally going one step further than the “official test chart that measures our eyesight as a component of civilization” and putting on “multifocal lenses” that say “let’s do a stupid dance” on our eyes.
As if to say, can you still look at literature, movies, rock, art, and your true heart with a clouded gaze?

A special experience of breathing 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."
Over the past year, 50 stories have been loved by readers, including Gu Byeong-mo's "Shred," Jo Ye-eun's "Waiting for the High Tide," Ahn Dam's "The Girl Grows Alone," and Choi Jin-young's "Aurora."
The Wepick series publishes serialized novels in this way, and rather than the conventional method of binding together several short stories, it takes the unusual approach of composing a book with only one short story, giving readers the 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.

Following the 50 episodes of Season 1, Season 2 is filled with even newer writers and stories.
Season 2 will feature Kang Hwa-gil, Lim Seon-woo, Dan Yo, Jeong Bo-ra, Kim Bo-young, Lee Mi-sang, Kim Hwa-jin, Jeong I-hyeon, Lim Sol-ah, and writers Hwang Jeong-eun.
Additionally, Season 2 will include author interviews to tell various stories inside and outside of the work, further enriching the 50-story festival.

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 Piece of Literature, Wepick

Gu Byeong-mo's "Shred"
Lee Hee-joo's "Mayumi"
Yoon Ja-young's "Grandma's Tteokbokki Recipe"
Park So-yeon's "Bustling, but Secretive"
Kim Ki-chang's "The Visitor on Christmas Eve"
Lee Jong-san's "Blue Marble"
Kwak Jae-sik's "The End of Space Wars"
Kim Dong-sik's "100 Buttons"
Bae Ye-ram, "I Will Be Under the Water"
Lee So-ho's "My Crazy Neighbor"
Oh Han-gi's "My Happy Parenting Diary"
Jo Ye-eun's "Waiting for High Tide"
Dojinki 『Annie』
Park Sol-moe's "Girlfriends of the Far East"
Jeong Hye-yoon's "Workshop for People Who Want to Feel at Peace"
Hwangmogwa's "10 Seconds Forever"
Kim Hee-sun's "Samcheok, Immortal"
Choi Jeong-hwa's "Botros Report"
Jeong Hae-yeon's "Model"
Jeong I-dam's "Flower of Reincarnation"
Moon Ji-hyuk's "Christmas Carousel"
Kim Mok-in's "Marcel Accordion Club"
Jeon Geon-woo's "Ange"
Choi Yang-seon's "Shadow Butterfly"
Lee Ha-jin's "The Graveyard of Probability"
All of the 『Sweet and Earnest』
Lee Yuri, "Can You Sleep?"
Sim Neul: "Oh no, my mom kidnapped the spaceship."
Choi Hyun-sook's "Women of Changsin-dong"
Yeonyeom 『Limited 2nd Semester Book Club』
Seo Mi-ae's "My Girlfriend"
Kim Won-young's "Our Climbing"
Jeong Ji-don's "Deaths That Cannot Be Called Modern"
Lee Seo-su's "What My First Love Left for My Sister"
Lee Kyung-hee's "Knot Organizer"
Song Kyung-ah's "Rainbow Pet Columbarium"
Hyunhojeong's "Three Colors"
Kim Hyun's "Unique Form"
Kim Yi-hwan's "A Better Human"
Lee Min-jin's "Muching"
An Dam 『Girls Grow Up Alone』
Jo Hyun-ah's "Rice-Life Clown Play"
Kim Hyo-in's "Refresh"
Jeon Hye-jin's "Cutting the Gordian Knot"
Kim Cheong-gyul's "Dehumidifier Diet"
Choi Ui-taek's "Nontunneling"
Kim Yu-dam's "Space M"
Jeon Sam-hye's "The Road to Myself"
Choi Jin-young's "Aurora"
Lee Hyuk-jin's "The Most Perfect Drive"
Kang Hwa-gil's "Young-hee and James"
Lee Moon-young's "Lucas"
Hyonchan Yang's "For Queen Inhyeon's Return to the Palace"
Cha Hyun-ji's "Different Days"
Kim Seong-jung's "Mole Man"
Kim Seo-hae's "Rabiu and Ring"
Lim Seon-woo's "0000"
Dew Na 『Bari』
Han Yuri's "Immortal Injeolmi"
Han Jeong-hyeon, "Love and Union Chapter 0"
Wi Su-jeong's "The Turkey is Hidden"
Cheon Hee-ran's "Author's Note"
Information on 『Window』
Lee Ju-ran's "At That Time"
Kim Bo-young's "It's a Wild Thing"
Lee Ju-hye's "The Room with the Chinese Parrot"
Jeong Dae-geon's "Buonissimo, Naples"
Kim Hee-jae's "Mars and the Attempt at Creativity"
Just 『Verbena Beyond the Wall』
Moon Bo-young's "The Sad You Who Knows the Name of a Bird"
Park Seo-ryeon's "Body Body"
Geum Jeong-yeon, "Everyone's Sunday"
Park Yi-kang's "Job Interview"
Kim Na-hyun's "The Universe of Premonition"
Kim Hwa-jin's "I Want to Be a Frog"
Kwon Kim Hyun-young's "Neither the Recipient nor the Sender, CC"
Bae Myung's "Summer of Gyehwa"
Lee Du-on's "The Disease That Kills You If You Don't Spend Money"
Kim Ji-yeon's "New Year's Practice"
Jo Woo-ri's "Suffering in Four Books"
Yesoyeon's "Noisy Whispers"
Lee Jang-wook's "The World of Superhumans"
Seong Hae-na, "When We Are Born and Die Ten Times"
Jang Jin-young's "Kim Yong-ho"
Lee Yeon-suk's "Dad's Novel"
Now, let's dance like a fool
Kwon Hee-jin's "First, Believe"
Jeong I-hyeon's "The Living Person"