(English) In school

Eight characters who are a teacher and teenagers with their own secretsPerhaps, it is no coincidence that they are all trapped in school.

Han Young Joo, the main character, used to be a temporary Korean teacher of Hyun Jin High School. Just one week before her contract termination, she argued with the vice principal and became unemployed. She thought she would never go back to Hyun Jin High School, but her package was accidentally delivered to the school because she chose wrong address while ordering cosmetics online. She tried to get her package while everyone was gone for a meeting, but she happened to get a phone call at the teachers’ room. She couldn’t ignore the call which was continuously ringing in the empty room. The caller mentioned that he installed a bomb at the gate, so she had to be in the teachers’ room with ‘teenagers’. 

At that very moment, there were only 7 teenagers in school. Due to the terrorist’s message, they all had to be trapped in school. Jae Joon, Han Ah, and Ji Woo are the 1st graders. Seon Bin, Joo Ri, Ah In and Jin Sung are 2nd graders. Other 1st grade students already left for their school trip, and other 2nd grade students visited coding exhibition, and 3rd grade students went home after prep-test. Therefore, there supposed to be no one left in school. However, why did these 7 teenagers stay at school? Why this time, and why inside the gate the bomb was installed?

Among these 7 teenagers, some of them knew each other and others met each other for the first time. Even there were some students who hated each other. Joo Ri tried to avoid awkward encounter with her ex-boyfriend, Seon Bin, but eventually, she had to be in the same space with him. Jae Joon stayed at school due to his childhood trauma and now was trapped at school. Han Ah’s cousin sister was violently abused and still suffered from trauma and her family also got hurt. Jin Sung became the worst student in school because he did not want to be isolated. What would it be that the terrorist was targeting for, the school? or these eight people? Will Young Joo and seven students be able to stay safe in school in the end?

The server used to upload threatening message was turned out to be inside the school, so the police suspected Young Joo, the only adult and outsider. Therefore, the police asked Seon Bin to spy on Young Joo, because the vice principal recommended Seon Bin as the most trustworthy student. This suspicion became the seed of other suspicions, so these eight characters began suspecting each other and got angry when they were suspected by others. Who was the terrorist? Was it true that the terrorist was in school? Was it really safe in school?

누구든 교문을 통과하는 순간, 폭탄이 터진다

드라마 [안녕, 나야] 원작 소설 『판타스틱 걸』 김혜정 작가의 신작

『텐텐 영화단』으로 10대 ‘탈학교 청소년’들의 개성 강한 저마다의 이야기를 ‘영화 만들기 프로젝트’로 보여주어 호평을 얻었던 김혜정 작가의 신작 소설이 나왔다. 폭탄 테러 관련 사건이 심심치 않게 일어나던 어느 날, 경찰청 SNS에 테러범의 협박 글이 올라왔다. ‘현진고를 폭파시키겠다.’ 이 글 하나로 인해 여덟 명이 학교 안에 갇히게 된다. 전 계약직 교사 한영주와 일곱 명의 학생들. 폭탄의 설치 여부를 확인하고, 안전이 확보될 때까지는 아무도 교문을 통과할 수 없다. 학교에 갇힌 사람도 나갈 수 없고, 그들을 구할 경찰도 들어갈 수 없는 상황. 도대체 이런 일을 벌인 사람은 누굴까. 학교에 갇힌 여덟 명은 왜 그 시간에 학교에 남아 있었던 걸까? 시간이 흐를수록 서로를 의심하는 여덟 명. 그들이 품은 비밀은 무엇일까?