The Antique Gift Shop (Hangul: ; RR: Bun'nyeoye Seonmulgage) is a manhwa created by Lee Eun. In the United States Yen Press (originally Ice Kunion) publishes the series. The series is still being released in the U.S.
The series is about Bun-nyuh Cho, a girl who once attended the famous S University with stellar grades who was tricked by her grandmother to run an antique shop instead. But the cursed antiques have their own way of selecting and affecting the lives of their new owners, or mysteriously finding a way back to their old masters.
Bun-nyuh is a modern girl who can't stand her new job as shop proprietor, speaks her mind, hates everything superstitious and doesn't believe in things that can't be explained by science. Originally slated to go to medical school, she makes a bet with her grandmother that if she is able to sell all the antiques in the shop, she will be free to live the life she chooses. If she does not, she must give up her modern lifestyle and follow in her grandmother's footsteps as a shaman in the family business.
In the United States the first volume was originally released in November 2005, while the second appeared in February 2006 and the third appeared in May 2006. Now published by Yen Press, volumes five and six were finally released in the U.S. August and December 2008.
Read more about The Antique Gift Shop: Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Volume Four, Volume Five, Volume Six, List of Characters
Famous quotes containing the words antique and/or shop:
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessèd and could bless.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)