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남의 둥지, 낯선 알

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먼 제비, 제1권

남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al)

Product Details

Language
Korean
Reading Level
B1B1 — Intermediate
Print Length
190 pages Reading time is roughly equivalent to 627 pages of English reading. Different retailers may estimate print length differently.
Reading Time
10h 3m
Publication Date
September 2026
ISBN-13
9798235742062

Summary

For years a family in Seoul has been telling the same story: their grandfather painted a mountain under a low moon, and the picture hangs today in a museum in Paris. Nobody disputes where it is. Nobody can say how it got there.

Yun Jae-seong spent nine years in London building the paper trails that let wealthy buyers purchase without asking questions. Now he reads the same documents backwards, for a small Seoul organization that sends things home.

He is tracking down who held the painting during a thirty-three-year gap in its history, and how it made its way to Paris. What he has is a few scraps of paper and a handful of witnesses who have stayed quiet for years. But they are starting to talk, and what they say does not match the record.

Written for B1 readers. If you can follow a Korean news article with occasional dictionary help, you can read this. The prose starts short and concrete and thickens across twenty-five chapters, closing in early B2.

This is original fiction, written in Korean at this level — not a simplified rewrite of someone else's book. Every chapter ends with a language note, words drawn from that chapter, and a page from Jae-seong's notebook. Book 1 of 먼 제비, a five-book series running B1 to C1 on the CEFR scale.

Formatted Content in This Book

Told partly through in-story documents and messages — not just narration.

  • 25× Notebook Entries in this book Notebook Entries Handwritten notes scrawled mid-investigation — new vocabulary included.
  • 6× Emails in this book Emails An email exchange that moves the story forward, one reply at a time.
  • 3× Official Documents in this book Official Documents A government or institutional document, right down to the letterhead.
  • 3× WhatsApp Conversations in this book WhatsApp Conversations Eavesdrop on a private thread, exactly as the characters typed it.
  • 1× Instagram Post in this book Instagram Post A social post pulled straight from a character's feed, comments and all.
  • 1× Legal Document in this book Legal Document A legal filing that turns out to matter a lot more than it looks.
  • 1× Meeting Minutes in this book Meeting Minutes The official minutes from a meeting that changes everything.
  • 1× Field Report in this book Field Report A real inspection report — findings, letterhead, and all.
  • 1× News Article in this book News Article A full news story, laid out like real press coverage.
  • 1× Annual Report in this book Annual Report An organization's annual report, with a line worth reading twice.
  • 1× Community Noticeboard in this book Community Noticeboard A neighborhood noticeboard, exactly as a local would walk past it.

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