Hwang Bo-reum Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Hwang Bo-reum is a Korean author. She was born on December 21, 1999.

She is a model and an actress from South Korea. She started her career in acting with the web series on Naver TV “The World of My 17”.

Hwang was born on December 21, 1999 in South Korea, in Changwon, South Gyeongsang. She won the 2019 Miss Chunhyang beauty pageant.

She studied computer science and was employed as a software engineer. Hwang wrote a few essay collections, including I Read Every Day, the collection I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time, and the collection This Distance is Perfect.

Her first novel is Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. It did very well and sold over one hundred and fifty thousand copies in the country of Korea. It has been sold in nine territories. Before it was released as a paperback, this book was published as an electronic book. This was done after winning an open contest that was co-organized by ‘Brunch’, a Korean content-publishing platform.

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is the first fictional book from Hwang Bo-reum. It is a USA Today bestseller as well as a national independent bestseller and Indie Next Pick.

It was one of the most anticipated books of 2024 as well as a Pick of the Month from Powell. It was also a Best Book of the Year So Far from Bookshop.

It was a Korean hit available in English for the first time. It also is a slice of life novel that is perfect for those who love works like The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.

Yeongju is the main character in this story. She is tired and close to burning out. Or maybe she’s reached the point of being burned out already. She’s always had a career that is really high-flying, as well as a marriage that is demanding, and is engaged in her quite busy life in the city of Seoul.

Yeongju understands that she should feel successful at the moment, but the only thing that she feels is utterly drained. She still has a dream and when it comes to taking a leap of faith, she’s game. She decides to take that chance and leave her old life behind her in the past.

She decides that it’s time to not only quit her job but to go through with a divorce from her husband. She chooses to move to a small neighborhood located just outside of the city. There she decides to open her Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

For the first couple of months, the only thing that Yeongju is able to do is to cry. She also is spending lots of long hours sitting in the shop, which gives her the chance to start to think about what it is that makes up a good bookseller as well as a store.

She begins to read tons more, host author events, and come up with her own philosophy of book selling. As she does this, she starts to find that the new setting is easier to get into than ever. She is surrounded by writers, friends, and the books that connect all of them.

This is the new story for this character, the chance to start over again in her life. The bookshop becomes the place where souls who have been lost through time can find some rest, can heal up, and they can recall that it is not too late in life to take the plot, scrap it, and begin again.

Read this book to find out what happens in a fantastic debut from Hwang Bo-reum!