The Little Fool Novice is a picture book rooted in Korea's own cultural sensibility — a story of the heart that invites children and adults alike to read together and touch something clear and pure within themselves. In an old temple five hundred years worn, there lives a boy for whom everything in the world is a source of delight and wonder. He befriends a squirrel without a second thought, and his heart goes out to a mouse squeaking with hunger. For this, he is teased and called a fool. One da...
This is a cross between a picture book and an a short story. I recommend that you look at the sample (either on google Play or Yes24, although Google Play's is longer). This was a pretty enjoyable story following the life of monks in a buddhist temple, but with children added into the mix.
Grammar is fairly basic, it's the vocab that ups the difficulty of this book a lot. There are quite a number of buddhism related words, which you'll probably need to look up. This also mean that you cannot rely on papago and the like, because some of those words aren't even on Naver dictionnary!
One word that I particularly struggled with is 정랑, which doesn't mean a lover/sweetheart in this case but actually refers to a toilet in a buddhist temple.