“There is no need to be swayed by others or hide myself.”
A novel for everyone who wishes to live as their real self
Snowglobe, pre-released on Kakao Page a month before being sent to the publication press, created an sensation among its more than 70,000 readers. The print copies are garnering much anticipation as it includes additional characters that were included in the pre-release.
Set in an ice age where the average temperature has dropped to minus 41 degrees Celsius, Snowglobe takes place in a warm area called “Snowglobe” surrounded by a dome. The growth and adventures of a teenager protagonist pursuing her dream invites much sympathy from those who are experiencing or have just finished their teenage years.
The protagonist of Snowglobe is Jeon Cho-bam, a 16-year-old girl. Jeon Cho-bam, living in the world outside of Snowglobe, is an ordinary laborer in a power plant. She starts her day like any other day listening to a familiar voice on television: the voice of Ko Hae-ri, the main star of a reality show on Channel 60. Ko Hae-ri is 16-year-old girl, the same age as Jeon Chobam, and she is an “actor” of Snowglobe. “Actor” refers to people living inside Snowglobe, which exposes their lives to 24-hour-camera in return for a warm and hospitable environment. Snowglobe is a huge “survival-entertainment” society consisting of actors of various professions and personalities; and people from the outside world work at the power plant to pay their electricity bills for consuming the fantastic lives of actors in Snowglobe.
Jeon Cho-bam, watching the actor Hae-ri Ko who has the highest television ratings, has developed a dream of becoming a “director” and producing a marvelous drama of her own. Then one day, a prestigious director of Snowglobe named “Cha Seol” pays a visit to Jeon Cho-bam. Cha Seol, who led the Ko Hae-ri show to the highest viewing rate, is a role model of Jeon Cho-bam. Director Cha Seol delivers shocking news that Ko Hae-ri killed herself. After delivering this shocking news to Jeon Cho-bam, Director Cha suggests to Jeon that she pretend to be Ko Hae-ri Ko and take her post in Snowglobe. After deliberation, Jeon Cho-bam accepts and enters Snowglobe; the prelude to the grand story begins.
Once inside Snowglobe, Jeon Cho-bam tries to pass herself off as Ko Hae-ri. She has not forgotten her dream of becoming a director; she is strong inside and is ambitious. Indeed, it is from without and not within that trouble comes.
One day, Jeon Cho-bam finds a mysterious “Mirror Room” in Snowglobe. And she is overcome with a sudden realization that there might be huge secrets and conspiracy hidden in Yi-bon Media Group, which governs the Snowglobe system, and in the whole of the world featured on TV. Having been occupied with her own dreams, only now does Cho-bam stop and look into the mirror. What has been lurking in the cracks between ambition and awakening, and the face that Cho-bam had believed was hers? What was it that has made her come so far?