Every day, Jung Hyun-seok stands at the same street corner, soaked in rain, ignored by thousands, gripping a sign the world refuses to read. His body aches. His voice breaks. But he keeps shouting. Keeps hoping. Because giving up means forgetting—and forgetting is a kind of death.
This chapter follows the man who refuses to let his son be forgotten. Nineteen years have passed, but Jung Soo-min’s face still haunts the paper he holds. Whispers surround him—cruel, dismissive, tired. But Jung Hyun-seok’s determination doesn’t bend.
Seo Yoon never thought much about her past. She had always been told she was an orphan, abandoned as a child. Now, at 26, she is simply trying to navigate adulthood after graduating university—juggling job applications, endless scrolling, and sleepless nights filled with uncertainty. But everything changes when she hears it. Kkogkkog sumeora, meolikarag bolla. The hide-and-seek song. At first, she thinks it’s nothing. A dream. A fragment of a childhood she doesn’t remember. But when she sees a man protesting on the street—Jung Hyun-seok, a father desperately searching for his missing son—memories start surfacing. Memories she should not have. Because Seo Yoon has seen that missing boy before. But that’s impossible. As she is drawn deeper into a past that was stolen from her, Seo Yoon begins to unravel a terrifying truth: not all missing children stay missing. Some are given new lives, new identities. Some are never meant to be found. And some… never left at all. The real horror isn’t just that people disappear. It’s that society forgets them. Until it’s too late. Based on Real Life Cases.
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