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The Most Korean is the Most Global

Export Case   The Most Korean is the Most Global   2024.02.19   It is the era of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. Korea’s soft power - movies, dramas, cuisine, literature, and more - is shaking up the world. Following the movie “Parasite,” “Squid Game” and “Pachinko,” which were released on global OTT platforms, global curiosity about Korea expanded. Korea is now one of the major tourist destinations frequented by people from all over the world, and Korean food such as ramen, kimbap, and tteokbokki are considered hip and trendy, and have gained immense popularity around the world. People around the world looking to understand Korea a little better are now seeking to read Korean literature and share Korean sentiments. In response to this demand, major publishers around the world have been actively scanning Korean titles for their markets. The enthusiasm could be felt firsthand at the Korean Pavilion installed at the Frankfurt Book Fair held last October. Consultati...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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The Jolly Shelter and Home of the Mangwon-dong Brothers!

Book Trip   [Into the Book ⑦] The Jolly Shelter and Home of the Mangwon-dong Brothers! Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul: The Harmony of the Old and the New   2024.02.19   Mangwon-dong Brothers       Being invited to someone’s house is like being invited to see the real inside of them.(...) Years passed, and we ended up living together in an 8-pyeong room on a rooftop.     Mangwon-dong Brothers (Namu Bench) is the first novel by writer Kim Ho-Yeon, who made readers in Korea and abroad both cry and laugh with her book The Uncanny Convenience Store (Namu Bench). It won the Excellence Award at the 9th World Literature Award and was later made into a play, proving both its literary value and popularity. The book Mangwon-dong Brothers is a full-length novel about four impoverished men who start an unusual live-in relationship in a rooftop room in Mangwon-dong -...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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Agency list

Agency List   Agency list   2024.01.02   Abba Communication Ltd.   Launched as a translation and interpretation agency in 204, Abba Communication (Abba here after) now also acts as a copyright agency. Abba supports young Korean publishers who are aspiring to build experiences in moving on to the international market, providing consultation on the way until they become global. Abba’s special forte is its excellent professional team with expertise in re-writing and/or editing synopses and introductions into texts both competitive and persuasive. Other services Abba provides include translating original materials and creating promotional texts.   Focused Subjects  LiberalArts : Biography, Management, Negotiation   Contacts ? Kim jungsukE-mail : jskim@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707-2103 / Regions : Asia, UK, USA ? Han-gyul GoE-mail : abba@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707-21...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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Korean Picture Books Today

Topic   Korean Picture Books Today Closing the 2023 Korea Picture Book Award   2024.01.02   In November 2023, the winners of the first Korea Picture Book Award, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), were announced. Eight titles and publishers were honored in the grand prize, special prize, and rookie prize categories for fiction and nonfiction. Considering the size of the prize and the diverse range of winning titles, it was a good start for a new award system. The “picture book” genre is not yet fully established in the Korean publishing industry. For example, in large bookstores, “picture books” are placed in a subcategory of the pre-school category. However, the fact that we were able to clearly recognize “picture books” as a single artistic genre and reach a consensus in the screening process to organize an “award for picture books” is thanks to the strong...
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Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature

Export Case   Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature   2024.01.02   February 11, 2024, will mark exactly 30 years since Korean writer Djuna uploaded his first short story to an online SF community on the PC communication service “HiTEL.” The story was titled A Butterfly that Traveled Back in Time, and it was Djuna’s first official release. Since his debut in 1994, Djuna has published a total of 170 novels, and it is almost 200 if you count his unpublished works as well. He is the most prolific and longest-running science fiction writer in Korea. Djuna is like a cornerstone of Korean SF, with many SF writers confessing to being his fans, saying that they were greatly influenced by him. However, it was only recently that Djuna was introduced to the international audience. It was in 2019 that the short stories The Second Nanny and The Bloody Battle of the Broccoli Plain were published separately as ebooks, audiobooks, and paperbacks...
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My Time Does Not Flow Like Yours

New Books   My Time Does Not Flow Like Yours   2023.12.04                       Professor Kim Chan-Ju’s Solitary Physics: Special Relativity - My Time Does Not Flow Like Yours   The Special Theory of Relativity: A theory that overturns common sense and empirical notions of time and space. It is based on the principle of special relativity and the constancy of the speed of light.   “Why should I know this?” It is what we all think when we confront Einstein’s “Special Theory of Relativity,” which makes our heads ache just thinking about it!But did you know that the theory is the “core theory” that enabled modern material civilization? It was this special relativity that influenced much of the philosophy, literature, and art that we encounter in our daily lives!If special relativity is still a bit of a mystery to you, you s...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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2nd Week, November 2023

Best Sellers   2nd Week, November 2023 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2023.12.04   For the second week of November, books that have been the center of attention dominated the list of bestsellers. The book Reading Schopenhauer at Forty quickly rose to the top of the list after being recommended by actor Ha Seok-Jin on the popular Korean TV show “I Live Alone.” On the show, he was shown to be very dedicated to self-management - exercising, studying, and enjoying his hobbies - which likely inspired viewers to purchase the book. The book features 30 pieces of advice from philosopher Schopenhauer, who has inspired countless people. It offers wisdom for those entering their 40s with mixed feelings to realize the true meaning of life.Han Kang’s I Do Not Bid Farewell, published in 2021, won this year’s Medici Prize in France, again ranking 7th on the overall bestseller list. The Korean publishing industry is rejoicing ...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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Konishi Naoko

Korean Translator   Konishi Naoko   2023.12.04   Profile   ? Korean-Japanese translator ? E-mail: naoko21@hanmail.net   Education   ? B.A., Rikkyo University College of Arts ? M.A. in Korean-Japanese interpretation, HUFS Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation   Courses   ? Completed a special course at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) Translation Academy ? Completed Translation Atelier at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI)   Published Translations   ...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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#Flower

#K-Book   #Flower KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.12.04   A Flower, You Are as I Am 1. Publication Details   Title | A Flower, You Are as I AmSubtitle | A Song of Flowers that think about PhilosophyAuthor | Dae-Youn, ChoPublisher | BOBBOOKPublication Date | 2021-06-23ISBN | 9791158587888No. of pages | 143Dimensions | 140 * 225   2. Book Intro   This book titled A Flower, You Are as I Am is a beautiful collection of poems containing philosophical thinking of the poet for flowers. He wrote the poems with poetic words easy to read through a lyrical flower song by breaking the prejudice that philosophy can be regarded as difficult. The poet begins to draw his poems thinking ‘why did flowers come to us?’ When he sees grass flowers blooming that make the world beautiful and fragrant, he thinks that flowers tell ...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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The Street of Youth: Shinchon, Seoul

Book Trip   [Into the Book ⑥] The Street of Youth: Shinchon, Seoul The Silent Cry of Youth Found inReinvestigation and The Lumiere People   2024.01.02   Reinvestigation and The Lumiere People       Like anyone else, I, as a murderer, also need meaning in life and ethical guidance.No, I want a strong, compelling moral anchor that will keep me from falling apart,even more so because I’m a murderer.- from Reinvestigation     Reinvestigation (EunHaeng NaMu), a novel by Chang Kang-Myoung, who has been recognized for his literary and public success in both the mystery and SF genres and who is often referred to as a “socialist mystery novelist,” is a story that takes place during the reinvestigation of the murder of a female college student in an apartment building in Shinchon, Seoul, 22 years ago. Shinchon, the setting...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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