Hakuda Photo Studio

Her Taeyeon, Shanna Tan

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English

John Murray
01 August 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

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.

By: Her Taeyeon
Translated by: Shanna Tan
Imprint: John Murray
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781399823470
ISBN 10: 1399823477
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Her Tae-Yeon won the 11th Honbul Literary Award (the largest literary prize in Korea), for her novel The Man Who Dances Flamenco, written in memory of her late father. Her most recent book, The Fairy Godmother of the Hand Me Down World, was a Korean bestseller.