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Hwang Bo-reum

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Hwang Bo-reum Books in Order

Hwang Bo-reum is a South Korean writer who worked as a programmer before leaving her career to write full-time. She began publishing essays about reading, exercise, personal boundaries, and simple living before making her fiction debut with Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. Her work often explores reading, work, emotional recovery, independence, and everyday forms of fulfillment.

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Cover of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Her internationally acclaimed fiction debut and most widely translated work.

Cover of Every Day I Read

Every Day I Read

Her first published book and a representative introduction to her essays about reading and literary life.

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Books by series

publisher-series · ongoing

First Time

A nonfiction series published in Korea; Hwang Bo-reum contributed the volume on kickboxing.

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    Kickboxing for the First Time

    Book 1 · memoir · 2020

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Outside the series

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Novels (2)
  1. Cover of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
    Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

    novel · 2022

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  2. The Upstairs Couple

    novel · 2026

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Nonfiction (1)
  1. A Simple Lifer

    memoir · 2023

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Essays and speeches (2)
  1. Cover of Every Day I Read
    Every Day I Read

    essay-collection · 2017

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  2. This Distance Feels Just Right

    essay-collection · 2020

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