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Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers

Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers Service and Content Providers in Busy Days with Market’s Growing Interest in Audiobooks   2021.04.05     In the previous March edition, we talked about the audiobook industry's current status in Korea and its prospects in 2021. Consumers and service providers play a pivotal role in expanding the market and business opportunities. Furthermore, it is meaningful to witness how they interact with each other in the audiobook ecosystem contributes to the industry’s healthy growth and maturity. In this April’s edition, let’s find what behaviors audiobook consumers have shown to the market.   Recently-made audio content enabling interaction among provider and users, providing a new-level of “experience”.   As the pandemic is not showing any signs of abating, more people are enjoying audiobooks at home instead of going to bookstores or libraries. In the previous edition, we introduced how “Wela...
  • VOL.33 / 2021.04
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Major Affairs in Korean Publishing Policy in 2021

Major Affairs in Korean Publishing Policy in 2021   2021.03.08     Last year had been a particularly tough year for the Korean publishing industry due to several issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the bankruptcy of Interpark Song-in Books Corp., fixed book price policy, the Cloud Bread writer’s loss in a lawsuit, and several other incidents that violated the freedom of publishing. Various policies are also scheduled to change in 2021 including a revision of copyright law, which is expected to transform the publishing environment. While it is highly important to narrow down the difference in ideas and find a way for coexistence regarding cases that have many interests entangled in the publishing and cultural industry, it seems that such cases will take place quite often this year. This section covers significant affairs related to the law revision currently under discussion and publishing policies.   For cases where many interests are intertwined, it...
  • VOL.32 / 2021.03
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1st Week, September 2024

Best Sellers   1st Week, September 2024 Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.10.07   It’s the first week of September in Korea, where the fall has technically arrived, yet the summer heat hasn’t entirely left. With Korean fiction dominating the top of the best seller lists, it seems that readers are eager to spend the fall with books. The book If We Look at the Same Star One Day, which topped the best seller lists of all three major online bookstores, was written by actor and author Cha In-Pyo. Featuring the story of women forced into sexual slavery, it was also invited to the 1st Oxford Korean Literature Festival. Having been selected as a must-read book at Oxford University, it has become known in Korea as a work that first became known overseas. Korean readers have recently been immersed in the book's story, which reads like a movie.Following behind were Kim Ae-Ran’s full-length novel One of Them is a Lie and Jeong Yoo-J...
  • VOL.75 / 2024.10
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#Meeting

#K-Book   #Meeting KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.10.07   SWEET DREAMS, AND SEE YOU IN THE MORNING 1. Publication Details   Title | SWEET DREAMS, AND SEE YOU IN THE MORNINGAuthor | Hwang Ui-jeongPublisher | ScienceBooksPublication Date | 2022-11-11ISBN | 9791192107738No. of pages | 276Dimensions | 120 * 190   2. Book Intro   Author Hwang Ui-jeong gives her all to her giant retriever, Dushik. After visiting her husband, who was working on a construction project in Jeju, she falls for the brilliance of Jeju’s scenic views and wishes she could share these sights and sounds with Dushik. Realizing that her time with Dushik is not infinite, she makes a brave decision to leave her city life and move to Jeju, where her family can enjoy gorgeous walks and an idyllic country life.But life doesn’t always go according ...
  • VOL.75 / 2024.10
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If Only I Had Listened to Myself Then

New Books   If Only I Had Listened to Myself Then   2024.09.02                       “Now, stop blaming yourself.”A heartfelt encouragement from a professor of psychiatry - If Only I Had Listened to Myself Then   Aren’t you the hardest on yourself, and not good at listening to your inner voice? Or, you might be blaming yourself, repeatedly making the mistake of putting yourself in pain.The author of If Only I Had Listened to Myself Then, Peter Jongho Na, professor of psychiatry at Yale University, confesses that he was no exception. At the same time, he makes an accurate diagnosis of the situation, as to why we are experiencing such a hard time, and how society is full of things that make our hearts suffer.We live in a society where anyone who says they are stressed out is condemned for being weak, and even labeled as such… The author offers heartwarming words of encouragement and empat...
  • VOL.74 / 2024.09
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2nd Week, August 2024

Best Sellers   2nd Week, August 2024 Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.09.02   The unprecedented heatwave and tropical nights have led readers to take a break from the heat by reading books of all genres. It seems that they found books to be a great way to soothe their exhausted bodies and minds. In the second week of August, the best selling titles were spread across a wide range of genres, including fiction, humanities, business, and foreign languages.To begin with, A Few Words of Encouragement for You by Kim Jong-Won continued to rank high following last month, as teenagers spent their vacation immersed in reading and growing up. The book, a philosophical essay on how to move past puberty, a common life rite of passage, and into adulthood, offers a chance for introspection and growth. Coming in at No. 4, Three-minute Philosophy in Cartoons is an easy-to-understand, cartoon take on philosophy that’s great...
  • VOL.74 / 2024.09
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#Sports

#K-Book   #Sports KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.09.02   Geography As Seen Through Sports 1. Publication Details   Title | Geography As Seen Through SportsAuthor | Choi JaeheePublisher | Humanist Publishing Group Inc.Publication Date | 2021-10-04ISBN | 9791160807141No. of pages | 216Dimensions | 135 * 200   2. Book Intro   This book looks at 15 different fields of sports such as soccer, surfing, rock climbing, paragliding, and marathons from the perspective of geography. Difficult concepts such as valley winds and temperature inversion layers are transformed into interesting stories through questions such as: “What kind of wind do we need for paragliders to fly higher and faster?” “How high can paragliders go?” The movements of the Earth’s crust during the Paleozoic Era were influential in forming Europe’s professional soccer league, while the Himalayan Alp...
  • VOL.74 / 2024.09
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Tax & Accounting Issues in Korea’s Publishing Industry

Tax & Accounting Issues in Korea’s Publishing Industry   2021.02.08       Recent trend in the Korean publishing market   Looking at the overall trend in the history of the Korean publishing market, paper books had been taking the center for a long time. However, e-books or the “e-book market” emerged, and today, publishers are having a greater interest in exporting copyrights of publications. This phenomenon has led to reduced demand for physical facilities, spurring the establishment of single-person publishers and small-sized publishing companies. This article covers tax and accounting issues related to the publishing industry in Korea.     Tax structure related to publishing in Korea   The types of tax imposed on publishers running a business in Korea are as follows:   1. Value-Added Tax (VAT) Publishing companies are primarily VAT-exempt business entities. However, more publishers are expanding their business to selling products ...
  • VOL.31 / 2021.02
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Current status of each field in the Korean publishing market ⑫ Publications of Children’s Books/Teenage Books

Current status of each field in the Korean publishing market ⑫ Publications of Children’s Books/Teenage Books   2021.01.04       One of the most active publishing areas in almost any country is children’s books. Many of the children’s books in Korea (for preschoolers and elementary schoolers) have long been focused on education, learning, or cognitive development for its expected roles. However, they are undergoing evolution today as a tool for delivering necessary knowledge and wisdom for kids to actively cope with the world while nurturing their boundless imagination with entertaining elements. Meanwhile, the publishing market for teenagers, which is relatively smaller than children’s books in terms of titles and size, is growing its influence in the market with more various and absorbing topics, not to mention the facilitation of reading education conducted in schools. The teen market is breaking out of the narrow frame of a “generation stuck between child...
  • VOL.30 / 2021.01
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Titles Selected for the Overseas Publication Grants 2024

Info   Titles Selected for the Overseas Publication Grants 2024   2024.09.02   The Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) provides publication grants to promote the export of Korean publications. The grants offer partial financial aid to foreign publishing companies that have published or intend to publish Korean content based on copyright agreements.For this year’s grants, we selected a total of 57 titles from across 17 countries, and they are as follows:     空間的未來：COVID-19 加速?生的空間變化 English title | The Future of Space: Spatial Change Accelerated by COVID-19Author | Yoo Hyeon-JunApplicant | 典藏藝術家庭股?有限公司(DIANCAN ART AND COLLECTION LTD.)Country/Published language | Taiwan/Traditional Chinese         Google公關總監的職場慢爬成功學 English title | Let’s Move On ? All We Have is EnergyAuthor | Jeong Kim Kyoung-SookApplicant |&n...
  • VOL.74 / 2024.09
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