What Korea is reading right now

Books and authors ranked by search volume — when a story hits the screen, the novel climbs again.

What Korea is buying

The bestseller list. The ranking above is search volume; this is what people actually bought — looking up and buying are different things.

01빨강의 자서전앤 카슨
02트렌드 코리아 2027김난도
03가호무라카미 하루키
04쇼펜하우어 인생수업 (30만 부 기념 개정증보판)아르투어 쇼펜하우어
05세네카, 오늘을 빼앗기고 있는 당신에게루키우스 안나이우스 세네카
06싯다르타헤르만 헤세
07원피스 ONE PIECE 115오다 에이이치로
08모순양귀자
09가짜 돈 진짜 부박종훈
102027 공단기 소방단기 써니 행정법총론 기출문제집박준철

Source: YES24

Strongest right now

Ordered by recent momentum. We rank by change rather than scale — not the perennial sellers, but whatever is being talked about now.

Rising

Screen adaptations drive this — when a drama airs, its source novel climbs the next day. Awards do the same within a day.

Cooling off

Decline is information too — this is what's passing.

What the world searches for

Demand on YouTube in English (korean novel = 100). Measured as the median monthly view velocity of videos from the past year — raw view counts would unfairly punish newer uploads. Where it differs from the domestic ranking, that difference is the point.