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Shared decision criteria

The book focuses less on individual skill than on how well a team shares its criteria for decisions, which it presents as the reason more apps do not reduce questions in the chat.

Drawing on Gongysd’s work with around 90 client companies, it examines repeated questions and workflows that depend on someone’s memory.

Task, owner, deadline

Its starting point is writing down a clear task, owner and deadline. When several people collaborate, one person is named the final owner, and recurring decisions are recorded so the next person can find them.

Before adding new features, the book asks whether a system can be kept up every day.

Book details

Written by Gongysd and published by Wisdomhouse on October 7, 2026, the book runs 264 pages with a list price of ₩18,000. Selling prices and delivery terms vary by bookshop.

A stone carried off by a storm

In the publisher’s outline, a storm carries the stone away from its familiar place. Other stones come from the waters off Jangmok and from Jisimdo, giving each a different starting point within Geoje.

Looking up the place names on a map ties the sea on the cover to real locations.

Questions for reading together

Readers can ask what the stone might miss, and whether the same waves feel different to each stone. These are the editors’ suggested prompts, not quotations from the book.

They can open a conversation about unfamiliar surroundings without requiring anyone to share a personal experience.

The cover and book details

The blue cover places large Korean lettering above the sea and rounded stones. Korean learners could begin with 파도, “wave,” and 지나가다, “to pass.”

The publisher lists a 40-page, 210 × 210 mm hardcover at a cover price of ₩15,000, published September 20, 2026; ISBN 9791138867252. The link below leads to the book description and retailers. The English title is an editorial translation, not a verified English edition.

Finished works and process

Art toys are sculptural figures shaped by an artist’s visual language. Coolrain has been making them since 2004.

The exhibition pairs roughly 300 finished works with sketches, prototypes, components and notes, showing decisions about proportion, posture and fabrication that a finished figure can hide. The image at the top of this article is a separate official title graphic.

Basketball and street culture

The organizer cites basketball, b-boying, hip-hop and street fashion among the artist’s influences.

The official poster, published through Newswire, shows a character in a basketball jersey and oversized shoes, surrounded by rectangles cropping fragments of faces and clothing. The outsized shoes and folds of the jersey, set against altered body proportions, give the character its personality.

Visitor information

The show runs October 2–November 22, 2026, at ARTPIEZ Gallery, 1F, 138 Wausan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Hours are 10:00–18:00; it is closed Mondays, public holidays and substitute holidays.

General admission is free. Workshops require separate paid registration; sessions and fees are listed in official notices. Exhibition inquiries: 02-322-1101.

Formulas and sizes

The brand says the capsule cream contains 36% Artemisia argyi leaf water and 2% dexpanthenol, while the bubble serum contains 77% and 6%. The official product image labels them 60 ml and 90 ml.

The two products share a range name but differ in format and full ingredient list.

Cream-set pricing

At 09:06 KST on October 10, Olive Young listed its “60 ml set (+31 ml)” at ₩30,000, with a ₩24,000 promotional price before coupons. The displayed ₩22,600 maximum-benefit price includes a further ₩1,400 coupon.

Coupon eligibility and the final amount depend on the purchasing account and checkout.

Where it is sold

The launch announcement names Aritaum and Olive Young stores, Amore Mall and Hanyul’s Naver brand store among sales channels. Availability and sets can vary by branch.

The cream-set price above is not the serum price, nor a price shared by every shop.

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“산티아고 북쪽 길 순례” follows the couple’s 35-day pilgrimage during a sabbatical in 2015, from Irún, Spain, to Santiago de Compostela and Finisterre.

The publisher says the book describes knee and shoulder pain, changing weather, unfamiliar lodging and encounters with strangers, and ties those experiences to living with less and reconsidering relationships. The authors are a pastor and his wife, and Christian pilgrimage frames the account.

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According to the publisher, the couple decided at the end of the walk to retire early and did so in 2017. They now work in forest welfare in Jeju. That link between the pilgrimage and their later life is at the center of the book.

The Korean edition runs 368 pages and lists at KRW 18,000. Its cover also carries the words “Camino del Norte.” Because the journey dates from 2015, current accommodation costs, transport and route conditions need to be checked separately.

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Mandrake is familiar from fantasy scenes, the rose from love stories. 초록마법 sets those associations beside another question: how do plants survive? Its subtitle links plants, mythology and people through chemical ecology.

The publisher says the book moves between plant science and the cultural stories surrounding mandrake, mistletoe, roses and other plants. Classics, cinema and music appear alongside plant metabolomics and chemical ecology, and each chapter includes a mind map. The author’s bookseller biography lists food-web ecology and chemical ecology as his main research areas.

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The book pairs each plant’s role in stories with its biology as a living organism, starting from familiar symbols and moving into less familiar scientific terms.

Published in Korean by Geobook, it runs 248 pages and lists at KRW 22,000. The bookseller records October 2 as the publication date; the publisher’s announcement followed on October 8. The ISBN is 9788994242576.

The story

In the publisher’s synopsis, Noah Walker suppresses memories of his past until a series of unexplained events unsettles his account of his own life.

The mirror links past and present. Alongside the mystery runs a question about how far a person can trust their own choices. The red cover shows a puzzle piece holding an eye that reflects a city.

The author

Kim was born in Sokcho in 1993. The publisher says he is drawn to stories held in old objects and to unexpected emotions. This is his first novel.

Book details

Barun Books published the Korean-language novel on June 24, 2026: 416 pages, list price ₩16,800, ISBN 9791176213035. The publisher issued a new introduction on October 8. Shop prices and stock vary.

What waeseong means

Waeseong refers to fortresses built by Japanese forces in southern Korea during the invasions of the 1590s. Good Land Publishing presents the book as a study and field survey of more than 30 sites between Ulsan and Suncheon, covering their architecture as traces of an invasion.

The contents

After the war’s background and the history of Japanese castle building, the published contents move through regional groups including Busan, Gimhae, Geoje and Suncheon, pairing present-day place names with historical ones.

The publisher says the author visited the sites, took measurements and made drawings. The research and the sites’ condition have not been independently assessed.

Publication date and details

The publisher issued its announcement on October 8, but its catalog dates the Korean-language book to August 15, 2026. It runs 452 pages, with a ₩33,000 cover price and ISBN 9791138867061. No translated edition has been announced.

Addresses in the book do not establish current public access; check up-to-date site information before a visit.

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The 10th Yeonsu Book Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on October 31, 2026, on the lawn at Songdo Central Park. Its advance programs center on buying books at local shops, writing a line about reading and hearing from a bookseller.

Receipts for books bought at participating shops between September 29 and October 28 can be submitted at a designated municipal library desk, with one draw entry per receipt. The draw follows the opening ceremony on October 31, and 20 winners present in person receive coffee vouchers. Each person can win only once.

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The reading-slogan contest closes October 20. Entrants may submit one original line of up to 25 characters, including spaces, about books and Yeonsu’s future. Twenty shortlisted entries will be displayed for voting at the festival.

On October 28, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Kim Eun-cheol of Yeolda Bookshop (열다책방) gives the talk “How a Bookseller Lives with Books” at Songdo International Library’s International Art Hall. He will discuss running a bookshop, choosing books, reading groups and Incheon’s independent shops. Registration runs from 10 a.m. October 15 to noon October 26 and may close earlier if full. Online booking requires a Yeonsu public-library account.

Two scent pairings

Milk Blanche pairs cotton with musk, while Vanilla Musk pairs vanilla with musk. The brand describes the first as a soft cotton scent and the second as a sweeter vanilla one.

Wash and lotion

The body wash is rinsed off in the shower; the lotion launched alongside it is a separate product applied afterward. The brand says the wash contains goat-milk ingredients, shea butter and coconut oil.

It is sold through Coupang and major Korean online and offline retailers. The bottles look similar, so buyers should check both product type and scent.