snow planet

Write ‘Children’ and read ‘Hope’!
An ode to children from Kim Go-eun, a writer with a brilliant imagination!It snowed too much.
Two old men who are having trouble clearing snow
The snowball that was gently rolled away
It grew and grew until it became a snow planet.
sweeping the whole earth
What should I do with the snow planet?

Children, save humanity in crisis!

It is the day after heavy snow fell. Narrow Street No. 20 Mr. Kim and No. 21 Mr. Lee argue over the issue of clearing snow from the alley in front of their house. It's almost 1 hour and 30 minutes. The two men are tired of the long argument and endless snow shoveling, so they roll their eyes. A snowball the size of a fist quickly grows to the size of a human head, and then again to the size of an elephant's head. Now, maybe this snowball would be good?
Mr. Lee gently pushes the snowball away with his toe, and Mr. Kim gently pushes the snowball away with his knee. Two snowballs stick together and roll down the alley. Dewling… … Dewling… … A bunch of people… … A bunch of people… … . The snowball rolls and rolls and grows bigger and bigger, until it is finally reborn as a ‘snow planet’ that threatens humanity. Scientists, priests, and even the military try to get rid of the snow planet that is sweeping the Earth, but no solution is possible. People have no choice but to avoid the snow planet and prepare to leave for the sky, the sea, or the ground.
At that time, children who do not want to be separated from their friends gather one by one at the playground. And then he comes up with a brilliant idea to destroy the snow planet. How will the children get rid of the snow planet? Can children really save humanity from crisis?Whatever the child believes, wishes, and thinks!
“Snow Planet” is a story that writer Kim Go-eun came up with while living in a town with unusually heavy snowfall one year. It was a year when there were constant fights between neighbors over clearing the snow that had accumulated in front of their houses. So much so that it appears frequently on the news and in newspapers.
I was so sick of the endless snow falling and people's endless selfishness that I thought, 'Isn't the world going to fall if this continues?' It was around this time that I even started having dark thoughts. Suddenly, the image of a huge snowball sweeping across the earth came to mind. It seemed like if all the endless snow and people's endless selfishness were combined, it could become a 'snow planet.'
So who should be the hero who will defeat the snow planet? Naturally, children came to mind. I believe that there is no more powerful ‘magic’ or greater ‘hope’ than children’s innocent faith, pure wishes, and thoughts that go beyond common sense.
“Snow Planet” is a book that supports children by saying, “Acting as you believe, hope, and think is what brings light to the world.” And it is a book that hopes that the good children inside and outside of us will not lose the power to believe, hope, think, and act even in dark situations.

A writer with an imagination that resembles that of a child.
Kim Go-eun is a writer who imagines things that adults rarely do, as routinely as eating a meal and as naturally as breathing. The author's first picture book, Shall I Rise or Not?, features a child standing on his head with a wheel attached to his head and rolling around. This is because the child's head, which has no intention of waking up, wakes up first and asks the urging body to 'take care of things today.' This is a book that makes you wonder again and again, wondering how well you know the mind of a child who doesn't want to wake up in the morning, and how you can have such ingenious and wild imagination like a child.
The author's unstoppable imagination is also on full display in this book, "Snow Planet." This is the idea that a fist-sized snowball becomes a snow planet comparable to an asteroid and threatens humanity. The variety of ways adults deal with this crisis will make you laugh before you even think, 'Does this make sense?' After laughing for a while, a counter punch is waiting for the children to overcome this crisis in some kind(?) way.
Kim Go-eun's drawers are full of unfinished stories. I'm already looking forward to seeing what kind of clothes this wildly imaginative person will wear in the world next.