16. Summer in Seoul

I just finished read a novel title ‘ Summer In Seoul’. The novel written by Ilana Tan. I borrowed this novel from Zata. She and Dwi have read this novel first. I am curious about the plot so, I decided to borrowed it. At the beginning I bored to read it but fortunely it didn’t happen for a long time. Page by page I have read and make me more interesting to continue reading the novel. From the title we of course can guess that the setting is in Seoul, South Korea. Summer in Seoul talks abaout the girl who live in Seoul alone. She study there and while she is studying there, she also work at a famous boutique. Her parents stayed in Jakarta. Her father is Korean but he decided to live in Jakarta with her mother while she decided to study in Korea. He has a best friend who always there for her if she need her help.

One day, she back from his office. She felt so stress at the time because of her boss. She grumbled all the way and she came into a market to buy some foods. In the market she met a man who looked so mature, friendly and calm. When she in front of the cashier to pay the food that she took, she couldn’t find her wallet while the man stood behind her. She put outside all the things in her bag to make sure the wallet was in her bag. She take a long time to find her wallet so, the cashier let the man to pay first. Suddenly the man’s phone was ringing then he answered the call. After ended the phone, he put his phone on the chasier’s table. Before he put his phone on the chasier’s table, the girl already put her cellphone on the cashier’s table first and the man put his cellphone beside her cellphone. They have a same cellphone, the type, the colour and even the ringtone is same. After finished pay at the cashier’s the man took a wrong cellphone. He didn’t checked it first. He tought it was his cellphone so, he didn’t realize that he took the girl’s cellphone. The stiry began from that.

When she go out from the market, suddenly the phone was ringing. She answered the call but she confused because the man who made a call mentioned a strange name. the girl didn’t know who the man that he mean. After ended the call, she just realized that it wasn’t her. She was sure that the man took a wrong cellphone. She tried to call back the man who mentioned a strange name. The man who was in the market is a manager. His artist is a famous singer in Korea. The manager asked her to come to his house to bringing back the cellphone. When she arrived in his house, the manager welcomed her very well and said sorry for his mistakes. She also met with the artist. At the first time, there wasn’t something strange between them but finally they both fell in love each other and there are some obstacles that they must pass.

It’s a romantic story. It can make my imagination fly away. I imagine if I were is the girl I don’t know whether I can pass all off the obstacles or not. The girl can pass the obstacles patiently and always try to stay calm in every problem even it must be hard for her. Summer in Seoul is not the one and only Ilana Tan’s novel. There are also other novel like autumn in Paris, Winter in Tokyo and the last is Spring in London. I will read all of them and will tell you about the story later.