
Author guide
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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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Her internationally acclaimed fiction debut and most widely translated work.

Every Day I Read
Her first published book and a representative introduction to her essays about reading and literary life.
Read in order
Books by series
publisher-series · ongoing
First Time
A nonfiction series published in Korea; Hwang Bo-reum contributed the volume on kickboxing.
- 1 Kickboxing for the First TimeAmazon ↗
Book 1 · memoir · 2020
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (2)
Nonfiction (1)
- A Simple LiferAmazon ↗
memoir · 2023