The Autumn of that year, an essay by writer Kwon Jung-saeng, a shining star in South Korean children’s literature, has been recreated as a picture book. Children’s story writer Yoo Eun-sil, recipient of the 6th Kwon Jeongsaeng Fund for Writers, has rewritten the text for a picture book while retaining the emotive power of the original work. Painter Kim Jae-hong has done the illustrations. The account of the young Kwon Jeong-saeng, living in a vestibule of a church, encountering Changseop, a child with disabilities, unfolds like a sad yet beautiful fairy tale. Starting in February 1968, Kwon lived in the vestibule of a small Church. While struggling with poverty-related illness, he took care of the management of the church as a deacon, spent time with youngsters as a Sunday school teacher, and penned stories for children. In the autumn of 1971, a child started to visit the young Kwon’s vestibule, sometimes several times in a single day. This was Changseop, a 16-year-old with physical and intellectual disabilities. With his own illness, the young Kwon feels compassion and sympathy for Changseop, his occasional visitor, and comes to form a friendship with the boy. This book reflects moments from the young writer’s encounter with the child one drizzly autumn day up until the boy’s untimely decease.

The Autumn of that year, an essay by writer Kwon Jung-saeng, a shining star in South Korean children’s literature, has been recreated as a picture book. Children’s story writer Yoo Eun-sil, recipient of the 6th Kwon Jeongsaeng Fund for Writers, has rewritten the text for a picture book while retaining the emotive power of the original work. Painter Kim Jae-hong has done the illustrations. The account of the young Kwon Jeong-saeng, living in a vestibule of a church, encountering Changseop, a child with disabilities, unfolds like a sad yet beautiful fairy tale. Starting in February 1968, Kwon lived in the vestibule of a small Church. While struggling with poverty-related illness, he took care of the management of the church as a deacon, spent time with youngsters as a Sunday school teacher, and penned stories for children. In the autumn of 1971, a child started to visit the young Kwon’s vestibule, sometimes several times in a single day. This was Changseop, a 16-year-old with physical and intellectual disabilities. With his own illness, the young Kwon feels compassion and sympathy for Changseop, his occasional visitor, and comes to form a friendship with the boy. This book reflects moments from the young writer’s encounter with the child one drizzly autumn day up until the boy’s untimely decease.