Friday - 'Change!' application
Saturday - a whole week
Sunday - Dad is too much
Monday - Mom's Day
Tuesday - that day
Wednesday - The Unexpected
Thursday - Explosion
Friday Again - Happy Cookies
And Saturday - Resolution

Author's Note

A mysterious smartphone app that lets you swap bodies with someone else.
A full-length fairy tale about Marie's delightful, exhilarating, and touching week as she discovers "Change!"

In 2018, Sang-ki Park's full-length children's story, "Change!", which won the 24th Golden Toad Award, was published by Biryongso.
This is the first award-winning novel in five years in the long fairy tale category, and it is filled with refreshing thoughts and humor that will quench the thirst of readers who have been waiting for so long.

In an age where communication is becoming easier and faster, but it's becoming more difficult to convey sincerity, it's easy for children these days to obsess over the number 1, which means "unread," in KakaoTalk messages, but it's incredibly difficult for them to understand the other person's position and feelings.
"Switch!" is a story about twelve-year-old Marie, who tries to get revenge on her bully by switching bodies with her friend, but ends up unintentionally switching bodies with her mother.
By making us reflect on ourselves and others within our relationships, including family and friends, it offers a new and meaningful interpretation of the empathetic imagination that everyone has experienced at least once.

Author Sang-ki Park, who is also a current elementary school teacher, won the Changbi Children's New Writer's Award in 2013 for his youth novel "Corn Hit-and-Run," the Noon-noppi Children's Literature Award in 2016 for "Su-mong-jo's Special Gift," and solidified his position as an author by winning the Golden Toad Award for his full-length children's novel "Change!"
The experiences she gained from interacting with children as a teacher are vividly expressed in Marie's bold inner thoughts and relationships with friends.

Oh Young-eun, who has extensive experience in fashion illustration for various magazines, is an illustrator who shows her daily drawings through her Instagram picture diary, gaining the sympathy of over ten thousand followers.
Marie's personality and daily life, full of waves of emotions, as she writes a secret diary on her smartphone, are expressed in simple drawings, giving the book a humorous and vivid feel, as if the narrator, Marie, had recorded it in drawings.



Try to see things from another perspective!
Empathy x100! The app that understands my heart, "Change!"

Put yourself in someone else's shoes.
Try to think from a different perspective.
It is not an easy task, regardless of age, whether you are a child or an adult.
But this app called 'Change!' allows you to put yourself in someone else's shoes by just talking to them for a minute.
Especially if you have someone you want revenge on, like Marie, why wouldn't you download it? "Change!" delightfully touches on that same feeling we all have.

Hanmari, a fifth grader who transfers to a new school but fails to understand the classroom atmosphere and is disliked by Hwayoung.
Although he is neither timid nor weak, he has no choice but to be bullied by a group of children.
'Yeoul-i', who quietly spends time with him, is the only friend he has left, like the 'last leaf'.
Marie wants to confide in her mother about her difficulties, but her mother, who works part-time at a bakery, is too busy with household chores to listen to Marie's story.
Moreover, the mother's personality of being kind and unable to speak up always makes Marie feel frustrated.

The app, which advertises, "Change your position and take revenge," is therefore tempting to Marie.
Maybe I can get revenge without anyone's help.
Before launching the app, Marie decides to test it out just in case, and chooses a seemingly easygoing mother as her opponent.
The next day, Marie and her mother really do switch bodies, but because she didn't read the warning carefully, she can't immediately switch back.

Through unexpected developments, the author makes the story more enjoyable and interesting.
The thrilling experience of body swapping and the story of a mother and daughter who share a secret of their own evokes deeper empathy as it follows their daily lives.



My elementary school daughter became a working mom, and her mother became a child of today's kids.

Marie, who had switched bodies with her mother for a week, crying and eating mustard despite her intentions.
Mom is also embarrassed.
The two people have to change their routines before they can even adjust to their new bodies.
On the one hand, Marie sees this as a chance to experience her dream job as a pastry chef, but working at a bakery is by no means easy.
You have to wake up earlier than you would for school, memorize all the names of breads, and deal with unusual customers.
Marie discovers that living as an adult is no less difficult than living as an elementary school student.

When asked how scary kids these days are, the mother said, “Even these days, kids are kids,” and her school life is not easy either.
As Marie goes to school, her mother learns all the secrets her daughter has been unable to reveal.
The mother becomes Marie's body, and Marie becomes her mother's body. The two cry and laugh, gradually coming to understand each other's positions.

Marie initially thought that her school life was all that mattered, but as she began living with her mother, she began to experience various aspects of relationships.
At work, at home, and during her brief but intense 'Sea World' experience and her period pain, Marie felt emotions more intense than anything else.
Marie also becomes troubled.
About whether it was right for her to make her own decisions about her mother's work, and whether it was okay for her to try to solve her own problems with her changed body.

"Change!" depicts the events that unfold as a mother and daughter switch bodies, realistically and within the context of everyday life, allowing me to naturally discover relationships I hadn't noticed before.
It conveys the message that considering the other person's position before your own, even just for a moment, can be the first step toward change.