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Is it really good fortune to have an influencer‑mom whose everyday life is plastered with glitz and glamour?

Je Seong‑eun, author of *The Apartment That Collects Noise* — a book that light‑heartedly addresses the serious social issue of floor‑between‑floor noise — is back. Set against the backdrop of social media, a platform familiar to digital‑generation children, this book tells the coming‑of‑age story of a twelve‑year‑old child whose mother is an influencer. The work sharply critiques the pretence and vanity rampant in the SNS world. Through a child’s perspective, it refreshingly unpacks life performed for others, and the true values hidden beneath that outward façade.

Dareum’s mother’s parenting blog posts unexpectedly went viral, turning Dareum into a so‑called “online niece”, every move of whose life is laid open to the public. Thanks to this, Dareum becomes the official popular kid at school, while her mother is active as Renavi, an SNS influencer with 200,000 followers.

Friends envy Dareum for having “influencer privilege”, yet these admiring gazes bring her little joy. She has to live wearing a mask at all times and everywhere, always poised and polished.

Then one day, constant clashes with her classmate Ara create cracks in her already precarious daily life. To make matters worse, her mother’s lies are exposed to the whole world, landing the family at the centre of public condemnation.

What growing pains will Dareum endure amid this string of tear‑filled events?

Je Seong-eun
Having worked as a broadcast writer and editor, she later became a children’s book author. She has won awards at the Saebit Literary Prize and the Chuncheon Puppet Festival Script Contest.
Her original children’s stories include *The Apartment That Collects Noise*, *Puberty vs. Menopause*, *Ghost in the Group Chat*, *I Report My Influencer Mom*, *Online Dad*, *Puberty vs. Middle‑School Life*, *Too Many Dog Poops!*, *Turning My Sister Into a Phone Zombie*, and more. She is also the author of picture books such as *Dancing Towel* and *The Day We Count Eyebrows*.
She hopes to write entertaining fairy tales so that children can experience the joy of reading books.

Cha Sang-mi
She majored in visual design and currently works as an illustrator, creating artwork for diverse media including books and videos.
Drawing inspiration mainly from everyday scenes and emotions, she produces calm, soft‑toned illustrations.
Books she has illustrated include *The Way I Am*, *Spring‑Day Bear*, *Malgeum and Grandma Fox*, *The Never‑Lucky Grab Machine*, and *How Should I Put It?: Oh Eun‑young’s Real‑Life Parenting Conversations*.

1. My Mom Is an #Influencer … 7
2. It Wasn’t Like This at First … 18
3. Uniquely Unique Dareum … 27
4. Today’s Concept … 38
5. Ordinary Yun Ara … 49
6. A Secret I Cannot Tell … 60
7. The Missing Cap … 71
8. Parade of Lies … 89
9. The Courage to Speak Up About Discomfort … 106
10. I Am Who I Am! … 116
11. I Report My Influencer Mom … 121
12. Good Influence … 133