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Hwang Sunwoo

Biography

Hwang Sunwoo

Hwang Sunwoo, also from Busan, is now living in Seoul with her cohabitant, Kim Hana. She has worked as a features director for the fashion magazine W Korea for many years and is an editor, essayist and interviewer. Co-author of the book and co-host of the podcast "Two Women Living Together," her other books include YOU'LL DIE DOING YOUR BEST and THE COURAGE TO SAY I LOVE YOU. When she’s not working, she spends her time as a recreational athlete and amateur musician.

Hwang Sunwoo

Books by Hwang Sunwoo

Two Women Living Together
written by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo, translated by Gene Png - Memoir, Nonfiction

When most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo chose independence. But in their 40s, something shifted, and they were met with a new, unexpected loneliness. Refusing to settle for the outdated choice between marriage or isolation, Hana and Sunwoo made a radical decision: to buy a home and live together --- not as lovers or roommates, but as chosen family. Now a bustling household of two women and four cats, Hana and Sunwoo still value solitude, but can do so while sharing a life and its meaning with someone else. Together they navigate the challenges and comforts of cohabiting in midlife, the growing pains of interdependence, and the unexpected rewards of compromise when you’ve grown set in your ways.