VOL.93/2026.04

Best Sellers

 

Spring 2026 Bestseller List

 

 

2026.04

 

 

Major franchises dominate the majority of South Korea's offline bookstore market. Currently, four major franchises—Kyobo Book Centre, Youngpoong Bookstore, Jongno Books, and Arc N Book—are competing in the offline retail sector. Starting with Kyobo Book Centre, which has the largest number of branches, followed by Youngpoong Bookstore, Jongno Books, and Arc N Book, we will examine the top 10 best-selling books.

 

In the previous issue, we examined the bestsellers of Kyobo Book Centre, Korea's largest bookstore franchise. For this April issue, as the second part of our offline bookstore bestseller analysis, we looked at the bestsellers of Youngpoong Bookstore for the first week of March. The top-ranked book at Youngpoong Bookstore during this period was the picture book Mom Became a Ghost! published by Gilbut Children’s Books. It appears that sales of children’s books surged with the start of the new school year. Hunhan Nammae 21, which ranked 9th, is also a children’s book and is believed to have reached the top tier for the same reason. Aside from these two children's titles, the top 10 includes last month’s popular books such as Contradictions and Goethe Said Everything, showing that novels continue to hold strong positions on the charts.

 

 

 

 

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Editor. Jeong, Haneul (The Contents Factory Co., Ltd. Researcher)

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