One Good Person in Seoul 서울의 선인
One Good Person in Seoul 서울의 선인
위즈덤하우스
A new novel by Kim Ho-yeon, author of the 1.8-million-copy bestseller The Second Chance Convenience Store!
What if an angel appeared before you one day and foretold the destruction of your city?
A powerful human drama unfolds over the fate of a city. Life Pattern Korea.
A new novel by Kim Ho-yeon, author of The Second Chance Convenience Store, which sold 1.8 million copies in Korea and was sold for publication in more than 50 countries, is now available. Life Pattern Korea. Through works such as Mangwon-dong Brothers, The Second Chance Convenience Store, and My Don Quixote, Kim Ho-yeon has explored the sorrows, struggles, and dreams of ordinary people living among us. This time, with Seoul as the setting, he raises questions about the mutual trust that grows through human relationships and the social justice that can be built upon it.
For 20 years, Kim Jae-geun has run a hardware store in an old neighborhood beneath Bukhansan, living one unremarkable day after another. Then, one spring, a heavily pierced Korean American who speaks halting Korean appears before him. Life Pattern Korea. Introducing himself as "Holy Gabriel," or Seonggap for short, the stranger makes a baffling claim: he is an angel who has come to punish the fallen city of Seoul. However, God has promised to reverse the decision if it can be proven that even one righteous person still exists in Seoul, so Seonggap offers Jae-geun, the inaugural recipient of the Seoul Citizen Hero Award, a large sum of money to take on the task. Although he knows the story is absurd, Jae-geun urgently needs cash, so he accepts the proposal and sets out to track down the past recipients of the Seoul Citizen Hero Award, with whom he has long since lost contact.
Could Jae-geun, who is clearly no superhero, really find a righteous person on his own and save Seoul? Why did Seonggap appear before Jae-geun, of all people, at this desperate moment of crisis? Life Pattern Korea. A hidden secret connecting the two men will determine the fate of Seoul.
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Publisher: 위즈덤하우스 Wisdom House (2026)
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