12. Shipwrecked! Vol. 1 by Hye Na Jung

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So, I realized there was no way I was going to be able to read 20+ books by Aug. 12, my personal deadline, and thus I decided go the less painful route and include manhwa for this challenge. ^^;

Shipwrecked! Summary:

It’s the 17th century, and William’s mother is started to get fed up with her son, who has no job, lies around at home all day, and collects trinkets and objects imported from the East. Spurred on by his mother’s attempts to marry him off, William decides to take his future into his own hands and, with the help of Yan, travel to the Far East, to Nagasaki Japan. However, during sea travel, a storm breaks out and William is washed ashore to a strange land, where a girl finds him and hides him away to try and keep him safe. For he has washed up on the land of Chosun, and no foreigner who stepped on this land has ever been able to return home…

And so begins the adventures of William, and Buh-Jin, the girl who took upon herself to hide this foreigner away. Throw in language barriers, an exiled prince about to get the cultural shock of his lifetime, an omnipresent old man who gets easily distracted by food and the shiny, and a clan of Haenyo, female divers of the Jeju island, and you get Shipwrecked!

I mostly loved this manhwa for the comedy and the cast. Review here