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Characteristics of South Korean Web Novel Platforms and Ventures Overseas

Characteristics of South Korean Web Novel Platforms and Ventures Overseas From a Community Into a Medium:South Korea's Web Novel Platforms Evolve   2017.9.11   There is a Korean phrase that goes: pearls are only good when they have been strung together. It means even if you have good resources, they will be of little good if you don't use them properly. South Korean genre literature used to be like this. There were many talented authors who could write genre literature and fans who wished to read it, even if their numbers fell short of other countries where genre literature developed far sooner than South Korea like Japan, the United States and places in Europe. However, there was not a platform for them to converge together. There were many reasons why South Korean genre literature took so long in taking off but one of the biggest was the lack of a means of communication between authors and readers. Another was the absence of a platform on which authors could make serial po...
  • VOL.4 / 2017.09
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e-future, a business specializing in ELT content

e-future, a business specializing in ELT content Leading the Hallyu of ELT content with the highest R&D competence   2019.09.09   Creator of the widely-acclaimed Smart Phonics series, South Korean ELT (English Language Teaching) content company e-future is leaping forward as a global English education firm, beyond South Korea's sluggish English education market.       As an ELT content specializing company, e-future has been making meaningful strides in English education. I think our readers will want to know how e-future became a major ELT content provider from a country where English is not an official language.   After e-future was established in 2000, we've been developing our own English education content for learners who live in a country where English is not the native language, called EFL (English as a Foreign Language) countries. On top of this, through continuous efforts to enter markets outside South Korea, we've succeeded in exporting our ...
  • VOL.15 / 2019.09
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South Korea's November Bestsellers

South Korea's November Bestsellers Aggregate data as of the first week of October   2017.11.01   The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017   The first week of October is always called the season of the Nobel prize. Every year around this time, the Nobel prize committee convenes in Sweden to announce the winners in six different categories. This year on Oct. 5, the 117th Nobel Prize in Literature was given to Kazuo Ishiguro. According to Interpark Books, Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, one of his most famous novels, reached the top of their bestseller list the next day as soon as readers heard of the Nobel Prize news. Sales of the author's books in general soared in the days following the Nobel Prize announcement from Oct. 6 to 12, trouncing previous sales figures for the author which had been comparatively low. Also, Nudge, by Richard Thaler who was this year'srecipient of the Nobel Prize in economics saw a spike in demand around the same time.     In the ca...
  • VOL.6 / 2017.11
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The growth of K-Webtoons and strategy for global intellectual property

The growth of K-Webtoons and strategy for global intellectual property   2018.01   The emerging of Lezhin Comics, a webtoon platform, in 2013 was an important catalyst in activating paid-for content markets in South Korea and also brought about the birth of a range of cartoon platforms. Previously the webtoon services on Internet portals like Naver and Daum were free of charge and gained many fans, expanding the market, but Lezhin Comics created their own success by handling genres difficult to address in public portals(adults only content) and seizing exclusive content. They also applied paid-for services strategies that can be seen in mobile and online games.   After, similar paid-for services for adults appeared and today, Kakao Page currently leads the paid-for cartoon market after having overcome its early losses by launching a 'wait for free content' service, where readers can wait a certain amount of time to access previously paid-for content. South ...
  • VOL.8 / 2018.01
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Export Prospects of Korean Books

Export Prospects of Korean Books KPIPA’s Choice for Supporting Abstract · Sample Translation   2019.10.07   Flowers That Never Bloomed 1. Publication Details Imprint | Humanist Publishing Group inc.Title | Flowers That Never BloomedSubtitle | The unfinished art lessons of the Korean women who were sex slaves to the Japanese Imperial Army.Author | Lee KyungshinGenre | Humanities and Social ScienceFormat | 145×190Binding | PaperbackPages | 304pagesISBN | 9791160801477   2. Contact Name | Choe InyoungPhone | +82-70-7842-9409Email | iy2001@humanistbooks.comURL | www.humanistbooks.com   3. Marketing Information Keyword | History; The World War II; The Japanese Imperial Army; Comfort Women; The Japanese Imperial Army Sex Slave; The Korea-Japan Relations; Art Therapy   4. About the Author The author majored in painting at Hongik University. For five years starting from 1993, she carried on art l...
  • VOL.16 / 2019.10
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Export Prospects of Korean Books

Export Prospects of Korean Books KPIPA’s Choice for Supporting Abstract · Sample Translation   2017.10.10   Firefly Goes Poo Poo Poo 1. Publication Details Imprint | A Thousand Hopes Title | Firefly Goes Poo Poo Poo Author | Yoon, Yeo-Rim Illustrator | Cho, Won-Hee Format | 192*230 Binding | Hardcover Pages | 64pages ISBN | 979-11-87287-13-1   2. Contact Name | Kim Ji-yeon Phone | +82-31-955-5242 Email | jiyeony12@hanmail.net URL | http://blog.naver.com/athousandhope   3. About the Author / Illustrator Author: Yoon, Yeo-Rim Yoon once met a cheerful old lady called Bicky in San Diego. Bicky explained to Yoon that there are words in English that are made by combining two different words to create new meanings. It occurred to Yoon that Korean has such compound words as well, and she thought “Shall I search for some fun Korean compound words?” While searchin...
  • VOL.5 / 2017.10
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North Korea Seen Through Books, and the Unification of the Korean Peninsula

North Korea Seen Through Books, and the Unification of the Korean Peninsula   2019.08.05   On the last day of June this year, a historic event happened in the border village of Panmunjom straddling the two Koreas when the leaders of the United States and North Korea met for the first time. Just a mere 62 km away from Seoul, this location was where the ceasefire armistice was signed in July 1953 to put a stop to the Korean War that had raged for three years between North and South Korea. Although U.S. President Donald Trump stepped over to North Korea for just a minute and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for 53 minutes, the image of the two men shaking hands heightened hopes that the Korean peninsula could move further towards denuclearization and peace. There are several books that address this reality on the Korean peninsula that have received much interest from the publishing industry in South Korea. Books that help children and adolescents understand the reality o...
  • VOL.14 / 2019.08
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Author Kang Gyeong-su

Author Kang Gyeong-su In hopes his honest stories will reach readers   2019.11.04   The book The Stories Shouldn't Be True (Sigong Junior) was awarded a Ragazzi Award for non-fiction at the 2011 Bologna Children's Book Fair. This book, like its title, calmly tells the horrific story of some children's situations that seem like lies but are happening in reality. Explaining the motive behind the book, the author said he was incredibly shocked one day while watching a documentary to find children in terrible situations in other parts of the world that was beyond his imagination. K-Book Trends met with author Kang Gyeong-su who was compelled to tell their stories in a book.After making his name known as a picture book author through The Stories Shouldn't Be True, Kang has been continuously working on picture books, and from 2017, he has been publishing his Code Name (Sigong Junior) series. The Code Name series is a spy series loved by both children and their parents and ...
  • VOL.17 / 2019.11
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South Korea's National Institute of Ecology - Known for publishing content acclaimed worldwide

South Korea's National Institute of Ecology - Known for publishing content acclaimed worldwide   2019.08.05   South Korea's National Institute of Ecology operated by the country's Ministry of Environment calls itself 'another little Earth' with its exhibits of various plants and animals from countries around the world, including South Korea. The institute also publishes a diverse range of books on the environment for everyone from children to experts. Recently, the institute exported publishing rights of 13 books to Vietnam and Turkey, and some of them have already been translated and introduced to the local markets there. This year, seven books including The Facts Within the Fairy Tales: Aesop's Stories of Nature will be released in Vietnam, while another called Exploring the World of Ant will be sold in Turkey. K-Book Trends spoke with the institute's publishing arm, NIE PRESS, to hear about the agency's book export cases and their passion for content.      ...
  • VOL.14 / 2019.08
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Export Prospects of Korean Books

Export Prospects of Korean Books KPIPA’s Choice for Supporting Abstract · Sample Translation   2019.09.09   Fantasy Fixer 1. Publication Details Imprint | BIR Publishing Co., Ltd.Title | Fantasy FixerAuthor | Kang MinjeongIllustrator | Kim ReahyeonGenre | children’s storyFormat | 130×190Binding | Hard coverPages | 232pagesISBN | 9788965483755   2. Contact Name | Claire YangPhone |  +82-2-515-2000Email | claire@bir.co.krURL | http://bir.co.kr/   3. Marketing Information Keyword | children’s fiction; fantasy fiction; mysteryTarget Readership | age 6 to 12   4. About the Author Author - Kang MinjeongKang Minjeong made her debut as a writer with Fantasy Fixer and Fantasy Fixer 2: Suspicious Creator. Illustrator - Kim ReahyeonKim Reahyeon previously wrote A Litter Bit of Change and illustrated Cleaning Out My Wardrobe on Weekends.   5. About the Book Winner of No.1 Marshmallow Fi...
  • VOL.15 / 2019.09
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