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This is a story about Hun’s family that didn’t lose hope even when facing hardships like family dissolution and poverty. Through this story, we can reflect on the values of a traditional family and the existential meaning of ‘father’ in our times.
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Family love which embraces our shortcoming and faults and innocent children’s mind that moves us
What is the meaning of ‘father’ to us? Is he a machine that just brings us some money? Does that mean a father who cannot earn money is not even a father? In this story, we can meet a father who lost his job and became homeless. But he realized his son was a beacon of his life so he found his son in an orphanage and decided to live for his son. Father had courage to live thanks to his son.
However, the world was not so kind to the father and the son. Father’s street food booth was destroyed by patrols, and his son, Hun, stole money from others while on his school field trip. When his dad found the money in Hun's pocket, he told the truth to his father. Father had no choice but to punish him, but afterwards, he hugged Hun, but Father's heart was broken.
A warm way of looking from the author to vulnerable and excluded children
Won Yousoon who was a teacher and an author has been writing a lot of stories of isolated and vulnerable children in elementary school. The Day I Looked My Dad and Smile to One Another is also a story with awareness on our difficult time. The writer delivers condolences to sacrificing fathers in our times and describes Hun who was bright and mature even in difficult situations with plain words and also in a warm way. Illustrator Han Jisun used free lines and restrained color that gave unique personalities to its characters and successfully created the bright mood in the story that could have been easily described in a gloomy way.
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Won Yousoon
(Russian) Вон Юсун родилась в деревне в провинции Канвондо. Она работает учительницей в начальной школе и одновременно пишет сказки для детей. Она закончила аспирантуру по специальности литературного мастерства в университете Тангук и во многих университетах читала лекции по секретам написания детских сказок. Сейчас она живет в глухом поселке в горах в городе Ёчжу, пишет сказки, и временнами читает лекции для читателей.
(English) Won Yousoon was born in a mountain village in Gangwon province and happily romped in the fields and woods. Won grew up to be an elementary school teacher and children’s book author. While writing children’s books, Won continued to study writing and received a PhD in Literature from the graduate school of Dankook University. She has retired from school but has continued writing for children. Won is the recipient of many children’s literature awards including the Sochun Children’s Literary Award and the Bang Jeonghwan Literary Award. The books written by Won include You Can’t Play with General Poo, Mr. Tale’s Stepping Stone of the Cheonggye Creek, Illiterate Samdigi, Piyangraengmyeon Restaurant’s Myeongok, My Mom is a Girl Blanca and Haiphong Laundry.
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