Chido e ŏmnŭn maŭl

the long version

On Birch Island at the edge of the world, where the legend of the sea witch is passed down, stands a gigantic junk shop that resembles the Tower of Babel. Gu Jin, a new principal who harbors a secret, is appointed to a school on the island. Bodam, the protagonist, sneaks into the principal's office to play a prank, and discovers a mysterious scrapbook of missing people in a cabinet. Chasing after the secret, Bodam learns that the principal's secret concerning a gigantic junk shop and the unsolved cases of missing persons in the city are interrelated. In the process of solving the mystery, the secrets of the people on the island--Bodam's dad Hodon, Bodam's mom who has disappeared, Lian, who works on a secret task every night in a restricted area of the gigantic junk shop, Eun, a producer at the Mystery Broadcasting Company and the creator of a show called "People Who Commune with Things," Principal Gu Jin, who possesses the missing persons file, and Haemo, the owner of the junk shop--are unveiled one by one.--List: books from Korea.