My Perfect Funeral

Author Cho Hyun-sun · Publisher Book Romance · Published 2026-01-21 · ISBN 9791124038192

About the Book

A story where the heart cries out the moment you let your guard down!

At night in a general hospital where life and death meet daily,
Peculiar orders left at the convenience store's night shift
Pile up one by one, bringing unexpected sweet warmth!

Cho Hyun-sun's full-length novel, 『My Perfect Funeral,』 is being released, offering both healing and suspense with warmth that fills the gaps in mundane life and intriguing imagination. It's a place where some run against the clock, while others can't easily sleep, staying up all night. Even after the tears stop, the lights remain on, and people hold their positions for their own reasons, awaiting the fate of life and death. Set in the convenience store on the first floor, right in the heart of that hospital, the story conveys unexpected cheerfulness and touching emotion at the cool boundary of life and death.

Na-hee, a twenty-year-old who started a night part-time job at the hospital convenience store to earn her university tuition, gradually realizes that the customers who visit late at night aren't just coming to buy things. As she can't refuse customers who ask for items not in the store and make odd requests, solving them one by one, she comes to understand that all of this was the last wish of customers who couldn't leave this world.

From dusk, those who come to the general hospital convenience store all wander the boundary between life and death, carrying big and small problems. There's the hairdresser who left her cat alone at her shop, the factory owner who single-handedly cares for his wife with dementia, the high school student who is isolated and confronting the world alone without a place to lean on, the scary grandmother who seems uncomfortable connected to all sorts of medical equipment, and the rare disease patient who was told she would die before adulthood but lived to be thirty. Without realizing it, Na-hee continuously takes care of their earnest wishes and conveys their feelings. And she learns that these tasks not only pave the way for the customers to depart but also serve as keys to help those left behind move forward again.

This novel layers processes of mourning, care, recovery, and growth on a fantastic setting that crosses the boundaries between the living and the dead. In the process of resolving misunderstandings and boundaries between characters and moving towards understanding and empathy, helping others at their end becomes a way of looking into one's own life, and the living finally discover reasons and directions to live. Thus, 『My Perfect Funeral,』 a story that looks back at the end and enables one to live again, offers those who endure each day without time to properly grieve in their fast-paced lives a moment to pause and reflect on their hearts. And after closing the book, you will naturally recall someone's face. Someone to whom you still have unspoken words.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue