Hakuda Photo Studio

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.

Product details

• Authors: Her Tae Yeon, Her Taeyeon, Her Tae Yeon
• Assisted by: Shanna Tan (Translation)
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781399823470
• ISBN: 978-1-399-82347-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, South Korea, FICTION / World Literature / Korea, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary