The Antique Gift Shop (Korean: 분녀네 선물가게; RR: Bunnyeone Seonmulgage) is a manhwa created by Lee Eun.
[1] The series is about Bun-nyuh Cho, a girl who once attended the famous S University with stellar grades who was tricked by her grandmother to run an antique shop instead.
Originally slated to go to medical school, she makes a bet with her grandmother that if she is able to sell all the antiques in the shop, she will be free to live the life she chooses.
[5] Chapter 3: The Secret Garden, part 1 The tale of a love triangle between three high school students, Eun-jae, Yang-ji and Dan-soo that almost ends badly but for the help of Mr. Yang and an antique diary that can only be read when moistened with tears.
[7] Chapter 4: The Secret Garden, conclusion Mr. Yang comes to Bun-nyuh's rescue with the help of an antique back scratcher and places the talisman around her neck once more.
Raised by her grandmother in a small, quiet village in rural Korea, young Bun-nyuh's first encounter with the cursed antiques results in tragedy.
In turn, Mr. Yang tells the mobsters about a peculiar ritual called "bosam" which may help Yun-ook rewrite her own destiny.
When Mr. Yang takes a vacation for the first time, Bun-nyuh is left alone in the shop with her cursed antiques on a rainy day.
She has always had a phobia of rain, since two of the saddest events of her life occurred on rainy days, and hides herself in a closet, ignoring her customers.
[12] Chapter 9: Bun-hong The story of Bun-nyuh's mother is finally revealed, as is the mysterious way she died.
Seeing through a pair of antique glasses she uses to disguise herself, Bun-nyuh finds herself suddenly attracted to the doctor!
[15] Chapter 13: Kumari Soon, part 1 Bun-Nyuh lets a beautiful woman with a knack for selling antiques take charge of the shop.
She was raised by her grandmother in the rural countryside of Korea but abandoned in Seoul at a young age on a rainy night.
[25] Though she is able to see spirits and ghosts, she stubbornly refuses to admit belief in anything that can't be explained by science.
When he is not dressed in his shop uniform and apron, he dons archaic embroidered robes and very old-fashioned clothing.
In brief moments in the manhwa, their relationship can be characterized as "intimate," as when they go to the movies together,[27] when he puts her to bed as she recovers from a hangover,[26] when he saves her from being raped by the mongdalgui possessed Dan-soo,[29] and when he tells the hwatu characters to cheer her up while he's gone because he knows it will rain.
She is mysteriously under a curse and is constantly hounded by a 'spirit guide' who takes the form of a woman in white with long hair.
Ie-rang Ha/Nae-soong Ha: Bun-nyuh's best friend in high school who subsequently became a popular Korean actress.
Dan-soo: One of the most good looking and popular boys in school, his classmates are unaware that he made a pact with cursed ghosts called mongdalgui in order to get that way.
Over time, he begins to lose control to the mongdalgui and lust after more women and even tries to force himself on Yang-ji and Bun-nyuh.
Yun-ook: A headstrong mob daughter who is in love with her childhood friend Tae-joo, but can't have him because of a prophecy that she will kill her first husband.
They have pale faces and dress all in black as they carry a list in the form of a scroll with the names of the dead when they work.
Faulted for being 'weak minded' as a shaman, she was possessed and then went insane, was cursed to act like a child for the remainder of her days.
She ran away from home and worked in a beauty salon for a time, conceived Bun-nyuh with the son of a wealthy family, and then came back.