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Kim Ho-Yeon
🇰🇷South Korea
Kim Ho-Yeon has captured hearts with The Last Chance Convenience Store and its follow-up The Second Chance Convenience Store — novels set in a small Korean convenience store where the elderly owner dispenses life advice alongside instant noodles and kimbap. The books are warm, funny, and gently wise, exploring how a humble neighborhood shop can become a sanctuary for people adrift in modern Seoul. Kim writes with an affection for ordinary life that never curdles into condescension, finding genuine warmth in the small transactions — commercial and emotional — that bind a community together.
