- Overview
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This children's story gives sharp advice to people who commit wrongdoing to gain popularity.
- Book Intro
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Eundong's dream is a YouTube star. To become a YouTube star, Eundong checks devices required to be a YouTube creator, makes a YouTube channel called Happy Happy Broadcasting and comes up with ideas about what kinds of images he will shoot. Eundong's choice is the daily life of an elementary school student, which is unique since it is so ordinary. At the moment he thinks that it is wonderful to become a YouTuber and win popularity, a strong rival appears. It is Jeongwu's Parkour broadcasting in which he walks on the chin-up bar and jumps down from the swing. Jeongwu quickly draws the attention of friends. Eundong starts to shoot sensational images to gain more hits than Jeongwu. He shoots images of him ringing a doorbell of every house and running away. And guess what? It gains more hits than any other image he has uploaded before. Eundong, after experiencing excitement, desperately searches for more thrilling and sensational images. He finally captures images of himself drinking alcohol and stealing things. As he shoots and uploads more images that capture his wrongdoings, he is elated that he has become a YouTube star. However, contrary to his expectation that it would make him a YouTube star, he is blamed, called a grandstander and a thoughtless person for the image that has gained 620,000 hits. With the growing number of negative comments, Eundong belatedly regrets his behavior.
Eundong realizes the power of his images and social network from the defamatory replies. The power of his uploads can do good or work as a poison depending on how they are used. Eundong changes the course of his life by looking for different ways to become a YouTube star.
- About the Author
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Lim Jihyoung
Lim Jihyoung started her literary career after winning the annual spring literary contest hosted by the Mudeung Times in 2008 and won the Mokpo Literary Award the following year. She then published The True Lie in 2011 with the help of a creation support fund from the Gwangju Cultural Foundation. Books written by Lim Jihyoung include The Pizza Election, The Twelve-Year-Old Mona Liza, The Maruta Boy, The Family Declaration and The Face Market.
Jung Yongwhan
Jeong Yonghwan liked drawing since he was a little kid, so Jeong kept drawing and creating pictures of everything and finally became a picture book illustrator. Jeong has worked on a number of picture books that deliver knowledge and information with a humorous and witty manner. Books illustrated by Jeong Yonghwan include Yoon Bong-gu the Human Clone 1,2, The Zoo Friends Are Being Weird, What Do I Do in This Situation?, The Complete Metamorphosis Picture Textbook.
