{"product_id":"여름의-루돌프","title":"Rudolph of Summer","description":"Description: Summer, Frozen in Deep Green — The People Who Keep It Moving\n\nSummer feels like it will stay frozen in deep green for at least three months. Even for someone who wants to stay perfectly still because of the heat, three months is a long time. In this deep season, the place \"I\" find myself is a seaside village — Grandmother's countryside home with its pretty orange roof. Here lives a grandmother who has spent sixty years as a haenyeo (female sea diver), her warm-hearted friends, and a north-facing room where the northwest wind blows in.\n\nIn early summer, when the beach is still quiet and empty, if you step onto sand warmed by the sun and dip your feet in the seawater, Grandmother comes walking up, smiling brightly, carrying an orange tewak (diving buoy) and a net bag full of sea urchins fresh from the season. Even after four hours of diving, she still has three hours of cracking open sea urchins before she can go home — but the June sea urchin season is a welcome time that everyone looks forward to. Plump, sweet sea urchin mixed into a bibimbap makes for a rich, deep taste of the summer sea that fills a weary evening.\n\nWhen asked if she isn't afraid of the sea, Grandmother answers boldly, \"What's there to be afraid of?\" But hidden in her spirited reply is a small, endearing confession — that the sight of schools of anchovies, the sumbisori (the diver's breathing sound), conch, sea urchins, sea squirts, and abalone makes her heart flutter so much that she simply cannot stop diving, even if she wanted to.\n\nThough no one is watching, Grandmother puts on her makeup carefully, gathers her tewak, net bag, and homaengi (harvesting tool), climbs onto her little scooter, and heads off to \"work.\" Meanwhile, \"I\" wake up late and stop by the restaurant of Grandmother Sunok, who gave up diving last year, for a bowl of warm crab porridge. Whether one still dives or has stopped, there is no season when work truly rests. When the wind is gentle, they dive; when the wind turns fierce, they take a break.\n\nOn a day when a fierce wind brings an unexpected rest in the middle of hot summer — like a pleasant summer vacation — \"I\" learn to ride a scooter from the grandmothers and ride along the summer shore. When it's time to say goodbye, the grandmothers see \"me\" off with such warmth that my nose turns red with emotion — touching and grateful, just like Rudolph in summer. These generous-hearted adults, their affectionate dialect, and their seaside village workplace all feel as refreshing and joyful as a summer vacation.\n\nAuthor and illustrator Kim Seong-ra captures the everyday summer life of a seaside village in vivid detail, using her signature cozy, light color palette and rich panel compositions. The unfamiliar yet delightful Jeju dialect, the small coastal village that hints at a real place, the scenery along its roads, the quickly changing weather, and the rhythms of daily work all add a strong sense of authentic life. On a hot summer day, isn't a seaside village just like this exactly the kind of place we'd love to visit on vacation?","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624268767460,"sku":"09202023994","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/9791169811477.jpg?v=1786426303","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ec%97%ac%eb%a6%84%ec%9d%98-%eb%a3%a8%eb%8f%8c%ed%94%84","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}