Recommendation

First Lost Item: Totoro Pencil Case

Regret is a luxury
Go back to 2nd grade
Wise School Life 1
Wise School Life 2
Come back

Second lost item: diary

I'm in puberty, but 1 - Transfer student
It's Puberty 2 - First Love Reunited
I'm a teenager, but 3 - Nobody loves me
I'm in puberty 4 - Confession
It's puberty, but 5 - It's not my fault
Late meeting

Third lost item: a bag

It's not mine?
Dear Me 1 - Error
Dear Me 2 - That Child Back Then
Dear Me 3 - I Favor Myself
Dear Me 4 - I'm Sorry

Fourth lost item: cell phone

Items not lost
A call from the future
Coming events
That day
I'll wait in the future

A word of recommendation - The story I'm going to write will be written someday.
Readers' Notes - Our Stories

Ranked #1 in Millie's Bookstore's comprehensive bestseller list immediately after publication
A powerful comfort that goes back in time
Readers and writers alike cried and laughed!

* Highly recommended by authors who have read this book before

- After reading the explosively readable 『The Lost and Found』 in one sitting, I was overcome with a hazy feeling.
(…) This novel satisfies that desire that every adult has.
It brings back memories and regrets that were on the other side of our memory, and lets us know that this alone can be a great comfort.
-Park Sang-young (novelist)

- What the girl discovers in the time travel that started with the return of a lost item is surprisingly the hearts of others.
(…) This novel offers a warm promise to our childhood, which was not always beautiful.
Now you are not alone.
Finally, you will find something you like.
I want to believe in that promise together with lonely young adults like me.
-Yoo Ji-hye (writer)

* Actual reviews from readers who have read this book before

It's really nothing after it's over, but why were they so important back then? _pa****
A book that made me want to comfort myself and say, "Everything will pass" when I was going through a difficult time in my past. _B************e
Even during difficult times when we had to endure alone, we were not alone, but were surrounded by someone's affection. _Written by**
I have to go see you waiting in the future.
I will live well tomorrow with the comfort and encouragement these words give me _Z*****
A good book to read when life feels difficult _Ka****no
It feels like traveling with a good compass and map.
I was so absorbed in reading it _ho*****bo

A healing fantasy that began with a phone call
A delightful and touching time travel

A while ago, a drama depicted a story in which a protagonist who died unjustly was reborn from 10 years ago and took revenge on those who ruined him.
Another entertainment program showed the process of making a fortune by going back in time to the past and then to the future, and inferring the situation of the time with just a few lines of highlight news titles.
Watching the scenes that transcend time, some people may have felt nostalgic for that time, while others may have tried to place themselves in a time that goes backwards or backwards.
The thought, 'If I could go back to that time', brings up a lot of imagination.
And just imagining it brings moments of heartache, longing, or happiness.
If you could go back to just one moment, right now, where would you go, with whom, and what would you do? "The Lost and Found" cheerfully answers this curious question with a time travel story that begins with a single phone call, and delivers a poignant message of strength to live today.

To my strongest supporter
Time for a friendly handshake

Author Kim Hye-jeong, who calls herself a story nerd, has collected the fragments of stories that she had not been able to tell while writing numerous novels and has now written her first full-length novel for adults, 『The Lost Item Has Returned』.
This book contains a fresh and powerful comfort that only a 'story nerd' could imagine.


The story unfolds as the protagonist Hye-won sequentially searches for items she lost in the past.
Hye-won, who works in the management team of an entrance exam prep school, receives an unexpected phone call.
The person on the phone said that he was keeping Hye-won's belongings and asked her to come and get them.
I went to look for the lost item with some doubts, and it turned out to be a Totoro pencil case that I had treasured so much when I was nine years old.
He was delighted to find his pencil case, which he thought was lost forever, but was soon shocked to realize that something unbelievable had happened.
The twenty-seven-year-old self went back in time and became a nine-year-old in the second grade of elementary school.
Hye-won, who relives those days, receives praise for memorizing the multiplication table and eating side dishes without complaining. She also meets a friend she didn't get along with and pours out words she couldn't bring herself to say back then.
Afterwards, he returns to the present, but soon receives a call that another lost item is being kept.


Hyewon meets many people again in her repetitive daily life.
Readers naturally empathize with and feel sorry for the conflicts that often arise between friends, family, and colleagues, and then secretly cheer on Hye-won as she confidently resolves the situation.
In the midst of so many people and situations, we eventually come to see Hye-won's true self and ourselves.
After passing through childhood and school, we naturally enter a busy, competitive society.
It's common to spend each day on edge, always looking out for the world around us.
If you keep repeating that life like a hamster wheel, you will eventually forget the obvious fact that the person who will protect you the most is you.
This book, covering the past, present, and future, tells us that in order to maintain a good relationship with someone you want to get along with, you must take the time to care for your own mind, the source of your own strength, just as you must regularly observe and care for the other person.
And I hope that 'I', who was difficult in my teens, exhausted in my 20s, sick in my 30s, staggering in my 40s, and tired in my 50s, will safely get through these times and happily meet the 'me' who stands next time.
Now is the time to give a friendly handshake to all the me of all time.


“I sincerely hope that you will safely pass through your youth and come to see me, and go to meet me in your middle and old age.” - From the author’s words