This piece, published in KLN Vol. 69, is a review of Kim Jiyun’s novel Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat, and it highlights the novel’s gentle depiction of ordinary people and their quiet resilience. The work shows Old Jang, the protagonist, discovering a green diary, and how this leads the laundromat’s visitors to connect and heal through small acts of kindness and sympathy. The nuanced German rendition by Tamina Hauser beautifully conveys the human sentiments and emotional texture of everyday Korean life.