- Overview
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This is a story about Lee Seondong, a 30-year-old man who sees ghosts, getting a job as an estate sale agent for a cleaning center.
- Book Intro
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(Vietnamese) Mr. Lee Clean Center
Muốn sống một cuộc đời bình thường, nhưng điều đó lại vô cùng khó khăn với Lee Seon Dong. Những câu chuyện xảy ra với chàng trai Lee Seon Dong vừa tròn 30 tuổi, nhìn thấy ma, khi xin làm việc tại trung tâm vệ sinh với công việc thu dọn đồ dùng của người đã chết. Tác phẩm đã ký bản quyền phim truyền hình với Hidden Sequence, ký hợp đồng webtoon với Jedammedia, đã được sản xuất thành phim ca nhạc, biên dịch và xuất bản cho tập đoàn xuất bản Gobo Đài Loan, Gramedia M&C Indonesia.
(English) Mr. Lee Clean Center
Interview at the morgue
The morgue. I open my eyes at the ringing of my mobile phone. The job interview I'd had at "Bio Clean Center" in the morning for an estate sale agent had led to an interview at the morgue. During the interview, the head of the company claimed that there were too many new recruits who found themselves unable to handle dead bodies and quit their jobs after one or two days. This is why he forced me to stay in the morgue, the place where dead bodies are stored. Successfully spending a night at the morgue, I was able to get the job of "estate sale agent of cleaning center."
Encountering past memories
My full-time job began with a bang when the head of the cleaning center was caught "relic stealing." He stole gold bars found under the bed of a lone lady who died alone in her house in Yeonhi-dong. I lost my job just 15 days after starting. But not long after, I started to operate my own estate sale business with the slow-witted, Kim Jeonggyu, my senior at the last place.
Business didn't start out as smoothly as I had hoped, and the work itself pushed me towards my past, which I had forgotten about. Detective Kang Dongcheol. A man connected to my past. He only reappeared in my life about a month before he committed suicide. But his reappearance led me to remember some horrible memories from my childhood, memories about my grandparents who died from potassium cyanide. Not only that, his daughter, Bora, appeared in my life, so the memories kept haunting me.
The unsolved mystery
When Jeonggyu brought in the box of business cards, I was truly the head of a cleaning center. And with that, I started my estate sale business, listening to and communicating stories of the souls of the dead. The hard life, the secretive life, the lonely life and the sad life. With a variety of stories about the other side of life coming to me through these communications, I started to learn more about life. Then one day, I found a lead that could prove detective Kang's death was not a suicide like Bora claimed. With more and more clues, I started to think that the death of detective Kang was actually linked to the death of my own grandparents.
- About the Author
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Kwon Joung-hee
(Vietnamese) Tác giả Kwon Jeong Hee học chuyên ngành kỹ thuật cơ khí, đã từng xuất bản tập thơ 3 quyển trên tạp chí Văn học nghệ thuật Sinjun. Là tác giả câu chuyện của webtoon “Chung cư hoa hồng” trên Naver, xuất bản tiểu thuyết “Trung tâm vệ sinh Lee Seon Dong”. Tác giả đang tiến hành chuyển thể tiểu thuyết thành kịch bản phim truyền hình.
(English) Kwon Junghee (F) studied Mechanical Engineering at university and debuted as a poet through an annual spring literary contest. She has published three collections of poems, and recently published Mr. Lee's Cleaning Center. She is also the story writer for the Naver webtoon, Security Guard of Jangmi Apartment.
Mr. Lee's Cleaning Center, which embodies Kwon's rich writing experiences as a poet, novelist, reporter, copywriter and webtoon story writer, won the the Creative Story Contest by the Korea Creative Content Agency, being regarded as "the most suitable story for TV dramas." - Award