Busannamja namgimuk
Native title: 부산남자 남기묵
Translated title: Busan Man, Nam Gi-muk
Author: Yoon-gil, Lee
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 304 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91650
'Busan Man, Nam Gi-muk' is a maritime novel that follows the life of a Busan native who has lived alongside the sea. Nam Gi-muk, who grew up in the docks, breakwaters, and narrow alleys permeated by the salty wind, abandons a stable job on land and chooses the sea.
He is not a hero who braves the waves, but a worker on a deep-sea fishing boat, silently enduring the wear and tear of his body during repeated voyages. His days are a simple repetition of departure, fishing, and anchoring, but within that simplicity lies a layer of ineffable emotions and the remnants of choices.
Life on the sea is always a fraction of a second from death, and even survival is less a choice and more a coincidence. This novel portrays the sea not as a romantic but as a living reality, not as a memory but as a weight of the present tense. The sea becomes a question, not a consolation, and silence becomes a means of survival, not an avoidance
Poktanbeomgwa sarinbeom iyagi
Native title: 폭탄범과 살인범 이야기
Translated title: The Story of the Bomber and the Murderer
Author: Riko, Kubo
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91658
'You don't have to forgive me. You can hate me for the rest of your life'.
A mysterious story about a couple harboring secrets, woven together like a thread of love, draws readers in.
The 43rd Mystery Novel Rookie Award winner.
Sayoko lost her left eye in an explosion. Her husband, Kuuya, was actually the bomber who stole her eye. One day, a girl chasing the murderer appears before them, and the couple's daily life begins to crack... How far will they go to protect the one they love? A touching mystery masterpiece depicting the passionate yet chilling warmth of love! As the truth slowly emerges, a quiet snow falls in a corner of the reader's heart.
'It was a bomb I created in the past that took the left eye of the woman I love'
STEREO
Native title: 스테레오
Author: Su-jeong, Kim
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 181 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91634
Min Hyeol-ae (22), the vocalist of a famous idol band, is a two-faced person who pretends to care about his fans on the outside but hates them on the inside.
Then one day, he meets a woman named Do Jeong-in (24) who doesn't know that he is the vocalist of the famous idol band <STEREO>.
Min Hyeol-ae becomes interested in Do Jeong-in and falls in love with her without thinking.
When the idol band members, drummer Kim Jeong-yeo (21), electric guitarist Yoon Hee-do (22), keyboardist Lee Seong-chan (22), and bassist Yuk Jin-dam (22), find out, they are all surprised.
This is because until this point, Min Hyeol-ae had never liked a regular woman, not an idol girl
The Housemaid's Secret
Native title: 하우스메이드 2 하우스메이드의 비밀
Series: Book 2
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91640
Translated
'Never enter the guest room'. Millie, the protagonist of the best-selling book 'Housemaid', is back!
Her criminal record still makes it difficult for her to find a job. Her babysitting job, barely covering her rent, has been cut short by an unexpected incident. Just when she's lost track of how to live, a savior appears. She's hired as a housekeeper in a penthouse in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, New York. Douglas, the CEO of Coinstock, lives there and seems like the perfect man. At least, he seems so at first.
His wife, Wendy, never leaves the guest room on the second floor, and Millie is forbidden from entering it. Strange noises emanating from the guest room, dark red stains on the laundry, a bloody handprint on the sink. Feeling suspicious at home, Millie receives a call from a recruiting agency informing her that her job ad hasn't been posted yet due to credit card issues. A chill runs down her spine. How did Douglas know to contact her? It was clear that this couple was hiding something. And Millie is the type of person who can't let something like that pass her by. Absolutely not.
An intense psychological thriller with twists and turns!
Bomi ogi jeone
Native title: 봄이 오기 전에
Translated title: Before Spring Comes
Author: Bom, Han
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 336 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91633
Like everyone else, life is hard, and difficult moments weigh heavily on us. Just surviving is difficult. However, enduring those dark times isn't something grand.
A sincere word of encouragement, a comforting look, a hand, even the smallest support can be enough.
'Before Spring Comes' is a story that will brighten your day. From their past lives to this present, 'Bom,' 'Doyoung,' 'Seol,' and 'Yul' - woven like a tangled thread - travel through life, encountering warmth that will soothe your weary heart.
The unique charm of this book lies in discovering, alongside these four youths, the warmth that will bring 'spring' to your own winter
Jiwojin iljuil
Native title: 지워진 일주일
Translated title: Erased Week
Author: Su-jeong, Kim
Genre: Mystery / Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 283 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91635
A mystery romance unfolds as Yunseul, who has suffered daily abuse from her father since her mother's death, meets Hyun-yi, an intern at a time travel company!
Yunseul strives to save her mother, and Hyun-yi strives to start a new life.
Unexpected pasts are graduly revealed.
Readers will be surprised, cry, and laugh along with the protagonist!
Recommended for all lovers of romance and mystery novels
Wonangui kkum
Native title: 원앙의 꿈 현대문학 짧은 이야기 10
Translated title: The Dream of Mandarin Ducks
Author: Hoon, Sim
Genre: Social Novel / Short Stories
Year: 2026 | Pages: 220 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91648
Sim Hoon, a modern Korean novelist, is renowned for his lyrical yet realistic portrayals of human experiences of love, marriage, loss, and frustration amidst the oppressive reality of colonial Korea.
His masterpiece, 'The Dream of Mandarin Ducks', calmly depicts the gradual collapse of characters who dream of ideal love before the walls of social conditions and institutions, strikingly revealing that love cannot be sustained solely by individual emotions.
Rather than directly denouncing the grand tragedies of an era, Sim Hoon's novels naturally reveal the weight of reality through the cracks in the emotions and relationships of individuals living in that era. He unfailingly captures the social pressures and human suffering that permeate the private realms of love and marriage, and delicately depicts how everyday choices and hesitations can alter the course of life.
He also captures moments of love's excitement and frustration, hope and resignation intersecting with restrained prose, quietly conveying the vulnerability and compassion felt by humans in the face of reality
Bimil sogui bimil
Native title: 비밀 속의 비밀 2
Translated title: The Secret of Secrets
Series: Part 2
Author: Brown, Dan
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 504 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91638
Translated
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon's world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown's first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear
Jyudi halmeoni
Native title: 쥬디 할머니 소설가가 사랑하는 박완서 단편 베스트 10
Translated title: Grandma Judy
Author: Wan-seo, Park
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2026 | Pages: 364 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91646
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the passing of author Park Wan-seo, a deep root that has supported the Korean literary world and a giant treetop that has grown through generations, Munhakdongne is publishing a collection of Park Wan-seo short stories titled 'Grandma Judy - The Top 10 Park Wan-seo Short Stories Loved by Novelists'.
Since making her literary debut in 1970, Park Wan-seo has produced countless masterpieces, including novels like 'Namok', 'Who Ate All the Singa?', 'That Man's House' and 'Widow', as well as essay collections like 'Even a Grain of Truth', 'Just Say One Word' and 'If I Could Only Be a Traveler'. Her vibrant vitality continues to enthrall readers. Even while writing novels, which require considerable time, and prose, which captures fragments of her lived experiences, she has also published short stories with remarkable vigor.
'Grandma Judy' is a book designed to shed new light on the outstanding achievements of Park Wan-seo's short stories
Neoneun eopsneunde, naui modeun gyejeoreun neo
Native title: 너는 없는데, 나의 모든 계절은 너
Translated title: You Are Not There, but All My Seasons Are with You
Author: Idagam
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 54 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91653
I loved someone beyond my reach for four seasons.
You, who never existed, changed my entire life. You were never mine, but perhaps you were the reason I lived.
So she writes. To turn this impermanent love into an eternal story
