underrated korean fiction✨️
fiction by korean authors that i feel deserve more attention /or/ are well read and i want to rec to people even more! 🙂↕️
pls feel free to leave recs in the comments!!
created by thetravellingcat
last updated January, 2026
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I like this idea, I havent read any of them! Is there a particular genre/theme included, or a mix? How did you find these?
definitely a mix of genres! i think there's at the very least something for everybody in this list since it crosses over genres, anything from lit fiction, horror bordering fantasy, thrillers to speculative fiction, it just so happens that i read pretty much anything i think sounds interesting haha. I actually found them mainly through library systems! deliberately searching for translated fiction helped me come across most of these and the more of them i read the more i was recommended books of similar ideas 🙂↕️ i also follow bookshops or stores that are specific to translated books like the honnomushi cat bookshop on instagram! they're great at posting updates on upcoming books :^)
I see a TTMIK book on here, are you learning korean too?👀
yeah! i have been for the past good few years! it's been something like 6 years or so now! i really like the ttmik books 🙂↕️🙂↕️ blue jindo dog was just so good?? like i wasnt expecting all that much story wise from a language learning book tbh ! but it was great, their resources are really good 🙂↕️
That's awesome! I was going to get that one but then I found a Korean children's bookstore in America and accidentally blew my book budget there instead😅
omg thats wild, thats great that u have access to that!! i usually buy off of aladin or ebay, thank god for aladin honestly they do great second hand books
I was so excited when I found it! I'll have to look into aladin! I've never heard of it before
its great! loads of second hand books so good prices 🙂↕️ i usually use delivered korea as a proxy to get the books delivered to me but im not in the US so im not sure how it would work for urself!
