Name: Book Meetup - Second Chance Convenience Store
Start: 2025-12-20T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-20T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Wegmans Davis Drive

Come join us for the December Book Meetup. This month we will be reading **Second Chance Convenience Store** by Kim Ho-Yeo.

**Book Synopsis**
Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. He can’t remember his past, and the only thing he knows for certain is that he could really use a drink. When he finds a lost wallet filled with documents, his life is drastically changed.
Mrs. Yeom, a retired history teacher and current owner of her neighborhood’s corner store, is distraught over the loss of her purse, until she receives a mysterious call from the person who found it. To thank this down-on-his-luck stranger, she offers him a free meal from the convenience store. Seeing the joy the food brings him, Mrs. Yeom impulsively invites him to stop by for lunch every day.

In a twist of fate, Dok-go saves the store from a robber—a brave act that propels Mrs. Yeom to offers the bear-like man a job working the night shift, despite the objections of her wary employees. The store’s new employee quickly wins over the quirky denizens of the neighborhood, becoming a welcoming ear and source of advice for his coworkers and neighbors’ problems, and helping his new boss save the store from financial ruin. But just when things are looking up for Dok-go, Mrs. Yeom's good-for-nothing son, eager to sell the store, hires a detective to dig into the mysterious man’s past and what he seems to be trying so hard to forget.

*The Second Chance Convenience Store* is a moving and joyful story of a woman fighting for her community and a man who has lost everything except the will to try again.

Buy or check out the book here:
[Barnes & Noble](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-second-chance-convenience-store-kim-ho-yeon/1146801553)
[Quail Ridge Books](https://quailridgebooks.com/book/9780063354777)
[Durham County Library (also in ebook if you search for it)](https://durhamcounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S217C375084)
[Wake County Library](https://catalog.wake.gov/Record/802225?searchId=148188609&recordIndex=1&page=1)
[Orange County Library](https://orangecountync.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S236C1293196)

**Korean Language Original Version:**
[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Korean-book-%EB%B6%88%ED%8E%B8%ED%95%9C-%ED%8E%B8%EC%9D%98%EC%A0%90-%EC%9E%A5%ED%8E%B8%EC%86%8C%EC%84%A4/dp/B09H55V1D1)
[Kyobo eBook](https://ebook-product.kyobobook.co.kr/dig/epd/ebook/E000002940137)

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