Chido e ŏmnŭn maŭl
By: Ch'oe Yang-sŏn changp'yŏn tonghwa ; O Chŏng-t'aek kŭrim
Contributors: O, Chŏng-t'aek, illustrator
Edition: Ch'op'an
Series: Ch'angbi adong mun'go -- 267; Ch'angbi atong mun'go (Ch'angbi) -- 267.
Publisher: Ch'angbi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kyŏnggi-do P'aju-si
Language: kor
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9788936442675
Subjects: Villages; Juvenile fiction; Korean Fantasy fiction
Other titles: town hidden from the map
Description: 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.
Notes: A Town Hidden from the Map is a fantasy that was awarded the "Good Children's Award" by Changbi Publishers, Inc., a prestigious prize for new writers in Korea.