4 titles, most popular first
A French woman who is struggling for money spends her days drifting, at one point playing a small recorder outdoors in a park. She starts giving French lessons to two women and finds comfort in simple pleasures, like lying down on rocks and drinking makgeolli.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
Three lonely people cross paths at a department store. Mi-jung, a stockroom worker, keeps to herself to avoid others' eyes; Yo-han, who works in the parking garage, is outgoing and loves rock music; and Kyung-rok has traded his dreams for a safe but empty life. Kyung-rok is drawn to Mi-jung right away.
Since her divorce, Yoon-hee has lived in the countryside with her teenage daughter Sae-bom. When Sae-bom finds a romantic letter written to her mother by Jun, a Korean-Japanese woman who went to school with Yoon-hee long ago, she senses her mother's deep loneliness and plans a trip to the snowy Japanese town of Otaru, where Jun lives.
