★The copyright of Simplified Chinese version has been sold.
★This book is a revised edition of “So-hee's Room” by Lee Geum-yi, who was shortlisted for the 2024 International Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writers and is regarded as a pioneer of Korean young adult literature.
★The delicate and tender prose describes how So-hee, a young girl who is experiencing growing pains, learns how to face her desires and get rid of the reality of her predicament.

Because of her environment, 15 year old So-hee, a child who acts like an adult has a maturity beyond her peers. She doesn't pout at her parents, complain about her situation, or spill her guts for what she wants like other kids do, and doesn't pursue what she wants to do without fear. After her grandmother's death, she refuses Mir's offer to live with her in “Woljeon Village” and chooses to move to a small house in Seoul. In this small house, life becomes stressful and hectic for the not-so-wealthy So-hee.

One day she is contacted by her remarried mother and decides to live with her and her remarried family. After changing her name from Jung So-hee to Yoon So-hee, her life becomes into a Cinderella story. Although she lives in a beautiful two-storey house with a nice garden, designer clothes, cheerful friends, a handsome boyfriend and the space for solitude she had always dreamed of, So-hee is forced to lead a double life in the face of a younger brother who hates her and an invisible barrier between her and her mother, to whom she originally felt close. Eventually, an unexpected incident causes So-hee to run away from home.

Who made So-hee grow up too early? Adults. In real life, there are many children who realize the world too early and hide their true colors because of their environment or selfish adults. This can be described as a form of social violence that disenfranchises the individual. This book tells the story of the difficulties experienced by the main character in the process of maturing too early, but gradually changing his fate through his own efforts and the help of those around him.

Lee Geum-yi
As a famous Korean writer of children's and youth’s literature, born in 1962 in Chungcheongbuk-Do's Cheongwon County and raised in Seoul, she was captivated by the charm of stories from an early age while living with her storytelling grandmother. She read the works of world literature, and dreamed of becoming a writer.
Lee Geum-yi is an indispensable name among contemporary authors writing children and youth literature in South Korea. Since entering the literary scene with fairy tales in 1984, she has dedicated herself to over 50 works of children's literature, catalyzing the explosive growth of Korean children's literature in the 1990s and 2000s. Her contributions extend to fostering youth literature, consistently capturing the attention of Korean readers and literary critics. Her novel “Yu Jin and Yu Jin”, published in 2004, about the theme of "childhood deprivation," caused significant impact on insular society, playing a pivotal role in elevating youth literature to a prominent position in South Korean mainstream literature. It stands as a pioneering work in Korean adolescent literature, which remains a perennial classic. In 2016, she further solidified her leading position in the genre with two historical novels for young adult readers, "The Picture Bride" and "Can't I Go Instead?”.
These two novels not only were shortlisted in the 2018 IBBY honor list, but also reshaped Korean social perceptions of youth literature. The novels were adapted into musical forms and transformed into web-comics. They were also translated into multiple languages, influencing a global audience.
She once stated, "It's not that I chose children's literature, but children's literature chose me." In 2020, she was officially nominated as a distinguished candidate for the prestigious "Hans Christian Andersen Award", the most authoritative international award in children's and young adult literature. This year, she once again lied on the shortlist of candidates for the 2024 "Hans Christian Andersen Award".