"Kim Seolhyun" Seolhyun introduced 10 books she read in the first half of 2026.
On the 6th, a video titled "First-half(?) reading settlement of account Kim Seolhyun's Kkokko book" was released on actor Kim Seolhyun's YouTube channel. Seolhyun said she is not an expert on the books she read and gave purely personal impressions. She picked three books as the best among them, and No. 1 was Project Hail Mary, and No. 2 was Yang Gwi-ja's The contradiction.
Seolhyun said, "How did you write it in the '90s? Why did I only read this now? Even looking at it now, problematic issues arise," and "While I am attracted to these men, I feel contradictions. After an incident, the protagonist thinks, 'There is no perfect happiness, nor complete unhappiness.' I can understand all of this. Being human, one can be contradictory." The novel's content is about the protagonist Ahn Jin-jin seeing two men she might marry with opposite traits and making a completely contradictory choice.
Seolhyun said, "The sentence, 'In any choice there exists happiness and unhappiness. Choice is not about choosing happiness but about choosing which unhappiness I will endure,' is always a sentence I think about," and she added, "While reading 'The contradiction,' I was struck by the phrase 'the volume of life.' Life is full of contradictions, but isn't a person's life shown by choices made from contradictions? I also want to live increasing the volume of my life," writing and presenting a concise book review that drew attention.
[Photo credit] "Kim Seolhyun," Seolhyun channel
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