[DeepL Translation - needs review] Sang-hoon Han is an ordinary office worker.
One day, when he is late for work, he gets a note saying '12 hours later'...
This remains one of my favorite webnovels, and it's actually where I learned stock market related vocabulary in English.
The premise of the story is fairly simple: an office worker stumbles upon something that makes it so that he can receive news from the future, hence the title. He uses these news to do various things, but mainly takes advantage of his advanced knowledge to make money. None of the characters are too complex, but it really is a nice way to just learn how the stock market works.
And then comes the language learning part: you get to learn all that economics vocab as you read it! I expect that most people won't be able to read this without lookups, simply because those technical words are at the core of the action and if you don't understand them you won't get what's happening, but a lot of those words will be repeated throughout the series. This technical vocab aside, there's nothing too wild, no super long descriptions, so it is approachable as long as you're willing to do some lookups.
As for the grammar, there are quite a few advanced grammar points that show up throughout the book, and sentences can be a bit long (not excessively so, but definitely longer than what you'd find in 이꽃님's books), so that can make understanding sentences a bit more difficult as well.
So while I would certainly not recommend this as a starter book, I'd recommend it for anyone who's upper intermediate or advanced and who wants to learn stocks related vocab.
Enjoyable, and a way to learn technical vocab
This remains one of my favorite webnovels, and it's actually where I learned stock market related vocabulary in English.
The premise of the story is fairly simple: an office worker stumbles upon something that makes it so that he can receive news from the future, hence the title. He uses these news to do various things, but mainly takes advantage of his advanced knowledge to make money. None of the characters are too complex, but it really is a nice way to just learn how the stock market works.
And then comes the language learning part: you get to learn all that economics vocab as you read it! I expect that most people won't be able to read this without lookups, simply because those technical words are at the core of the action and if you don't understand them you won't get what's happening, but a lot of those words will be repeated throughout the series. This technical vocab aside, there's nothing too wild, no super long descriptions, so it is approachable as long as you're willing to do some lookups.
As for the grammar, there are quite a few advanced grammar points that show up throughout the book, and sentences can be a bit long (not excessively so, but definitely longer than what you'd find in 이꽃님's books), so that can make understanding sentences a bit more difficult as well.
So while I would certainly not recommend this as a starter book, I'd recommend it for anyone who's upper intermediate or advanced and who wants to learn stocks related vocab.