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Hakuda Photo Studio

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Pub Date 31 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2025

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Description

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.

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...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781399823470
PRICE £10.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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