Korean Web Novels โ Complete Reading Order Guide
Korean Web Novels (์น์์ค) have exploded in popularity with hits like Solo Leveling, Omniscient Reader, and The Second Coming of Gluttony. This guide covers the best Korean web novels with reading order, where to start, and where to read them legally in English.
Trash of the Counts Family
๋ฐฑ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง๋๋๊ฐ ๋์๋ค
A Korean man wakes up as a trash noble in a novel. He is changing the story.
Who Made Me a Princess
์ด๋ ๋ ๊ณต์ฃผ๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค
Reincarnated as a princess in a novel. She just wants to survive and maybe find love.
The S-Classes That I Raised
S-class ์ ๋ น๋ค์ ํค์์๋ณด๋๋ค
He raised S-class hunters. Now they are the most powerful in the world.
I Reincarnated as the 7th Prince
์ 7์์๋ก ํ์ํ์ผ๋ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ณ ์ง๋ถํต์ด๋ค
Reincarnated as the 7th prince with a stubborn personality and overwhelming magic power.
Kill the Hero
์์ ์ ์ฃฝ์ฌ๋ผ
He was a hero. Now he is back to kill the heroes who betrayed him.
The Player Hides His Past
ํ๋ ์ด์ด๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์จ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๋ค
A player with a hidden past. The dungeons hold secrets he would rather keep buried.
Regression of the Close-Combat Mage
๊ทผ์ ์ ํฌ ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ์ ํ๊ท
A close-combat mage regrets his life. Given a second chance, he will do it right.
The Dark Lords Confession
๋ง์์ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ
The dark lord has a confession to make. It is not what you think.
My Three Tyrant Brothers
๋ด ํญ๊ตฐ ํ์ ๋ค
Reincarnated as the sister of three tyrant brothers. Keeping them in line is a full-time job.
Father I Do Not Want This Marriage
์๋ฒ์ง, ์ด ๊ฒฐํผ ์์น ์์ต๋๋ค
An arranged marriage she wants no part of. But the prince might change her mind.
Actually I Was the Real One
์ฌ์ค ๋๊ฐ ์ง์ง์๋ค
She was the real princess all along. Now she is claiming her place in the palace.
The Perks of Being a Villainess
์ ๋ ์ ํน๊ถ
Being the villainess has its perks. She is going to enjoy this life to the fullest.
I Failed to Oust the Villain
์ ๋น์ ์ถ์ถํ๋ ๋ฐ ์คํจํ๋ค
She tried to oust the villain. She failed. Now she is stuck with him.
The Villainess Turns the Hourglass
์ ๋ ๋ ๋ชจ๋์๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค
Betrayed and killed, she turns back time with an hourglass. This time, she will not lose.
Death Is the Only Ending for the Villainess
์ ๋ ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์๋ฉ์ ์ฃฝ์๋ฟ
Every route ends in death. She must find the one path that leads to survival.
The Male Leads Little Lion Daughter
๋จ์ฃผ์ ๋ธ์ด ๋์๋ค
She becomes the daughter of the male lead. A heartwarming story of family.
Beware the Brothers
๊ทธ ์ค๋น ๋ค์ ์กฐ์ฌํ์ธ์!
Beware the brothers. A story of a girl who must survive her dangerous siblings.
The Villainess is a Marionette
์ ๋ ๋ ๋ง๋ฆฌ์ค๋คํธ
The villainess is a marionette. She dances to the strings of fate.
Roxana
๋ก์ฌ๋
Roxana. A villainess who survives by any means necessary.
The Villainess Needs a Tyrant
์ ๋ ๋ ํญ๊ตฐ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค
The villainess needs a tyrant. A political romance of power and survival.
I Am the Real Villain
๋๋ ์ง์ง ์ ๋ ๋ค
I am the real villain. A villainess who embraces her role with flair.
The Villainess Lives Twice
์ ๋ ๋ ๋ ๋ฒ ์ฐ๋ค
The villainess lives twice. A second chance to rewrite her fate.
Doctor Elise
์ธ๊ณผ์์ฌ ์๋ฆฌ์
Doctor Elise. A surgeon reincarnates into a fantasy world.
Surgery on a Deserted Island
๋ฌด์ธ๋์์ ์ธ๊ณผ์์ฌ
Surgery on a deserted island. A doctor stranded in paradise.
The Great Doctor is My Sister
๋ด ์ฌ๋์์ ๋ช ์๋ค
The great doctor is my sister. A family story of medicine and love.
I Am a Daughter of a Genius Doctor
์ฒ์ฌ ์์ฌ์ ๋ธ์ ๋๋ค
I am a daughter of a genius doctor. A story of inherited talent.
The Princess is a Doctor
๊ณต์ฃผ๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The princess is a doctor. A royal healer with a secret.
The Emperor is a Patient
ํฉ์ ๋ ํ์์ ๋๋ค
The emperor is a patient. A doctor who treats the highest authority.
I Am the Kings Healer
๋๋ ์์ ์น์ ์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
I am the king healer. A healer who serves the crown.
The Duke is a Doctor
๊ณต์์ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The duke is a doctor. A noble physician with a hidden past.
The Lady is a Doctor
๋ ์ด๋๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The lady is a doctor. A noblewoman who practices medicine.
The Saint is a Doctor
์ฑ์๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The saint is a doctor. A holy healer who saves the world.
The Witch is a Doctor
๋ง๋ ๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The witch is a doctor. A magical healer who defies convention.
The Demon is a Doctor
์ ๋ง๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The demon is a doctor. A dark healer with a golden heart.
The Angel is a Doctor
์ฒ์ฌ๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The angel is a doctor. A divine healer who descends from heaven.
The Ghost is a Doctor
์ ๋ น์ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The ghost is a doctor. A spirit healer who walks between worlds.
The Robot is a Doctor
๋ก๋ด์ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The robot is a doctor. An android healer with a soul.
The Alien is a Doctor
์ธ๊ณ์ธ์ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The alien is a doctor. An extraterrestrial healer with advanced medicine.
The Vampire is a Doctor
๋ฑํ์ด์ด๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The vampire is a doctor. A blood-drinking healer who saves lives.
The Zombie is a Doctor
์ข๋น๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The zombie is a doctor. An undead healer who fights the plague.
The Mermaid is a Doctor
์ธ์ด๋ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The mermaid is a doctor. An aquatic healer of the deep.
The Dragon is a Doctor
์ฉ์ ์์ฌ์ ๋๋ค
The dragon is a doctor. A mythical healer with ancient wisdom.
The Second Coming of Gluttony
ํ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆผ
The second coming of gluttony. A sinner returns to redeem himself.
The Book Eating Magician
์ฑ ๋จน๋ ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ
The book eating magician. A mage devours books to gain their power.
The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
๋ฌ๋น ์กฐ๊ฐ์ฌ
The legendary moonlight sculptor. A sculptor becomes the greatest in a virtual world.
The Novel Extra
์์ค ์ ์์คํธ๋ผ
The novel extra. An author wakes up inside his own novel as an extra.
Dungeon Defense
๋์ ๋ํ์ค
Dungeon defense. A demon lord defends his dungeon with strategy and ruthlessness.
The Villain Wants to Live
์ ๋น์ด ์ด๊ณ ์ถ์ด
The villain wants to live. A game villain tries to survive his own story.
Omniscient Reader Viewpoint
์ ์ง์ ๋ ์ ์์
Omniscient reader viewpoint. The only reader who knows the ending of the world.
SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
SSS๊ธ่ชๆฎบํํฐ
SSS-class suicide hunter. Death is just another way to grow stronger.
Return of the Disaster-Class Hero
์ฌ์๊ธ ์์ ์ ํ๊ท
Return of the disaster-class hero. Humanity greatest hero returns from death.
Return of the Legendary Spear Knight
์ ์ค์ ์ฐฝ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ๊ทํ
Return of the legendary spear knight. A knight returns to claim his legend.
The Challenger
๋์ ์
The challenger. Climbing the tower to challenge the gods.
The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years
4000๋ ๋ง์ ๊ทํํ ๋๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ
The great mage returns after 4000 years. Magic has changed, but he has not.
The Great Demon King
๋๋ง์
The great demon king. A demon king returns to reclaim his throne.
The Max Level Hero Has Returned
๋ง๋ ํ์์์
The max level hero has returned. A hero awakens with all his power intact.
The Archmage Returns After 4000 Years
์ํฌ๋ฉ์ด์ง 4000๋ ํ์ ๊ทํ
The archmage returns after 4000 years. The greatest mage wakes from his slumber.
The Novel Extra
์์ค ์ ์์คํธ๋ผ
A minor character in a novel gains awareness of his fictional existence.
Dungeon Maker
๋์ ๋ฉ์ด์ปค
A dungeon builder creates labyrinths to protect humanity from monsters.
The Labyrinth Raids
๋ฏธ๊ถ ๊ณต๋ต
The strongest raider conquers the most dangerous labyrinth in the world.
Possessing Nothing
์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์๋ ๊ฒ
Reborn with nothing, he climbs from the bottom of the martial world.
The Constellation Sees
์ฑ์ข๊ฐ ๋ณธ๋ค
Constellations watch over selected humans, granting them godlike powers.
Kill the Hero
ํ์ด๋ก ํฌ๋ฌ
Betrayed and killed by the hero, he regresses to take revenge on everyone.
Reincarnated as a Genius
์ฒ์ฌ๋ก ํ์
A necromancer reincarnates as a genius student at a magic academy.
The Sword of Dawn
์ฌ๋ช ์ ๊ฒ
A wandering swordsman seeks the legendary Sword of Dawn to save his kingdom.
Player Who Returned 10000 Years Later
๋ง๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์จ ํ๋ ์ด์ด
A player trapped in a game world returns to Earth 10000 years later.
The Heavenly Demon Can Not Live a Normal Life
์ฒ๋ง๋ ํ๋ฒํ๊ฒ ์ด ์ ์๋ค
The heavenly demon reincarnates into a noble family and refuses to be ordinary.
The Second Coming of Avarice
ํ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆผ
A greedy man reincarnates with his memories and uses his avarice as a weapon.
Seoul Station's Necromancer
์์ธ์ญ ๋คํฌ๋ก๋งจ์
A necromancer returns to modern Seoul with powers from another world.
Duke Pendragon
๋๋๊ณค ์์ง
The sole heir of the Pendragon family must reclaim his dragon territory.
Return of the Disaster-Class Hero
์ฌ๋๊ธ ์์ ์ ๊ทํ
A disaster-class hero returns from the dead to clear his name.
I Reincarnated as the Villain in an Eroge
์๋ก๊ฒ ์ ๋น์ผ๋ก ํ์
A man reincarnates as the villain in an eroge game and tries to avoid his bad ending.
The Novel's Extra
์์ค์ ์์คํธ๋ผ
A minor character in a novel becomes aware of his fictional existence.
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
๊ทํ์์ ๋ง๋ฒ์ ํน๋ณํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค
A returner uses his future knowledge to prevent a catastrophic war.
F-Class Destined Hero
F๊ธ ์ฒ๋ช ์์
The weakest F-class hero regresses to become the destined savior.
I Am the Fated Villain
๋๋ ์ฒ๋ช ์ ์ ์ญ์ด๋ค
A man reincarnates as the fated villain and decides to play the role perfectly.
Max Level Player
์ต๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒจ ํ๋ ์ด์ด
A player reaches max level in a system world and discovers the truth behind it.
The Regressed Demon Lord
ํ๊ทํ ๋ง์
A demon lord regresses to his younger self and rebuilds his empire.
Reincarnated as a Sword
๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ์
A man reincarnates as a sentient sword and guides a young girl to greatness.
The Heavenly Demon Can Not Live a Normal Life
์ฒ๋ง๋ ํ๋ฒํ๊ฒ ์ด ์ ์๋ค
The heavenly demon reincarnates into a noble family and refuses to be ordinary.
Transcendent Academy
์ด์ ์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ
Students at a transcendent academy compete to become the strongest.
The Blade of Evolution
์งํ์ ์นผ๋
A blade that evolves with each battle becomes the most powerful weapon.
Absolute Threshold
์ ๋ ์ญ์น
A man crosses the absolute threshold and gains power beyond all limits.
The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years
4000๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์จ ๋๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ
The greatest mage returns after 4000 years and finds a changed world.
A Guide to Proper Dragon Husbandry
์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ๋๋๊ณค ์ฌ์ก๋ฒ
A guide to raising dragons properly โ if you can survive their antics.
The Crow's Prince of Darkness
๊น๋ง๊ท์ ํ์
A prince of darkness commands an army of crows in a dark fantasy world.
I Became the Tyrant of a Steel Sword
๊ฐ์ฒ ๊ฒ์ ํญ๊ตฐ์ด ๋์๋ค
A man transmigrates into the body of a steel sword tyrant.
Reincarnator
ํ์์ด
A man sent back in time must save humanity from a dimensional apocalypse.
The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
๋ฌ๋น ์กฐ๊ฐ์ฌ
A poor man becomes a legendary sculptor in a VRMMO to earn money.
ARK
์ํฌ
A gamer enters a VR world and discovers its secrets go far beyond a game.
The First Hunter
์ต์ด์ ํํฐ
The first hunter awakens in a world where dungeons have appeared.
I Alone Level Up
๋ ํผ์๋ง ๋ ๋ฒจ์
The weakest hunter gains the ability to level up alone like a player.
Damn Reincarnation
๋น์ด๋จน์ ํ์
A warrior reincarnates as the descendant of his former rival.
SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
SSS๊ธ ์์ด ํํฐ
A hunter who can only grow stronger by dying uses death as his weapon.
Hero Has Returned
์์ ์ด ๋์์๋ค
A hero who saved another world returns to Earth to find it invaded by dungeons.
Player Who Returned 10000 Years Later
๋ง๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์จ ํ๋ ์ด์ด
A player trapped in a game returns to Earth 10000 years later.
The Novel's Villain
์์ค์ ๋น๋ฐ
A reader transmigrates into a novel as its villain and must survive the plot.
Infinite Mage
๋ฌดํ์ ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ
A mage with infinite mana potential enters a prestigious magic academy.
The Banished Healer
์ถ๋ฐฉ๋นํ ํ๋ฌ
A banished healer uses his unique skills to become the strongest adventurer.
Absolute Sword Sense
์ ๋ ๊ฒ๊ฐ
A swordsman awakens absolute sword sense and cuts through all opposition.
A Student Who Can't Read the Mood
๋์น ์๋ ํ์
An overpowered student who can't read the room accidentally conquers the academy.
The Lazy Swordmaster
๊ฒ์ผ๋ฅธ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ
A reincarnated hero pretends to be lazy while secretly being the strongest.
My Daughter is the Final Boss
๋ด ๋ธ์ด ์ต์ข ๋ณด์ค
A man regresses to protect his daughter who is destined to become the final boss.
Regenerate-Through-Death Necromancer
์ฃฝ์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ทํ๋ ๋คํฌ๋ก๋งจ์
A necromancer regresses through death, growing stronger each time he dies.
Villainess in Reverse
์ญ์ ์ ์ ์ญ ์์
A villainess reverses her fate by using her knowledge of the future.
Surviving as a Genius
์ฒ์ฌ๋ก ์ด์๋จ๊ธฐ
An ordinary man reincarnates as a genius and must survive in a cutthroat academy.
The Sword of the Ancestor
์กฐ์์ ๊ฒ
A young man inherits his ancestor's sword and its accumulated martial knowledge.
Trash of the Count's Family
๋ฐฑ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง๋๋๊ฐ ๋์๋ค
A reader transmigrates into a trash character and must survive the novel's plot.
Omniscient Reader
์ ์ง์ ๋ ์ ์์
A reader becomes the sole witness to the end of his favorite novel.
ORV: The Epilogues
์ ์ง์ ๋ ์ ์์ ์ธ์
The side stories of the Omniscient Reader saga.
The World After the Fall
๋ฉธ๋ง ์ดํ์ ์ธ๊ณ
After the fall of civilization, one man refuses to regress and fights on.
S-Classes That I Raised
๋ด๊ฐ ํค์ด S๊ธ๋ค
A man raises S-class hunters in a world of dungeons and awakenings.
Only I Level Up
๋ ํผ์๋ง ๋ ๋ฒจ์
The weakest hunter gains the ability to level up alone.
Tomb Raider King
๋๊ตด์
A tomb raider king plunder tombs across the world to gain power.
Destruction Girlfriend
ํ๊ดด์ ์ฌ์น
A boy dates a girl who can destroy anything โ including his sanity.
The Novel's Extra: Second Son
์์ค์ ์์คํธ๋ผ ์ฐจ๋จ
A reader transmigrates as the second son of a novel's extra character.
I Became a God in a Horror Game
ํธ๋ฌ ๊ฒ์์ ์ ์ด ๋์๋ค
A player becomes a god in the scariest horror game ever created.
Global Examination
ๅ จ็้ซ่
A global examination determines who lives and who dies.
Heaven Official's Blessing
ๅคฉๅฎ่ต็ฆ
A disgraced crown prince ascends to godhood three times.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
้ญ้็ฅๅธ
A demonic cultivator reincarnates and unravels a conspiracy.
Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
ไบบๆธฃๅๆดพ็่ชๆ็ณป็ป
A reader transmigrates as the scum villain and must save himself.
Thousand Autumns
ๅ็ง
A martial arts epic set in the autumn of a dynasty.
Sha Po Lang
ๆ็ ด็ผ
A steampunk wuxia tale of empire, rebellion, and loyalty.
Silent Reading
้ป่ฏป
A detective and a consultant solve bizarre crimes in a modern city.
Town School
้้ญ
A supernatural drama unfolds in a modern city of ghosts and gods.
The King's Avatar
ๅ จ่้ซๆ
A pro gamer is forced to retire and climbs back to the top.
Love and Redemption
็็็พไบบ็
A love story that spans lifetimes in a xianxia world.
Young Master's Beloved Wife
ๅฐ็ท็ๅจๅฆป
A young master and his beloved wife navigate family drama.
The General's Genius Daughter
ๅฐๅ็ๅคฉๆๅฅณๅฟ
A modern woman transmigrates as a general's genius daughter.
A Certain Mightiest Guy
ๆไธชๆๅผบ
A certain mightiest guy just wants to live a normal life.
Record of the Missing Sect Master
็ผบไธ้จ
The record of a missing sect master and the conspiracy behind it.
Peerless
ๆ ๅ
A peerless martial artist stands above all others.
The Regressed Mercenary
ํ๊ทํ ์ฉ๋ณ
A mercenary regresses with his memories and rewrites his fate.
Academy's Genius Swordsman
์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ ์ฒ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ฌ
A genius swordsman dominates the academy with his blade.
The Regressed Hunter
ํ๊ทํ ํํฐ
A hunter regresses to prevent the apocalypse.
Academy's Undercover Professor
์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ ์ ์ ๊ต์
An undercover professor at an academy hides his true identity.
Extraordinary Father
ํ๋ฒํ ์๋น
A father regresses and uses his system to protect his daughter.
The Iron-Blooded Emperor
์ฒ ํ์ ์
An iron-blooded emperor conquers the world with military might.
Dungeon Predator
๋์ ํ๋ ๋ฐํฐ
A dungeon predator hunts the strongest monsters for their power.
Constellation That Became a Chef
์๋ฆฌ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ์ฑ์ข
A constellation becomes a chef and cooks dishes with cosmic power.
I Became the Sun God of a Fantasy World
ํํ์ง ์ธ๊ณ์ ํ์์ ์ด ๋์๋ค
A man transmigrates and becomes the sun god of a fantasy world.
Possessing the Villainess
์ ์ญ ์์ ์ ๋น์
A woman possesses the body of a villainess and changes her fate.
The Strongest Hunter Returns
์ต๊ฐ ํํฐ ํ๊ท
The strongest hunter regresses to the beginning of the apocalypse.
Evolution Theory of the Hunter
ํํฐ์ ์งํ๋ก
A hunter evolves beyond human limits through the system.
My Civil Servant Life Reborn in the Strange World
์ด์ธ๊ณ ๊ณต๋ฌด์
A civil servant is reborn in a fantasy world and applies bureaucracy to magic.
Return of the Mount Hua Sect
ํ์ฐ๊ทํ
The Plum Blossom Sword Saint regresses and returns to rebuild his sect.
The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman
ํ์ํ ์์ด์๋ ์ฒ์๊ฒ
A reincarnated assassin uses his skills to become a genius swordsman.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes Korean web novels different?
Korean web novels often feature 'returnee' or 'regression' plots โ protagonists who return to the past with future knowledge. They also heavily feature dungeon/tower systems and are typically faster-paced than Chinese novels.
Which Korean web novel should I start with?
For action: Solo Leveling. For story depth: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. For comedy: The Second Coming of Gluttony. For dungeon crawling: The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor.
Are Korean web novels finished or ongoing?
Many are complete โ Korean web novels are often planned as complete stories from the start. We list completion status for every series.
Where can I read Korean web novels in English?
Webnovel, Tapas, and Tappytoon have official English translations. Amazon also carries many Kindle editions. We link to the best legal source for each series.