신기한 항아리·코에서 나온 쥐·도깨비감투

Pros

• The series fills a niche for language learners who want to start reading outside a textbook. Although Korean is becoming a more popular language, there is still an unfortunate lack of graded reading material.
• It's monolingual! The cultural notes, comprehension questions, and vocabulary definitions are all in Korean. I much prefer simplified Korean explanations over English translations.
• The stories are divided into chapters, comprising several paragraphs that are roughly the same size. I found this helpful for my motivation as well as being convenient to have regular places to pause and re-read or look up vocabulary.
• There is free audio available, so you can listen along as you read.

Cons

• These particular stories may not have been the best choices for the first volume of the series. Perhaps I'm just used to fairy tales having a certain narrative structure, but the stories lack resolution and just seem to trail off... Making them pretty forgettable.
• The glossary is at the back of the book, which isn't very useful, regardless of whether you're reading the physical or digital edition. Footnotes would have been more convenient.
• Cultural notes are included in one chapter of each story, which breaks the flow of the narrative. It isn't narrated in the audio, so the reader either has to pause the track or skip the paragraph, so it doesn't seem well-placed in the text.

Overall, it's entertaining enough, and introduces a decent amount of vocabulary. I'll definitely be reading more from the series!