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Have you ever been on a summer holiday so good you never want to go home again? Jebi is tired of noisy, crowded Seoul and her dull job at a photography studio in the city. When she sees a billboard on her commute showing beautiful Jeju Island, she decides to quit her job and spend a summer there. On the last day of her trip, when she's due to fly back to her real life, she loses everything: phone, credit cards, plane ticket. Wandering through a fishing village, she stumbles across a tiny photo studio. Staying to work there, she meets and photographs a young couple who are about to get married, an elderly ex-cop haunted by questions from his past, and the Jeju haenyeos, a group of local women freedivers who gather sea urchins. The photos Jebi takes capture the magic of the island and its people.
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Hakuda Photo Studio, Her Tae-Yeon, Shanna Tan
- Language
- Released
- 2025
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Hakuda Photo Studio
- Subtitle
- The Feel-Good Korean Bestseller
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Her Tae-Yeon, Shanna Tan
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Released
- 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1399823477
- ISBN13
- 9781399823470
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature, Summer, Beaches, Korea, South Korea
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- Have you ever been on a summer holiday so good you never want to go home again? Jebi is tired of noisy, crowded Seoul and her dull job at a photography studio in the city. When she sees a billboard on her commute showing beautiful Jeju Island, she decides to quit her job and spend a summer there. On the last day of her trip, when she's due to fly back to her real life, she loses everything: phone, credit cards, plane ticket. Wandering through a fishing village, she stumbles across a tiny photo studio. Staying to work there, she meets and photographs a young couple who are about to get married, an elderly ex-cop haunted by questions from his past, and the Jeju haenyeos, a group of local women freedivers who gather sea urchins. The photos Jebi takes capture the magic of the island and its people.