Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

By Hwang Bo-Reum, Shanna Tan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Rated 3.50 out of 5 based on 14 customer ratings

(15 customer reviews)

$12.99

Published on: April 22, 2025

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. After quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

For the first few months all Yeongju does is cry, but the long hours in the shop also give her time to mull over what makes a good bookseller and store. As she starts to read hungrily, host author events, and develop her own bookselling philosophy, she eases into her new setting. Surrounded by friends, writers, and the books that connect them all, she finds her new story as the Hyunam-dong Bookshop transforms into an inviting space for lost souls to rest, heal, and remember it’s never too late to scrap the plot and start again.

Available in EPUB, PDF, Audiobook, and Hardcover

Supported On: Kindle, iPad, Kobo, Android, Calibre, GPB

Category: Fiction

Tag: books about books

About the Author

Hwang Bo-Reum

117 books · 507k followers

Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel, which has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before its release as a paperback, the novel was initially published as an e-book after winning an open contest co-organised by Korean content-publishing platform ‘Brunch’.

대학에서 컴퓨터공학을 전공하고 LG전자에서 소프트웨어 개발자로 일했다. 몇 번의 입사와 퇴사를 반복하면서도 매일 읽고 쓰는 사람으로서의 정체성은 잃지 않고 있다. 지은 책으로 『매일 읽겠습니다』, 『난생처음 킥복싱』, 『이 정도 거리가 딱 좋다』가 있다.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 2022

15 reviews for Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Rated 3 out of 5

Emma Torres (verified owner) – April 12, 2025

Quietly powerful and deeply personal. I’m still thinking about “Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop”—that ending??
Rated 3 out of 5

Anna Clark (verified owner) – April 12, 2025

Witty, clever, and surprisingly moving. 🤔
Rated 4 out of 5

Kwame Abebe (verified owner) – April 12, 2025

A reflection on life, loss, and what it means to grow. 💡
Rated 3 out of 5

Freja Parker (verified owner) – April 13, 2025

A rollercoaster of emotions with the best punchlines. 🎢 My laptop handled it like a champ. Zero lag! ⚡ There’s something about writing that just *clicks* with me.
Rated 5 out of 5

Ines Dimitrov (verified owner) – April 14, 2025

I laughed, I cried, and then I laughed again! 🤣 Read it on my Kobo — super smooth! Hwang Bo-Reum has officially become my comfort author. The PDF file was top-notch. A joy to read.
Rated 3 out of 5

Isidora Zhang (verified owner) – April 14, 2025

A reflection on life, loss, and what it means to grow. 💡 Once again, Hwang Bo-Reum pulled me into a world I didn’t want to leave.
Rated 3 out of 5

Kwame Bennett (verified owner) – April 15, 2025

“Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop” just unlocked a core memory I didn’t know I had. So beautifully written, I had to pause and reflect. 🧘‍♀️
Rated 3 out of 5

Isabella Li (verified owner) – April 15, 2025

Read it in EPUB — no formatting issues at all! 🙌 Every page challenged my perspective on life. 💭
Rated 4 out of 5

Benjamin Larsen (verified owner) – April 15, 2025

Perfect weekend read on my old-school Nook ☕ Hwang Bo-Reum is the reason I’m emotionally unstable today (thank you). Witty, clever, and surprisingly moving. 🤔
Rated 4 out of 5

Logan Ivanov (verified owner) – April 15, 2025

Felt like walking through a dream. I want Hwang Bo-Reum to narrate my life with this kind of prose.
Rated 4 out of 5

Sade Lewis (verified owner) – April 17, 2025

I laughed, I cried, and then I laughed again! 🤣
Rated 3 out of 5

Laila Bianchi (verified owner) – April 17, 2025

Every page challenged my perspective on life. 💭 Read it on my phone — super smooth! “Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop” felt like a rollercoaster I never wanted to end.
Rated 4 out of 5

Sofia Tanaka (verified owner) – April 17, 2025

How does Hwang Bo-Reum manage to make every book a masterpiece? Totally caught me off guard in the best way. 😂
Rated 3 out of 5

James Hernández (verified owner) – April 18, 2025

Hwang Bo-Reum has officially become my comfort author. I genuinely didn’t know a book could do this to me. “Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop” is THAT book. Read it on my laptop — super smooth! Quietly powerful and deeply personal.
Rated 4 out of 5

Isabella Hernández (verified owner) – April 18, 2025

Hwang Bo-Reum is the reason I’m emotionally unstable today (thank you). So beautifully written, I had to pause and reflect. 🧘‍♀️