Good Old-fashioned Korean Spirit: a Graphic Novel
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · October 7, 2025
Acclaimed creators Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada are back with a lightly creepy yet hilarious young adult graphic novel about first love and friendship—perfect for fans of Huda F Cares and Pumpkinheads.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact, spirit-forward graphic novel with a clear YA comic sensibility.
- Genres
- YA Historical Comics, YA LGBTQ+ Comics, YA Paranormal Comics
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, October 7, 2025
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Acclaimed creators Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada are back with a lightly creepy yet hilarious young adult graphic novel about first love and friendship—perfect for fans of Huda F Cares and Pumpkinheads. It's almost Daeboreum in 1980s South Korea—a holiday that celebrates the first full moon of the year. Taehee couldn't care less. All she wants is to spend time with her boyfriend Kiwoo, avoid her controlling father, and play music for her mask dance club.
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But Taehee's weird granny and her even weirder friends have other plans for Taehee: they drag her, Kiwoo, and the rest of the dance club to their remote farm to celebrate Daeboreum...the old-fashioned way. As the group arrives at the farm, Taehee overhears her granny talking about ceremonies, ghosts, and possibly (probably) sacrificing her friends to evil spirits. And if that's not bad enough, Taehee just said those Three Little Words to Kiwoo that he can't seem to say back. Meanwhile, her friends are running wild with secrets—ones they definitely don't want the grannies to overhear. It seems like everyone is up to no good. The first full moon of the year is about to arrive, and with it confessions that threaten to change everything. That is, of course, if they all make it out alive. Featuring beloved characters from Banned Book Club and No Rules Tonight, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit is a standalone story that melds tradition with the unexpected, and the spooky with the sweet.
Spirited Pages
A compact, spirit-forward graphic novel with a clear YA comic sensibility.
Come here for
- graphic-novel coming-of-age
- YA romance-comics lane
Expect
- sustained read
- teen-girl focus
Where it sits
| YA LGBTQ+ Comics | 37% |
|---|---|
| YA Historical Comics | 31% |
| YA Paranormal Comics | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Graphic Novels
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics
- YA Humorous Comics
- Authors
- Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- October 7, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Graphic Novels