Sea of the Heart

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by Sim Udo

Synopsis

Yeon-woo lives in a run-down multi-family house on the outskirts of Seoul with his mother, who is always exhausted from long shifts at a restaurant, and his older brother, a high-strung senior focused entirely on his college entrance exams. When his only close friend moves abroad, Yeon-woo is left feeling completely alone. Then one night he meets a boy named Ma-eum in a dream — someone who looks just like him — and his world quietly begins to change. He starts to open up to Sol-i, a neighbor he had barely spoken to despite living in the same building, and gradually warms to the people around him he had once kept at a distance.